The Saw Doctors play Tuam this weekend

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

ON THEIR second album they were All The Way From Tuam, and now The Saw Doctors, used to playing concerts across the world, are coming home.

Seán Kangataran releases debut album

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

GALWAY BASED indie-acoustic singer-songwriter Seán Kangataran has just released his self-titled debut album.

Campbell’s Tavern to celebrate major birthday

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

CAMPBELL’S TAVERN in Cloughanover, Headford celebrates its 10th birthday this weekend with a host of gigs, games, and events.

The celebrations kick off tomorrow with tag rugby at the Headford Pitch at 7pm; the card game 25 in the front bar of Campbell’s at 9.30pm; and games of dominoes, spot, Pontoon, Jenga, pool, and darts in the venue’s Green Room at 10pm.

DJ Shadow is coming to Galway

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

DJ Shadow (pictured), a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax label, and a former member of UNKLE, will play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at the Live Lounge at the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday October 2 at 8pm. Tickets are €35/33 and are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

Mirakil Whip @ Citóg

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

MIRAKIL WHIP, the guitar-electronica duo of Annmarie Deacy and Aaron Coyne are to play their first live show in more than a year.

Trad at St Nicholas’

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will host concerts of Irish traditional music tomorrow and on Monday.

New exhibition to explore ideas of ‘home’

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

“AN ENGLISHMAN’S home is his castle,” goes the old saying, but as The Temptations pointed out, “Papa was a rolling stone, wherever he laid his hat was his home.”

ConTempo on tour in September

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

THE CONTEMPO Quartet will embark on its first mini-tour in Ireland next month with performances in Dublin, Belfast, and Galway.

Connemara painting workshop

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

WOULD YOU like to learn how to paint? Do you already paint but feel you need to progress your skills? If so, a two day course next month is for you.

Galway artist Denise Hogan will hold a two day painting and drawing workshop in a restored stone cottage in Rosmuc, Connemara, on Saturday September 11 and 12 from 10am to 5.30pm.

Have a bounce on the Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

Dolmens are ancient portal stone burial sites found throughout Ireland, Britain, and Brittany and are places of archaeological and spiritual importance - but are they really places to have fun?

Rock and dancing @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

FUAIM CHONAMARA continues its run at Monroe’s Live for just two more nights - tonight and Thursday September 2 at 8pm.

John Faulkner in concert

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

SINGER-SONGWRITER John Faulkner continues his exploration of traditional song in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 3pm.

The concert will see John perform new songs written in the traditional style, interspersed with stories, background, and history of the chosen songs.

Creative writing classes at GAC

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

GALWAY WRITERS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will hold creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

Susan will host a creative writing class for beginners and continuing creative writing students in poetry or fiction. Students will spend their week responding to writing exercises designed to inspire, rather than inhibit. The classes start on Monday September 20 at 2pm.

Knight and Day

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

Allright so it is a leave the brain at the door type of movie but what do you expect from an action rom-com starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, however, I enjoyed every minute of it as the pace is unrelenting and there are plenty of laughs.

Neil Hamburger @ The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

IF YOU are in any way prudish or easily offended then US comic Neil Hamburger may not be your kind of thing.

Animation workshops at City Museum

Thu, Aug 26, 2010

THE AWARD WINNING Galway animator John Jennings will host two new Manga workshops in the Galway City Museum next month.

Manga is the distinctive style of Japanese comic book art and animation, examples of which include the TV show Pokémon, the films The Girl Who Slipped Through Time and Whisper Of The Heart, as well as comics such as Gunsmith Cats.

A guide to surviving school and rediscovering Ireland with the Heathers

Thu, Aug 19, 2010

DURING THE last winter Ireland experienced some of the harshest weather in living memory. Last November excessive flooding devastated the west and southwest of the country. Galway, Clare and Cork were among the worst affected areas.

Fight Like Apes - the adventure continues

Thu, Aug 19, 2010

FIGHT LIKE Apes have always specialised in outrageous album and EP titles, but with The Body of Christ and The Legs of Tina Turner they might just have surpassed even their own talent for brilliantly ridiculous monikers.

Girls deliver dynamic and original rock sound

Thu, Aug 19, 2010

THE GIRLS admit that a diverse array of sound has influenced their musical repertoire. Born into the Children of God cult, band member Christopher Owens says he spent his childhood travelling the globe, attending prayer sessions and busking in the street.

Elliot Davis; Creating the music for Silver Tassie

Thu, Aug 19, 2010

MUSIC IS a major element in Druid’s forthcoming production of The Silver Tassie and the man entrusted with devising the score is noted British composer Elliot Davis. Davis started his musical career with the great Lionel Bart, creator of Oliver, and has worked on such West End musicals as Miss Saigon, Les Miserables and Blood Brothers.

During an afternoon break in rehearsals, Davis outlined his approach to O’Casey’s powerful play but first he began by describing his time with Lionel Bart. “I wrote to him while I was at university because I had a choice of being a lawyer or doing music and I thought ‘I just don’t want to be a lawyer’,” Davis recalls. “So, I wrote to him and peculiarly enough he wrote back and told me to give him a call, which I did, and I met him for lunch and we really got on. He used to sing into a dictaphone, then he’d give me the tapes and I’d write them all out and write the chords and he’d say, ‘No not that chord, this chord’ and then we’d work it out together. I remember he was staying for a period in a flat in Baker Street and there was this lovely London skyline and I remember him looking out the window over this London scene and singing a tune that had all the notes of the scale in it but it sounded completely original and so Lionel Bart. Working with him was a wonderful introduction to music, he taught me a lot about song writing and how to structure things.”

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