Session Americana at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

SESSION AMERICANA, a who’s who of the Boston folk music scene, bring their Irish and American folk fusion to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Harrison & The Devil - gig and debut EP

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

GALWAY BAND Harrison & The Devil are set to launch their debut EP Cat Matters and will play Club Áras na nGael, Dominick Street, at 9.30pm.

The band’s sound draws on Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Supergrass, and Black Sabbath. The EP was recorded and produced by Hob Junker who has worked with The Depravations, My Fellow Sponges, and Rural Savage. It will be released on Citóg Records.

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.

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.

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.

Lydon is among a number of British musicians of Irish descent who will feature in a new documentary, Guth, to be broadcast on TG4 tonight at 9.30pm.

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.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A fine day somewhere on the west coast, preferably Gaillimh!

Primal Scream’s latest album

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

Primal Scream have had a busy few years, writing and arranging new songs while also touring their seminal 1991 album Screamadelica, but the work has paid off with More Light, a dark, richly layered album which is arguably their best work in years. If you want to hear it live, you’re in luck — the band will play in Leisureland, Galway, on October 26.

Lifeboat – ‘an amazing story of endurance and survival’

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

ON THE night of September 17 1940, the cruise liner SS City Of Benares was part of a convoy sailing across the Atlantic from England to Canada. On board were 406 people including 90 children, aged from five to 15, being evacuated from wartime Britain.

Just after midnight the ship was struck by a torpedo from a German U-boat and quickly began to sink. As the frantic crew tried to lower the lifeboats the force 10 gale, which was buffeting the ship, played havoc with their efforts. Boats lurched violently in mid-descent tossing passengers into the freezing waters below or, once lowered, were quickly swamped by crashing waves. Amid such terrible conditions many succumbed to exposure or were drowned. In all, 260 people lost their lives including 77 of the 90 children.

Toy Soldier @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

TOY SOLDIER have been described as “your favourite club night with Nine Inch Nails and Blondie mashing it up on the decks”.

Ted from Scrubs @ comedy festival

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

THERE IS an episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin is visiting the hospital and says excitedly “Will Scrubs be here?” One of the characters he may have in mind was Ted, played by Sam Lloyd.

Jimmy McCarthy to play Town Hall

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

JIMMY MCCARTHY, the man who has penned some of the most memorable songs in the Irish contemporary folk canon, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Grammy winner Tom Chapin @ Baboró

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

TOM CHAPIN, the three-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, is making a welcome return to County Galway and the Baboró International Children’s Festival.