Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THE SIXTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny takes place in The King’s Head, High Street, this coming Monday at 8pm.

A jump start to changing your lifestyle

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

THIRTY YEARS ago, only Hollywood actors, top athletes, rock stars and crime bosses had personal trainers and these not always necessarily for the improvement of their mental or physical quality of life.

Between Kiev and Ireland

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

I HAVE a confession to make: as a group I prefer immigrants to the Irish, and this is not simply a case of inverse racism against my own.

I Will Sing My Songs For You

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

IN THE early 1970s, a young musician named Simon is enjoying success with his band The Heartbeats and everywhere he is surrounded by the trappings of a rock-star life style.

Finbar Wright - Pavarotti, Arsenal, and me

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

IT IS not everyone who can say they met the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. It is fewer again who can tell of meeting him twice, and fewer still can boast of having received career guidance from the master.

The Man In The Woman’s Shoes

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

THE WRITER and performer Mikel Murfi makes a welcome return visit to Galway with his latest play, The Man In The Woman’s Shoes.

Neil O’Connor to launch debut solo album

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

NEIL O’CONNOR, the Galway singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, will launch his debut solo album Loose Ends at Monroe’s Backstage this Saturday at 9pm.

Jezebel’s sexy, comic permutations

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

FIFTEEN PER cent of Irish people have had a threesome - that is according to Rough Magic’s new play Jezebel, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 17.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

OSCAR WILDE’S greatest and epic poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, will be performed at the Bank of Ireland Theatre at NUI Galway, on Thursday February 13 at 8pm.

The event, which is part of the university’s Múscailt Arts Festival, will see the Scottish born storyteller and writer Rab Swannock Fulton recite/perform the poem’s 600 lines, accompanied by subtle props and appearances by co-performer Sandra Coffey.

Shepherds and circus on screen

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

ACCLAIMED GALWAY-based documentary maker Dieter Auner is editing his latest film Circus On The Road which offers a ‘behind-the-tent view’ of one of Ireland’s three touring circuses, Circus Gerbola.

Actors auditions

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

ACTORS ARE being sought for roles in Fresco Films’ new short film 5 Things You Need to Know About Dying.

Show Me The Funny - the final heats

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

SHOW ME The Funny has reached the final two heats, the first of which takes place this Monday at The King’s Head, High Street, at 8pm.

Kíla to play Monroe’s

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

KÍLA, THE Irish trad/world music fusion group, are coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Monday May 5.

Slyrydes @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

A B-BOY, a hipster, a teddy boy, and a dude who looks as if he was in the Twilight films walk into a bar...If you see such a gathering you have witnessed Slyrydes.

Despite the wildly different image of each of the quartet - including members of Boyfights and Oh Boland - Slyrydes swaggering, take no prisoners, indie rock that rocks hard impressed during their recent Róisín Dubh support slot to Fight Like Apes.

Elaine Mai to release new single

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

ELAINE MAI, the multi-talented singer-songwriter is to release her new single ‘EDC’ on Monday February 10.

The Full Outfit’s Elementary Chaos

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

THE FULL Outfit is a Galway supergroup featuring current and former members of The Saw Doctors, The Cabin Collective, and Willow Sea.

Arveene to play Electric

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

ARVEENE, the DJ, producer, and one half of the underground dance music duo Arveene & Misk is coming to Galway to play the Electric Garden and Theatre this Saturday at 11pm.

Arveene has toured with and supported Liam Gallagher’s band Beady Eye, Nightmares on Wax, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Leftfield, and Underworld. With Misk he has impressed with the track ‘Hell’s Bells’ and ‘Eavesdropper’ and the duo have remixed for Mr Oizo, Calvin Harris, Felix the Housecat, Zombie Nation, and Kelis.

Tiga - leading DJ to play Galway

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

LEADING CANADIAN DJ Tiga, one of the biggest names in electronic dance music, plays the Electric Garden and Theatre tonight from 11pm.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour - controversial and acclaimed

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

A GLIMPSE in the street of a girl with blue-dyed hair sets young student on a course that will unleash powerful and often overwhelming emotions and sexual desire.

Who is afraid of Liam O’Flaherty?

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

WHO IS afraid of Liam O’Flaherty? The Irish government in the 1920s for one, banning several of the Aran Islander’s novels during this period.

One of O’Flaherty’s most controversial novels was Mr Gilhooley (1926) set in an urban, often impoverished, and violent Dublin. However the work was admired by the artist Harry Clarke, who selected O’Flaherty as one of 15 Irish writers, who would make up the eight panelled Geneva Window, commissioned by the Irish State.

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