The Táin Festival artists.
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Big Nasty aka SCREAM FOR ME
Big Nasty, newly renamed SCREAM FOR ME promise to open the festival with a bang. Expect lots of audience participation... gulp! Tickets are €14. Click here to purchase online.
Cathy Davey
Cathy will be playing in the Spirit Store on Georges Quay on Saturday the 27th of October. Doors at 8.30pm. Tickets are €12. Click here to purchase online.
"A spikier alternative to many of the female singer-songwriters in the UK and Ireland at present, Cathy earned her indie credentials working with Elbow and touring with Graham Coxon. Her debut album Something Ilk shows her as one of Europe's rising music talents."
Clive Gregson Songwriting Workshop
Clive is giving a workshop in the Spirit Store from 2 - 4pm on Sunday the 28th of October. This will be followed by a performance in the Bartender, Park Street from 5pm to 6.30. Both the workshop and the gig are free of charge.
Dave Geraghty
David Geraghty is playing the Spirit Store on Friday the 26th of October. Doors at 8.30pm. Tickets are €12. Click here to purchase online.
David Geraghty is a multi-instrumentalist with Irish band Bell X1 (piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica). He fronted the 4 piece band, The Rotators and continues to perform live, most notably on the Big Tree Stage at the 2006 Electric Picnic with full band. David has just released his solo debut album "Kill Your Darlings" in September 2007.
Exposure: Alpha Omega vs Nubian Minds
As Part of The 2007 Táin Festival
ALPHA OMEGA vs NUBIAN MINDS [Live Set]
COVERT & RABHADH [Rastachaun, Dundalk]
SAFETYBOY [Reach, Dublin] - Dubstep Set
@Sky Nite Club
Park Inn Hotel
Armagh Road
Dundalk
Co.Louth
10:30pm - 2:30am Sat 27th Oct 2007
ADM €12
Alpha Omega a.k.a Colin Lindo a.k.a Nubian Mindz has been constantly pushing the boundaries of cutting edge Drum and Bass since his groundbreaking debut release, Outer Dimensions, on the equally groundbreaking & legendary Reinforced imprint. Since then he has gone on to forge a universal respect within the scene & has firmly established his presence on the D&B industry.
Fight Like Apes
Fight Like Apes are playing a double headliner with Jinx Lennon in The Spirit Store, Georges Quay on Sunday the 28th of October. Doors at 8pm. Tickets are €13. Click here to purchase online.
What happens when four highly motivated couch potatoes, trawl through the b-movie underworld in search of the purest of gold...? They Fight Like Apes! Hailing from Dublin, Ireland and weighing in at over 6 hundred pounds, Fight Like Apes combine the Synth with the Sword in this heroic tale of anger, jealousy, greed and ...goblins. With an emphasis on loutish vocals, brutish bass and digital distortion Fight Like Apes are highly trained, armed and considered extremely dangerous.
Jinx Lennon Feat. Miss Paula Flynn
Jinx and Paula are playing a double headliner with Fight Like Apes in the Spirit Store on Sunday the 28th of October. Doors at 8pm. Tickets are €13. Click here to purchase online.
Hailing from Dundalk town Jinx Lennon mixes punk folk with observational lyrics, performance art, and a stage show that is more baptist hellfire preacher than Dylanesque troubadour.Jinx has been touring and pushing out his fierce music at home and abroad since 1999 playing festivals and touring the US, Britain and Ireland blistering performances at Oxegen, Electric Picnic, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Dublin Fringe festival. Radio appearances include sessions on "Across the Line"on BBC Radio Ulster, Dan Hegarty Show on 2 FM, "The 11th Hour" on RTE Radio 1, Pop 4 and Cula 4 on TG4 and has just recorded a performance for "Ardan"on TG4. His third and latest album "Know Your Station Gouger Nation !!! " is a journey through the dark side of Hibernia.
Martin Stephenson and Helen McCookerybook
Martin and Helen are playing in the No. 32 Restaurant in Seatown. Tickets are €50 and include dinner. They are available directly from the venue. Menu links and contact details for tickets are on the venue page.
Martin Stephenson is a supremely gifted singer, songwriter, musician and performer, whose career in music stretches back now almost twenty years. Born in County Durham, in the North-East of England, on the 27th. July 1961, Martin was initially fired up to play in a band when the Punk Rock phenomenon went overground in the late 1970's. Then, as now, however, Martin's free spirit incorporated a love for an eclectic range of musical styles, from Rockabilly, show tunes, through to straight ahead rock and full-tilt Punk.
PJ Gallagher
PJ Gallagher plays the Táin Theatre, Town Hall, Crowe Street, Dundalk on Saturday the 27th of October. Tickets are €16 & €14 conc. and are available from the Tain Theatre Box Office, Crowe Street, Dundalk or online through our tickets page. Performance is at 8pm.
PJ Gallagher is fast becoming one of Ireland's best-loved comedians. Following the huge success of his role as Jake Stevens in the hilarious and sometimes outrageous hit TV show "Naked Camera", PJ rarely has time to be himself these days as he prepares for yet another run of the massively popular series.
The Bruhouse Blues Band
The Bruhouse Blues Band play McManus' Pub, Seatown on Friday the 26th of October at 9pm.
The Brewhouse Blues Band exploded onto the local scene just three months ago by winning the Dundalk FM battle of the bands on their very first gig. The three piece made up of James Humpston, (guitar & vocals) Paul Mallon (bass) and Mark Duffy (drums) have been welcomed as a breath of fresh air by music goers with their old school attitude and approach. The band can only be described as dirty blues rock, playing many originals and old favourites from legends such as Clapton, Hendrix and Peter Green.
The Organics
The Organics play the Riva Brasserie, Earl Street, Dundalk on Friday the 26th of October. Tickets are €25 and include a tapas meal. They are available from tthe venue or from the tickets page.
Ireland’s leading Hammond organ trio - Organics have been performing and composing professionally as a group since 1997. During this time they have performed as the jam-session house band at the Cork International jazz festival. They have played extensively throughout Ireland at music festivals in Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Belfast to name but a few.
Warlords of Pez
The infamous Warlords of Pez are playing in the Spirit Store on Thursday the 25th of October. Doors at 8.30pm. This show is fancy dress so let your creativity shine and dress it up, Warlords style!!
Tickets are €7.
Click here to buy tickets online.
Hailing from deep galactic space, the Warlords of Pez are a group of Cybernetically Advanced Sonically Aggressive Space Pricks, fusing a combination of Deepspace Death Metal & Low-Light Sex Cabaret with a twist of New Age Electric Bongo Madness.