Album review: Parquet Courts

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 26, 2014

DO I like Parquet Courts's Sunbathing Animal because it is good on its own merits, or is it because I love Pavement and these guys so obviously do as well?

Summer Haze

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

TOMORROW PROMISES to be a red letter day for Galway singer-songwriter Chris Haze as his debut album, The World Outside, is officially launched at the Village Venue in Dublin.

Westide Library to host Galway’s biggest open-mic

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

GALWAY’S BIGGEST open-mic for prose writers and poets will take place in the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Wednesday July 9 from 6pm to 8pm.

Gerry Hanberry’s new poetic shoes

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 26, 2014

JIMMY NAIL sang about ‘Crocodile Shoes’, Ian Dury had New Boots and Panties, but in his fourth collection of poems, Galway writer Gerry Hanberry ponders What Our Shoes Say About Us.

No Crows - a band of all the talents

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE WATERBOYS violinist Steve Wickham and the acclaimed Mallorcan guitarist Felip Carbonell, are two members of a band called No Crows.

Arts festival shows @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

IRISH TRAD and a bit of jazz will be heard in Monroe’s Live at the shows the venue is hosting as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, jump blues, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo all on vinyl. Admission is free. Dave will be returning to Massimo on Sunday for his weekly vinyl chill out session ‘Sunday Service’ from 1 to 3pm while the award winning EAT restaurant supply the food.

Galway Cathedral Recitals return next week

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE ANNUAL series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral returns on Thursday July 3 with a performance by Australian-born organist and pianist Tristan Russcher.

Fionnuala Flanagan to give Fleadh actor’s masterclass

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

FIONNUALA FLANAGAN, the only Irish actor to play guest roles on three different Star Trek series - The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise - will give the actor’s masterclass at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.

Diarmuid Scahill’s A Night Of Song

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

GALWAY SINGER Diarmuid Scahill has been offered a place at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s training academy, and is staging a concert tomorrow.

We Banjo Three - The Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Jun 25, 2014

WE BANJO Three, a quartet made of two pairs of brothers, have become something of a phenomenon in the folk/trad world, especially these last six months, which has seen them nominated for an award and play Latin America.

No Way Out for ThereisBear!

Tue, Jun 24, 2014

“HELL IS other people”. It is one of the most famous quotes by French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre and it comes from his play Huis Clos.

Out On Film @ Galway Film Fleadh

Tue, Jun 24, 2014

MISMATCHED LESBIAN hookers, trailblazing senior citizens, courageous African gay rights activists, and gay rom-coms, all films to make you laugh, cry, think, and act. This is Out On Film.

Pierre Bensusan - the master guitarist returns

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

PIERRE BENSUSAN, the genius guitarist, whose “playing [is] so far above average as to approach the supernatural”, according to the New York Times, returns to Galway.

Midlake to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, paving the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.

ZhOra to bring the progressive-metal

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

TAKING THEIR name from a character in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, ZhOra play an original, heavy, aggressive, and progressive kind of metal.

SugarBeat Music festival in August

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

GALWAY, AND Ireland’s, latest outdoor music festival SugarBeat, takes place in Tuam in August, with singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey headlining.

Celebrate the life of Tony Small

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

CHRISTY MOORE, Dolores and Sean Keane, and Pauline Scanlon, are among those who will perform at the Tony Small tribute concert in The Town Hall Theatre.

See the light with Solas

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

INFLUENTIAL, ACCLAIMED, and playing The Galway Sessions festival is Irish-American folk/trad band Solas who take to the Monroe’s Live stage this evening at 8pm.