Choo-choo choons

SMALL PRINT:SICK OF THE incessant announcements on trains about the next stop, what is or isn't available in the dining car, or instructions not to smoke on board? Then adding a new soundtrack to one's journey might be the thing for you.

As part of Ireland’s National Music Day on June 21st, Dublin act White Collar Boy will be playing a gig on the 11.10am service between Dublin Heuston and Waterford. Music on trains is generally relegated to someone with dodgy noise-cancelling earphones playing Rihanna loudly next to you, or the intro to The Sunday Game on a portable wireless, but this will be very much an in-carriage gig experience, apparently.

White Collar Boy are a fine Irish electronic duo whose latest release is the Kinsale EP. The gig is free, but ticketed, and over the coming weeks they'll be giving out (train) tickets to the gig, which Iarnród Éireann has allocated. More details about the Disco Train (as the band are calling it) are available on lovelivemusic.ie, a website that also has plenty of free events highlighted for Ireland's National Music Day next month, and on the band's own website, whitecollarboy.com.

You can book your ticket for the train gig by emailing info@whitecollarboy.com, which might be handy if you happened to be journeying to Waterford that day anyway, with the added bonus of a gig down the tracks.