Album review: Ada Lea

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 25, 2019

THE BREAK-UP album - Blood On The Tracks, The Bride Stripped Bare, Rumours, Songs For Only The Lonely, Blue, Currents... - rarely do catharsis and creativity go so well and productively together.

The Lion King - a film that feels like a cover song

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 25, 2019

THE LION King is the latest Disney movie to get the live action treatment, but it is not live action. No lions were filmed for this. It is entirely computer generated. So it is animation?

An African take on Talking Heads

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

AFRICAN MUSIC was a huge influence on Talking Heads, particularly on albums like Fear Of Music and Remain In Light, so it makes sense that a group of West African musicians should re-interpret the New Yorkers' songs through an African filter.

Clodhna Hallissey chosen for 2019 Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

GALWAY BASED designer Clodhna Hallissey was this week announced as the recipient of the 2019 Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary, which supports women theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing and dramaturgy.

Silent Disco Street Party is back

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

BEAT ON the street! Bop ‘till you drop! Sing ‘till you’re hoarse to the ripest musical fromage imaginable! It can only be the return of the now legendary Silent Disco Street Party.

Rofi James - hometown show for summer tour

Mon, Jul 22, 2019

ROFI JAMES, the Galway pop-rock band, and previous recipients of the Galway Advertiser Galway Band Of The Year accolade, have embarked on their summer tour, which includes a hometown gig in Galway.

Ezra Furman - 'proudly ambiguous' indie-rocker plays GIAF 19

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

"I'M A Queer for life. Outlaw. Outsider!" So declared Ezra Furman on 'I Lost My Innocence', a highlight of his 2018 album, Transangelic Exodus, and a proud statement on just who he is.

Fred Cooke headlines the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

ONCE UPON a time, Fred Cooke was best known as ‘Fergus’ from the Spar TV ads, but recent years have his star as rise, becoming the MC on The Tommy Tiernan Show and a moonwalking semi-finalist on RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.

Galway made westerns continue with Never Grow Old

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 18, 2019

IT HAS become almost a tradition now that the Galway Film Fleadh closes with a western. Being one of my favourite genres I have no problem with that, but Never Grow Old has a lot to live up to after last year's Black 47 and 2017's An Klondike.

GIAF 19 visual arts exhibitions

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

EIGHT VERY different visual arts exhibitions, in six different locations - including at the new temporary new gallery space near William Street - run throughout the Galway International Arts Festival, and admission to all is free.

Theatrical treats aplenty in the Fringe

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival may not be the most high profile event happening over the next couple weeks but there are plenty of gems in its lively and varied programme that are well worth checking out.

GIAF 2019 takes wing

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

BRIGHT SUNSHINE, as it always seems to do, greeted the Monday evening commencement of the 42nd Galway International Arts Festival, and there was a full house at the Black Box for the festival’s first show, the world premiere of Least Like the Other - Searching for Rosemary Kennedy.

Citysong - seeing the beauty in the everyday

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

A DEFINITE highlight of week two of GIAF is Dylan Coburn Gray’s acclaimed new play, Citysong, a poetic chorus of voices showing us three generations of a Dublin family on one day.

Macy Gray headlines Big Top this Sunday

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

MEMORABLY DESCRIBED by MOJO magazine as "the Marge Simpson of soul", Macy Gray's distinctively gravelly, soulful tones, will be heard at the Heineken Big Top as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Daily lunchtime laughs at The King's Head

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

THE BIGGEST laughs in the smallest room? It can only be that much loved Galway International Arts Festival institution - Gerry Mallon's Laughter Loft at The Ruby Room in The King's Head.

Tough times for Karl Marx

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

LIFE IS tough for Karl Marx. He is on his uppers with a family to support, he is ravaged by boils, and writing The Communist Manifesto is proving much harder than anticipated. He has a lot on his plate.

Kinvara's kaleidoscopic exhibition

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

A KALEIDOSCOPE of colour, form, and styles will be on display at the Courthouse Gallery in Kinvara, for the, appropriately named, Kaleidoscope exhibition featuring work by Lily Johnston and James Dorrian.

Poetry, song, and storytelling

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

THE AWARD winning author, poet, and playwright, Anne Marie Kennedy, and the much admired Galway folk singer-songwriter Don Stiffe, will join forces for a show at the Galway Fringe Festival.

Lisa O'Neill and Junior Brother at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

THE LAST 12 months have been significant for Irish singer-songwriters Lisa O'Neill and Junior Brother, and both will share the stage of the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.