Eoin Dolan - new song, debut solo album out this week

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

TO SAY The Beachboys Brian Wilson is influential is an understatement, and one of the many who have fallen under the composer's spell is Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan.

'I can only write about immediate horror, like pulling a muscle in your back'

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

SO COW'S last album found him pondering the effect of his thirties, both personal and social, on his life, but his latest opus is full blown self consciousness about middle age, social anxiety, and backaches.

Loner Deluxe - lunar folk and sci-fi sounds

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 19, 2016

"THERE IS abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilisations have been visiting us for a very long time. Their appearance is bizarre from any materialist Western point of view..."

Salthill's Burren Mount Hotel inspires epic electronica album

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

THE BURREN MOUNT Hotel in Salthill has long exercised fascination on, and prompted speculation within, the public mind, but also on artists, having been portrayed by painter Jennifer Cunningham, and more recently through a musical interpretation by The Cube Of Unknowing.

Disco Pigs - Enda Walsh's debut play turns 20

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

WHILE NEXT week sees Druid open its 20th anniversary revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 also saw the premiere of another iconic Irish play which launched a stellar writing career; Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs.

Viva Almodóvar, viva Ireland, viva film

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR's new film, Julieta; the new Irish film, VIVA, from director Paddy Breathnach; a feast of award winning French films; and movies about dogs needing a new home, kidnappings, women struggling for freedom; and a journey through the Colombian Amazon - this is what is in store from the Galway Film Society.

Comedy and clowns for all the clan

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway is not just about show and laughter for adults, there will be shows suitable for families and young comedy fans as well. Here is our guide to the best under-18s events at the festival.

Lisa O'Neill - live at Nocturne

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

"AT A time when sameness threatens to drain the world of charm and surprise, Lisa O’Neill stands tall for difference, as an outlier with a mission to frame the world as she sees it and to perform it accordingly. Her voice is her own."

The vanished world of Cork’s Jews

Literature Reviews Thu, Sep 15, 2016

JEWTOWN, SIMON Lewis’s debut poetry collection, published by Connemara's Doire Press, tells the story of Cork’s Jewish community, from their arrival fleeing pogroms in 19th century Czarist Russia, to the closure of the last synagogue at South Terrace in February 2016.

Walk Galway's streets as a zombie

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

THE ANNUAL Galway Zombie Walk takes place this Saturday and is sure to have people looking on in amazement at the bizarre, yet thrilling, sight of hundreds of zombies making their way along Shop Street.

Get the Shivers for Maurice Fulton

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

“SIT DOWN, smoke, get the keyboards, maybe hire a drummer or programme it myself, smoke, mix it down, put it on CD, smoke, listen to it.” This is how Maurice Fulton, one of house music’s true originals, describes his working methods.

Comedy Clubh to host Irish Comedian of the Year heats

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

FOR ANY comedian trying to make his/her way in the world, it is important to put something on the poster after his/her name other than ‘Mammy thinks I’m funny’. that is why there is now the Irish Comedian of the Year competition.

Clifden to explore the hidden world of Lawrence of Arabia

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

TE LAWRENCE, immortalised by Irish actor Peter O'Toole in the epic 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia, won fame and controversy as a British author, archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat, but he had strong Irish connections.

Honor Heffernan - The Whistling Girl

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

DOROTHY PARKER was famed for her wit, which could be as brilliant as it was nasty, but it is often forgotten that she was a civil rights activist, a supporter of Martin Luther King, and chronicler of the Spanish Civil War.

Moother Mooch - psychedelic doom grunge

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

MOTHER MOOCH deliver "a full spectrum of heavy music", according to Doomed & Stoned, with "Alice In Chains style vocals, up-beat Venom-esque tempos and groovy psychedelic solos".

Conal Gallen - Only Joking at the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

CONAL GALLEN, the Donegal comedian, returns to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday September 30, with his new, one man stand-up, two hour show, Only Joking.

Auditions for the Renmore Panto

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

AUDITIONS FOR Little Red Riding Hood, the 38th annual Renmore pantomime, to be directed by award-winning Brian and Seán Power, begin this weekend.

Rockabilly ball in aid of MADRA

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

Rock'n'roll, rockabilly, and shakin' like Elvis singing 'Hound Dog' is the order of the day when The Hounddog Ball, a charity event in aid of MADRA, dog rescue and adoption, takes place this month.

Silent Disco Street Party returns this weekend

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

BEAT ON the street! Bop ‘till you drop! Sing ‘till you’re hoarse to the ripest musical fromage imaginable! It can only be, what is now referred to as, the "world famous" Silent Disco Street Party, and it is back this Sunday from 8pm.

Two chances to see classsical pianist Michael McHale

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

MICHAEL MCHALE, the Irish classical pianist, who playing has been described as "delicately graded and infallibly clear" by The Irish Times and filled with "lucidity and elegance" by The Daily Telegraph, will play two shows in County Galway.

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