The Quarter Inch Collective might be packing it all in, but their final release - Quompilation #3 - featuring "14 of Ireland's soundest young artists" will be launched tonight in The Workman's Club.
So we asked Dara Higgins to do a roundup of post-Christmas / New Year's Eve gigs...
Since it's Christmas, Halves are giving away 500 downloads of their rather lovely LP Live At The Unitarian Church.
Skinny Wolves invite you to non-celebrate Christmas in the company of Girls Names, Twinkranes & I Am The Cosmos in Whelan's this Saturday.
Flaming June Records have released a special Christmas edition of Laura Sheeran's What The World Knows. It's on clear vinyl and limited to 250 copies.
Owensie has released The Old Breadline, a Christmas single in aid of St. Gabriel's School & Centre in Limerick. Have a listen, have a read about St. Gabriels, then buy it.
The time has come for The Quarter Inch Collective to call it a day, but not before their third and final release - Quompilation #3 featuring "14 of Ireland's soundest young artists".
The Button Factory have announced a free Christmas gig for December 22nd, with R.S.A.G., Ocho, Toby Kaar & more.
Hefty Horse celebrate Christmas early this year, with Viking Moses, Derrick Devine & The Alpaca Jamboree in The Little Green Café this Friday.
"As a taxi driver told us earlier in the week, it's called the Custard Factory because it used to be a custard factory" - Inspired by a talk by The Wire's Frances Morgan at the start of the festival, Ian Maleney reviews Supersonic 2012,
