diff --git a/examples/data/config/PubSubClient.json b/examples/data/config/PubSubClient.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6b6647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/data/config/PubSubClient.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "servers": ["127.0.0.1:7100"],
+    "subscriptions": ["pyircbot_send"],
+    "publish": "pyircbot_{}"
+}
diff --git a/pyircbot/modulebase.py b/pyircbot/modulebase.py
index e9739c0..2eba721 100644
--- a/pyircbot/modulebase.py
+++ b/pyircbot/modulebase.py
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ class ModuleBase:
             if configPath is not None:
                 self.config = PyIRCBot.load(configPath)
 
+    def onenable(self):
+        """Called when the module is enabled"""
+        pass
+
     def ondisable(self):
         """Called when the module should be disabled. Your module should do any sort
         of clean-up operations here like ending child threads or saving data files.
diff --git a/pyircbot/modules/PubSubClient.py b/pyircbot/modules/PubSubClient.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3408645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyircbot/modules/PubSubClient.py
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+"""
+.. module::PubSubClient
+    :synopsis: connect to a message bus and act as a message relay
+.. moduleauthor::Dave Pedu <dave@davepedu.com>
+"""
+
+from pyircbot.modulebase import ModuleBase, hook
+from msgbus.client import MsgbusSubClient  # see http://gitlab.davepedu.com/dave/pymsgbus
+from threading import Thread
+from json import dumps, loads
+from time import sleep
+from zmq.error import Again
+
+
+class PubSubClient(ModuleBase):
+    def __init__(self, bot, moduleName):
+        ModuleBase.__init__(self, bot, moduleName)
+        self.host, self.port = self.config.get("servers")[0].split(":")
+        self.bus = None
+        self.bus_listener_thread = Thread(target=self.bus_listener)
+        self.bus_listener_thread.daemon = True
+        self.bus_listener_thread.start()
+
+    def bus_listener(self):
+        sleep(3)
+        while True:#TODO clean exit onenable/ondisable etc
+            if not self.bus:
+                sleep(0.01)
+                continue
+            try:
+                channel, message = self.bus.recv(block=False)
+            except Again:
+                sleep(0.01)
+                continue
+            print(channel, "--", message)
+            tag, subcommand, message = message.split(" ", 2)
+            if tag != "default":
+                continue
+
+            if subcommand == "privmsg":
+                dest, message = loads(message)
+                self.bot.act_PRIVMSG(dest, message)
+
+    def publish(self, subchannel, message):
+        self.bus.pub(self.config.get("publish").format(subchannel), "{} {}".format("default", message))
+
+    @hook("PRIVMSG")
+    def bus_privmsg(self, msg):
+        # msg.command msg.args msg.prefix msg.trailing
+        self.publish("privmsg", dumps([msg.args, msg.prefix[0], msg.trailing, {"prefix": msg.prefix}]))
+
+    @hook("JOIN")
+    def bus_join(self, msg):
+        # msg.command msg.args msg.prefix msg.trailing
+        self.publish("join", dumps([msg.prefix[0], msg.trailing, {"prefix": msg.prefix}]))
+
+    @hook("PART")
+    def bus_part(self, msg):
+        # msg.command msg.args msg.prefix msg.trailing
+        self.publish("part", dumps([msg.args, msg.prefix[0], msg.trailing, {"prefix": msg.prefix}]))
+
+    def onenable(self):
+        self.bus = MsgbusSubClient(self.host, int(self.port))
+        for channel in self.config.get("subscriptions"):
+            self.bus.sub(channel)
+        self.publish("sys", "online")
+
+    def ondisable(self):
+        self.log.warning("clean it up")
+        self.publish("sys", "offline")
+        self.bus.close()
+
+"""
+
+Bot connects to the bus:
+
+    pyircbot_sys default online
+
+Bot disconnects from the bus:
+
+    pyircbot_sys default offline
+
+Bot relaying a privmsg:
+
+    pyircbot_privmsg default [["#clonebot"], "dave-irccloud", "message text",
+                              {"prefix": ["dave-irccloud", "sid36094", "Clk-247B1F43.irccloud.com"]}]
+
+User parts a channel:
+
+    pyircbot_part default [["#clonebot"], "dave-irccloud", "part msg",
+                           {"prefix": ["dave-irccloud", "sid36094", "Clk-247B1F43.irccloud.com"]}]
+
+User joins a channel:
+
+    pyircbot_join default ["dave-irccloud", "#clonebot",
+                           {"prefix": ["dave-irccloud", "sid36094", "Clk-247B1F43.irccloud.com"]}]
+
+# Client sending a message that the bot will relay
+
+    pyircbot_send default privmsg ["#clonebot", "asdf1234"]
+
+"""
diff --git a/pyircbot/pyircbot.py b/pyircbot/pyircbot.py
index 225a6c8..4f3eb64 100644
--- a/pyircbot/pyircbot.py
+++ b/pyircbot/pyircbot.py
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ class PyIRCBot(object):
         self.moduleInstances[name] = getattr(self.modules[name], name)(self, name)
         " load hooks "
         self.loadModuleHooks(self.moduleInstances[name])
+        self.moduleInstances[name].onenable()
 
     def unloadmodule(self, name):
         """Deactivate a module.