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Competition – win a pair of passes to the Beatyard Festival

That’s right: a weekend pass for you and your best mate (or someone who is going to be your best mate when you tell them) for the upcoming Beatyard Festival at Dublin’s Twisted Pepper and Bernard Shaw venues over the …

Competition: win tickets to the Body & Soul festival

Thanks to our friends at Body & Soul, we have a pair of tickets to give away to the festival which takes place at Ballinlough Castle, Mullingar, Co Westmeath from June 22 to 24. Acts playing this year’s fest include …

Who wants some tickets to see Tom Tom Club on Friday night?

The excellent Tom Tom Club play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Friday night (support is from Tieranniesaur, whose fine debut album is a thing of great funky beauty) and we have FIVE pairs of tickets to give away. To win, simply …

Competition: win tickets to see The Vaselines

The Vaselines play Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Thursday night and we’ve THREE pairs of tickets to give away to the show. The band also play Whelan’s, Dublin (tonight), Cyprus Avenue, Cork (tomorrow) and Black Box, Belfast (Friday). I’m DJ-ing at …

Competition – win tickets to screening of new Bruce Springsteen documentary!

It’s Bruce time again, folks. “The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town” is a documentary by Thom Zimny about the making of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s fourth album “Darkness On The Edge Of …

Competition – win tickets to the Strange Brew Super Scary Hallowe’en Hootenanny!

Strange Brew is the club night which rules the roost in Galway every Thursday at the Roisin Dubh with the mighty Gugai at the controls. It recently celebrated 400 Strange Brews and there are still people walking around the city …

Competition – win the swanky Antony & The Johnsons’ art book “Swanlights”

Tomorrow (October 8), Antony & The Johnsons release their fourth album “Swanlights”. Aside from the album (which is a very fine piece of work), Antony has also just published a very lavish art book also called “Swanlights”. The book, Anto’s …

Competition – win tickets to Foggy Jam .01

It’s on, folks. Next Sunday (October 10), Foggy Jam .01 will take over Whelan’s (Wexford St., Dublin 2) with an all-star cast of acts including No Age, Male Bonding, Mice Parade, Silje Nes Squarehead, Hipster Youth and, of course “very …