Mitchelstown will rock this summer when Dannii Minogue comes to town.The headlining act at the Mitchelstown Guinness Music Festival is likely to attract thousands including "a lot of men or older boys who'd be very interested in Miss Minogue," said one of the organisers, Carol Duggan, a primary school teacher.
Other acts taking part in the music festival attended a party at Lillies Bordello this week to get in the Mitchelstown mood and prepare for a busy summer.
Catherine Dowling, of Alphastates (formerly Babalfish, she points out), says the five-piece group will play Whelan's in Dublin at the end of this month, Witnness on Saturday, July 12th, and the Mitchelstown Guinness Music Festival in early August.
Jerry Fish, with his Mudbug Club, will be also be doing Witnness, the Killarney Summerfest, the Cork summer festival and the Galway Arts Festival.
Marc Murray and Andy Kavanagh, members of new boyband, Broken Hill, will play Belfast later this week with Westlife.
The organisers of the Mitchelstown event expect more than 40,000 people to attend the bank holiday weekend fest, which will run from Friday, August 1st to Monday 4th. In total, 16 bands will perform.
Meanwhile, Macroom band Remma, comprising brothers Colm (16) and Shane O'Herlihy (19), Sollamh Kelly (15) (who missed the party because he was sitting his Junior Cert) and his brother Dylan Kelly, plus Liam Cotter (16) will be performing at Mitchelstown this summer too.
For those who want an early taste of this young group, they will play at the Briery Gap Theatre in Macroom, Co Cork, on Wednesday, June 25th.