Harriet Leander - finding beauty in waste

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

“I’M NOT a photographer really, I’m more of a painter,” Harriet Leander declares as she shows me round the photographs which comprise the greater portion of her new exhibition, Waste Beauty, at the Galway City Museum.

Horslips’ drummer for North Beach Nights

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

EAMON CARR, the music journalist, poet, and former Horslips drummer, will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

Brian Kennedy to play The Radisson

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

BRIAN KENNEDY will perform a special concert in the Radisson SAS Hotel on Sunday April 26 at 8.30pm to mark the 25 years of the Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

Public talk on photojournalism

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

PHOTOJOURNALISM - The History Of The Gun and The Camera is the title of a public talk which will take place next week.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Knowing that my family are happy and safe.

Knowing that my family are happy and safe.

Art Exhibitions

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

Sculpture Only @ Norman Villa Gallery

Ollie Cole @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 16, 2009

Ollie Cole of Turn will perform a solo show at Deeper in The Cellar Bar on Sunday at 8.30pm, playing material from this forthcoming album. Support on the night is from Travega. Admission is free. Also watch out for another Release Party tomorrow with DJs Shane D and Lenny.

Music For Dead Birds to release debut mini-album

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

RUSTED RAIL, the independent Galway record label, will release And Then It Rained For Seven Days by Music For Dead Birds, the folk/alternative duo led by Irish-American songwriter Jimmy Monaghan.

Bateman on writing, film, and his Anfield dream

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

In a career spanning more than 20 years Colin Bateman has proven himself to be one of Ireland’s most prolific and entertaining writers.

Prior to becoming a novelist Bateman served his apprenticeship as a journalist with The County Down Spectator and his witty weekly columns became the stuff of local legend. When his debut novel Divorcing Jack was published in 1994 it won the Betty Trask Award for best first novel. Four years later it was adapted into a film starring David Thewlis and Rachel Weisz, with Bateman writing the screenplay.

Final Fantasy to play the Black Box in May

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

OWEN PALLETT is many things - composer, violinist, winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize, and co-writer of the string arrangements for the Arcade Fire’s Funeral. However he is best known as Final Fantasy.

Theatre at Cúirt and at home with the Gombeens

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

FROM SHAKESPEARE to history’s forgotten women, and from Gombeens to Brian Friel, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature promises Galway a feast of theatre from Tuesday April 21 to Sunday 26.

When The Bard went contemporary

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THERE IS rhythm in the language of Shakespeare, and when performing his plays a great actor can bring out the flow of the Bard’s poetic lines.

Perhaps it is because of this that one woman has come up with the audacious and clever idea of re-enacting some of the best scenes and monologues from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice in a modern style adapted to rap, music, and dance.

Win tickets to see Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE WHOSE Line Is It Anyway? gang, featuring Phill Jupitus, will be in the Town Hall Theatre on Easter Sunday at 8pm and we have five pairs of tickets to giveaway.

Tommy Tiernan to launch ROPES

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

TOMMY TIERNAN will launch the literary journal ROPES Unravelled, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in the Town Hall on Thursday April 23 at 5pm.

Support Tommy Tiernan and raise funds for the homeless

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

GALWEGIANS CAN help Tommy Tiernan set a Guinness World Record and raise money for the homeless this weekend by going to his Testamental show in the Nuns Island Theatre this weekend.

Tommy is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the longest solo stand up show ever performed, starting at 3pm on Good Friday until dawn on Easter Sunday.

Words and music as Buck 65 plays Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

“IN THE hip hop world I am a dissenter,” declared the Canadian rapper Buck 65 when I interviewed him in 2007, and this dissenting voice is returning to Galway.

London-Irish guitar wizard @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

“Probably the best and most original young acoustic guitar player and composer in Britain,” is how Acoustic Guitar magazine has described London-Irish axeman Clive Carroll.

The Commander returns to the GPO

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE COMMANDER returns to GPO this Saturday with a sack of highly combustible - and possibly illegal - house and techno tucked safely under his cape.

In June The Commander will release a five-track EP on his Skin Whistle Recordings label. It will be a mostly housey affair with a hint of drum’n’bass. Keith Disconaut and Audiofeen are both on remix duty on one of the tracks.

Easter album launches @ Campbell’s

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THIS NACHEZ will launch their debut album Thought Control Commander Thing in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9pm.

This Nachez is led by the Cradock brothers, Fiachra and Eimhin, and also features Dave Donoghue on bass and vocalist Stephen Monaghan. The group is influenced by Led Zeppelin, System Of A Down, Pantera, and The Band, and their lyrics are often politically charged. Admission is €8.

Eugene Donegan @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

DECLAN O’ROURKE thinks very highly of Navan born songwriter Eugene Donegan, so much so that O’Rourke has produced his debut album and is taking him on tour.

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