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SHEFFIELD WAS an important hub of steel and coal production during The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s and was nicknamed ‘The Steel City,’ but in the 1970s and 1980s international competition and the anti-union stance of Margaret Thatcher meant industry in the area collapsed.

Ireland’s leading arts event, the Galway Arts Festival, is set to provide an internationally acclaimed line-up of music, dance, theatre, comedy, street events and art from July 12 to 25.

Synth pop legends and heroes of 1980s electro The Human League and Heaven 17, and leading singer-songwriters Josh Ritter, Cathy Davey, and Damien Dempsey, will all play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in July.

Do you find dance and techno tiring? A frustrating experience of a music which promised so much innovation in 1988 and has often never delivered on that promise? Or are you just plain fed up of the ‘thump, thump, thump’ that constitutes a lot of dance music?

THEIR NAME makes them sound like a Japanese pop duo but Fujiya & Miyagi are in fact an electronic dance trio from Brighton who play the Róisín Dubh on Friday June 19 at 9pm.