The Civic Centre’s long rebuilding had helped, along with other reasons, to make the Musicians’ Club “successful again”, according to General Manager Michael Boland.

Mr Boland said two years ago when the club was coming out of administration and many difficult years that there was a “long fight in front of us.”

But better finances and being able to reinvest more into the club’s facilities, and the timing of the Civic Centre’s construction work, allowed the club to pick up many of the shows booked for the city’s civic hall.