ass="apple-converted-space"> The
Cranberries
and guitarist
Noel Hogan's Mono Band,
The Hitchers
and many more. World-renowned
electronic musician
Richard D.
James, more commonly known as
Aphex
Twin, was born in Limerick in 1971. The Limerick Art Gallery and the Art
College cater for painting, sculpture and performance art of all styles. The
Irish Chamber Orchestra
and the Irish World Music Centre are
both based in the
University of
Limerick. The university has a thousand-seat state-of-the-art concert hall that
frequently hosts visiting performers. Limerick is also home to comedians
The Rubberbandits, D'Unbelievables
(Pat Shortt
&
Jon Kenny),
Jimmy Carr
and
Karl
Spain. Dolans Warehouse on the Dock Road has two venues specialising in live
music; an upstairs venue which tends to accommodate
comedians
and
folk
and
jazz
acts, and a much larger warehouse
venue holding 400, which tends to stage more popular (usually
