Jerry Fish to play Monroe’s in June
Thu, May 06, 2010
JERRY FISH & The Mudbug Club will be bringing their much loved “indie lounge lizard schmooze, mariachi swampadelica” styled act and music to Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 3.
Read more ...‘Suave’ clarinettist Paul Roe to play Galway
Thu, May 06, 2010
SUAVE IS a term normally reserved for the Pierse Brosnans and Bryan Ferrys of this world, but the classical musician, clarinettist Paul Roe, has this quality too.
Read more ...Dark thoughts from the early noughties
Thu, May 06, 2010
LOUIS DE PAOR’S agus rud eile/and another thing was first published in the original Irish eight years ago. In this new edition by Cló Iar-Chonnachta, English language translations perform a valuable service by making the work of one of our best poets available to a wider audience.
Read more ...The mystery of the disappearing man
Thu, May 06, 2010
“HE LEFT them there, standing under the sycamore tree, the two dray horses, the plough lying on its side nearby, the soil fresh on its blade. And of himself, not a sign ever of him anywhere. Gone. Like the wind. Just like that. Done a bunk, as they say...”
Read more ...Jojo Hynes - exploring corners normally passed by
Thu, May 06, 2010
OUTSIDER, the new exhibition of paintings and photographs by the Tuam born artist Jojo Hynes opens in the Town Hall Theatre Gallery tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...Galway actress takes lead role in Irish/Czech feature film
Thu, May 06, 2010
GALWAY ACTRESS Maria Anastacia Keogh will be heading to the Czech capital Prague, for work on the Irish/Czech feature film The Doubleganger.
Read more ...Iron Man 2
Thu, May 06, 2010
IF I was never a Marvel fan before I certainly am now, as Iron Man 2 packs a punch with incredible action scenes and the clever development of main character Tony Stark - a man you would love to hate but end up adoring despite his obvious flaws, namely his huge ego.
Read more ...Banish dark spots
Thu, May 06, 2010
With summer in the air do you wish you could get rid of dark spots? If so, a new product from Clinique may interest you.
Read more ...‘A cry for humanity’ - Tom Murphy discusses The Sanctuary Lamp
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
B*SPOKE THEATRE Company come to the Town Hall next week with a production of Tom Murphy’s powerful play, The Sanctuary Lamp, which Murphy himself directs.
The production has been garnering rave reviews; The Sunday Tribune hailed it as “a shining piece of theatre” while The Guardian declared it to be “a play likely to haunt one for months to come”.
Read more ...A roll call of great comics coming to The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
LORD BYRON once said “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” He was echoed in this by Doris Lessing who declared “Laughter is by definition healthy.”
Read more ...Free Comic Book Day on Saturday
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
FREE COMIC Book Day takes place this Saturday at Sub City Comics and comic book fans can get an issue of their choice from the shop’s FCBD selection for free!
FCBD is a promotional event aimed at getting new readers to come in, old readers to come back, and regular readers excited about comics/graphic novels.
Read more ...Mick Flannery to play Inishbofin festival
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
ACCLAIMED IRISH singer-songwriter Mick Flannery is one of the main acts who will play the Inishbofin Community Arts Festival which runs from Friday May 7 to Sunday 9.
Read more ...Peter Green - guitar legend and Fleetwood Mac founder
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
WHEN ERIC Clapton played guitar on John Mayall’s 1966 album Blues Breakers, graffiti appeared around London stating ‘Clapton is God’.
Read more ...Crystal Swing come west
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
THE CRYSTAL Swing phenomenon is heading west as the country’n’Irish family band play the Royal Castlebar Theatre on Saturday May 22.
Read more ...Auditions for Tarry Flynn
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
THE TOWN Hall Theatre will present the stage adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s novel Tarry Flynn and auditions for the cast take place next week.
The production will feature a cast of 60 as well as live musicians and dancers, and will be directed by Andrew Flynn.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
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