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ALTHOUGH IT may not get the same attention as London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Glasgow, Sheffield has proven to be a productive and intriguing city for British rock.

Head to John Dalys tonight, June 21, and catch local band The Academic as they launch their new single ‘Bear Claws’.

THE FALL, the legendary Mancunian post-punk band, led by Mark E Smith, one of the most original lyricists in British music, play the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 20 at 8pm.

Midlands Simon Community is encouraging you to revisit the fantastic decade of music that was the 80s at a summer social barbeque in The Bounty, Athlone, this Saturday July 16, followed by an 80s-themed disco (fancy dress optional).

BADLY DRAWN Boy, aka Manchester singer and composer Damon Gough, will play the Radisson Live Lounge on Saturday July 17 at 9pm as part of the Galway Arts Festival.

IN THE mid-1990s rock was in a perilous state as manufactured groups Take That, The Spice Girls, and Boyzone dominated the charts but a group of Mancunians called Oasis were about to bring guitar-based music back.

GLENN TILBROOK was one half of one of the greatest English songwriting teams of the last 30 years, when he wrote classic after classic with Chris Difford in Squeeze.

Well they may not quite be the mafia or be related to Tony Soprano but Alabama 3’s song ‘Woke up this morning’ is undoubtedly one of the coolest songs ever to feature on the airwaves.

THE CELLAR Bar on Eglinton Street is about to become a great centre of live original music, DJ nights, and themed parties, when its basement section is re-launched as Deeper.

WHEN THE Enemy released their debut album We’ll Live And Die In These Towns in 2007, it went straight to Number 1 in the British albums chart.