Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A good book and a good bottle.

GPO’s Hawaiian party

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IF YOU cannot go to Hawaii, try the next best thing with the GPO Hula Party tonight.

There will be Slush Puppy cocktails, hula dancers, tequila challenges, and a DJ playing all the best commercial and chart hits. Doors are from 11pm with a pre party in the G Bar from 9pm with a specially themed cocktail menu and pitchers of cocktails for €10.

Bad To The Bone @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IT’S BACK to the 1950s and 1960s and the sounds of that revolutionary era in music for the next Bad To The Bone returns to Deeper in The Cellar Bar on Saturday.

Cathal Hayden for major Town Hall trad concert

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

CATHAL HAYDEN, the great solo fiddle player and former Four Men and A Dog member, will be among the musicians at a major trad concert in Galway next week.

Sébastien Léger @ Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

SÉBASTIEN LÉGER is the first guest in a new season of events in which the 515 club from Tripod, Dublin, will host monthly parties upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.

The Ralphs to play Citóg @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TUAM pop-punk band The Ralphs will take to the downstairs stage of The Cellar Bar tomorrow for the venue’s new original music night, Citóg.

Planet of sound

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil (Chemikal Underground)

Gaf Drama Group to stage The Apple

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

THE APPLE, a new play by Jimmy Brunelle and directed by Zita Monahan, will be staged in the BOI Theatre, NUI Galway, this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

Theatre review: Burn The Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

CÚIRT 2010’s event-packed programme features two plays, Burn the Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon both of which run throughout the week.

Burn the Bad Lamp is adapted by Rod Goodall and Kevin Barry from a short story in Barry’s collection There Are Little Kingdoms. Performed by Goodall and Aine Ní Droighneain, the story centres on down-at-heel, ageing antique-dealer Ralph Coughlan who passes his day polishing his non-selling wares and admiring his comical pompadoured wig.

Michael Harding and The Tinker’s Curse

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

WRITER/PERFORMER Michael Harding brings his powerful, much-acclaimed drama The Tinker’s Curse to the Town Hall on Thursday April 29 at 8pm.

Madcap football comedy comes to Town Hall

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TWO FOOTBALL fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score.

Cathy Davey to kick off nationwide tour in Galway

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

THE BRILLIANT Cathy Davey plays at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday May 8 at 8pm for what will be the first date on this full theatre nationwide tour.

Michael D to read at Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

AN TAIBHDHEARC will mark Cúirt’s 25th anniversary with Aí - Inspioráid Fileata, an evening of poetry, music, and song, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Sunday at 6pm.

Scouting For Girls are coming west

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

GOOD THINGS come to those who wait and this old adage is certainly true for British pop-rockers Scouting For Girls.

Hay! Ho! Let’s go! - Tommy Ramone @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TO ROCK fans the world over he is Tommy Ramone, drummer with the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, but to his family he is Erdélyi Tamás.

Win Dear John goodie bags

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

DEAR JOHN, the new film staring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum is released in cinemas this week and we have five film tie-in goodie bags to give away.

Idiot of Ants - fast paced sketch group have a fan in John Cleese

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

“IF YOU want to guarantee putting a smile on your face, it’s hard to think of a better show to see,” so declared The Daily Telegraph about the English comedy sketch group Idiot of Ants, who make their Irish debut in Galway next week.

Football fun and laughs with Aprés Match

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

THE WORLD Cup is approaching so it means it must be time for the ever popular Aprés Match to make a welcome return to stage and screen.

The Aprés Match team of Gary Cooke, Risteárd Cooper and Barry Murphy will perform their new show Possibly So on Friday April 30 at 8pm for a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at the Town Hall Theatre.

Go Over The Edge at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

THE OVER The Edge readings are an essential part of the city’s literary scene, so it is appropriate that it also features as a now regular part of Cúirt.

A classical concert for children

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

A CLASSICAL concert for children with Galway’s’ newly formed Soundpost Quartet takes place in the St Patrick’s Band Hall this Sunday.

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