The also-mighty Quinn

The quite amazingly monikered Niall Quinn and the Pennywhores have announced a Christmas-week blowout in Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick on December 29th.

The man who, for a short while at least, is destined to be referred to as "the other Niall Quinn" is in fact the ex-drummer from great lost Limerick band The Hitchers, who released two also strangely-titled albums (It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye and For The Want Of Some Better TV) before disbanding in 2001.

Quinn was also the original singer in some Limerick shower called The Cranberries.

Following the Hitchers’ demise, Quinn toured solo for a while, with The Handsome Family, Howe Gelb and Andy White among others. Now with a full band, this gig will be the ideal way to learn more about his professed interests, namely "substance abuse, football, work-related dementia and taking a rusty blunted meat cleaver to some *!*?er who seriously has it coming". Quite.

Anyone keen to hear more in the meantime will find Quinn’s taste for mad titles still intact when they pick up ‘There Is No Such Place As Harchester’, the Pennywhores’ debut EP (featuring leader track ‘Someone Tell The Sad Man In The Dream Team Jersey’).

More information, full lyric sheets and lots more besides can be found at www.geocities.com/pennywhores.