The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
A FEAST of comedy gigs awaits Galway this month as The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh hosts shows by Keith Farnan, Jarlath Regan, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Read more ...Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room at The King’s Head, is a daily lunchtime show featuring leading stand ups.
Read more ...Aprés the World Cup it’s Aprés Match
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE APRÉS Match team provided great post match entertainment at this year’s World Cup with their satires on soccer punditry and politics.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2010
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh came to a close on Sunday night with the festival’s award ceremony in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Teenage Fanclub - still harmonious after all these years
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THERE IS A certain symmetry at work in the career of Teenage Fanclub. Their debut album A Catholic Education was released independently in 1990 and since then things have come full circle. Twenty years on from that debut comes the band’s 10th album, the wonderful Shadows, also released independently.
Glasgow bhoys
Read more ...Sound Clash in Salthill
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
Calling all Rude Boys and Soulies, sound clash by the sea on Saturday, July 17th. Time to don the Fred Perrys and shine those brogues for a night of the best black music in town. The very best in early reggae and original ska (none of your dancehall jabbering here my friends!) and nitty gritty, fast funky soul all spun by experts on pretty vinyl.
Read more ...Reggie Watts - Über alles in der Welt
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).
Read more ...Adrian Crowley to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
ADRIAN CROWLEY is originally from Bearna and moved to Dublin in the early 1990s. For years he quietly worked away at this music, but now he stands on the cusp of great things.
Read more ...Films by Galway’s DIG Productions to be screened at fleadh
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE NIGHT Nurse, a new short film from the independent Galway film and TV company, DIG Productions Ltd, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend.
Read more ...Enjoyed the play? Hear how they did it
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
SOMETIMES YOU enjoy and admire a play, a dance show, or a painting or sculpture, so much that you become fascinated by the story behind it.
Read more ...Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE AMERICAN stand-up comedienne, actress, and TV personality Joan Rivers has been an unrivalled force in the entertainment industry for more than five decades.
Read more ...Fairy folk theatre show at Kelly’s
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
GALWAY’S MEPHISTO Theatre Company will stage Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland in Kelly's Bar, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Breakstra - get down with the funk
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
SINCE BREAKSTRA were announced to play the Galway Arts Festival last month, there has been much talk and expectation about the LA collective, so who are they?
Read more ...Yourodny - a bit of Russia, Ireland, and New York
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE YOURODNY were the nomadic bards of ancient Russia who collected, preserved, and created the folk music of that country.
Read more ...Saw Doctors announce more Kelly’s shows
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
THE SAW Doctors will launch their new single ‘Takin’ The Train’ with two more shows upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21.
Read more ...Reginald D Hunter - on that midnight train to Georgia
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
REGINALD D Hunter was born in the Southern state of Georgia in the late 1960s but in the early 1990s he travelled to Britain to train as an actor at RADA. However after winning a £10 bet to do a comedy gig he decided to re-focus his artistic energies on stand-up.
Read more ...Éistigí! Caithfear Éisteacht!
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
le Mike P Ó Conaola
ÓN 19 - 25 den mhí seo cuirfidh Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe seó ilmheán faoi scríbhneoir mór na Gaeilge, Máirtín Ó Cadhain os comhair an phobail in Amharclann Chois Fharraige ar an gCnoc nó i Seanscoil Shailearna mar is fearr aithne air.
Mozart comes to Tuam
Thu, Jul 08, 2010
MOZART’S MUCH loved Eine Kleine Nachtmusik will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra in the 12th century surrounds of St Mary’s Cathedral Tuam on Wednesday at 8pm.
Read more ...Poor little rich kids and yuppie serial killers
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
BRETT EASTON Ellis was born in Los Angeles in 1964 and can fairly be described as the most controversial contemporary fiction writer this side of Chuck Palahniuck.
Read more ...Niall O’Dowd: an Irish voice
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
IN THE summer of 1978 a young man from Drogheda named Niall O’Dowd had just graduated from UCD with a BA degree but in unemployment-ravaged Ireland he felt his prospects lay elsewhere.
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