That Petrol Emotion reconvene for dates in the Academy, Dublin (December 6); Spring & Airbrake, Belfast (7); and Nerve Centre, Derry (8), which we suspect will sell-out in double-quick time.
Steve Mack & Co. are also well-chuffed having been invited by Kevin Shields to appear alongside Sonic Youth, De La Soul, EPMD and the Sun Ra Orkestra at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas bash he’s curating between December 4 and 6 in the English seaside town of Minehead.
A couple of the chaps will be busy too on November 14 when The Undertones play a Derry City fundraiser in Sandino’s. The gig commemorates City’s winning of the 1988/’89 League, League Cup and FAI Cup treble, a feat that still brings a lump to many a local throat.

Picture: Steve Mack in the Hot Press Signing Tent at Oxegen