Bateman on writing, film, and his Anfield dream

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

In a career spanning more than 20 years Colin Bateman has proven himself to be one of Ireland’s most prolific and entertaining writers.

Prior to becoming a novelist Bateman served his apprenticeship as a journalist with The County Down Spectator and his witty weekly columns became the stuff of local legend. When his debut novel Divorcing Jack was published in 1994 it won the Betty Trask Award for best first novel. Four years later it was adapted into a film starring David Thewlis and Rachel Weisz, with Bateman writing the screenplay.

Final Fantasy to play the Black Box in May

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

OWEN PALLETT is many things - composer, violinist, winner of the inaugural Polaris Music Prize, and co-writer of the string arrangements for the Arcade Fire’s Funeral. However he is best known as Final Fantasy.

Theatre at Cúirt and at home with the Gombeens

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

FROM SHAKESPEARE to history’s forgotten women, and from Gombeens to Brian Friel, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature promises Galway a feast of theatre from Tuesday April 21 to Sunday 26.

When The Bard went contemporary

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THERE IS rhythm in the language of Shakespeare, and when performing his plays a great actor can bring out the flow of the Bard’s poetic lines.

Perhaps it is because of this that one woman has come up with the audacious and clever idea of re-enacting some of the best scenes and monologues from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice in a modern style adapted to rap, music, and dance.

Win tickets to see Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE WHOSE Line Is It Anyway? gang, featuring Phill Jupitus, will be in the Town Hall Theatre on Easter Sunday at 8pm and we have five pairs of tickets to giveaway.

Tommy Tiernan to launch ROPES

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

TOMMY TIERNAN will launch the literary journal ROPES Unravelled, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in the Town Hall on Thursday April 23 at 5pm.

Support Tommy Tiernan and raise funds for the homeless

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

GALWEGIANS CAN help Tommy Tiernan set a Guinness World Record and raise money for the homeless this weekend by going to his Testamental show in the Nuns Island Theatre this weekend.

Tommy is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the longest solo stand up show ever performed, starting at 3pm on Good Friday until dawn on Easter Sunday.

Words and music as Buck 65 plays Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

“IN THE hip hop world I am a dissenter,” declared the Canadian rapper Buck 65 when I interviewed him in 2007, and this dissenting voice is returning to Galway.

London-Irish guitar wizard @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

“Probably the best and most original young acoustic guitar player and composer in Britain,” is how Acoustic Guitar magazine has described London-Irish axeman Clive Carroll.

The Commander returns to the GPO

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THE COMMANDER returns to GPO this Saturday with a sack of highly combustible - and possibly illegal - house and techno tucked safely under his cape.

In June The Commander will release a five-track EP on his Skin Whistle Recordings label. It will be a mostly housey affair with a hint of drum’n’bass. Keith Disconaut and Audiofeen are both on remix duty on one of the tracks.

Easter album launches @ Campbell’s

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THIS NACHEZ will launch their debut album Thought Control Commander Thing in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9pm.

This Nachez is led by the Cradock brothers, Fiachra and Eimhin, and also features Dave Donoghue on bass and vocalist Stephen Monaghan. The group is influenced by Led Zeppelin, System Of A Down, Pantera, and The Band, and their lyrics are often politically charged. Admission is €8.

Eugene Donegan @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

DECLAN O’ROURKE thinks very highly of Navan born songwriter Eugene Donegan, so much so that O’Rourke has produced his debut album and is taking him on tour.

Many hands make light work

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

A TOTAL of 32 strings, 16 hands, and eight musicians will combine to perform the music of Mendelssohn when ConTempo and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet play The Hotel Meyrick on Monday April 20 at 8pm.

Moments Of Beauty in the Galway City Museum.

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

MOMENTS OF Beauty, a series of creative experiential workshops, designed to explore perceptions of beauty through the eight senses, is currently taking place in the Galway City Museum.

The workshops are held on Saturdays from 1.30pm to 4.30pm and are facilitated by dance movement therapist Bernadette Divilly.

Major New York poet to read in Galway

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

BURT KIMMELMANN, the poet, editor, and professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology, will read in The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, on Tuesday April 14 at 8pm.

Tom Rhodes @ Laughter Lounge

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

TOM RHODES started comedy while in the 11th grade in school in the US and used a fake ID to gain entrance into clubs. He’s come a long way since.

A feast of literary films at Cúirt

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

FILM MAKER Pat Collins, who spent a number of years in Galway, will be celebrated at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, with screenings of some of his acclaimed documentary films on Irish writers.

SiSi and much more @ Deeper in The Cellar

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

SISI make a welcome return this weekend to kick start a series of Bank Holiday 110th Street parties at Deeper in The Cellar Bar - just one of a number of shows at the Eglinton Street venue.

Win tickets to see Brian Kennedy

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

BRIAN KENNEDY will perform a special concert in the Radisson SAS Hotel on Sunday April 26 at 8.30pm to mark the 25 years of the Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

Madness, Guy De Maupassant, and Co Mayo

Thu, Apr 09, 2009

THERE IS a personal memory of a delightful spring Parisian Saturday morning in 1971 drinking an espresso on the terrace of a café along the Boulevard St Germain and reading a short story by Seán Ó Faoláin entitled The Talking Trees.

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