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Well, hallelujah!


After a mere two months of providing succour, salvation and a spiritual home to Dublin's game-for-a-laugh clubbers, weekly club night Songs Of Praise is now firmly established as the city's place to go on the Lord's Day for a dose of agnostic action and unbridled exhibitionism.

The evening's format involves twice-hourly slots of rock'n'roll karaoke, loosely held together by resident DJs Rory Montane and Murt spinning a mix of feelgood anthems. If you're up for belting out a few Bon Jovi, Blondie or Stone Roses numbers on a Sunday evening, you'll be in the company of some surprisingly talented, as well as woefully tuneless regulars, plus a smattering of local musos and the occasional visiting indie band, all singing from the same hymn sheet. Beat that, Thora Hird.

Patric Baird
The Guide - Guardian - July 2 2005