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Waterford's own little hotbed of cool alternative live music, "THE FRIDAY CLUB", returns to Electric Avenue on Friday 18

January, with another of those diverse 3 band bills that has given the club a richly deserved reputation as the best spot in the South East to check out all that is new and exciting on the Irish music scene.

The bands for the first FC gig of 2008, Gavin Glass & The Holy Shakers, The

Minutes and Dali, all received a great reaction at 2007's Hard Working Class Heroes festival in Dublin. The Friday Club DJs will be on hand as usual on 18th to play the freshest mix of indie and alternative tunes til late. Other acts coming to The Friday Club in the first few months of 2008 are debut gigs here by Cathy Davey, Future Kings Of

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Stagemad Theatre Company will present 'Are You The Wife Of Michael Cleary' at Garter Lane Arts Centre at 8pm tonight Wednesday 9th January. They will leave for New York on Friday 11th to stage the play at the Irish Arts Centre, New York, from Tuesday 15th January to Sunday 20th January.

Stagemad Theatre Company are taking a mammoth leap in this venture. They are only two and a half years in operation and have performed three times a year without any Arts Council Funding. The people of Waterford should be proud to support them and can do so by coming to see the play on the 11th. Tickets are €25 and can be booked at Garter Lane Box office or on (051) 855038

The play was last performed at Garter Lane in February 2007 to sell out audiences.

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The opening will take place on Friday 11 January 2008 at 7pm at Garter Lane Gallery, O'Connell Street, Waterford.

Aidan Dunne, Art Critic, and Irish Times will open the exhibition.

A wine and canapés reception with music.

The exhibition will continue until Saturday 23 February at 5pm.

Fourteen contemporary artists have been invited to make work for an exhibition that aims to celebrate and encourage the most primary (and Often the least visible) of all art activities: drawing.

Each artist was asked to make three or four drawings specifically for the exhibition taking the landscape as their subject. The artists are not members of any kind of cohesive group. They speak with distinct and different voices.

They were invited to participate on this basis, in the expectation that how they each engaged with the idea of drawing landscape would make visible something of

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Red Kettle Theatre Company is delighted to announce the revival of its production Boy Soldier which will open in Garter Lane on January 30th. Running in Waterford for four nights only, the play will then go on to enjoy a seven week national tour supported by the Arts Councils Touring Experiment.

Boy Soldier premiered in Garter Lane in 2006 to national acclaim and this resulted in the support of the Touring Experiment to bring this excellent production to a wider audience. Red Kettle offers you the chance to catch this production again or for those who missed it the first time round a second opportunity to see this exciting work.

Based on the story of John Condon, a 14 year old Waterford boy, reputed to be the youngest allied soldier killed in the First World War. The piece was developed

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Things are starting back at Waterford Youth Arts very quickly this year with comprehensive programmes for young people of all ages. The range of activities on offer and the very good value is unique to Waterford and is the envy of many cities in Ireland. For all of the activities no previous experience is necessary and it is an opportunity to make new friends in a safe fun environment. The workshops are all run by arts professionals and among the list of activities on offer at WYA are:

Theatre / Drama

This starts with a ten week programmes to Easter and then another programme to Summer. Aimed at three different age groups - 9 - 11 years / 12 - 14 years and 15 - 19years with performance opportunities throughout the year. WYA have run Drama programmes successfully for the last

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January 12 - March 2, 2008

Paul Doran is one of Ireland's finest painters. He makes complex paintings of great beauty and intensity that are celebrations of paint itself. His paint is exceedingly rich and luscious - in its texture and in its implications of high virtuosity.

Doran is a passionate painter of great ability and mastery of craft. His paintings are marvellously self-contained works - layers of oil paint on canvas stretched on wooden boards and worked on over time. Keys to the past reside in every new body of work where one finds references to the heavy impasto and physicality of earlier paintings. The paintings in this exhibition reveal the onset of new marks and shapes on the canvas - his visual vocabulary, punctuated with distinct twists and turns and new life experiences. Doran is an informed painter, a voracious

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Ben Hennessy's forthcoming exhibition "Journey To Lir", which officially opens in Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Greyfriars Street, Waterford, on Friday 18th January 2008, will feature 30 new paintings in which the artist explores his fascination with the ancient Irish myth of the Children of Lir.

"Journey To Lir" will open to the public on Saturday 19th January 2008 and will run until Friday 29th February 2008.

Admission is free and all are welcome!

Please note Greyfriars Municipal Gallery

opening hours:

Tuesday - Saturday: 11am - 5.00pm

Last admittance

15 minutes before

closing times.

 

Enquiries welcome: Tel: (051) 849856 Fax: (051) 843425 Email: arts(at)waterfordcity.ie

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Rotate are back at The Forum on Friday 25th and bring with them Soydan, resident Will Power and very welcome guests, Inland Knights.

Laurence and Andy of Inland Knights met in 1993 through their involvement Dj'ing with the legendary UK free party crew - Smokescreen sound system. The crew of eight in total threw free, large-scale events at various locations across the English countryside. Utilizing rotating, secret venues, Smokescreen attempted to keep their renegade parties as underground as possible to avoid detection by local police - a feat they managed to accomplish on a regular basis. They also organized more legitimate events, such as nights in local clubs, and eventually took Smokescreen on tour, traveling across the European continent. All Smokescreen events featured deep house, with occasional back room sets of down tempo jazz and funk. Working with Smokescreen piqued

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The Loft Sessions are back in full swing on Saturday 12th January as RePublikans Kenno, Daz & Mac are joined by Lloyd Kenny.

