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Following on from their spectacular show in The Royal Theatre in August this summer The Meteor Award winning Coronas are returning for one night this Christmas to The Royal Theatre Castlebar on St Stephen’s Night.

Jethro Tull has just announced that he is to perform main stage at The Royal Theatre on March 20 2011. Early in 1968, a group of young British musicians, born from the ashes of various failed regional bands gathered together in hunger, destitution and modest optimism in Luton, north of London. With a common love of blues and an appreciation, among them, of various other music forms, they started to win over a small but enthusiastic audience in the various pubs and clubs of southern England. The breakthrough came when they were offered the Thursday night residency at London’s famous Marquee Club in Wardour Street, Soho.

THE FLAMING Lips acknowleged their debt to Pink Floyd last year when the Lips recorded their own version of Dark Side Of The Moon.

If you like being scared then it will be the night of your life as Finbar Hoban presents. Fright Night Movie Night Halloween fancy dress party plus the Michael Jackson dance-off at Bar Ritz, Castlebar tomorrow night October 30. The Bar Ritz venue in Castlebar will be turned into a Halloween fortress for one night only with four rock acts from Limerick city plus there is going to be the hugely popular Michael Jackson dance-off where members of the public will be asked to re-enact the zombie dance scene from the legendary Thriller video.

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.

The Ginger Biscuits are among the fresh young bands coming out of Athlone recently.

The Raconteurs co-founder, Brendan Benson returns to Ireland for a nationwide tour this autumn which sees him play The Stables, Mullingar on Saturday October 2.

His name may have raised one or two eyebrows when his 2002 album Lapalco appeared alongside luminaries like Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes on The Irish Times’ top 20 albums of the last decade.

BRENDAN BENSON was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of the port city of Detroit. The city is known as the world’s centre of the automobile industry, but it is even more famous for its music.

There are still a handful of tickets remaining for tonight’s Coronas’ show in the Royal Theatre and this is a show that you don’t want to miss. Two very successful albums, Heroes and Ghosts and Tony was an Ex-Con, including their recently released single ‘Someone Else’s Hands’, have ensured this Irish band is receiving wide ranging support and affection from fans. Their first album was described by Hot Press as “a soulful line between Jeff Buckley and the Libertines”. The Coronas, featuring Danny O Reilly, Graham Knox, Conor Egan, and Dave Mc Phillips, have achieved platinum sales in Ireland with Heroes or Ghosts, and spawned massive singles such as ‘Grace, Don't Wait!’, ‘Heroes or Ghosts’, and especially ‘San Diego Song’ which became an anthem in pubs and radio stations all across the country.