RnaG’s ANOCHT FM to celebrate five years on air

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

“WHEN I’M a’walkin’ I strut my stuff, then I’m so strung out” were the first English language lyrics to be broadcast on Raidió na Gaeltachta, exactly five years ago.

Tommy and Hector to lead a charity night for Haiti

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin will host Thank You For The Music, a charity show to raise funds for the earthquake stricken island of Haiti.

Thank You For The Music takes place in The Salthill Hotel on Wednesday at 7.30pm, and as well as Tommy and Hector there will be performances by Led Zetor (the new glam rock band from former Saw Doctors’ bassist Pearse Doherty), The Girls of ABBA Revival (featuring Una Gibney and Yvonne Tiernan of Abbaesque), and The Divas performing hits from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Not Squares and The Cast Of Cheers @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

NOT SQUARES and The Cast of Cheers, two genuinely exciting emerging Irish bands, play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday May 6 at 9pm.

Music @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

FROM DOORS’ cover bands to original acts like Disconnect 4 and Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club, Monroe’s Live has plenty of good gigs to offer music fans over the coming weeks.

Scot Project to unleash trance madness

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

A NIGHT of musical mayhem with unrelenting trance and hard trance madness awaits Galway when trance DJ legend Scot Project returns to the GPO on Bank Holiday Sunday.

Project, real name Frank Zenker, has remained one of the world’s most popular and in-demand DJs since exploding onto the DJing and production scene 16 years ago.

A concert that’s Purely Piano

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

THE GREAT Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger will dazzle Galway audiences with performances of Mozart, Wagner, Liszt, and Schubert, at the Hotel Meyrick on Tuesday May 4 at 8pm.

GTI art students achieve high scores

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

TEN GTI art portfolio preparation students have been accepted to the National College of Art and Design, with two of the students - Emma Finn and Sylwia Starkowska - scoring 950 and 915 respectively out of a possible 1000.

Album review: Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 29, 2010

TOMORROW sees the release of The Trees, The Sea in a Lunar Stream, the debut album by the Nottingham based, Galway duo, Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon.

Louis de Paor to read at Sheridan’s

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

THE POETS Louis de Paor, Chris Agee, Chris Nikkel, Kevin O’Shea, and Marcella Morgan will read from their work at Sheridan’s Wine Bar on Friday May 7 at 8pm.

Glass painting workshops

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

A GLASS painting workshop takes place in the Art Essence Gallery, Liosbán, on Saturday May 8 from 10.30am to 5.30pm with artist and designer Denise Hogan.

Dejavu release new single

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

THE GALWAY wedding/function band Dejavu have just released their debut single ‘Silence Is Golden’.

The band line up is Ja Reidy (Philosophers and Rock ‘n Roll Circus) on bass and vocals; his son Ja jnr on keyboards guitar and vocals; Ray Glynn (Eureka, Face Value) on lead guitar and vocals; and Mairead Taggart (Melvin Country Band, Discovery) and Kevin Walsh (The Magic Band) on vocals.

Cinema Review - Centurion

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

With breathtaking scenery, thrills and blood spills galore this film could have been the next Gladiator but sadly there was just too much carnage during the non-stop fight or flight scenes, not enough development of characters, and a less than impressive ending.

Iron Man 2 @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

IRON MAN 2 returns to cinema screens today and sees Robert Downey jr again take on the mantle of the eponymous Marvel super hero.

New comedy club at Moycullen’s The Co-Op

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

GERRY MALLON, who ran the Comedy Club in Cuba* for many years is back with a new club, The First Friday Comedy Club in The Co-Op in Moycullen.

The club will open on Friday May 7 at 9pm with a show from the star and creator of RTÉ 2’s The Savage Eye - David McSavage.

Broadway director to give acting classes in Galway

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

THE AMERICAN producer and director John Dawson will brings his intense improvisation course to Galway on Saturday May 15 and Sunday 16.

The classes are aimed at actors who have experience or who are just beginning. In addition to being a mode of live comedy, improv can be used as a tool to create characters, develop original dramatic and/or comedic material, and as part of a rehearsal process to explore written text.

A lifetime spent among the pages

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

Few scenes can compare with the Ballynahinch river, it thick with salmon, and you with a rod in your hand.

Comedy rap with the Rubberbandits

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IMAGINE AN edition of Prime Time where the topics were Limerick gangs, sniffing glue as an aphrodisiac, and encounters with ‘larger ladies’ and horses, well, that’s a Rubberbandits show.

Win The Joneses goodie bags

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

THE JONESES, the new film starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny is released in cinemas tomorrow and the Galway Advertiser has five goodie bags to give away.

The Joneses have the fastest cars, trendiest clothes, largest televisions, and smallest phones. They are the envy of the neighbours, so much so that the whole town starts trying to keep up with them...

TG4 comedy series nominated for awards

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

AN CRISIS, the new comedy series on TG4, has been nominated for a number of awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2010.

The series is broadcast on TG4 on Wednesdays at 10.30pm with a repeat on Saturdays at 8.45pm. It chronicles the strange world of An Chomhairle Teanga, an Irish language organisation, its director Setanta De Paor (Risteárd Cooper) who has to grapple with Government cutbacks, media scrutiny, questionable projects, a new Minister, and a series of oddball colleagues.