It Was All A Bit Black & White album launch

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

GALWAY BASED post-rock duo It Was All A Bit Black & White will launch their debut album Retro Futurism at the Róisín Dubh.

The duo - Matthew Sutton (guitar/synth/noise) and Mosey Byrne (drums) - who play a thrilling mix of metal, indie, and electro, will launch the album with a show at Strange Brew, on Thursday October 17. Support is from Nanu Nanu and Blue Whale.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

A DIVERSE range of artistic approaches and methods will be on display in four exhibitions which have just opened around the city.

Wagner, Nietzsche, and Engelbert Humperdinck

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

RICHARD WAGNER and Friedrich Nietzsche were once close friends but a serious falling lead to the philosopher vomiting in public after hearing the composer’s newest work.

Build an instrument and take part in a gig

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

THE BELGIAN based, American singer-songwriter, Le Ton Mité is coming to Galway to perform a concert and give an ‘instant instrument workshop’.

Galway Jazz Festival is now on

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

THE NINTH annual Galway Jazz Festival, which opened on Tuesday, will see Irish and international jazz musicians performing across throughout the weekend.

The highlights of this year’s festival will be legendary pianist Bertha Hope and acclaimed German singer/pianist Olivia Trummer. There will also be shows from Irish saxophonist Michael Buckley and guitarist/composer Mike Nielsen.

TG4 to explore the Tuam connection to punk

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

PUNK’S MOST enduring icon, Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, is second-generation Irish, his father having come from Tuam.

We Town Criers to launch debut album

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

WE TOWN Criers play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night from 8.30pm to mark the Galway launch of their debut album Swing Beast.

The Roscommon quartet have won praise for their music. Goldenplec.com said: “Thank God for We Town Criers, single-handedly reigniting our faith in music”; while Music Review Unsigned said the band sound “achingly catchy, radio friendly and yet not even slightly like something that’s been commercially affected or in any way geared toward the market.”

Bell Book and Kindle Act II

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

LAST JANUARY, in this column, I ruminated on the nature of and effect the Kindle may have on the printed book. On foot of the varied reaction to the article, I decided it was something that deserved further investigation and to this end, let my nearest and dearest know that a Kindle would be a most welcome birthday gift.

Stories you would not find in Ireland’s Own

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

NAZISM IS something of a theme for Galway born, New York based writer Seamus Scanlon in his new short story collection, As Close As You’ll Ever Be, published by Cairn Press.

From horses to hilarity

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

SHE GREW up in the Irish equestrian heartland of Kildare, in a family that loved telling stories. She earned her comedy apprenticeship at university, moved to London, and found it made her more Irish and more determined to become a comedian.

From Brandon to Brooklyn

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.

It is 2013 and all the talk is of The Gathering. Twenty-five years is a long time however. People change. Some return. Some do not. Some are still dreamin’. Jack Flynn has flown home solo from the east coast of America in a single-engined aircraft, a dream he has had since first landing on US soil.

Laughs for youngsters - Comedy Club 4 Kids

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

THERE WILL be laughs for the whole family, and especially for children, when comedians from Galway Comedy Festival 2013 play the Comedy Club For Kids.

Away with the fairies - Human Child

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild.

Moonfish recast Pinocchio as ‘cool teen’

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

ONE OF the highlights of next week’s Baboró is the return of Moonfish Theatre Company’s much-acclaimed Tromluí Phinocchio/ Pinocchio – a Nightmare.

First performed at last year’s Galway Theatre Festival, the production was named Best Irish Language Show of 2012 in The Irish Times and was also voted one of the Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2012 by Entertainment.ie

Led Zeppelin tribute night

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

A NIGHT of classic hard rock and a tribute to Led Zeppelin will take place in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Saturday October 19 from 9pm.

Calling all students at The Quays

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

THE QUAYS Music Hall new student night, Lockdown, continues tonight with a concert by folk-rockers The Kilkennys.

Charity night in The Quays

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

A CHARITY night and gig, in memory of Gosia Urbanik, takes place on Sunday, upstairs in The Quays.

Gosia Urbanik died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 31. There will be music by The Pearly Whites. Admission is €10 and all proceeds will go to ICU Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe.