Spirit Of Voice festival line up announced
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE SPIRIT Of Voice festival returns from November 12 to 14 with concerts and events celebrating song, words, and the human voice.
Read more ...The Social Network
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies, especially if you are the socially challenged genius computer nerd Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of the world conquering Facebook. Through fast-talking dialogue and scenes which switch back and forth at relentless, sometimes dizzying, pace we see the highs, the lows, the falling outs and countless lawsuits that supposedly plagued the early days of this social network phenomenon.
Read more ...Andrew Maxwell - saying it like you mean it
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
ANDREW MAXWELL doesn’t mince his words. He just comes straight out with it and if that doesn’t suit you so much the better.
Read more ...A weekend of laughs at the Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE GALWAY Comedy Festival is on and the city is set for a weekend of laughs with comics like David O’Doherty, Dead Cat Bounce, Andrew Maxwell, and Phill Jupitus.
A number of shows are almost sold out - Rich Hall in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow and Who Needs Enemies in the Town Hall Theatre on Friday and Sunday.
Read more ...Junior Galway Film Fleadh is on the way
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
YOUNG GALWEGIANS who love everything to do with film can look forward to the Junior Galway Film Fleadh in the Town Hall Theatre from November 3 to 6.
Read more ...Crannóg to launch milestone edition
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE 25TH edition of Crannóg, the Galway literary magazine, will be launched in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Bipolar Empire to play two shows in Galway
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
BIPOLAR EMPIRE will play two shows in Galway - Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 10pm and Giggity at the Róisín Dubh on Monday November 1 at 9pm.
Read more ...Vladimir Jablokov’s classical twist
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
VLADIMIR JABLOKOV is a violin virtuoso, from a classical music family in Slovakia, who enjoys putting contemporary spin on the classics, be they by Bowie or Bach.
Read more ...The Magic Numbers @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
The Magic Numbers (pictured) will play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday December 4. Tickets are on sale from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.
Read more ...Calefax Reed Quintet to perform in St Nicholas’
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE GALWAY Music Residency is hosting its annual Autumn School on Thursday October 28 and Friday 29 and the guests of honour will be Holland’s Calefax Reed Quintet.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
WELSH POET Martin Daws will recite his poetry at the next North Beach Poetry Night on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...Piping concert at The Crane
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
SOME OF Ireland’s leading uilleann pipers are coming to The Crane Bar, Sea Road, to play a fundraising concert this Saturday at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Irish dancing night for Haiti
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE VERY best of Galway’s Irish music and dance talent comes out in force on Saturday to support The Haven Partnerships Haiti ‘Build It Week’.
From 8pm to 10.30pm, Monroe’s Live will play host to Music at the Crossroads, Celtic Rhythm, The Hession School of Dancing, Dance of Desire, Emma Brady, and will include Connacht, All Ireland, and World champion musicians and dancers.
Read more ...Greg Dulli - ‘Musically I’m omnivorous. I love it.’
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
FOR CLOSE on 25 years Greg Dulli has been at the forefront of the Alternative American music scene, first as leader of The Afghan Whigs, then the Twilight Singers, and more recently as one half of The Gutter Twins with Mark Lanegan.
Read more ...Greg Dulli - ‘Musically I’m omnivorous. I love it.’
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
FOR CLOSE on 25 years Greg Dulli has been at the forefront of the Alternative American music scene, first as leader of The Afghan Whigs, then the Twilight Singers, and more recently as one half of The Gutter Twins with Mark Lanegan.
Read more ...Tom Loves A Lord - Moore’s melodies revisited
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
THOMAS MOORE is a man torn. He is celebrated in Britain and on the continent for his songs and lyrics about his native Ireland. Yet his country is a colony of the fast growing British empire.
Read more ...Brendon Burns - talkin’ ‘bout God, sex, and the universe
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
THE IF.Comedy Award winning comedian Brendon Burns is brining his new show ‘Y’know Love n God n Metaphysics n Shit’ to this year’s Galway Comedy Festival.
Brendon will be performing the show on Friday October 22 in the Radisson Live Lounge, alongside Andrew Maxwell, Dead Cat Bounce, and Eric Lalor, and in the Town Hall theatre on Saturday 23, alongside Rich Hall and Jason Byrne.
Read more ...Dear Frankie at Town Hall
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
FRANKIE BYRNE’S radio programme may have finished up nearly 30 years ago, but it is part of the soundtrack to Irish lives in that era.
Read more ...Who Needs Enemies? at Town Hall
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
AMONG THE attractions at next week’s Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival is the comic play Who Needs Enemies? by Galway author Conor Montague.
Read more ...Two life stories told in Seeing And Dreaming
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
PUPPETRY, live action, and memory are used to tell the story of two lives in Seeing And Dreaming, part of the upcoming Galway Theatre Festival.
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