Moon MagicNext weekend Carrick-on-Shannon hosts Hunters Moon festival, specialising in minimal, psychedelic, experimental and drone music. huntersmoonfestival.com

Halloween SpookSpook of the Thirteenth Lock will play a Halloween gig at Whelan's on October 31st. Support comes from Melodica Deathship.

Keogh goes soloFormer Autamata/Tyco Brahe vocalist Carol Keogh has launched a FundIt campaign to record her debut solo album. tinyurl.com/mongrelcity

Roll up for BarlowTickets for Gary Barlow's solo Irish shows in January (Dublin's Olympia Theatre on the 7th, Belfast's Odyssey Arena on the 8th) are on sale now.

I’ve just been asked to do the voiceover for the Coco Pops monkey

Definitely not something we were expecting Dizzee Rascal to say