Theatre auditions

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

CROI8 PRODUCTIONS will next week hold auditions for a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.

The auditions will be held on Tuesday September 7 in Busker Brownes at 7pm.

Fearghal McKee and Los Langeros @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

WHIPPING BOY frontman Fearghal McKee and Cork’s Los Langeros will join forces for a double headline show at the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 10 at 9pm.

New EP from Evil Uncle

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

IF YOU happen to find Songs For The Road, the new five-track EP from Galway musician/songwriter Evil Uncle, you can keep it, you don’t have to pay for it.

Songs For The Road will be released on Monday and will feature songs from Evil Uncle’s forthcoming debut album Two Lights Not Broken, which is due out in November.

Beatles, reggae, and country @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

ALL KINDS of music will be heard in Monroe’s Live over the next month from 1960s pop, to country, reggae, and rock.

Only Fumes & Corpses @ Kelly’s

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

ONLY FUMES & Corpses, Galway’s leading hardcore punk band, play upstairs at Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Friday September 10.

Galway poets @ Electric Picnic

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

AS WELL as boasting a terrific line-up of music, Electric Picnic will also play host to art exhibits, writers, talks, and poetry readings.

A feast of exhibitions at Clifden

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

IF YOU are in Clifden later this month, you will discover that almost everywhere you go in the town there will be an art exhibition on display.

Clifden Arts Week 2010 takes place from September 16 to 26 and during that time leading and emerging Irish artists will be showing their works in the ‘capital’ of Connemara.

Poetry reading in An Spidéal

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

GALWAY POETS John Walsh and Gerry Galvin will read in the Spiddal Library at a free event next Wednesday at 7.30pm.

Explore your magnetism at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

SELF HELP books have become like secular bibles for many people over the last 10/15 years, but one of the very earliest such books has inspired a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Letting yourself do what you love, without fear and without doubt.

Cinema Review : Salt

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

Angelina Jolie is back in top gun-toting ass-kicking form in this action packed spy movie which is fast-paced edge of seat stuff, but unfortunately it gets a little lost in the chaos leaving many unanswered questions, but hey, maybe I’m just being picky.

Colin Murphy for Laughter Lounge

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

NORTHERN IRISH comic Colin Murphy, best known from The Panel and The Blame Game, plays The Laughter Lounge at the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday.

Colin’s stand up shows have received great praise from the critics, with The Scotsman comparing him to a “younger Billy Connolly” for the Ulsterman’s “sharp observational routines and an interaction with the audience that many higher profile comics could only aspire to”.

Win tickets to The Temple House festival

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

THE TEMPLE House Festival takes place in Co Sligo from Friday September 10 to Sunday 12.

The line up includes The Undertones, The Stunning, bass guitar legend Peter Hook, Reef, O Emperor, The Wailers, and The Saw Doctors.

Let the mocking bird sing

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

INSIDE THE cover of a 2006 paperback edition of the book the blurb reads: “Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, a village that is still her home. She attended local schools and the University of Alabama.

Arriving poets from Alaska and Galway

Thu, Sep 02, 2010

MARY MULLEN was born in Anchorage, Alaska but has lived in Ballinderreen, Co Galway, for more than a decade. She has read her work at the Cúirt Over The Edge showcase and is a graduate of the MA in writing at NUIG.

I was familiar with Mary’s poetry before I opened her new collection Zephyr (Salmon Poetry) and began to read. Her poems are full of everyday things. Her native Alaska features in the fine coming of age poem ‘Alaskan Summer Rite, 1969’.

Brendan Benson Detroit rock city man

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

BRENDAN BENSON was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of the port city of Detroit. The city is known as the world’s centre of the automobile industry, but it is even more famous for its music.

Lost Chord to play Electric Picnic

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

THIS YEAR’S Electric Picnic boasts an impressive and mouth-watering line up of acts such as Roxy Music, The National, and LCD Soundsystem, and now Galway band Lost Chord have joined the list.

Lost Chord have just been included on the Picnic line-up and will play the festival which takes place in Stradbally, Co Laois, from September 3 to 5.

David Gray for Arthur’s Day

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

DAVID GRAY is coming to Galway next month for Arthur’s Day in what will be the singer-songwriter’s third live performance in the city in the past five years.

Celebrate American music in Galway

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

AMERICAN FOLK, traditional, and country music is a convergence of the folk and trad styles that the Irish, Scots, English, and German emigrants brought with them to the New World.

The Irish contribution to American folk has been enormous with Irish music giving rise to the American trad genre of bluegrass and the musical connections between the two countries is to be celebrated in Galway next month.

Clifden Arts Festival programme unveiled

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

THE LINE-UP for the 33rd Clifden Community Arts Festival, which runs from September 16 to 26, was unveiled on Monday evening at a reception in Galway’s Courtyard Marriott Hotel.

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