Album review: the strange, the brilliant, and the awful from the 60s counterculture

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THIS VAST and varied 18 track compilation, spanning 1959 to 1973, and running from the innovative to the period piece curiosity to the 'What were they on?', unearths some overlooked gems worth re-exploring and reconsidering.

One man's journey along the Camino de Santiago

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

SVEN IS blind and deaf, but undaunted. He is determined to walk the Camino de Santiago, the 804km pilgrimage/hike through France and northern Spain - a journey chronicled in the film, The World At Arm’s Length.

New adaptation of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

EUGENE IONESCO'S classic 1959 avant-garde play Rhinoceros, will be presented in a new adaptation by John Rogers, and performed by the Galway Actors Studio.

Danielle Holian launches debut poetry collection

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

BEAUTIFULLY CHAOTIC, the debut poetry collection from Galway writer Danielle Holian, which explores sexuality, the trauma of sexual assault, heartbreak, feminism, and learning how to survive, has just been published.

Baboró 2019 programme unveiled

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

AT GALWAY City Museum, on Monday evening, the 2019 Baboró International Arts Festival, Ireland’s flagship festival devoted exclusively to children and families, announced details of its 23rd programme.

Johnny Graham to play the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

HE IS best known for the viral video, Man Flu: The Truth, which has received close to a million hits on YouTube, and for co-running Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club. Next week he takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh.

The Souvenir - a unsettling depiction of an abusive relationship

Films Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JULIE IS a film student in London in the late 1980s. She is trying to escape her life of privilege, but lives in her parents' flat in Knightsbridge. Yet, her attempts to make a film in Sunderland about a working class family are honest and admirable.

Emily Cullen to launch new Skylight 47

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE POET and harpist Emily Cullen will launch the latest issue of poetry journal, Skylight 47, on Sunday September 8 at 5pm in The House Hotel, Lower Merchants Road.

Hardanger virtuoso Nils Økland at Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE HARDANGER is a distinctly Norwegian version of the fiddle, but with eight/nine strings instead of four, and decoration, with a carved animal as part of the scroll at the top of the pegbox, and mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard.

Examining motive and memory in TAPE

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JON AND Vince, two former schoolfriends, reunite in a dingy motel room. Over the course of the evening, differing perceptions of a past event involving their friend Amy are called into question.

Enjoy afternoon tea at Downton Abbey

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

ENJOY AN afternoon tea that Mr Carson would be proud of at the Pálás cinema for the opening weekend of the highly-anticipated Downton Abbey movie.

Furthermore – new exhibition from AKIN at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

AWARD WINNING Galway arts collective AKIN opens the autumn programme at the Galway Arts Centre with a new show, Furthermore, which is launched tomorrow evening [Friday September 6] at 6pm, and runs until October 5.

David O’Doherty - Ultrasound in the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

DAVID O'DOHERTY, the comedian also known as "the hairy Enya" returns to Galway with a new show made-up of talking and songs played on that plastic keyboard he got for his confirmation.

Judas Diary reform for two shows

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

JUDAS DIARY, one of the great Galway, indeed Irish, bands of the 1990s reform for two shows this month, and featuring the original members who promise "a night of brass and percussion bombast".

Margaret Atwood at The Eye cinema

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

TO MARK the publication of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, the Eye will screen a public interview with the great Canadian author.

Martin Beanz Warde: The Gomey Feen

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

MARTIN BEANZ Warde is undertaking his first Irish tour this month, which includes Galway, and which will see him telling stories about what it is like to be a Traveller in modern Ireland.

Dylan Murphy - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

ON HIS forthcoming single, 'Vending Machine', Dylan Murphy swops the electric guitar for an acoustic, fusing his blues with raw Americana, and injecting some 'cowboy' through the string bends and the song's waltz rhythm.

City Victim - new single out today

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

GALWAY BAND City Victim will launch their new single, 'Valery', today along with a video shot in four different cities - McAllen, Texas; South Padre Island, Texas; Chicago; and Mexico City - over the course of the summer.

Sophie Coyle to play new songs in Galway

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

A RECENT journey through South America has inspired a new set of songs which is likely to make up the second album by Galway born singer-songwriter Sophie Coyle.

Branar Téatar do Pháistí selected for IPAY 2020 showcase

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

BRANAR TÉATAR Do Pháistí acclaimed show for children, How To Catch A Star, has been selected for the IPAY International Showcase, which takes place in January 2020 in Philadelphia.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.