Sean Keane’s The Scattering

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE SCATTERING is Sean Keane’s musical journey along the Rhine with St Columbanus, across Australia, and onto the barricades of labour protest in the United States - told through the songs of Irish emigrants.

Ardvarna release new album The Lakeshore Town

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IRISH TRAD and folk enjoy an unprecedented worldwide popularity, but it is easy to forget where it all began in the late 1960s and 1970s and the great debt owed to an earlier generation of ballad and folk singers.

The songs and contributions of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Johnny Moynihan, Andy Irvine, and the late Joe Dolan, should be celebrated and command an important place in the repertoire of contemporary Irish folk musicians

Fionn Regan returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Fionn Regan, the Irish singer-songwriter with the colourful turn of phrase and a plethora of endearing folk-pop melodies, returns to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 21 at 8pm.

Telling Tales at City Museum

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

TELLING TALES, a free audio-visual storytelling event, featuring original stories from leading Galway writers, and musicians, takes place next week.

The event will be officially launched by the Mayor of Galway Cllr Padraig Conneely on Friday October 31 at 3pm. Dubray Books will also be giving prizes for the best children’s costumes.

Howl at the moon on Halloween night with Andrew Maxwell and friends

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

ANDREW MAXWELL is a regular face on RTÉ’s The Panel alongside Dara O’Briain, Colin Murphy, Ed Byrne, and Neil Delamare. The cheeky chap from Kilbarrack draws chuckles whether ranting about D4s and their SUVs or making sexual advances towards Grainne Seoige.

Although Maxwell has based himself in London since the mid 1990s it wasn’t until in 2005 that Channel 4 awarded him the title ‘King Of Comedy’ that things really started to take off for him.

‘Duelling Banjos’ star Eric Weissberg to play The Crane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE 1972 John Boorman-directed movie Deliverance is one probably one of the most hard-hitting on the subject of the battle between man and nature.

Steve Albini to bring Shellac to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

STEVE ALBINI must rank as one of the most significant figures in rock music over the last 30 years. Through his own bands like Big Black and in his production work he has shaped and brought to life countless important alternative music albums.

‘WAG on a Hot Tin Roof’ as Corn Exchange re-imagine Tennessee Williams’ classic

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

FRESH FROM an acclaimed run at the Dublin Theatre festival, Corn Exchange - one of Ireland’s most innovative theatre companies - come to the Town Hall next week with their bold reworking of Tennessee Williams’ 1950s’ classic, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE FIRST Galway Theatre Festival begins next week and showcases a host of local theatre companies staging eight productions, four of which are new, locally-written, plays.

Like A Virgin begins MorWax’s Town Hall triple bill

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THERE ARE many virgins in Galway. Some have just never had the opportunity while others have made a conscious decision to say no.

Jerry Dammers, Daedelus, and more @ Stress!!

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

JERRY DAMMERS, the driving force behind 2-Tone and The Specials, is coming to play Stress!! next week as is Daddy Kev, Daedelus, Milosh, and Chequerboard.

Jess Klein and Meg Hutchinson at The Crane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

JESS KLEIN and Meg Hutchinson are two American singer-songwriters who have been winning the praises of music critics these last few years and both of them play The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Thursday October 23 at 9pm.

New album and Galway show from House of Cosy Cushions

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

HOUSE OF Cosy Cushions, the Dublin based indie-band, have released their new album Animal Dream (Seadog Records) and will play the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 9pm.

Portraits gig to raise funds for Burmese school

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE PORTRAITS launch their new album upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 24 at 8pm at a show which will also raise funds for a school in Mandalay, Burma.

Elektrische TV play Instore tonight

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY BAND Elektrische TV play a free show at the Instore warehouse on Merchants’ Road tonight at 7pm.

Kíla to play The Black Box

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

The wild, weird, mind altering Irish trad and world music band Kíla have announced that they will play The Black Box on Thursday October 30 at 8.30pm.

How poetry and Irish song interact

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY ACADEMIC and musician Seán Crosson has published a new book entitled The Given Note - a major study on the relationship between poetry and Irish trad and song.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Dancing drunkenly with family, a lie-in with the one I love, debauchery sessions with friends, listening when everyone is singing with me at a gig.

Dancing drunkenly with family, a lie-in with the one I love, debauchery sessions with friends, listening when everyone is singing with me at a gig.

Madcap fun at Fool Me? in Silkes

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GOMBEENS THEATRE Troupe and Blueteapot Theatre Company present their new collaborative show Fool Me? in Silkes on Munster Avenue, next week.

Third times (sort of) a charm for Gere and Lane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

There is little denying that when a pair of silver screen superstars are asked to play each other’s lovers not twice but three times (the first two times in The Cotton Club and Unfaithful), there is definitely an on-screen chemistry that is working in their favour. Richard Gere and Diane Lane are no exception in their new film Nights in Rodanthe and somehow manage (with the help of some breathtaking cinematography) to carry an entire film on that chemistry alone.

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