Album review: Kristin Kontrol

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 16, 2016

IT MAY be strange that the opening song, of an album billed as a complete artistic overhaul and change of direction, concludes with the declaration: "There's no need to change yourself".

Sanctuary - Blue Teapots hit the big screen at Fleadh

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

THE CLOSING film at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh is Sanctuary, the screen adaptation of the acclaimed play from Blue Teapot Theatre Company, exploring the issue of sexual and romantic relationships between intellectually disabled people.

Fornocht do Chonac/Naked I Saw You - GIAF 2016

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

AN TAIBHDHEARC'S contribution to this year’s Galway International Arts Festival is Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's Fornocht do Chonac, a multimedia production about Patrick Pearse, performed in Irish with English surtitles.

Páraic Breathnach - four shows of Straight Outta Connamara

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

STRAIGHT OUTTA Connemara, Páraic Breathnach's stand-up comedy show, is coming to The Ruby Room in The King's Head, for a series of four lunchtime dates next week.

Poetry of hammocks, wine, and gynaecologists

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 16, 2016

A STRIKING feature of Marie Cadden’s debut poetry collection - Gynaecologist in the Jacuzzi – is that the voice speaking to us in the more than 50 poems included is, for a first collection, a peculiarly unified one.

The 'pretty groovy' sound of White Boys

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

PANTI BLISS has called their music "pretty groovy!; Joe.ie lauded their “genius production values”, while The Rubberbandits were moved to say "fair Balls”. They are Cork duo White Boys.

Galway 2020's Our Place at Merlin Woods

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

OUR PLACE at Merlin Woods, a theatre, music, performance, and visual art spectacle, takes place this Saturday and Sunday, from 2pm to 5pm, and features a variety of works by Galway and Scottish artists.

Drum clinic with jazzman Coté Calmet

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

DRUMMERS, PARTICULARLY those with an interest in jazz, will have an opportunity to learn from the acclaimed Peruvian jazz drummer Coté Calmet, who will give a drum clinic and workshop in Galway this evening.

Traidphicnic - a weekend of Irish trad

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

NOEL HILL and Steve Cooney, Kíla, and Mary Bergin are some of the Irish music heavy hitters playing the upcoming Traidphicnic, open-air, traditional Irish music, arts, and culture festival, in An Spidéal.

Soulboys v Rudeboys @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

THE ORIGINAL Soulboys v Rudeboys night returns to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday for hot, sweaty, dancefloor action with some of the best original vinyl DJs in Ireland.

The return of The Henry Girls

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

THE HENRY Girls - Donegal sisters Karen, Lorna, and Joleen McLaughlin - make their annual summer visit to Galway city to play a concert as part of this year's Galway International Arts Festival.

Trad session for teens @ Fórioge Youth Café

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

UILLEANN PIPER Mick Carr, his fiddle playing daughter Aoife Carr, and Niall McQuaid on the bodhrán, play the final gig of the Galway Youth Arts Alliance Show Up and Show Off series at the Fóroige Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, this Saturday.

Songs Of Love from across the ages

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

WHILE ENGLISH has only one word for love, the ancient Greeks had at least seven - eros, agapé, and pragma, being among the best known - and love songs equally have taken on many forms over the centuries.

Hothouse Flowers - arts festival gig

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

"ROCK'N'ROLL is not about safety or politeness, it is not about perfection either. It is expression and it is spirit." So say the Hothouse Flowers who are coming to next month's Galway International Arts Festival.

Full line-up announced for Rock the Docks

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

OTHERKIN, SPYFU, Seo Linn, and the emerging phenomenon that is Galway Street Club, are among the band that will play the Rock The Docks festival from Friday June 24 to Sunday June 26.

Lúnasa - Galway Sessions Festival show

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

TRAD SUPERGROUP Lúnasa, featuring five of Irish music's most distinctive talents, return to Galway this Saturday to play the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway Sessions festival.

Bill Burr - in Galway in August

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

BILL BURR, the "undisputed heavyweight champ of rage-fueled humor", according to Rolling Stone , and "one of the funniest, most distinctive voices in the country", in the view of the New York Times, is in Galway in August.

Omid Djalili - Schmuck For A Night in Galway

Mon, Jun 13, 2016

"Never use schmuck lightly, or in the presence of women and children," wrote Leo Rosten in his book, The Joys of Yiddish. Why, because it is a very naughty word for the naughty bits of a man.

Fried Eggs - a ‘bizarre love story’

Thu, Jun 09, 2016

FRIED EGGS, a bizarre love story about two unusual sisters and one very understanding man, written by Lindsay J Sedgwick and starring Karen Connell, comes to the Town Hall studio next week.

Concerts to commemorate Eamonn Ceannt

Thu, Jun 09, 2016

EAMONN CEANNT, the County Galwayman who was one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, and who was crucial in reviving interest in, and paving the way for, the uilleann pipes central role in modern Irish music, is to be celebrated through a series of events in the city.

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