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Back and better than ever! File an Phobail's August File '09 is beginning in just nine days ! Now in its 21st year, August File is the highlight of the summer festival calendar in Belfast and this year isn't set to disappoint.

Here are another 5 quick picks for you, the loyal reader: MUSIC: Reel Big Fish Few bands survive having a hit major label album, let alone lasting more than another decade beyond that.

When the Ramones played their first British show, on July 4, 1976, it was exactly what a generation of pissed-off youths - facing racial tensions and skyrocketing unemployment - was looking for.

The Mall at Stonecrest and 95.5 The BEAT will celebrate the return to back to school with our third annual a oeMeet the BEAT,a a live concert event featuring the New Bad Boy of R&B, Pleasure P J. Holiday , Atlanta hometown favorite F.L.Y. , Dear Jayne and a fun kida s activity area on Saturday, July 25th from Noon to 3 p.m. on the Plaza.

Besides being most identified as the poster boys for the mid-'90s ska explosion, the members of smart-alecky outfit Reel Big Fish are somewhat infamous for their goofy covers of '80s hits.

The live concert DVD was filmed before a sold-out, hometown crowd at the Grove of Anaheim this past January and features 20 classic Reel Big Fish songs, as well as all of the in-between-song-banter-and-hijinks that fans have come to expect.

TEENAGE rap sensation Chipmunk was among the acts who wowed the crowds at the showpiece of Basing-stoke Live - " the town's annual free summer music and dance festival.

Nine piece 'SkaNation' is made up of members from in and around Leigh who got together three years ago through a mutual love of the music of Bad Manners, The Specials and Madness.

He is frozen in time, locked in an endless loop wherein the same images are on memory replay.