Halloween @ The Skeff

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

THE SKEFF Bar will become a hangout for ghoulish beings, angels, devils and superheroes tonight and tomorrow for Halloween.

Cocktails will be available from the ‘7 Deadly Sins’ menu, which has been designed exclusively for the Halloween nights. On Friday, DJ Dave ‘Thriller’ G will play the best of chart, 1980s, 1990s, and horrifying tunes.

Former Oasis guitarist Bonehead to play The Crane

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

IN THE mid-1990s rock was in a perilous state as manufactured groups Take That, The Spice Girls, and Boyzone dominated the charts but a group of Mancunians called Oasis were about to bring guitar-based music back.

One Day International @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL may be named after a type of cricket test-match but none of the members of this Irish band is actually interested in cricket.

Planet of sound

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

FOR THE best part of 20 years AC/DC have been a major part of my life and for my money they are second only to The Beatles in terms of greatness.

Galway Choral Association to perform Mozart

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

MOZART’S MISSA Brevis will be performed by The Galway Choral Association, under director Mark Keane, in St Augustine’s Church this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Oliver St John Gogarty Literary Festival

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

THE SECOND annual Oliver St John Gogarty Literary Festival will be held in Renvyle House - the former house of the writer - in Renvyle, Connemara, and will run from Thursday November 6 to Sunday 9.

The Spirit of Voice set to soar for November

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

THE SPIRIT of Voice festival - a celebration of the human voice through song, story, poetry, and communication - takes place in Galway city from Thursday November 6 to Sunday November 9.

Visual DJing at Tulca 2008

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

DETAILS OF this year’s Tulca Visual Arts Festival were unveiled at a reception in the House Hotel last Friday.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being in the fits of laughter with a close friend.

Genuinely funny Gervais vehicle is surprisingly heartwarming

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

GHOST TOWN initially looks like an awkward proposition. Ricky Gervais stars alongside Greg Kinnear in what looks suspiciously like a romantic comedy.

A sugary sweet farewell to our favourite high schoolers

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

FOR THOSE who have been living in a massive bubble and have not heard of the High School Musical films, a little explanation is necessary before stepping into the theatre.

What Liam Neeson and Susan Sarandon think of home

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

HOME, A thought-provoking documentary, exploring the meaning of ‘home’ for someone living abroad, will be screened in the Station House Cinema in Clifden on Friday November 7 at 8pm.

Win Tommy Tiernan’s Bovinity DVD

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

BOVINITY, THE new DVD from Tommy Tiernan captures the comic on his outrageous recent tour of Ireland of the same name and we have six copies to give away.

The DVD features one of the three shows performed in the Marquee in Cork and highlights from shows in Castlebar, Dublin, etc. It also features subtitles in Irish and Polish.

The Spirit Of Voice and the music of Clannad’s Moya Brennan

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FROM FIRESIDE family music sessions in a little tavern in Gweedore, Co Donegal, in the 1960s and 1970s to major international success with ‘Theme From Harry’s Game’, ‘Robin (The Hooded Man)’ and ‘In A Lifetime’ in the 1980s, Clannad came a long way.

From The Chalets to Talulah Does The Hula

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

PAULA CULLEN and Caoimhe Derwin rose to prominence as the glamorous, brunette pair of ‘saucy pieces’ who fronted The Chalets. The Chalets are no more - having closed their shutters earlier this year - but the girls have not gone away. They’re back, as Talulah Does The Hula.

A ska night from Jerry Dammers @ Stress!!

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

JERRY DAMMERS, the man behind The Specials, 2-Tone, and the explosion of British ska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, will play a DJ set at Stress!!, De Burgos, on Bank Holiday Sunday at 8pm.

Galway Theatre Festival gets under way

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE FIRST Galway Theatre Festival got underway last night with Zelig Theatre Co’s premiere of Cathal Cleary’s Birds Birds Birds and continues until Sunday with a lively programme showcasing the best of local theatrical talent.

Swan Lake at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

BALLET IRELAND will celebrate its 10th anniversary by staging Swan Lake in the Town Hall Theatre from Sunday October 26 to Tuesday 28 at 8pm.

So why do men cheat?

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IN ANCIENT Rome, Julius Caesar was well known as a ‘ladies man’. Such was the great general’s inability to stay away from other men’s wives that he earned the nickname ‘the bald adulterer’.

It goes to show that infidelity among politicians, celebrities, and men (and Caesar was all three) is nothing new. Yet adultery seems to be something men are more likely to do than women. Why is this?

Josh Wink to play GPO

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Josh Wink is a DJ but he’s not interested in spinning other people’s music - he prefers creating his own, as Galway will hear when he plays the GPO, Eglinton Street, on Saturday October 25.

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