Brendan Benson, whose “Lapalco” album made the now infamous Irish Times Top 20 Albums of the Decade list, plays Dublin’s Button Factory on March 2. Tickets go on sale on Friday at €17 a pop.

Four Irish shows next April for rising Oxford folky, brainy bunch (and New Music pick) Stornoway who will call at Belfast’s Black Box (14), Dublin’s Crawdaddy (16), Galway’s Roisin Dubh (17) and Cork’s Savoy (18).