The Handsome Family to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

RENNIE SPARKS likes Irish audiences. “You sing one chorus for them and you’re good to go. That’s really sweet,” she told me when I interviewed her last year.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - merciless and great

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

BONNIE PRINCE Charlie was the leader of the oft-romanticised, but in truth deeply tragic Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1745-6.

Music For Dead Birds release new EP

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

GALWAY ALTERNATIVE/folk-rock duo Music For Dead Birds have released their new EP Black Tides Falling.

UNKLE’s James Lavelle to DJ @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

JAMES LAVELLE, the man behind UNKLE, will be DJing upstairs at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, tomorrow from 10pm.

Lavelle’s music career started at 15 when he ran block parties in Oxford. At 18 he started the Mo’ Wax label which brought him into contact with DJ Shadow.

Submissions sought for TULCA 2010

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

CO GALWAY’S coastline and coastal sites are the inspiration and starting point for the programme for this year’s TULCA festival of visual art.

Exhibition to open in Claddaghduff

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

CAROLINE CANNING and Cathal O’Malley will exhibit their new paintings as part of this year’s Festival of the Sea in Cleggan-Claddaghduff.

Westside Arts Festival starts tomorrow

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival is hosting an array of workshops, performances, events, and family fun, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.

French poet to read in Gort

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

EVE LERNER, the French born poet and translator, will be reading from her work in the Gort Library this Saturday at 3pm.

The Inishbofin Concerts

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

MUSICIANS FROM across Ireland will be heading to the Co Galway island of Inishbofin for The Inishbofin Concerts season.

Funding sought for Galway film

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

THE COMPANY Productions/Trench Entertainment is seeking funds for a film, based on it’s play DUÆL which was performed in the Town Hall in June.

Phill Jupitus v Gugai @ Silent Disco

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

TOMORROW NIGHT will witness Round Three of the Gugai v Phill Jupitus DJ battle. Gugai is widely judged to have won the first two, but can Phill stop him getting a hat trick?

Phill will be joining the Whose Line Is It Anyway? gang in the Róisín Dubh for a night of improv comedy and will afterwards be DJing with Gugai. There is a difference this time though as neither has gone head to head with each other at a Silent Disco.

The eclectic life of Alan Kelly and his quartet

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

ACCORDION MUSIC is not the most popular among traditional music purists, but one of the great Irish exponents of the instrument, Alan Kelly, is well aware of “the pitfalls of traditional music”.

The evolution of The Deans

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

WHEN THE Deans released their debut album in 2008, they were a hard rocking, fretboard burning, blues band, but the last year has seen them evolve into an altogether different kind of rock’n’roll animal.

Fuaim Chonamara @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE EXCITING sean nós dance show, Fuaim Chonamara, continues its summer run at Monroe’s Live on Thursdays at 8pm.

Festival theatre reviews

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

Penelope
From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.

From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.

Little John Nee’s Poor But Happy Tour

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

A VAUDEVILLE show featuring “songs of seaweed and dancing molecules” will take to the stage of the Town Hall Studio next week.

Beauty and The Beast in Loughrea

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

BEAUTY AND The Beast, the much loved French fairytale about an ugly creature whose gentle manners wins the heart of a beautiful girl, will be performed in Loughrea.

Do I Look Fat In These Fig Leaves?

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

ADAM AND Eve get the blame for a lot of things - sin, death, pain, hard work, sexism - and to add insult to injury, for centuries artists have depicted the couple as having nothing but fig leaves to hide their modesty.

Only Fumes & Corpses launch new album

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

GALWAY HARDCORE punk band Only Fumes & Corpses launch their new album Who Really Cares, What Really Lasts, at Aras Na Gael, Dominick Street, on Thursday July 22.

Wiggle to play Cuba*Live

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

WIGGLE, THE Cork electro dub wizards, return to Galway tomorrow to play Cuba*Live at 11pm.

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