Navan Live drawing UK and European concert-goers

The Navan Live 2010 event to be held in September has attracted a large number of overseas visitors coming from the UK, Norway, France and Scotland. Meath Tourism says it is delighted that concert promoters Profile Music Group and their team decided to establish this year's music festival in Navan, which is a great location for visitors to the festival to explore Newgrange, Trim Castle, Loughcrew and the Boyne Valley while they are here.   Staffing, security and logistical crews also have to be accommodated locally for the event, representing a great boost for the local economy and for tourism businesses in Meath, particularly in Navan, Michelle Whelan of Meath Tourism stated. Festivals have become a major boost to the local economy in Meath and with eight out of 10 families expected to holiday at home this year, Meath Tourism applauds Navan live for attracting much needed visitors to overnight at the two day festival.   The line-up at Teach Teamhrach includes the Saw Doctors. In the last eighteen months, the Saw Doctors have blazed back phoenix-like from almost two decades of unsung glory. Out of the blue, their rambunctious cover of The Sugababes' About You Now rocketed to No 1 in Ireland, restoring them to their rightful place as that nation's best-loved good-time band. Fronted by two criminally under-rated songwriters, Leo Moran and Davy Carton, this is the band that entered the record books back in 1990 when 'I Useta Lover' spent nine weeks at number one, becoming Ireland's best-selling single of all time. They followed up with the number 2 hit, N17, and a chart-topping album, 'If This Is Rock And Roll, I Want My Old Job Back', but somehow the momentum wasn't maintained. Irresistably singable songs ('To Win Just Once', 'Hay Wrap' and 'Same Oul' Town' to name but three), still flowed from Moran and Carton; their stormingly exuberant live shows remained unparalleled celebrations of the spirit of great rock; and their substantial phalanx of hardcore fans on both sides of the Atlantic never wavered in support. Typically for the Saw Doctors, coming back into fashion happened in the least likely way imaginable, on February 12, 2008. "We were on the Podge And Rodge Show," laughs Davy Carton. "Part of the show involved a spinning music board. They spin the board and the guest artist has to perform whatever song it lands on. It landed on The Sugababes hit 'About You Now'." At the end of the show, The Saw Doctors took to the tiny Podge And Rodge stage and delivered up their blindingly transformed re-interpretation of what had been a slick r'n'b pop hit. Now it was entirely their own, as surely as if Moran and Carton had written it themselves. Suddenly, About You Now had become a ranting, raving rock anthem.   On October 18, 2008, with hot releases from P!nk, Kings Of Leon and Snow Patrol trailing along in their dust, About You Now by The Saw Doctors debuted at No1 in the Irish Charts. Generous to a fault, the band donated all proceeds, over €10,000, to Galway's Salerno Cystic Fibrosis Fund. The Saw Doctors current lineup features Leo Moran (vocals, guitar), Davy Carton (vocals, guitar), Kevin Duffy (keyboards), Anthony Thistlethwaite (bass guitar, saxophone), and Eímhín Cradock (drums).