Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

COMEDIENNE, ACTRESS, and ventriloquist Nina Conti was born and raised in the Hampstead area of London surrounded by intellectuals, actors, and artists.

She hangs brightly - Hope Sandoval to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

SHE WAS the gentle but sensuous and hypnotic voice of Mazzy Star. Today she takes that voice into quieter, more sparse, musical realms backed by My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. She is Hope Sandoval.

Obama approved Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

“I CANNOT get enough of these guys, they soothe the soul.” So said US president Barack Obama about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who play Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 22 at 9pm.

New Christian O’Reilly play in Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

GALWAY-BASED playwright Christian O’Reilly, whose plays have been staged by Druid and Rough Magic, will see his latest play premiere at the Galway Theatre Festival in a production by Decadent Theatre Company.

Entitled Here We Are Again Still, the play was commissioned by the Galway City Council under the Per Cent For Art Scheme, whereby a portion of the funding for a local authority capital project is reserved for spending on an original art work.

Zelig to stage The Donahue Sisters

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

AFTER A successful run in London at the Hen & Chickens Theatre, Galway company Zelig brings Geraldine Aron’s The Donahue Sisters to the second Galway Theatre Festival.

One woman’s intimate confession

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

A WOMAN is condemned to solitude following a forbidden sexual relationship. Alone, she manifests three different forms of herself to recount a story of desire, power, and fate.

This is Neil LaBute’s Medea Redux which will be staged by Bluepatch Productions as part of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, in the Town Hall Studio on Wednesday October 21 at 6.30pm and Thursday 22 at 1pm.

Moonfish stage The Secret Garden

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

FRANCES HODGSON Burnett’s much-loved children’s story The Secret Garden is among the attractions at the Galway Theatre Festival where it is being staged in a new adaptation by Moonfish Theatre Company.

First published in 1911, Burnett’s novel centres on Mary Lennox, who - after the death of her parents - is brought back to England from India as a forlorn and unwanted child, to live in her uncle’s great lonely house on the moors. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and, like magic, her life begins to brighten in so many ways.

Expect big riffs from Bronto Skylift

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

SCOTTISH DUO Bronto Skylift have been compared to Lightning Bolt due to their mixture of heavy guitar riffs and free form drumming.

Jabbas @ Kelly’s

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

JABBA THE Hut was a nasty piece of work, the galaxy’s leading criminal, he had a score to settle with Hans Solo, and inspired the name of an Irish indie/electro/pop act.

See the ‘sexy and postmodern’ MagneTs

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

THERE ARE six microphones, no instruments, only a fusion of glorious vocal harmonies and jaw dropping beatboxing on songs from Joy Division to Scissor Sisters.

Wallis Bird is back

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

WALLIS BIRD returns to Galway for what is sure to another high energy, exuberant, and fun filled gig at the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday October 21 at 8pm.

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter released New Boots, the follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Spoons, earlier this year. Wallis’ higly personal songs are a mixture of folk-rock, pop, and jazz, all shot through with a percussive guitar style, which is the result of the left-handed Wallis playing a right handed guitar upside down!

Dutch trio to teach Galway about brass

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

Dutch brass trio De Jongen Driest will take up residency in Galway as part of the Galway Ensemble in Residence’s Autumn School Programme and treat the city to two concerts.

Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

THE GALWAY Arts Centre’s new season of Poetry Slams returns on Tuesday at 7pm in the centre on Dominick Street.

Australian poets to read in Gort

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

TWO OF Australia’s finest poets, Robert Gray and Alison Croggon, will read in the Gort Public Library on Friday October 23 at 8pm.

Glass painting workshop

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

THE ART Essence Gallery in Liosbán will host a glass painting workshop on Saturday October 24 from 10.30am to 5.30pm.

North Beach Nights

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

THE WRITERS Celeste Auge, Maureen Gallagher, Gerry Hanberry, and Hugo Kelly will read at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.

Galway Comedy Festival @ The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

SIX LEADING Irish and international comedians will present six new shows at the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh for this year’s Galway Comedy Festival

Peter Doherty’s Galway gig postponed

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

PETE DOHERTY’S Heineken Green Spheres show in the Róisín Dubh has been postponed following the singer-songwriter’s admission to hospital yesterday.

Flirt FM to tell the story of Belfast punk

Thu, Oct 15, 2009

NORTHERN IRELAND endured its worst period of violence in the 1970s but the arrival of punk music gave young Catholics and Protestants a reason to defy the sectarian divide.

The impact of punk in Ulster will be examined in Beyond The Wire - The Story of Belfast Punk 1975 - 1985, a documentary by Cormac Staunton, to be broadcast on Flirt 101.3FM on Monday at 7pm.

Frank Kelly - bringing Fr Jack Hackett to Galway

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

AS THE mad haired Ballymagash town councillor, the beleaguered Gobnait O’Lunacy, and the outrageous Fr Jack Hackett, Frank Kelly has played three of the most iconic and memorable characters in Irish comedy, and this month he is bringing one of them to Galway.

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