Harvester - championing classic metal values
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
WHEN IT comes to metal I am unapologetically old school. When I hit play I want the riffs of a Tony Iommi, the leads of Murray/Smith or a Gorham/Robertson, and all that topped with the voice of a Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford.
Read more ...Album review: Laura Marling
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THE OPENING track 'Soothing' lives up to its name, but its languid, bass-led, rhythms, and Marling's sultry croon are something of a red herring. Unlike this song, wonderful though it is, the album will not be an indie-pop/jazz hybrid.
Read more ...Keith Fox @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
HE MAY have a bleak view of life, but he make uproarious, indeed joyous comedy, from it. He is Keith Fox, and he plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night from 9pm.
Read more ...What if you knew your days were numbered?
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
WHAT WOULD a society look like if people knew from the outset how long they are going to live? This is the question asked by the play Die Befristeten, which is to be performed by NUI Galway students.
Read more ...Angeline Cooke holds second solo exhibition
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
ANSEO IS Ansiud – Here and There, the second solo exhibition by Galway artist Angeline Cooke is currently running at the Renzo Gallery Café, Eyre Street.
Read more ...A Swedish woman’s Galway view of Scandinavia
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THE LAST Wilderness is set to be a milestone in the career of Galway based artist Cecilia Danell. Not only a major solo exhibition, opening in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street, tomorrow evening, it will be the most extensive, and varied, display of work from this multi-talented creative to date.
Read more ...German comedy film for the Town Hall
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
TONI ERDMANN, a comedy and the third feature film by German director Maren Ade, will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend by the Galway Film Society.
Read more ...Dave at Large: remembering and reinventing Dave Allen
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
DAVE AT Large, a new comedy starring Bryan Murray, of Fair City and The Irish RM fame, tells the extraordinary story of the controversial and ground breaking Irish comedian Dave Allen, whose rise to fame saw him become one of the most challenging yet popular comedians and television personalities of his day.
Read more ...Moonfish invited to develop work at The Abbey
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
GALWAY THEATRE company Moonfish Theatre will be one of six companies which have been invited to develop work in the Abbey as part of the national theatre's new work-in-progress programme.
Read more ...Coole Music Orchestra Festival - celebrating 10 years
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THE COOLE Music Orchestra Festival, which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year, returns on Saturday March 11, with a series of afternoon and evening concerts, in the Gort Community Centre, south Galway.
Read more ...What is poetry?
Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017
BACK IN the day, when the only poetry textbooks in our secondary schools were Intermediate Cert Poetry and Leaving Cert Poetry, should an intrepid pupil have the temerity to ask “What is poetry?” the answer generally given was “a lyric”.
Read more ...Coirmcheoil Phadraig 2017
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
COIRMCHEOIL PHADRAIG 2017, the annual St Patrick's Festival concert of music and song of the nation, featuring the renowned Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, takes place this weekend.
Read more ...Bob Skeleton - and the sound of 'Midnight Pop'
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THEY DESCRIBE themselves as playing "Midnight-Pop", with late night grooves and melodies that "create a dynamic blend of West Coast cool and Mancunian mood".
Read more ...Stomptown Brass play Monroe’s on St Patrick’s Day
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
STOMPTOWN BRASS have released a new single, 'I Got A Plan', and the 10-piece urban street-funk band are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.
Read more ...Ilenkus - new EP out next month
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
HUNGER, THE new EP from Galway post-metal band Ilenkus will be released next month on vinyl, and officially launched at an upcoming FEAST show in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Cooney, Byrne, and Harper for Monroe's Live
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
STEVE COONEY, Altan's Dermot Byrne, and Bríd Harper, three outstanding Irish trad musicians, are coming to Galway to play Monrtoe's Live next week.
Read more ...Free concert ahead of European Day of Early Music
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
A FREE concert, to take place next week in St Joseph’s Church, on the Presentation Road, will launch a week of pan-European celebrations ahed of the European Day of Early Music.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival line-up unveiled
Wed, Mar 08, 2017
BITE CLUB was chock a block with eager punters on Monday evening for the programme launch of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, and once again festival manager Máiréad Ní Chróinín and her team have put together a mouth-watering array of exciting, challenging, and entertaining shows.
Read more ...Cúirt 2017 programme launched
Wed, Mar 08, 2017
THE RAIN was splish splashing in its Galway fashion on Tuesday evening but that didn’t deter the many literature devotees who gathered at the House Hotel for the programme launch of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
Read more ...Two women’s poems of experience
Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 02, 2017
POST-HEANEY, Irish poetry is in desperate need of a 'next big thing'. It should, preferably, be a poet with a haircut sufficiently stylish to allow him/her at least pretend to be young.
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