‘It’s all about political corruption’

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE FIRST ‘homegrown’ theatre highlight of the year is Theatrecorp’s staging of one of the greatest of all Jacobean tragedies - John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi - in the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday February 3. First staged around 1614, it is a dark and bloody drama about class, corruption, power, intrigue, murder, and madness.

Subtitle - a feast of European cinema

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

BOX OFFICE smashes from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden will be screened in a feast of continental cinema at the Town Hall Theatre from January 30 to February 31.

THEATREclub - shedding light on Heroin

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONE OF Dublin’s brightest and best-regarded young companies, THEATREclub is bringing its much-acclaimed, award-winning play, Heroin, to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 2 at 8pm.

Oh Boland to headline Strange Brew

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THEY CONTINUE a proud tradition of Tuam indie, rock, and punk; they have just finished recording their debut album; and they are about to play their second headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Panda Bear

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONCE UPON a time, January was the graveyard shift in the album release schedule, a time when contractual obligations, works deemed not good enough, and albums labels were not interested in, were unleashed into the post-Christmas commercial wasteland.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn returns to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

DUE TO popular demand, Aisteoirí an Spidéil’s production of Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, which has played to full houses in An Taibhdhearc, returns for performances throughout the city and county.

Italian film for the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

A FILM which begins at the end, Human Capital, to be screened in Galway this weekend, approaches a tragic death from three very different perspectives.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ERIC LAWLOR, the Dublin comedian voted Comic of the Year by readers of Entertainment.ie, is the special guest at this week’s Show Me The Funny.

Grounds For Invasion to launch debut album

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

GALWAY ELECTRO-POP duo Grounds For Invasion launch their debut album Dying Stars at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 5 and a taste of what is in store comes through the new single 'Bruce Lee'.

The Leg Breakers - comedy improv @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

COMEDY IMPROV group The Leg Breakers play the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 29 at 9pm.

Carmina Burana to be sung in Seapoint

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

FOR THOSE of a certain age Carmina Burana is ‘the music from the Old Spice’ ad, others associate it with X-Factor, but what is often forgotten is that that section, called ‘O Fortuna’, is part of a much larger work.

Small Size Day

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

TWO SHOWS will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Saturday January 31 as part of Small Size Day - a theatre initiative for young children.

Interskalactic to deliver the Ska

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, IRELAND’S only 10-piece ska band are set to deliver a night of ?rst-wave, old-school, Jamaican ska including covers of Skatalites and Prince Buster classics.

Galway trad/folk titans charity concert @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SOME OF Galway’s greatest trad/folk acts, including Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, and Dessie O’Halloran, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 8pm for the Walk In My Shoes Campaign.

Earthship to touch down @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SEVENTIES JAZZ-funk fusion, dance grooves, fiery improvisation, and irresistible pop hooks are on the cards when Earthship touch down at Kelly’s this Saturday at 10pm

Chieftains’ Matt Molloy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE CHIEFTAINS’ Matt Molloy and London-Irish fiddle great John Carty - both winners of the TG4 Musician of the Year Award - play Monroe’s Live on Tuesday January 27.

Get Boogie is back

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE GET Boogie clubnight returns to the Factory at Electric Garden tomorrow from 11pm with Dublin’s Northside Jungle Collective hitting the decks.

Shuffle! back @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

JANUARY CAN be a grim month, a time of bills and the post-Christmas blues, but it does not have to be that way - it can be a time of uptown soul and stomping funk.

Sinead O’Connor and John Grant for festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

SINEAD O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s most individual, eclectic, and controversial singer-songwriters, and John Grant, the American singer-songwriter, whose music The Guardian described as “completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful”, play the Galway International Arts Festival this summer.

The artists will play the Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Thursday July 23, and the pairing makes sense given that they have collaborated previously, O’Connor having performed backing vocals on Grant’s songs ‘It Doesn’t Matter To Him’ and ‘Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore’, from his album Pale Green Ghosts.

Wyvern Lingo to play Róisín Dubh in February

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

“FLAWLESS IS the only word to describe their harmonious melodies and perfectly written songs that are a mish-mash of pop, r’n’b and folk.” This is how Outmost.com described Wicklow’s Wyvern Lingo.

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