Album review: Natalie Prass

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IN JANUARY 2013 Big Inner, an album of blue eyed soul, Memphis horns, funk, and Christianity by singer-songwriter Matthew E White caused a considerable stir. Now he returns to give his schoolfriend Natalie Prass her start, with this, her debut album.

Show Me The Funny - the penultimate show

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE PENULTIMATE Show Me The Funny heat takes place this Monday at 8pm in The King’s Head, with only four grand final places left to fill.

‘I always wanted to have a career in performing’

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

SHE IS best known as Winnie McGoogan in her brother Brendan’s sitcom, Mrs Brown’s Boys, but now Eilish O’Carroll takes her own turn in the limelight with her acclaimed autobiographical solo show, Live Love, Laugh.

The Dirty Circus Dirty Love Weekend party

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE DIRTY Circus rolls into the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 13 at 9pm for its Valentine’s party of burlesque, cabaret, and all things ‘naughty but nice’.

Máirtín O’Connor to headline fleadh fundraising concert

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE GREAT Máirtín O’Connor headlines a major concert in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, on Friday February 13 to raise funds for the Galway County Fleadh.

Book review: Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IT IS every publisher’s dream s/he should “discover” the author who will be as iconic as James Joyce, as commercially successful as JK Rowling, and as prolific as Charles Dickens. So when a potential candidate appears above the parapet the publisher will - rightly - not hesitate to sing loud and clear that the new literary protégé will out-Joyce Joyce, out sell Rowling, and outwrite Dickens.

Michael Harding and his elephant

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE IRISH Times columnist Michael Harding reads from his book, Hanging With The Elephant, in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday February 11 at 8pm.

Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is being staged by Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and will be broadcast live to Galway.

Dylan Murphy to launch debut EP

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

DYLAN MURPHY, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of Steven Sharpe’s band The Broke Straight Boys, is to launch his debut solo EP.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

LOUIS DEPAOR, Sarah Clancy, and Gerry Hanberry take part in the Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase at Charlie Byrne’s, on Friday February 13 from 6.30pm.

Book review: I Remember, I Remember: Galway Stories and Sketches

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

NOSTALGIA IS defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.” Tales of bygone years when the sun seemed to shine forever, and childhood days were filled with laughter are always trying to tell the reader some sort of lie.

Art class at Galway City Museum

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

LIMERICK BASED artist Maurice Quillinan will deliver a one-day masterclass in the museum this Saturday from 10.30am. The course is designed for students and full-time/part-time artists or those with an interest in gaining a deeper knowledge and understanding into how a painting is made.

Mitch Presents at Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AN ALTERNATIVE Valentine’s Night takes place at Kelly’s on Saturday February 14 with leading Irish DJs, Jack Dunne, Ninha Tips, Beefy, and Mitch, hitting the Decks.

Iron Mountain and Spats Colombo @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

KRAUTROCK, FOLK, jazz, metal, psychedelia, and post-rock fuse in the music of Limerick based multi-instrumentalists Iron Mountain.

Corrib Rocks charity concert for COPE

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE iROCKS winners Rofi James and Clare based alt ska/indie band The Connectors play the Corrib Live charity night on Friday February 13 in the Commercial Boat Club, Woodquay.

Basement Project at The Cellar

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

BASEMENT PROJECT, a new underground house music night, has its debut night in Galway on Saturday February 14 at 9pm in The Cellar Bar.

Plutonic House - techno at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

PLUTONIC HOUSE will deliver heart-hitting synth melodies, punk-funk bass lines, lo-fi analogue disco beats, and sensual vocals, when they play Monroe’s Live.

Shuffle DJ @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle! ) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.

Galway and The Great War lectures at city museum

Wed, Feb 04, 2015

THE GREAT War’s impact on Galway city, the slaughter in the trenches, and recruiting Galwegians to fight for “king and country” will be the subject of a series of public lectures taking place at the Galway City Museum, every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm.

The graphic novels that are also an art exhibition

Wed, Feb 04, 2015

THE CREATION of a graphic novel, from the initial idea, to storyboard stage, to the finished product, available for people to read online, forms Before You Fade Away, a new exhibition which opens this weekend in the Galway Arts Centre.

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