Support slot for band getting back gigging

Hi all,
My band "Army of Ed" have been off the gig circuit the last year due to a sickness in the family for a band member. While we were out of commision we began working on our new material for our album and working with a new bassist.

Now we're looking for some gigs to get us back into the swing of things. We're an experienced band, our front man has been on the dublin scene for the last nearly 20 years, and has been playing with our drummer for the last 7years and both are very confident on stage. However considering they will be working with a new bassist we're just looking for a support gig just to get used to being together on stage if you know what I mean?
We're a very talkative, crowd interaction band- something that has always brought us sucess in gigs- but we just have to get the new guy used to our way of doing thing.

I've looked at your resources links and think there's some great names there but unfortunatly a lot seem to be battle of the bands/coffee house gigs or higher profile gigs which we don't really want to play til we're sure we're at full strenght together.

I was wondering if anyone would know of some support slots going in Dublin or could any boardsies here help us out? We're all in favour of making connections with local bands and will return help to anyone when we can.


EDIT: just to add some info on the band, we're a 3 piece alternative rock band, play all our own original material with inspiration from Nivana, Sun Kill Moon, Pearl Jam, System of a down, Idlewild etc... Unfortunatly I've no music to link at present because we're in the process of mastering our songs but I can pm some older tracks to people if they're interested?