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Bulmers Festival Club at Róisín Dubh: the place to be
Got a ticket for a weekend show at the Galway Comedy Festival? Then you’ve also won admission to the Bulmers Festival Club at Róisin Dubh from Thursday, October 26, to Sunday, October 29.
‘I want to encourage the people of Galway to come along and draw’
PHILL JUPITUS is no stranger to Galway Comedy Festival, being one of the most regular guests across the event’s near 20 year history - but his 2023 Festival appearance will be of a very different nature.
Style Council/Paul Weller drummer to attend Galway Drum show 2020
STEVE WHITE, drummer for Paul Weller between the Modfather's 1992 solo debut album and 2006's Catch-Flame! and the drummer in Weller's post-Jam band, The Style Council, is coming to Galway.
‘Stiff was an attitude against the major record companies’
IT WAS the lable which released the first punk single. It released the debut album by Elvis Costello, and Madness, Graham Parker, and Ian Dury & The Blockheads were all signed to it.
The Woodstock of the west remembered
This month marks the 35th anniversary of one the boldest and most imaginative private ventures to be undertaken in Mayo. The year was 1981 and the plan was to transform a 65 acre site outside Castlebar into the biggest two-day rock festival ever staged in the province. The proposal was the brainchild of brothers Tommy and John Staunton and local hotelier Tony McHugh. The substantial sum of £120,000 was invested in the festival with half going toward enticing major acts to play over the August bank holiday weekend.
