The Dan O’Connell Hotel

Brace youself for an all-out head shaving extravaganza as beloved patron Sammy puts razor to scalp for charity. Here’s what its all about:

To raise funds for two organisations that support cancer affected families:
1.St John of God Hospital, Geelong Day Oncology Centre Appeal
2.Barwon Health Foundation Young Carer Respite group
You are invited to participate in this event and help Sammy contribute to these worthwhile causes that have supported her family and continue to support others!

How can you contribute?

* Please donate!
Visit the website at http://bravingtheshave.blogspot.com to donate online using Paypal or your credit card.
Alternatively, online banking or cheques can be used.
Account Name: Samantha May
BSB number: 083-832
Account Number: 835188048

* Please attend the headshave event!
The event will be held on Thursday, the 28th of May, at The Dan O’Connell Hotel
Start time: 6:00pm
$10 entry, includes a BBQ dinner.
The event will involve a raffle, the auctioning of signed footy merchandise, and of course the headshave itself. The highest donor will be responsible for shaving Sammy’s hair off!
And after the shave, the night can kick on with some celebratory drinks and dancefloor action with DJ Alex.

Footy Merchandise includes:
*Richmond football guernsey hand signed by entire team
*Western Bulldogs guernsey hand signed by team
*Framed and signed 2008 Hawthorn Premiership team poster
*a white and gold Sherrin football hand signed by every captain and coach of each club - a real beauty!

As you can understand, Sammy and the May family are filled with a tremendous sense of gratitude to these organisations. I hope you can help us to give something back.

NEW POST:
We have some amazing raffle prizes up for grabs!
Raffle tickets will be on sale on the night - $2 for 1 ticket or $5 for 3

YOU could win…
*Gold class tickets for two (can be used at any Village Cinemas)
*’Mark’s Place’ Voucher for a Large Pizza and a bottle of Stony Peak wine! (cnr Grattan and Swanston St.)
*Cinema nova tickets (Lygon St.)
*Lygon Food Store Food Hamper
*Casa Del Gelato Icecream cake voucher, value $40 (Lygon St.)
*Intersection Cafe Voucher, value $25 (Lygon St.)
*Matakana Valley body products
*Cornucopia Room Fragrance Diffuser
*Moorabool Estate 2005 Shiraz
*Baldivis Estate 2002 Carbernet Shiraz
*Maxwell Williams two piece water set
*Bakers Delight Voucher value $10

Plus many more… the list keeps going!

And to add to our items in the auction:
*Tickets to the Footy Show!!!
*Football and Frisbee hand signed by Anthony Rocca, Sav Rocca and Steve Alessio

It’s shaping up to be an exciting night. Don’t miss it!

Put yer thinking caps on and head down for Jarrod Smith’s world famous film and music trivia night. Astound your friends with your boundless knowledge and wit, or watch instead as your mates reveal intimate knowledge of all their hidden shames! Play for some of the most critically acclaimed (read: indie elitist approved) films and albums, both contemporary and from days gone by. Chances are pretty solid you could take home your brand new favourite!

Or you could win the booby prize.

Also, beer. Golden, flowing jugs of glorious beer. And did we mention our audio rounds? Shameless embraces of songs you probably thought you would never hear again? (But secretly wanted to, if only there were a trivia night ballsy enough to play them.)

Are you great at sport questions? Good for you! We aren’t. Seriously, We have no idea what happens during a rugby game. The only thing we know about it is that there was a guy who used to stick his thumb up the other players arses to try and put them off.  (The Dan O’Connell kindly requests that you don’t try this tactic at Jarrod Smith’s Trivia as it often offends.) The trivia is all film and music based, meaning that YOU the glasses wearing, scrawny, slightly awkward film/music buff can put your custard arm to good use and amaze and dazzle everyone present! Shit, you might even get laid!

Did we mention $12 parma and pot? That’s the World Famous Dan O’Connell chicken parma, made to an authentic recipe we stole from La Porchetta in the mid eighties, prepared with love and dedication for a mere TWELVE BUCKS!! WITH BEER!!! Even Ken Bruce told us we’re crazy (shortly before smearing peanut butter on a copy of new idea and tying it to an excited jack russell.)

So put on that nice shirt that you got from your Mum for Christmas and come down for a night of merriment and mayhem as your host Jimmy pushes your grey matter like a gemini with a bung starter motor. Starts 8:30pm every Wednesday!

And… get this, it’s free.

A bit of a callout for St Pat’s day photos. If you have any particularly good ones, we’d love to see them! email the to us at mail@thedan.com.au

cheers!

They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. No bloody metro-collar-up-hair-product-using nancy boys in this. Just men. Real men.

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Thursday nights crank up a notch at the Dan with the newest addition to our lineup. The Good Doctor aims to sooth whatever worries you have with his relaxed and informal demeanor and generous doses of health giving tonic.

Music therapy is thoroughly encouraged by the Doctor, especially the sort that the ‘youth’ of today enjoy, delivered courtesy of his two fine orderlies Alex and Toby.

$5 pints, $5 basics and free entry nicely round off the doc’s party prescription, so do be good and book yourself in for a weekly checkup!

Here’s a few photos from our Thursday night festivities

Enjoy!