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THE AMAZING Apples have established themselves as one of Galway’s most popular bands and they are about to spread the world on their first nationwide tour.

THE SAW Doctors, DruidMurphy, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott, paintings by Jack B Yeats, and the presence of Uachtarán na hÉireann, will be part and parcel of the 35th Annual Clifden Arts Festival.

ROCK MEMOIRS are not always noted for their literary excellence but Mike Scott’s Adventures Of A Waterboy, recently published by Lilliput Press, triumphantly bucks that trend.

GALWAY BAND The Amazing Apples will mark the launch of their debut single ‘Head In The Clouds’ with a show at Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

FLING, THE energetic Irish quintet who fuse trad, bluegrass, blues, and rock play Monroe’s Live on Thursday July 5 at 11.30pm.

Fling, an Irish band combining traditional, bluegrass and rock, will play Monroes as part of the Galway Sessions on Wednesday June 13. With influences as diverse as Planxty and Led Zeppelin, the band have made a huge mark on the national and international scene. They have taken their live act to festivals such as Electric Picnic, Body and Soul, the White Horse Sessions, and the Galway Americana Festival.

MIKE SCOTT, the Scottish singer-songwriter and leader of The Waterboys will launch his autobiography in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday June 13 at 8.30pm.

THEY HAVE played Glastonbury, they have a fan in Sharon Shannon, and The Waterboy’s Steve Wickham is among their members. They are NoCrows.

Mike Scott, Steven Wickham, and an international mix of talented musicians will visit the Royal Theatre in November, bringing their tour, The Waterboys: An Appointment With Mr Yeats, to Castlebar. A selection from at least 25 of WB Yeats’ poems and plays, spanning both famous and lesser known works, will be put to music.

The Saw Doctors return to play the Royal Theatre Castlebar for their summer show on Friday July 31. A funny thing happened to The Saw Doctors last Autumn. After a gap of 17 years, the Tuam rockers topped the Irish Music Singles Chart with their punked up version of the Sugababes song ‘About You Now’, beating off international artists such as Pink and Kings of Leon.