Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE FIRST Galway Theatre Festival begins next week and showcases a host of local theatre companies staging eight productions, four of which are new, locally-written, plays.

Like A Virgin begins MorWax’s Town Hall triple bill

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THERE ARE many virgins in Galway. Some have just never had the opportunity while others have made a conscious decision to say no.

Jerry Dammers, Daedelus, and more @ Stress!!

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

JERRY DAMMERS, the driving force behind 2-Tone and The Specials, is coming to play Stress!! next week as is Daddy Kev, Daedelus, Milosh, and Chequerboard.

Jess Klein and Meg Hutchinson at The Crane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

JESS KLEIN and Meg Hutchinson are two American singer-songwriters who have been winning the praises of music critics these last few years and both of them play The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Thursday October 23 at 9pm.

New album and Galway show from House of Cosy Cushions

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

HOUSE OF Cosy Cushions, the Dublin based indie-band, have released their new album Animal Dream (Seadog Records) and will play the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 9pm.

Portraits gig to raise funds for Burmese school

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE PORTRAITS launch their new album upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 24 at 8pm at a show which will also raise funds for a school in Mandalay, Burma.

Elektrische TV play Instore tonight

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY BAND Elektrische TV play a free show at the Instore warehouse on Merchants’ Road tonight at 7pm.

Kíla to play The Black Box

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

The wild, weird, mind altering Irish trad and world music band Kíla have announced that they will play The Black Box on Thursday October 30 at 8.30pm.

How poetry and Irish song interact

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY ACADEMIC and musician Seán Crosson has published a new book entitled The Given Note - a major study on the relationship between poetry and Irish trad and song.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Dancing drunkenly with family, a lie-in with the one I love, debauchery sessions with friends, listening when everyone is singing with me at a gig.

Dancing drunkenly with family, a lie-in with the one I love, debauchery sessions with friends, listening when everyone is singing with me at a gig.

Madcap fun at Fool Me? in Silkes

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GOMBEENS THEATRE Troupe and Blueteapot Theatre Company present their new collaborative show Fool Me? in Silkes on Munster Avenue, next week.

Third times (sort of) a charm for Gere and Lane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

There is little denying that when a pair of silver screen superstars are asked to play each other’s lovers not twice but three times (the first two times in The Cotton Club and Unfaithful), there is definitely an on-screen chemistry that is working in their favour. Richard Gere and Diane Lane are no exception in their new film Nights in Rodanthe and somehow manage (with the help of some breathtaking cinematography) to carry an entire film on that chemistry alone.

Better than average horror movie

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

MIRRORS IS a surprisingly old fashioned horror movie, with a ghost story at the heart of the gore and violence. Effectively combining carefully constructed sense of menace and a mystery story, the film manages to be thought-provoking as well as spooky.

Family fun at The Eye this weekend

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

TWO NEW family films - Igor and High School Musical 3 - are released this weekend and to celebrate The Eye cinema in Wellpark is planning some fun activities.

New video from Fake Dog Films

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY’S FAKE Dog Films have just made a music video for ‘Distance’, a new single from the Canadian all-girl band Vancougar.

Bringing audiences into the Heart of the crime

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

The darkness is drawing in. The evenings are getting longer. Halloween is approaching. There is no better month than October to stage a story by the genius of horror writers - Edgar Allan Poe.

Waterdonkey Theatre will stage Heart, a stage adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart, in the Town Hall Studio each day up to and including Saturday at 8.30pm.

Three new books from Galway publisher

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE GALWAY based publisher Wordonthestreet, is getting set to launch its three latest publications - two poetry collections and a book of short stories.

This Saturday at 2pm in the Galway City Museum, the great Irish sculptor John Behan will launch Décollage - New and Selected Poems by the acclaimed poet, playwright, and visual artist Patricia Burke Brogan.

NIE: Delving into Europe’s history at Baboró

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

AMONG THE many outstanding companies gathering in Galway for Baboró are the multi-national New International Encounter who are bringing a trilogy of plays inspired by the seismic upheavals of European history over the past century.

Baboró’s favourite songwriter Tom Chapin returns to the Black Box

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

GRAMMY AWARD winning artist Tom Chapin has been described as “the pied piper of children’s music”. His recordings aimed at four to 11-year-olds and their families have brought him worldwide acclaim.

The Comedy Club gets set to move to Fridays

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

THE COMEDY Club in Cuba* is a Galway institution and is synonymous with Sunday nights in the city, but nothing stays the same forever and a change is on the way as the club is about to move to a new slot on Fridays.

Paddy Courtney (Paddywhackery, Prison Break, and the little purple guy in the Lotto ads) plays the Comedy Club this Sunday at 8.30pm and has the distinction of being the last comic to play at the Sunday night slot.

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