Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook is heading west

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

GLENN TILBROOK was one half of one of the greatest English songwriting teams of the last 30 years, when he wrote classic after classic with Chris Difford in Squeeze.

Sinnerboy @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

THE SPIRIT and the extraordinary music of the late, great, and much missed Rory Gallagher will be heard loud and clear when Sinnerboy play the Róisín Dubh.

Sinnerboy, the renowned Rory Gallagher tribute band, return to the Róisín on Sunday November 16 at 9pm.

Without George to launch debut album in Campbell’s

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

WITHOUT GEORGE, the Galway based hard rock, blues, funk, and country band, will launch their eponymous debut album at a show in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Saturday at 9.30pm.

DJ Eddie Halliwell to play Leisureland

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

GALWAY IS in for a ‘trancetastic’ clubbing experience as Planetlove presents Fire It Up with leading DJ Eddie Halliwell and DJ Preach in Leisureland this Saturday.

Moya Brennan concert cancelled

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

MOYA BRENNAN’S show and workshop has been cancelled due to slow ticket sales. The show was to take place in the Menlo Park Hotel tomorrow and the workshop on Saturday.

Clifden to host major sean nós dance show

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

SEAN NÓS dancing has enjoyed a revival these last few years and more people than ever are looking to learn, watch, and/or find out about this looser, freer, form of Irish dance.

Travelog to the gas station

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

IN 1968, several teams of people were sent around Madison, New Jersey, in cars, stopping at various gas stations and asking the attendants to swap the tyres around on the car.

The attendants were asked if the process could be documented on camera and audiotape. When asked about their activities the groups were allowed say what they wanted to explain their activities.

New York Polyphony to sing in St Nicholas

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

NEW YORK Polyphony - the most exciting and dynamic vocal ensemble of this generation - will perform in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Sunday November 16 at 8pm.

Trad music show for children

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

A CONCERT to get children excited about Irish trad will take place on this Sunday when leading trad fiddlers Liz Kane and Tóla Custy play St Patrick’s Band Hall.

Hunger is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

Watching grown men smear walls with faeces with their bare hands, hardly elicits thoughts of beauty, and yet, somehow you walk away from Steve McQueen’s Hunger feeling just that.

JAMES BOND returns more cynical than ever in Quantum Of Solace, the second film in the franchise to star Daniel Craig. Somewhat unusually for a Bond movie, Quantum of Solace is a direct sequel, beginning almost immediately after the events of Casino Royale.

Do you have an idea for a short film?

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

HOW MANY people have an idea for a short film? How many of them actually put pen to paper to realise their idea?

One of the most difficult steps in turning an idea into a film is writing the first lines. It is strange to think that a blank page and a pen can be such a daunting combination.

The darkest hour is before the dawn

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

JOHNNY DUHAN’S book To The Light – Johnny Duhan Unsung, is curiously indefinable and this sole fact is perhaps the essence of its charm and powerful effect.

Portrait of a young poet at Moon’s Corner

Thu, Nov 06, 2008

IN A very real sense Gerald Dawe and Salmon Poetry’ Jessie Lendennie - the publisher of Dawe’s new book Catching the Light: Views & Interviews by Gerald Dawe - were the pioneers locally who showed us that literature is born in the here and now rather than in some misty idealised past.

Sex, song, and liberated women - Sean Tyrrell on The Midnight Court

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

WHILE OUT for a walk, a poet is accosted by a giant hag and hauled before the court of Queen Aoibheal, where he is condemned for being unmarried and Irish men and priests are given the thumbs down not satisfying the sexual needs of the women of Ireland.

Last chance to see Dirty Pretty Things

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

WHEN DIRTY Pretty Things take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 7 at 8pm for the first time, it will be the last occasion they take to the stage, anywhere.

Juno And The Paycock at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

‘CAPTAIN’ JACK Boyle is a lout. He can’t be bothered working and prefers to spend his time drinking in Foley’s sung, being the ‘big man’. He’s a hero to the barflies - but what about hiss family?

The High Kings return to Co Galway

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

THE HIGH Kings, the Irish balladeer group who have taken the US by storm, are returning to Ireland for a nationwide tour which takes in both Galway city and Clifden.