Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - November 15 - 21 2010

GIGS Cork legends (sometimes for their music) Republic of Loose continue their four month live residency at the Academy, Dublin - one Friday each month from September through to December on Friday November 19th. These shows will be the band’s only Dublin gigs of 2010. After returning from the States to open for U2 in Croke Park on their 360 tour in 2009, they spent the latter half of the year writing new material for their fourth album. In May 2010 Republic of Loose flew to Baltimore in the US to begin work on their forthcoming album. Recorded in Wrightway Studios with Steve Wright who had just finished working on the new UNKLE album, the fourth Republic of Loose album is scheduled for an early October release with the lead single pencilled in for September 17th. The album marks a new direction for the Loose with Mik Pyro describing the … There’s more

Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 23 – 29 2010

TICKETS Thin Lizzy is touring again. OK, obviously this is Thin Lizzy without its former very famous front man Phil Lynott. The new line-up is Scott Gorham (Guitar - Thin Lizzy), Brian Downey (Drums - Thin Lizzy), Darren Wharton (keyboards - Thin Lizzy), Vivian Campbell (Guitar - Def Leppard), Marco Mendoza (Bass Guitar - Whitesnake, Ted Nugent) and Ricky Warwick (Lead vocals/Guitar), and they are playing The Waterfront on 16 February and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 17 February 2011. Tickets for both concerts go on sale next Friday 27 August 2010 at 9AM from usual Ticketmaster outlets nationwide or directly from the venue box offices. Hard Working Class Heroes have announced the 100 Irish bands to play this year’s festival in the Temple Bar area (mostly Andrews Lane Theatre, The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Sweeney’s, Twisted Pepper and The Workmans Club), Dublin on Thursday 7, Friday 8 … There’s more