Triskel Promotions are set to make a comeback with a ‘Band of Friends’ performance in January next year.

After more than 20 years staging some of the biggest names in music as well as the most promising up and coming acts, it looked to wind down its operations after a final ‘Last Dance’ show in April last year.

However, Triskel director Lenny Conroy has confirmed that another concert will be hosted in January next year.

The ‘Band of Friends’ will take to the Peel Centenary Centre on Tuesday, January 7 and Wednesday, January 8 2025, and will feature Gerry McAvoy, Brendan O’Neill and Davy Knowles.

Bass player Gerry McAvoy and drummer Brendan O’Neill are both from Northern Ireland and played with blues rock legend Rory Gallagher between 1970 and 1991.

The pair later joined cult rockers Nine Below Zero as members.

In 2014, McAvoy formed ‘Gerry McAvoy's Band of Friends’ for their first performance in Derby as part of a celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher.

Three years later, the group was joined by Manx blues guitarist and singer Davy Knowles.

Knowles, from Port St Mary, currently tours as a solo artist but is formerly a member of the Isle of Man blues-rock band Back Door Slam.

The band released their first album Roll Away in 2007, a move which catapulted them to blues stardom.

The group travelled the world in support of the record, which released at number seven on the Blues Billboard Chart, performing at renowned festivals in the US including South by Southwest, Coachella and Lollapalooza.

The band unexpectedly split-up in 2009 but Knowles has managed to carve out a successful career as a solo musician ever since.

Lenny said: ‘It seems only a brief curtain call since the closing, rambunctious bars of Bullfrog Blues were echoing around the Gaiety Theatre, as Davy Knowles closed what was labelled Triskel’s Last Dance.

‘Yet there is talk of this not perhaps being the final chapter of the 22 years that Triskel has been providing top quality live shows!’

Tickets for Band of Friends go on sale on Thursday, September 5 at 12pm, and can be purchased by visiting triskelpromo.com.

Lenny has also suggested that another act could be in the pipeline for Triskel - English singer-songwriter Tom McRae.

He said: ‘I wanted him to perform in the Last Dance last year initially, but there was simply no way of getting him here without jeopardizing his spring tour.

‘I was disappointed as we have always kept in touch, but he has now announced his most ambitious autumn tour to date with some 40 shows.

‘I then contacted him to see if there was a possibility of him coming to the island amidst the already announced dates, and we settled on it being the last night of his “Étrange Hiver” tour.’

The exact date of Tom’s performance in the island is yet to be confirmed.