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ith The Hot Spot and the Byrne pubs admirably having kept music alive in this town – even during that delightful recession thingy that’s apparently over – it’s always been a bit of a trek for those looking for something a little off the rock’n’roll menu.
That there are plenty of people in this town who crave a little more than watching Ger Doyle belt out Smooth Criminal on the fiddle for the 7,342,678th time goes without saying.
It’s just that, for many, many years now, lovers of theatre, comedy, dance and whatever-you’re-having-yourself have had no particular place to go.
Until now.
It’s a sign of just how much of an appetite Greystonians have for culture in all its colours, contours and connotations that the first few shows at the town’s newly-opened arts venue, The Whale,
have all sold out in record time.
And as my somewhat deaf grandmother always said, honey breeds honey, baby. With The Whale hitting the
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