Lock up your farmers

They've been Nualaing all around the world this year, but most of all the three sassy rural chicks have enjoyed going "down under" with a series of gigs earlier this year in Australia, where their tales of love in the farmyard and passionate flings with Dublin bus drivers managed to transcend the cultural international date line. Back in Edinburgh during the summer, they were one of the few acts to sell-out all three weeks of the run and were swiftly picked up by BBC Radio 4 to do their own show, enigmatically called The Nualas for the station. The six-part series proved such a hit that they were nominated for The Best Scripted Comedy Radio Series at the recent British Comedy Awards.

Along the way too they managed to survive the trauma of losing a Nuala (the second they've lost in almost as many years), only to replace her with another Nuala - a blonde one for a change. Such has radio taken to them, that they've already been commissioned to do another series for Radio 4 and they were recently recorded in all their live splendour at a venue in Dublin for a Radio 4 special which will be broadcast on New Year's Eve.

Desperate to stress that all their travelling and radio success overseas hasn't changed them in the slightest (apart from the purchase of a few new spangly dresses), and how much they miss plodding around the country in a specially-customised Hiace van, the tempting and torrid trio are doing a super-dooper Irish tour this month. Lock up your bachelor farmers as the gals play Cork Opera House (Sunday to Saturday); Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin (January 10th-13th); Town Hall Theatre, Galway (January 15th) and the Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick (January 16th).