Cass McCombs - five Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Tue, Jun 17, 2014

CASS MCCOMBS, the American singer-songwriter is one of those artists whose music falls into country, folk, and roots, as much as it does indie.

Listen to stream of new Oh Boland album

Tue, Jun 17, 2014

BIZARRE AS it is to many, cassette has actually made a comeback and indie bands can be as likely to release an album or EP on tape as on vinyl, CD, or digital.

The Hot Sprockets @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE HOT SPROCKETS have just released their new album Brother Nature and the band, called “a must see live act” by the Irish Mirror, are coming to Galway.

Galway Fringe Festival - a fortnight of events

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

MORE THAN 100 events will take place during the Galway’s Fringe Festival which runs from July 12 to 28, including a new play by Mick Donnellan, author of Gun Metal Grey.

‘It surpassed my expectations in all kinds of ways’

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

GALWAY PLAYWRIGHT Christian O’Reilly and actor John Mahoney have lit up previous Galway International Arts Festivals with their contributions, but 2014 sees them joining forces in O’Reilly’s acclaimed new play Chapatti.

Sparkplug rides again

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

LITTLE JOHN NEE romps into the Town Hall Theatre next week for an extended run with his much-acclaimed show Sparkplug Callaghan.

Album review: Haunted Hearts

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 12, 2014

SUBJECT MATTER wise, Haunted Hearts debut album Initiation (Zoo Music) is a little naughty, being inspired by the New York S&M scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

We Banjo Three - a band of brothers

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE FIRST six months of 2014 have been pretty good for Galway roots, trad, and bluegrass band We Banjo Three, and they are set to cap it all with the release of their new album.

Revenant - ‘blackly comic and scary’

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

“VISCERAL, BLACKLY comic and genuinely scary,” is how The Irish Times has described Revenant, by Stewart Roche.

Galway’s answer to David Lynch

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 12, 2014

SINCE 2001, Geraldine Mills has published six books - each its own particular kind of gem - and yet she is much less famous than she should be.

‘A physical embodiment of the big bang theory’

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE GENIUS cartoonist Gary Larson, of Far Side fame, has a memorable two-tiered cartoon in which the top half depicts an angel welcoming new arrivals to Heaven with the phrase “Here’s your harp”, while the bottom half features a devil saying “Welcome to Hell, here’s your accordion”.

What The Ladybird Heard

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

TWO CRAFTY robbers, one tiny ladybird, and a whole farmyard of fun is in store for Galway families at the show What The Ladybird Heard in the Town Hall Theatre.

‘Thought provoking’ - arts festival’s First Thought Talks

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE HEALTH of the nation is a dominant theme at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival’s First Thought talks series, which features public interviews with three leading doctors.

Of Magdalenes and poets

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 12, 2014

IT IS difficult for an increasing section of the Irish population to visualise the utter power wielded by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland prior to the mid-sixties. The law of the State was dictated, not by the taoiseach and ministers in Dáil Éireann, but by the bishops and priests from the pulpit.

Public lectures on Yeats and Joyce

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

JAMES JOYCE the playwright and the writers who influenced WB Yeats will be the subject of two public lectures from Prof Brian Arkins.

Galway Film Fleadh reveals opening and closing films

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

An Irish-language thriller shot in Connemara and a musical romantic-comedy from the director of Once, starring Keira Knightley, are the opening and closing films at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.

Comedy from Tommy Nicholson

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

COMEDIAN TOMMY Nicholson, who has supported Louis CK, Tommy Tiernan, and Des Bishop, performs at the Dew Drop Inn Comedy Club tonight from 9pm.

Colours Fringe Festival programme launch

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE 2014 Colours Fringe Festival programme launch takes place in The Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill, tomorrow at 7.30pm.

The ‘Irish ZZ Top’ are in town

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

CROW BLACK Chicken have been called “an Irish ZZ Top” and given their grizzly beards and monstrous blues riffs, the comparison is apt.

Doesn’t Matter re-unite for one night

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

GALWAY ROCK band Doesn’t Matter re-unite for one night only for a concert at Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm, in aid of the children’s cancer charity, Hand in Hand.

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