Album review: Saint Etienne

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THESE last few weeks I've reviewed new albums by Slowdive, The Charlatans, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, while RIDE's comeback, Weather Diaries, awaits a listen. It all leads me to ask: What year is this?

CÚRAM’ seeks artists for Westside public art project

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

ARTISTS FROM across Irelandinterested in working with the NUI Galway based CÚRAM art and science programme, as part of its public engagement work, are being invited to submit proposals.

Damien Dempsey plays Black Box next week

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, deservedly described by The Guardian as "one of Ireland’s great singer-songwriters" and by The Daily Express as "one astonishingly gifted individual", returns to Galway next week.

Danny O'Brien for Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

DANNY O'BRIEN is “genuinely, uproariously funny, with a huge stage presence and wicked timing” according to The Sunday Independent, while The Examiner called him "a serious young talent in the making".

'This is the funniest thing I’ve ever done'

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THIS SATURDAY the brilliant and inimitable Tom Green, one of the greatest comic minds in entertainment, takes centre stage at the Róisín Dubh to provide non-stop laughter and share his wonderfully cracked view of the world.

Pumpgirl and ‘a sense of speed’

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

IT HAS been seven years since Decadent Theatre Company last featured in the Galway International Arts Festival so its presence in this year’s programme is very welcome; all the more so as the company is staging Abbie Spallen’s award-winning Pumpgirl.

Hothouse Flowers - Monroe's Live date for July

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

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

World premiere of Angela's Ashes - The Musical

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THE WORLD premiere of Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela's Ashes, takes place in the Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick from July 6 to 15, before transferring to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, from July 18 to 30, and the Grand Opera House, Belfast, from August 1 to 5.

Windows marks quarter century of giving voice to new writers

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THE WINDOWS authors and artists anthology, co-edited by Cavan based poets Heather Brett and Noel Monahan, has for the past quarter century been an important outlet for emerging artists, and writers who have yet to publish a first book.

Dominica Corcoran exhibits in Renzo

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

GALWAY ARTIST Dominica Corcoran is holding her second solo exhibition in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street, with works in a variety of media.

Tracy Bruen - giving voice to herself and others

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

TRACY BRUEN is something of a modern day Renaissance woman - singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, band leader, theatre director and actor, teacher at a special needs school, and a Galway Advertiser Solo Artist of the Year winner. Next week opens a new chapter in her creative life when she launches her debut album Mirror.

Breathe in a Pink Floyd experience

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.

NYC's John Morales to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

NEW YORK DJ John Morales, who played at the Big Apple's legendary and notorious Studio 54 nightclub, will be spinning the decks at Electric this Bank Holiday Weekend, at Get Down Edits clubnight birthday bash.

Icelandic choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

ICELANDIC CHORAL music will be heard within St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when the Selkórinn choir perform a tea-time concert in the city centre church next week.

Dessie O'Halloran and a trad concert in Salthill

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

SOME OF the finest traditional musicians and singers from the west of Ireland, including the great Inishbofin singer Dessie O'Halloran, join forces for the upcoming Bofin to Burren concert.

June Bank Holiday Weekend@ HALO

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

Worries Outernational bring the reggae this weekend

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

WORRIES OUTERNATIONAL, one of the leading soundsystems pushing reggae and dancehall music in Ireland, hit Galway this weekend when they take over the Commercial Boatclub in Woodquay.

Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

'We’re a three-headed monster!'

Thu, May 25, 2017

THEY GREW up in a house where good music was always being played, where parents and neighbours loved a sing-song. That Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor would eventually form a band seems to have always been on the cards, but it could have been so different. Had things worked out another way, the sisters could today be a comedy trio.

Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Competition seeks entries

Thu, May 25, 2017

ENTRIES ARE sought for the 29th Galway Film Fleadh's Pitching Competition, which seeks ideas, at any stage of development, from budding screenwriters and filmmakers.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.