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THE CABIN Collective, featuring The Saw Doctors’ Leo Moran and singer-songwriter Noelie McDonnell, play their debut gig at this month’s Cúirt festival.

To help shake off some of those Christmas Day calories, the Saw Doctors will be rocking on stage at the Royal Theatre on Thursday December 29. Renowned for their live performances, Royal Theatre fans are in for a treat as this is one of only a few Irish dates over the Christmas period.

The Saw Doctors will kick off their upcoming Irish Tour in Kilkenny at the Set Theatre this Bank-Holiday Sunday.

In one of the strangest ironies of fate that I ever heard was the day, early 2006, when the renowned Irish singer Eleanor Shanley called into Charlie Lennon’s Cuan Recording Studios in Spiddal. Eleanor, with her distinctive, rich lyrical voice, was looking for a new song. She talked to her friend Éamonn Goggin, a sound engineer at Cuan. Éamonn’s passion was music. He loved nothing more than sharing his knowledge with friends. He enthused about a song written by Mike Scott of the Waterboys and Anthony Thistlethwaite, called ‘Strange Boat’. It was written some years ago, but it was a great song, that just needed some updating, a new look. ‘ We’re sailing on a Strange Boat/ Heading for a strange shore/ Carrying the strangest cargo / That was ever hauled aboard....’ Éamonn said it was ideally suited for Eleanor’s voice.

The Saw Doctors will play their first public concert in Kilkenny in ten years on Friday October 15, at the Set Theatre to promote their new studio album, The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors, which TV star and comedian Peter Kay launched at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin at the end of September.