The Saw Doctors’ Hallowe’en concert

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE SAW Doctors will play the Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Hallowe’en night, Saturday October 31 to promote the upcoming release of The Best of The Saw Doctors.

Jonathan Richman and a silent disco

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

The legendary Jonathan Richman (pictured) will bring his world music influenced rock’n’roll to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago. Straight afterwards Gugai and the Gigantic DJs will host s silent disco. It’s free in to those who go to the show or €5 including pint of Bavaria to others.

Celebrate Haydn with Music For Galway

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Haydn, one of the giants of classical music. To mark this occasion, Galway will hear Haydn’s music performed by The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.

Sheridan’s to host Ireland’s first Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

POETRY SLAMS, where poets recite works from memory and deliver them in a theatrical style, have been taking place for years, but a new phenomenon is coming to town - The Fiction Slam.

Galway will introduce people to this new style of literary event when the Over The Edge fiction slam takes place on Friday October 16 at 8pm in Sheridan’s Wine Bar.

Sacred music from Resurgam

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE RESURGAM chamber choir will explore the world of the spirit and the sacred with Anglican, Russian Orthodox, and devotional music and song in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Sunday at 8pm.

Junior Galway Film Fleadh seeks scripts from budding young writers

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

GALWEGIANS AGED between 13 and 18 and who are interested in film and writing are being sought to take part in the Junior Galway Film Fleadh/SpunOut.ie annual story pitch competition.

Those interested in competing are asked to submit a 500 word idea for a feature film, short film, documentary, book, or video game. However your idea will have to grip listeners to get them interested in the film - that’s the pitching part.

The Metropolitan Opera is live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE EYE Cinema in Wellpark in association with Opera Ireland will host The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to its screens this weekend.

The Met Opera, regarded globally as the ultimate stage spectacle will be transmitted live via satellite from New York.

The bigger they come, the harder they fall

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

DESPITE IT’S somewhat dramatic opening, “On 18 August 1588 a barque of Southampton was fishing about 36 miles southeast of Sumburgh Head, Shetland, when the crew sighted the Spanish Armada approaching from over the horizon to the south,” The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas, published by Gill & Macmillan, begins where the romance and the glory of that most colourful of invasions ended and the inevitably tragic and sordid debacle began.

De Valera, the pragmatist hero

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

DURING REFERENDA on European treaties - such as during the recet Lisbon Treaty campaign - you will meet the odd excitable type who’ll tell you that he’s voting No because some closet member of Youth Defence or the Communist Party of Ireland told him the treaty would end Irish neutrality.

Poetry inspired by angles and The Claddagh

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

LIFE, LOVE, loss, angels and overcoming adversity are the themes of a new collection on poetry from The Claddagh’s Seán Connolly.

Angels Over Claddagh by Seán Connolly was recently launched in the Galway City Museum by the comedian Tommy Tiernan.

Steve Earle - set to celebrate Townes Van Zandt in Galway next month

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

THROUGHOUT THE 1980s Steve Earle was the poster boy of the Outlaw Country Music scene. Taking inspiration from Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Waylon Jennings his music had a harder edge than the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the time.

Rusted Rail to launch new psychedelic folk-rock EPs in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

UNDERGROUND PSYCHEDELIC folk-rockers Agitated Radio Pilot and Yawning Chasm are releasing new EPs on the independent Rusted Rail label. The EPs will be officially launched at a gig featuring both artists upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 8pm.

Heidi Talbot to play solo show at The Crane

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

“HEIDI TALBOT sings in a voice that’s both awestruck and tender,” says The New York Times, while Village Voice describes her as “Björk combined with Enya”.

Bosco Hogan portays WB Yeats at Town Hall

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

TO MARK the 70th anniversary of WB Yeats’ passing, Dublin’s Focus Theatre presents a revival of an entertainment on the life and work of one of Ireland’s great creative icons.

Dermot Carmody brings his ‘vaudeville for kids’ to Baboró

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

AMONG THE many attractions at the upcoming Baboró festival is There’s A Snail In The Garden, Dermot Carmody and Morgan C Jones’ hilarious live music and comedy show for children.

Find outWhy Men Marry

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

WRITER/PERFORMER Peadar De Burca returns to the Town Hall next week with the final episode of his hit comic trilogy dissecting the male psyche and its desires.