Galway Theatre Festival opens on Monday
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
CONTROVERSY, COMEDY, mayhem, music, storytelling, puppetry, saga, and satire will be unleashed on the city when the third Galway Theatre Festival opens next Monday.
The festival will run up to and including Sunday October 31 with plays being performed in the Nuns Island Theatre, the Town Hall studio, and the Druid Lane Theatre.
Read more ...The Circus of Horrors is coming to Galway
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
IF QUENTIN Tarantino had directed Cirque de Soleil, then you might have got something like The Circus Of Horrors which arrives in The Black Box Theatre on Thursday November 4 at 8pm.
Read more ...The Kings of the Kilburn High Road as Gaeilge
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
BOICÍNÍ BHÓTHAR Kilburn, the Irish-language version of Jimmy Murphy’s celebrated play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, is currently running in the Druid Theatre.
Read more ...Jazz gig @ 8 Café
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE 8 Café at the Galway City Museum will host a supper club jazz gig tomorrow at 7pm led by Matthew Berrill and Aengus Hackett Jazz Quartet.
The ensemble of Matthew Berrill (clarinet), Chad McCullough (trumpet), and Andrew Oliver (piano) are joined by Galwegian Aengus Hackett on guitar.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE LITTLE Cinema Short Film Club is holding a Halloween themed short film event upstairs in Kelly’s this Tuesday at 9pm.
Halloween themed short films will be screened and a €30 cinema voucher will go to the short voted best on the night by the audience. People are also encouraged to go in fancy dress.
Read more ...Northern Soul and rock’n’roll DJ nights
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
FANS OF Northern Soul, rock’n’roll, Ska, and jump blues have plenty to look forward to with some great DJ nights coming up.
Read more ...Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip @ Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
SCROOBIUS PIP delivers the words to make you think and Dan Le Sac provides music that is infectious, catchy, and street-wise, creating an an irresistible combination for mind and feet.
Read more ...Goodbye Lenin! composer to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
YANN TIERSEN, the Breton composer and musician, best known for his soundtracks for Amélie and Goodbye Lenin! plays the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.
Read more ...Robert Sarazin Blake to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
WITH HIS glasses and rich black beard, Robert Sarazin Blake has the air of a rabbi. He isn’t, but it is the stories in his songs and their wise reflections which give him that aura.
Read more ...Australian Pearl Jam @ Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE AUSTRALIAN Pearl Jam play upstairs in Kelly’s Bar on Saturday at 9pm.
The band’s two hour set spans the entire Pearl Jam catalogue, from early classics such as ‘Alive’, ‘Evenflow’, and ‘Jeremy’ to more recent work such as ‘Worldwide Suicide’ and ‘The Fixer’.
Read more ...Countdown to TULCA begins
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
TULCA, GALWAY’S festival of visual arts returns from November 6 to 21 and will feature the work of more than 40 national and international artists across eight venues and public spaces in the city.
Read more ...Martin Dyar to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
MARTIN DYAR, the Co Mayo poet and actor, will be among the readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Spirit Of Voice festival line up announced
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE SPIRIT Of Voice festival returns from November 12 to 14 with concerts and events celebrating song, words, and the human voice.
Read more ...The Social Network
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies, especially if you are the socially challenged genius computer nerd Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of the world conquering Facebook. Through fast-talking dialogue and scenes which switch back and forth at relentless, sometimes dizzying, pace we see the highs, the lows, the falling outs and countless lawsuits that supposedly plagued the early days of this social network phenomenon.
Read more ...Andrew Maxwell - saying it like you mean it
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
ANDREW MAXWELL doesn’t mince his words. He just comes straight out with it and if that doesn’t suit you so much the better.
Read more ...A weekend of laughs at the Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE GALWAY Comedy Festival is on and the city is set for a weekend of laughs with comics like David O’Doherty, Dead Cat Bounce, Andrew Maxwell, and Phill Jupitus.
A number of shows are almost sold out - Rich Hall in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow and Who Needs Enemies in the Town Hall Theatre on Friday and Sunday.
Read more ...Junior Galway Film Fleadh is on the way
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
YOUNG GALWEGIANS who love everything to do with film can look forward to the Junior Galway Film Fleadh in the Town Hall Theatre from November 3 to 6.
Read more ...Crannóg to launch milestone edition
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE 25TH edition of Crannóg, the Galway literary magazine, will be launched in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Bipolar Empire to play two shows in Galway
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
BIPOLAR EMPIRE will play two shows in Galway - Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 10pm and Giggity at the Róisín Dubh on Monday November 1 at 9pm.
Read more ...Vladimir Jablokov’s classical twist
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
VLADIMIR JABLOKOV is a violin virtuoso, from a classical music family in Slovakia, who enjoys putting contemporary spin on the classics, be they by Bowie or Bach.
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