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Edenderry band Frantic Jack have just announced dates for their first nationwide tour to promote their debut album Independence and their single ‘Hold On’ due for release on July 23.

BEFORE THE Saw Doctors perform at Glastonbury, the band will play two warm up shows at Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

Johnny Donnelly, the former drummer with The Saw Doctors, is to go on the run in the Sarah Desert. No, he’s not escaping to join the French Foreign Legion, instead he’s undertaking a running marathon for charity.

The Spanish Arch in summer is a natural place of congregation and this week even more so as the medieval landmark will form the backdrop to three open air gigs, each taking place at 9pm.

Tuam natives The Saw Doctors have reached another new height in their career, storming up the Irish charts once again to hit the number one spot, 17 years after their last chart-topping hit.

The BRIT School in London has become famous over the last few years for producing many UK chart stars such as Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Kate Nash, Adele and Katie Melua. It was also the starting point for Dan Gillespie Sells and Richard Jones of The Feeling in their rise towards the summit of the recording industry. The group – many of whom have Irish heritage – came together as a band doing cover versions at a ski resort in the Alps and indeed took their name from a bar in Paris. 2006 was the highpoint for the Feeling as their debut album Twelve Stops and Home had sales in excess of 1.5 million and singles such as “Sewn”, “Fill My Little World” and “Never Be Lonely” all became Top ten hits. Lead singer Dan Gillespie Sells is the product of County Mayo parents and as such the Feeling are delighted to be playing The Royal Theatre Castlebar on Saturday November 29 in what is sure to be a sold-out show.

WITHOUT GEORGE, the Galway based hard rock, blues, funk, and country band, will launch their eponymous debut album at a show in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9.30pm.

NOW THAT we are in a recession, people are casting their minds back to the bleak 1980s and early 1990s when, as Tommy Tiernan said “you couldn’t get a job if you tried”.

The GAA will mark its 125th anniversary this year and the celebrations begin with a special Late Late Show tomorrow in which Tuam’s The Saw Doctors will perform.