Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip   |   The Warehouse   |   April 23rd

Dan Le Sac V Scroobius Pip are live in Limerick on Friday April 23 at The Warehouse having delivered their new single in the shape of the Italo-tinged anthem Get Better released on Sunday Best which premiered by Zane Lowe on Radio 1, Get Better is an appeal for positivity, responsibility and self-education, and should more than launch the second wave of the Dan V Scroobius tidal as they release their brand new album The Logic Of Chance a beat heavy lit-pop tour de force on release from March 15th on Sunday Best. With the free-flowing rhyme’n'bass opener Sick Tonight, old school dancefloor hip-hop of The Beat, rants about government statistics, teenage pregnancy and music snobbery, le sac Vs Pip have delivered a second album of beat led polemics. Instantly danceable, yet increasingly vital, The Logic Of Chance is a great leap forward for alternative conscious pop. Since the launch of their first album, ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ the duo have toured Europe and the US to a growing live following, kicking off a new UK & Ireland tour in March. Dan V Scroobius  land at Streetlife in Dolan’s Warehouse on Friday 23rd April with tickets on sale now from Empire Records & Dolan’s. www.dolans.ie

The Priests   | University Concert Hall   |   June 12th

After a barely explainable 2009 The Priests return to Limerick in June for a show at the University Concert Hall. Few pundits would have predicted that an unkown vocal group of practising priests from Northern Ireland would sell a million records. Their debut album “The Priests” and their second, “Harmony” have sold over 2 million copies in more that 40 countries and topped the charts all over the world from New Zealand to Norway. At St. MacNissi’s College near Carnlough in Co Antrim, Father Eugene O’Hagan, Father Martin O’Hagan and Father David Delargy met for the first time and realised their musical prowess as a singing trio. After 20 years of being parish priests, Eugene, Martin and David’s talent was recognised by Sony Music after a scout sent a demo to Sony’s head office.  They signed a contract on the steps of Westminster Abbey in April 2008. The Priests will perform songs including Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Amazing Grace and You’ll Never Walk Alone at the UCH on June 12. Tickets from UCH box office on 061-331549 or www.uch.ie

Great Friday   |   secret location   |   April 2nd

The third incarnation of Limerick’s home-grown music festival, Great Friday, is coming up thick & fast. On Friday April 02, Limerick’s music players & lovers will once again line up at Arthurs Quay bus stop and be shuttled away to a big field to stand & love the likes of Jamie Behan, Kevin Blake, Dan Sykes, Ruan Flood, Andy Mooney, Benoit, Acoustra, Brad Pitt Light Orchestra, Funzo & Heirs to Nothing.
Great Friday 2010 was launched, jelly shots and all in Baker Place on February 27th and if the huge crowd the rocked the house are any indicator of form this years festival will be another riotous romp in the county, come mud rain or shine.  Five years of very serious partying by the people of Limerick caused the Great Friday House Party to burst at the seams and in 2008 the move came from house to field. The cream of Limerick’s music scene came out to entertain and the legendary atmosphere of Great Friday survived the transition.  The Great Friday Festival runs April 2 at a secret location. Check www.greatfriday.ie or www.myspace.com/greatfriday for tickets & more details.

God’s Official   |   LIT Millennium Theatre   |   April 29th

The country’s favourite, Mick Lally, will be stepping on stage at the Millennium Theatre in April in his new role as a rogued football fan in ‘God’s Official’. This madcap comedy sees Mick joined on stage by George McMahon who plays Mondo in Fair City and rising star Edwin Mullane. Playing a kidnapped referee is not what the bould Mick would be best known for, but this is the premise of his new show where two football fans have just seen their side relegated after said referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score! Trying to force him into changing his mind on the all-important goal sets up the rest of this comedy. To some people football is a matter of life and death, to others it is far more important that that. God’s Official runs at the LIT Millenium Theatre on April 29. Contact the box office on 061-322322 or log on to www.litmt.ie for tickets