The following Saturday Loft residents, Martin Roche and Ray, are joined by Wexford's Dave Bennett &

Martin Whelan both of whom have played stellar sets for RePublik over the years. Doors will open at 10.30 from now on but as always the entrance is beside DJ booth in Electric Avenue, to the left of the main bar.

Admission is 8 euro.

On January 26th present their first international guest DJ of 2008 in the shape of Canada's Luke McKeehan (pictured). Luke is the owner and boss of one of the top labels in House Music, Nordic Trax. After hearing nothing but good from his friend, Mark Farina, Luke was adamant he wanted to make an open date in his

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It has become somewhat of a likkle tradition here to big up the forthcoming blistering sunshine, and festival fever, in the early weeks of January, sort of makes the pain just a little more bearable. We also look back on last year's blasts in microcosm and reflect on what was, and sometimes what if. It all really kicked off with the less than happy go lucky mud fest that was Glastonbury 2007. The problem this year was glaringly obvious, and a little bit scary. You see the fact is that the over bloated contemporary names that managed to get themselves into headline slots just couldn't hold the attention. Bands like Arctic Monkeys, Killers, Kasabian and Kaiser Chiefs just don't have the wellie to command such respect. That ridiculous tribute act, The Who, just made it all very sad really. Oxegen,

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Hotpress say about Floyd Soul And The Wolf live"Floyd Soul & The Wolf play as if all our very lives depended on it, and when did you last think that about any Irish band?"

Floyd Soul & The Wolf came together in the spring of 2005. What started out as a handful of songs by Floyd Soul soon emerged into a collection of music ranging from boot-stomping rock songs to surreal anthems filled with harmony and energy. Since their formation, they have been playing regularly in Waterford, Dublin, Cork and Galway and managed to release an EP 'Welcome To The Woods' which received critical acclaim as Hotpress Pick Of The Fortnight in April 2006.

The Wolf guest for Traffik this coming Saturday 12th at Stage 2.

Fast established as Waterford's defining Indie club Traffik proved to be fun central over Christmas times

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It is the same story this time each year: a promise to work off those festive indulgences only to lose enthusiasm after just a couple of weeks! One reason many often falter is the lack of something concrete to work toward. You might think it daft but read on to see how Ireland's fastest growing sport, Triathlon, might just be for you.

Often thought to be only for fitness fanatics, Triathlon is in fact accessible to everyone. The three sports involved are swimming, cycling and running and up and down the country all ages and levels of fitness take part. The distances for each part of a Triathlon need not be of Herculean proportions either. In fact you can choose from very short races right up to the

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Tennis Coaching Sessions

A series of coaching sessions will be available over the coming months. These will be available for both senior and junior members and will be given by coach Dick McCarthy.

We already have a small number of people on our waiting list and we need few more people interested to start shortly.

If you are interested getting coaching, please leave your details on the clubhouse answering machine (058 42813) or email:causewaytennisclub(at)hotmail.com. We will then contact you when the group is set up.

Ladder

The next round of the ladder has started, check notice board for details of games. If you are interested by a Men's ladder, please put down your name in Club house or email your details at: causewaytennisclub(at)hotmail.com

Winter League

The Winter League is on every Wednesday 7- 9pm. Contact: Club administrator (clubhouse, tel: 058 42813 or by email:causewaytennisclub(at)hotmail.com)

Ladies' Morning

Ladies'

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AT 12 noon on sunday next the Annual 5 Miles Road Race takes place from the Mt. Sion GAA Centre in the city and is open to all with the proceeds going to the Alzheimer Society in Waterford. Organised by the Mount Sion Darts Club, the entries will be taken at the GAA centre from 10.45am. Competitors are asked to come along in good time.

Munster Cross Country

Another fixture onSunday is the Munster Senior and Junior Cross Country Championships at the Trunpike near Cashel in Co. Tipperary. The fixture begins at 12 noon with the Juvenile Inter County Relay and the AAI Indoor Games are in Nenagh also on Sunday.

County Teams

The following are the Waterford County teams for the Munster fixture next Sunday-

Junior Women: Alma Nugent, Jenny Hurley, West Waterford; Kitty and Beth Walsh, Siobhan Delaney, Grainne Brennan, Niamh Ryan, Tara

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The Granville Hotel in the city had the "house full" signs up on Friday 28th as over four hundred guests came to salute the Waterford Senior and Intermediate hurlers on their magnificent achievements in 2007. Winning the Allianz National League for the first time in forty four years and two Munster titles (Senior and Intermediate) made this a unique occasion and both the President of the Association, Nicky Brennan, and the

Munster Chairman, Lismore clubman, Jimmy O'Gorman, were present.

Also in attendance were both the Mayor of the city, Councillor Mary O'Halloran and the County Mayor, Councillor Billy Kyne along with Chairman Pat Flynn and the members of the County Board and representatives from all sections of the Association.

Mayor O'Halloran welcomed each and everyone and congratulated the teams on the marvellous achievements and the entertainment they had given during the

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