Late Night Gimp Fight
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
THE FIRST time you see the gimp being led out of his room in Pulp Fiction is a rather, ‘unforgaettable’ cinema experience, and you are likely to have another such experience quite soon.
Read more ...City West Side Story - the Musical
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
THE SPECTACULAR rise and traumatic fall of the Celtic Tiger is chronicled in a new comedy musical which will be performed as part of this year’s Galway Comedy Festival.
City West Side Story - The Musical, written by and starring Fred Cooke and Eleanor Tiernan, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre on Friday October 22 at 7pm.
Read more ...Afrikan Simba @ Cuba*Live
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
AFRIKAN SIMBA, the award winning Nigerian born, London based reggae MC, will play the next Rootical session at Cuba*Live tomorrow at 10pm.
Afrikan Simba is one of the leading MCs in London, having worked with Jah Shaka, Aba Shanti, and Channel One. He has also recorded with Jah Warrior, Zion Train, and Dub Judah.
Read more ...Jimeoin - the world through antipodean eyes
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
FOR MORE than two decades Irish actor and comedian Jimeoin has been a household name in Australia but on Thursday October 21 he returns to Ireland to play The Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...The Dubliners to play Galway in aid of An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE DUBLINERS were formed in 1962 by Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke, and Barney McKenna and initially were known as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group.
Read more ...Enjoy a double date with Rich Hall
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AN AMBASSADOR may spoil you with Ferrero Rocher but the Galway Comedy Festival is spoiling us with two shows from the legendary Rich Hall.
Hall, the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius, whom many believe is the inspiration behind The Simpson’s Moe Syzlak, will perform a solo show at the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 22 at 7.30pm, followed by a show at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday 23 at 8pm with Brendon Burns and Jason Byrne.
Read more ...Hit play Little Gem for Town Hall
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AFTER SELL-out seasons in New York, London, and Paris and a sold-out seven week run at Ireland’s National Theatre and a run at the Olympia, Gúna Nua and Civic Theatre bring the smash-hit bittersweet comedy Little Gem to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday October 18 and Tuesday 19.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival announces new script readings shortlist
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS from all corners of the country, the Galway Theatre Festival reading panel has just announced its shortlist for Stage Write, the festival’s rehearsed reading series.
Read more ...Echoa - an 'awe-inspiring' children's dance show
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AN ELECTRIFYING performance of exhilarating dance and percussion awaits Galway children when the acclaimed show Echoa comes to town.
French physical theatre company Arcosm will present Echoa at the Black Box Theatre from Monday October 11 to Wednesday 13 at 10am and 12 noon with a 7pm show on Tuesday 12 as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.
Read more ...Kri Kra Kro to bring children on amazing journeys
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
TWO FRIENDS go on a fantastic journey, through an unknown space, which starts to fill with images and sounds. This is Kri Kra Kro.
Read more ...New punk/new wave DJ night
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
LOST CHORD guitarist Eoin Reilly and local DJ Byron Yates will start a new weekly punk and new wave DJ night.
Read more ...Keep a Valentine’s date with Mogwai
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THERE IS a date you have to keep on Valentines Day 2011, a special rendezvous that you cannot afford too miss - it’s in Galway and it’s with Mogwai.
Read more ...O Emperor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
O EMPEROR have created much excitement since their emergence onto the live scene over the past 12 months, and this month should see them step up to the next level.
Read more ...Mick Flannery @ Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
MICK FLANNERY will play Kelly’s on Thursday October 14 and the show will be broadcast live on Raidió na Gaeltachta’s An Caifé Ceoil.
Read more ...The return of Beverly Martyn
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
SHE WAS a friend of Nick Drake, made two albums with her former husband, the late John Martyn, and has worked with Paul Simon - she is Beverly Martyn.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
ELAINE FEENEY, one of the most promising new voices in Irish poetry will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...New Philip Lindey exhibition in Norman Villa
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE INIMITABLE Philip Lindey unveils an exhibition of new paintings at Salthill’s Norman Villa gallery tomorrow evening.
Read more ...Latvian State Choir to celebrate Arvo Pärt in Galway
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
GALWAY CITY will celebrate the 75th birthday of the renowned Estonian classical composer Arvo Pärt with a major concert next week.
Arvo Pärt – 75th Birthday Retrospective takes place next Wednesday at 8pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church and will feature The State Choir Latvija, conducted by Fergus Sheil, performing Pärt’s finest choral music.
Read more ...BULK - a voyage into industry and capitalism
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
DURING APRIL and May, artist Niamh Heery embarked on a 24-day transatlantic voyage on a freighter ship from Buenos Aires to London.
Stopping at six different commercial ports in Latin America, Africa, and Europe, she observed with great detail the routine processes and bulk operations that define modern industry and commodity culture today.
Read more ...The Other Guys
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE OTHER Guys takes the cringy moments from cop movies, and there have been plenty, to produce a laugh-a-minute look at one section of the New York City police where the heroes are worshipped like gods by their bootlicking colleagues and where there is always one idiot, cue Will Ferrell.
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