All Tvvins @ Róisín Dubh

Tue, Jul 07, 2015

THE THRILLING All Tvvins, who combine electro-pop rhythms and melodies with exciting metal/math-rock guitar, play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday July 16 at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Let's do the timewarp again!

Tue, Jul 07, 2015

"A JUMP to the left/and then a step to the right/put you hands on your hips/and bring your knees in tight/but it's the pelvic thrust/that really drives you insa-ie-ayee-ayee-yay-ane...let's do the timewarp again!"

Oliver Callan announces Galway show for November

Tue, Jul 07, 2015

OLIVER CALLAN, the political humourist and satirist and the man behind RTÉ Radio 1's Callan's Kicks, is bringing his stage show to Galway later this year as part of his Irish tour.

Go Dutch - Galway Film Fleadh to screen films from The Netherlands

Mon, Jul 06, 2015

THE NETHERLANDS may not get the same attention when it comes to cinema as do France, Germany, Britain, or Sweden, yet the kingdom enjoys one of Europe's richest and most storied cinematic histories.

Album review: Ezra Furman

Music Reviews Mon, Jul 06, 2015

EZRA FURMAN makes no apologies for his cross dressing and gender bending. He makes no apologies either for being a man of faith and a practicing Jew. In one go, he has just bullet riddled a host of stereotypes and expectations.

Finalists announced for 2015 Galway Film Fleadh pitching competition

Mon, Jul 06, 2015

TEN INDIVIDUALS, all with an idea for a feature film, will stand before a panel of industry judges and an audience and in 90 seconds convice them why theIR idea is good enough to become a reality.

DeGeneration’s new generation of Hofesh Schechter dancers

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

FIVE YEARS after first wowing arts festival audiences with Political Mother, the Hofesh Schechter Company, one of the world’s leading dance troupes, makes a welcome return visit to the city with another thrilling production - DeGeneration.

John C Reilly - actor and his band to play two concerts

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

JOHN C REILLY, the American movie star and comedian, known for his brilliant character acting in Boogie Nights, The Hours, Chicago, and Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story, can also list singer and songwriter to his list of talents.

Galway Fringe Festival, choc-a-bloc with artistic treats

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival will launch its programme this Saturday in the Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, at 6pm and the line-up is bursting at the seams with visual arts, music, comedy, theatre, and literature.

This is the fourth year of the festival, which has been going from strength to strength under the stewardship of founder and director, Claire Keegan. “I had lived in Edinburgh for many years and worked with the Edinburgh Fringe and felt a fringe would fit in really well in Galway,” she tells me during a brief lull in her hectic pre-festival schedule. “I took a chance on it and the first year there was a huge response. Part of the attraction is that it is on at the same time as the Galway International Arts Festival. That would mirror arrangements elsewhere, in cities like Edinburgh, Adelaide, and Melbourne, where you have main and fringe festivals running alongside each other. It’s kept going since then and it’s the same board as when we started, so we are well versed now in what works and what doesn’t.”

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

HANNAH QUINN, daughter of renowned Irish film-maker Bob Quinn, will screen her debut short film, My Bonnie, in the Town Hall Theatre as part of this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Gay, out, and proud on film

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

THERE IS a heightened and exciting edge to the Galway Film Fleadh's Out On Film strand this year, given it comes after Ireland’s historic marriage equality referendum and the equally momentous affirmation of same-sex rights in the USA.

The strand, which concentrates on contemporary LGBT films and documentaries from around the globe, features Swiss filmmaker Marcel Gisler’s documentary Electroboy (Thursday July 9, 10.30pm), which explores the world of former model and current Swiss electronic musician and party organizer Florian Burkhardt.

Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

ANDY IRVINE and Dónal Lunny boast CVs and achievements like few others - Andy has been in Sweeney's Men and Patrick Street; Dónal in The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts; and together they have served in Planxty and Mozaik.

Bernard O'Shea is expecting...at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

WHAT IS pregnancy like for fathers? What can happen to them and what can they expect when they are not the ones giving birth? Irish comedian Bernard O'Shea just may have the answers.

Rackhouse Pilfer @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

RACKHOUSE PILFER, the stompin’ alt country, bluegrass band from Sligo, who have impressed American roots audiences as much as Irish music fans, return to Monroe's Live at midnight Friday July 17.

Sci-fi novels inspire environmentally themed exhibition

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

THE BEST science-fiction writers do not just write about fantastical worlds in far flung galaxies, their work, be it that of HG Wells, Philip K Dick, or Arthur C Clarke, reflects on the contemporary world, and looks deeply at how technology and society may develop in the future.

Galway's Shir Madness in Miss Burlesque Ireland final

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

SHIR MADNESS, the Galway based burlesque performer, who describes herself as a "curvy, fiery circus freak who likes to tease", will be a finalist at Miss Burlesque Ireland, which takes place in Dublin on July 18.

Peter and The Wolf - from Wolf's point of view

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

DAVID BOWIE did it. Dudley Moore did it, Sir John Gielgud did it. They have all been narrators for the magical Peter and The Wolf, Prokofiev's story designed to introduce children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra.

Stewart Lee and Patrick Kielty for Vodafone Comedy Carnival, Galway

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

STEWART LEE will bring his new show, A Room With A Stew to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway in October, while Northern Irish comedian Patrick Kielty will also stage his show during the festival.

A song, a laugh, and some beards

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

THE GINGERBEARD FAMILY, the Galway musical and comedy collective, featuring Stephen Sharpe and others, take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 10 at 9pm.

Cinema review: Minions

Films Reviews Mon, Jun 29, 2015

SEQUELS TO hit childrens movies rarely go well. There are a lot more Madagascar 2s than Toy Story 3s. The fact that, rather than going down the traditional path of a third Despicable Me, a spin off of the film's most popualr characters, the minions, was planned, this reviewer was surprised but pleased.

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