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PINS' DEBUT Girls Like Us made many friends for the Manchester quartet, but the album was more a demonstration of their latent potential rather than a full realisation of it. Two years later and it's a different story.

MARY COUGHLAN, the Galwegian rightly regarded as Ireland’s leading jazz and blues vocalist, plays the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday December 20 at 8pm.

DESPITE THE Scandinavian moniker, CPNHGN hail from Kildare, and take their musical influences from New York’s Sonic Youth and Manchester’s Joy Division.

THE HIVE clubnight returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11.30pm for a Valentine’s Night of music and dancing.

PINS HAVE been called a ‘Manchester band’ - which to some is not a geographical description, but a musical signifier - or as ‘Manc post punk’, which situates them in a particular time and musical pigeon hole, but there is far more to the exciting quartet than these labels can convey.

THE GREAT jazz-blues singer Mary Coughlan, will be among the performers taking part in the Inishbofin Concerts series which takes place in the island’s Dolphin Hotel on Tuesdays.

IN FRENCH, ‘nouvelle vague’ refers to daring, iconoclastic, films made in the 1950s and 1960s by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. In English, ‘new wave’ was music by bands like Blondie and Joy Division.

IRELAND’S LEADING jazz and blues singer Mary Coughlan will release The Whole Affair: The Very Best of Mary Coughlan on Hail Mary Records tomorrow.

These Charming Men from Dublin, were formed in 1995 and to this day continue to charm fans of The Smiths and Morrissey all around the globe with their finely tuned, energetic and passionate live shows.

Multi instrumentalist and artist R.S.A.G comes to play a very exclusive show at Bar Ritz (Mulroy’s Bar) in Castlebar on Saturday night April 2 with a full visual screen show with support coming from The Ambience Affair and The Light Parade, in what promises to be a very intimate show at Mayo’s original alternative night out Finbar Hoban Presents.