The Medusa Fora

Dolan's Warehouse is celebrating its 10th anniversary and going to mark it with three days open air mirth.. The festival will run from 2nd May too 4th May and..
Friday, 2nd May, brings Seamus Begley, Eoin Coughlan & Kiernan McMullan, Sharon Shannon Big Band with Mundy and Shane MacGowan. Tickets €35.

The date (together with other festivals) has made onto front page (thank Zuzana) and tickets went on sale a week ago.
You can book them either via Dolan's site or via usual means of ticketmaster.

Both places supply all necessary info as well.

Limerick is beautiful and Letterkenny show by the same cast Noel put in his top 10 gigs ever.
Just the last and very gentle reminder..

Shane McGowan: 'Limerick is no dirty old town'

Limerick Leader
Published Date: 08 May 2008
By Anne Sheridan and Alan Owens

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LIMERICK'S reputation has frequently been hauled through the mud, but singer Shane McGowan believes it's not such a dirty old town.
Speaking exclusively to the Leader prior to his appearance on stage as part of the D-10 festival last weekend, Mr McGowan said he believes the city attracts a disproportionate amount of negative coverage compared to Dublin, Cork and Galway.

"I've never felt intimidated in Limerick; compared to Dublin or Cork there is a lot of crap about Limerick (in the media]. I've been coming here since I was a small boy, and my mother and father met here.

Limerick has changed a lot for the better since I was last here. It's not like Dublin, though I never liked Dublin. I always thought Limerick is the best city in Ireland - it's the oldest and the funkiest," said the 50-year-old singer who has homes in Nenagh and Dublin.

He added that if a poll of incidents of crime in any given week were carried out across all four cities, he believed that Limerick would compare favourably.

The former singer and songwriter with The Pogues said that he always loves coming to Limerick and was glad to make an appearance alongside Sharon Shannon and her big band to celebrate Dolan's 10th birthday last weekend.

Plus, he said the enthusiastic crowds at gigs in Limerick are another big drawn for musicians. "They always say 'the bigger the sh**hole, the better the crowd', but I don't think that about Limerick," laughed the singer, as he enjoyed a drink in Dolan's prior to the gig on Friday night.

The inaugural three-day festival - the biggest music event ever held in Limerick - was lauded as a massive success, and despite estimated crowds of around 5,500 over the three days, there was not one arrest or serious incident to report.

Held on Atlas Avenue beside the River Shannon, the organisers have said the festival will become an annual event.

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