Cinema review: Happy Death Day

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 23, 2017

HAPPY DEATH Day is billed as Scream meets Groundhog Day, which is a great idea. The Groundhog Day motif worked really well in 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow and in an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It is a concept that lends itself well to a slasher movie.

FREE Trick & Treat Trail of Galway City!

Fri, Oct 20, 2017

Get your best Halloween costumes on & come along to the Trick & Treat Trail of Galway City in association with Visit Galway City, The Heart of Galway Business Association & with very special thanks to The Eyre Square Shopping Centre. A unique FREE Family experience where your little ones will unearth spooky surprises & gather ghoulish goodies as they soak up the Halloween festivities in the city centre.

Stephen K Amos - Who I am and what I am about

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

BRITISH COMEDIAN Stephen K Amos is one of the most popular performers on the circuit and he joins the legion of laughmeisters coming to Galway next week for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

'In West Philadelphia, born and raised...'

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

HE IS best known for hip hop anthem 'Boom! Shake the Room' and with Will Smith for THAT theme song, to the much loved 1990s US comedy The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but Jazzy Jeff is also a hip hop pioneer and icon.

Album review: Slow Place Like Home

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 19, 2017

THE SECOND album from Donegal vocalist, composer, and producer SPLH - aka Keith Mannion - contains what may be a first, or at least a rarity, in electronic music - the use of a waltz rhythm.

Karl Spain’s Late Night KARLnival at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

WITH THE Vodafone Comedy Carnival mere days away, organisers have revealed to the Galway Advertiser, just a few names from the stunning line-up they have put together for Karl Spain’s always full, never dull, Late Night KARLnival.

Celebrate Diwali with Galway's Indian community

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

Diwali: Festival of Lights, one of the main festivals of Hinduism which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, hope over despair, will be celebrated in Galway at the Connacht Hotel on Monday October 30 at 5pm.

Help support new Galway short film

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

COMEDIANS JASON Byrne and Eric Lalor star in Sons and Broken Noses, a new, Galway made short film co-directed by Colin Fleming and Nigel O'Brien, and written by Damien Aulsberry.

What happens when the party goes Boom?

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

SELMA MAE seems to have the perfect life, beautiful home, children, architect husband…but when her social climbing mother arrives to help organise a party to celebrate the completion of her state-of-the-art extension, cracks begin to show.

Cursed by Good Intentions at the comedy festival

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

CURSED BY Good Intentions, a one-man show from local writer/performer Conor Montage has its Irish premiere at An Taibhdhearc on Sunday October 29 at 7pm as part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

'We want Comedy Soc to be something that continues for years to come'

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway opens on Tuesday October 24 and among the events taking place that day will be Bob’s Blundabus arriving on campus at NUI Galway to deliver for some craic, comedy, games, and devilment with the students.

Dead musician haunts wife

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

THE GHOST of a recently deceased musician returns to the home he shared with his wife. Forced to watch passively as his grieving widow slowly rebuilds her life without him, he finds that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time.

A non-fiction Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

NORMALLY THE Over The Edge readings at Galway City Library feature poets and prose writers, but this month's reading will be different, as it will present work by non-fiction authors Angela Nagle, Fiona Neary, and Jonathan Sugarman.

Tango in the night

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

"LET'S DANCE! Put on your red shoes and dance the blues," exhorted David Bowie on his classic 1983 hit single ''Let's Dance'. The title has been borrowed by Music For Galway for its new season and that opening line for its next event.

A new look at Joyce's female Dubliners

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

DUBLINER'S WOMEN is a stage adaptation of James Joyce's famous short story collection, but with the emphasis is on the often overlooked female characters from 'The Boarding House', 'Clay', and 'Eveline' - for once Dubliners is about far more than just 'The Dead'.

Fangclub play Róisín Dubh tonight

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

FANGCLUB'S SINGLE 'Bullethead' had critics salivating upon its release. "123 seconds blasting your skull with a bludgeoning grunge rock riff that'll make you want to hit repeat," said Nialler9, while Joe.ie declared "it is just glorious".

Seven Shades of Aindrias de Staic

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

A YOUNG MAN wanders through life seeking the answers to its biggest questions. He also cannot stop acting the eejit. This is Seven Shades, the new show from comedian, actor, musician, and writer Aindrias de Staic.

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment - on stage

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

CRIME AND Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic story of murder, moral dilemma, and human capacity for evil, comes to the stage of the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, this month.

Acting workshop with Linda Bhreathnach

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

CONNEMARA FILM maker Linda Bhreathnach, writer, producer, and co-director of the acclaimed short film Adulting, will give a workshop in Acting for Camera at the Galway Actors Workshop.

Emma Lohan and Anna Mullarkey gigs

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

GALWAY MUSICIANS Emma Lohan and Anna Mullarkey embark on The Black Atlantic Tour of Ireland this month which will include two gigs in Galway, and both women will also be releasing new singles.

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