Live metal concert @ The Eye
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
THE FOUR pillars of American metal - Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax - will be live on stage and live on screen at the Eye Cinema in Wellpark.
Read more ...Super-8 film festival programme launch
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
SUPER8 SHOTS, Galway’s Super8 film festival takes place from June 23 to 27 and the festival programme will be launched tomorrow in Kelly’s Bar, from 6pm to 8pm.
This is the first festival of its kind in the west of Ireland to draw together film, art, comedy, and music through the medium of Super-8 film.
Read more ...Win Streetdance 3D soundtracks
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
STREETDANCE 3D is currently in cinemas and the Galway Advertiser has five copies of the film soundtrack to give away.
Read more ...She’s Out of My League
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
They say love is blind, so when geeky but loveable Kirk bagged a ‘hard 10’ hottie like Molly he couldn’t believe his luck, and neither could anyone else. Not exactly a laugh a minute but it will definitely put a smile on your face.
Read more ...Poetry reading in Gort
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
THE POET and publisher Noel King will read from his new collection of poetry in The Café Gallery, Gort, this evening at 8pm.
Mr King’s new collection is entitled Prophesying The Past and is published by Salmon Poetry. There will also be poetry and music from Clare Sawtell and Mary O’Sullivan. The reading is organised by the Western Writers’ Centre. Admission is free.
Read more ...Exciting new trad band Guidewires @ Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
MUSIC FROM the Celtic nations and the Middle East will fill Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, when Guidewires play there on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...June writers’ gathering at Sheridan’s Wine Bar
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
SHERIDAN’S WINE Bar will host an Over The Edge reading by the poets Denise Blake and Quincy Lehr and fiction writers, Aidan Hynes and Ger Burke on Friday June 18 at 8pm.
Quincy Lehr’s first collection of poems, Across The Grid of Streets, was described by The Irish Times as showing “much energy and narrative talent.” Lehr’s poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous journals in the US, Britain, Ireland, Australia, and the Czech Republic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Read more ...Choral concert to span languages and the centuries
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
A CHORAL concert, spanning four centuries and four different languages, takes place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, tomorrow.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Meeting where heaven and earth concur.
RSAG get ready to be right
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HE WAS born Jeremy Hickey, goes under the name Rarely Seen Above Ground, which is abbreviated to RSAG, and he takes the notion of ‘the one man band’ to extreme places.
Read more ...Stellar line up to back Dutch singer-songwriter in Kelly’s
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HE USED to sing on Shop Street, but on Thursday June 17, he returns to play Galway, not on the streets, but upstairs in Kelly’s Bar at 8pm.
Read more ...Mudhoney to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
“NIRVANA MAY have put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney were truly the band that made the ‘90s grunge rock movement possible.”
Read more ...IN-FEST ‘10 - a weekend of ruthless punk
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
IN-FEST ‘10, the new alternative music festival in Galway, will see 18 bands from across Ireland and Britain descend on our city for a weekend of ruthless punk and thrilling live music.
Read more ...Rab C Nesbitt takes on the role of Molière’s The Miser
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
AN HILARIOUS new adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy The Miser, produced by Belfast’s Lyric Theatre Company, arrives at the Town Hall next week.
Read more ...DUÆL - when the US army sought German intelligence
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
IT IS July 1945. Germany lies in ruins. For the second time in less than 30 years it has been vanquished by the other European powers and is occupied by the British, French, US, and Russian armies.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to appear at AIDS West charity concert
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
JULIE FEENEY, the Athenry born, award winning, vocalist and composer, will be the special guest at a charity concert for AIDS West in Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Enda Walsh - from the Odyssey to Penelope
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
HOMER’S ODYSSEY has proved an unending source of inspiration to countless artists down the ages since it was first composed, sometime around the 8th century BC.
Read more ...Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 (and The Human League) on his electric dreams
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
SHEFFIELD WAS an important hub of steel and coal production during The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s and was nicknamed ‘The Steel City,’ but in the 1970s and 1980s international competition and the anti-union stance of Margaret Thatcher meant industry in the area collapsed.
Read more ...New music festival to explore the common roots of the Scots and the Irish
Thu, Jun 03, 2010
THE CONNECTIONS between Ireland and Scotland run deep, deeper than is often realised. Many are aware there is a similarity between Irish and Scots Gaidhlig, our traditional musics, and the distilling of whiskey, but there is more to it than that.
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