Funding sought for Galway film

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

THE COMPANY Productions/Trench Entertainment is seeking funds for a film, based on it’s play DUÆL which was performed in the Town Hall in June.

Phill Jupitus v Gugai @ Silent Disco

Thu, Jul 22, 2010

TOMORROW NIGHT will witness Round Three of the Gugai v Phill Jupitus DJ battle. Gugai is widely judged to have won the first two, but can Phill stop him getting a hat trick?

The eclectic life of Alan Kelly and his quartet

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

ACCORDION MUSIC is not the most popular among traditional music purists, but one of the great Irish exponents of the instrument, Alan Kelly, is well aware of “the pitfalls of traditional music”.

The evolution of The Deans

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

WHEN THE Deans released their debut album in 2008, they were a hard rocking, fretboard burning, blues band, but the last year has seen them evolve into an altogether different kind of rock’n’roll animal.

Fuaim Chonamara @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE EXCITING sean nós dance show, Fuaim Chonamara, continues its summer run at Monroe’s Live on Thursdays at 8pm.

Festival theatre reviews

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

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From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.

From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.

Little John Nee’s Poor But Happy Tour

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

A VAUDEVILLE show featuring “songs of seaweed and dancing molecules” will take to the stage of the Town Hall Studio next week.

Beauty and The Beast in Loughrea

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

BEAUTY AND The Beast, the much loved French fairytale about an ugly creature whose gentle manners wins the heart of a beautiful girl, will be performed in Loughrea.

Loughrea Youth Theatre will stage the Disney musical version of the story, in The Temperance Hall, Loughrea from this Saturday to Monday; Saturday July 24 to Monday 26; and from Saturday 31 to Monday August 2 at 8.30pm.

Do I Look Fat In These Fig Leaves?

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

ADAM AND Eve get the blame for a lot of things - sin, death, pain, hard work, sexism - and to add insult to injury, for centuries artists have depicted the couple as having nothing but fig leaves to hide their modesty.

Only Fumes & Corpses launch new album

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

GALWAY HARDCORE punk band Only Fumes & Corpses launch their new album Who Really Cares, What Really Lasts, at Aras Na Gael, Dominick Street, on Thursday July 22.

Wiggle to play Cuba*Live

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

WIGGLE, THE Cork electro dub wizards, return to Galway tomorrow to play Cuba*Live at 11pm.

The band began in 1999 after a jam session in a small sushi restaurant in Cork. Wiggle can be seen performing at many underground festivals, parties, and gatherings from the hills of west Cork, to the mountains of Kerry, to a field in Roscommon or a beach in Mayo.

Kornel Kovacs to DJ at Lowerstate

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

KORNEL KOVACS, the Stockholm based DJ will be spinning the decks at Lowerstate at Deeper in The Cellar Bar, this Saturday.

Black Angles to be heard in St Nicholas’

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

BLACK ANGLES, one of the darkest and most challenging pieces of music ever composed for a string quartet, will be performed by ConTempo during the Galway Arts Festival.

Westside Arts Festival 2010

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival takes place from Friday July 23 to Sunday July 25 and promises an array of exciting workshops, performances, events, family fun.

Classical fire from the Endellion String Quartet

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE ENDELLION String Quartet are so good that The Daily Telegraph has described them as being capable of “setting the audience ablaze”.

So bring a bucket of water and damp cloth to cool yourself with while watching the acclaimed British chamber group, when they play the Galway Arts Festival next week.

Peter Hall - a life in theatre

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

SIR PETER Hall, the founding director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is coming to Galway.

The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

A FEAST of comedy gigs awaits Galway this month as The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh hosts shows by Keith Farnan, Jarlath Regan, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?