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If Ireland’s music scene has a first lady, Cathy Davey is surely the chanteuse who best fits the bill.

LET’S BE honest, hip hop has gone stale these last couple of years...very stale. With the return of indie guitar bands, hip hop has retreated to the margins in a mind numbing orgy of bling and clichéd beats.

Most Irish eyes last Saturday were on Northern Irish singer Eoghan Quigg in the final of ITV show The X Factor. However, it has emerged that the eventual winner Alexandra Burke also has Irish blood coursing through her veins and has strong family connections with Galway.

BELL X1 release their new album, Blue Lights On The Runway, on Friday February 20 and play the first night of their upcoming Irish tour in the Black Box on Wednesday March 25.

EDDI READER is something of an unstoppable force. Despite repeated injuries to her back and ribs, the celebrated Scottish folk-rock singer is touring Ireland this month and has a new album set for release in April. As far as she is concerned, life is very good indeed.

Christy Moore is returning to Kilkenny this weekend for two sold out gigs at Hotel Kilkenny tonight and tomorrow night.

CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway to play the Black Box Theatre on Friday May 8 and this month he will release his new single ‘The Ballad of Ruby Walsh’.

Christy Moore’s new album Listen has been released and we have three copies to give away to Kilkenny Advertiser readers this week.

The award winning singer songwrtier Cathy Davey will play Cleeres this coming Sunday, May 24, as part of her Bare Bones tour. This is a chance to experience Cathy in an intimate venue without being too noisy for sensitive ears. Songs are re arranged to better suit candlelight and plenty of chat will be on offer. There will be two people accompanying Cathy playing as many instruments as they can fit in.

WITH THE exception of Electric Picnic, the only Irish show the great Okkervil River will play this year is in the Róisín Dubh on Monday September 7 at 9pm.