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HOW TELEVISION ever were considered punk is bewildering, given they loved unleashing epic guitar solos, prided themselves on their technical prowess on the instrument, and thought nothing of stretching songs into 10 and 14 minute territory.

"ANYTHING THAT does not come from tradition is plagiarism," declared Catalan surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is a wilfully contradictory, deliberately oxymoronic, statement, but it describes perfectly New York indie-rockers Parquet Courts.

"ANYTHING THAT does not come from tradition is plagiarism," declared the Catalan surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is a willfully contradictory, deliberately oxymoronic statement, but it does get to the heart of New York indie-rockers Parquet Courts.

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.

BRING YOUR own beer/mulled wine, wear something Christmassy, and dance your woolly socks off to the absolute cream of the Galway indie-music scene at the Galway Bands BYOB Xmas Gig.

LECHEROUS GAZE’S music fits somewhere between garage and stoner rock, but they prefer to describe themselves as playing “psycho-delic shred-tastic ultra-hyphened rock-punk heavy jams.”

THE BOG Hoppers, the Seattle folk punk band, are in Galway next week to play two shows in the city - the Róisín Dubh on Monday July 28 and Monroe’s BackStage Bar on Tuesday 29.

A PUNK night will be held upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday from 8pm.

LIVERPOOL-GALWAY punk band Vamos will storm the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street tomorrow, headlining a bill featuring six bands.

TWO FRENCH punk bands come to Galway tomorrow night to play the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.