Andy Rourke, The Smiths/Badly Drawn Boy, guests for a DJ set in Tosh in Eyre Square on Friday 4 April at 10pm.

Andy Rourke is a bass guitarist best known for being a former member of The Smiths. However, before joining The Smiths, he played guitar and bass in various rock bands, as well as in the short-lived funk band Freak Party, often with his school friend John Maher, the future Johnny Marr.

When Marr and Morrissey formed the Smiths, Rourke joined the band after their second gig, and remained with the band almost throughout its existence. Marr claims that Rourke's contribution to The Queen Is Dead LP was "something no other bass player could match".

Rourke was briefly sacked from the Smiths over drugs abuse, resulting in a weekend prison sentence, which was posted on TV news. The brief dismissal of Rourke came in the form of a note left by Morrissey under the windscreen wiper of his car: 'Andy, you have left The Smiths. Good luck and goodbye, Morrissey.'

However, in May 1986 Rourke rejoined The Smiths, just before the release of 'The Queen Is Dead' album.

Tickets, €10 plus booking fee, are available from Redlight Records and there will be limited tickets on the door.

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