Spoof spy thriller is less than the sum of its parts

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A new film from the Coen brothers is always greeted with deserved anticipation, and their latest, Burn After Reading is no exception, as evidenced by a packed cinema last Friday.

Dark kiddie toon is mature but still enjoyable for all ages

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

If Tim Burton made children’s cartoons, the end result would probably look a lot like Igor.

Junior Film Fleadh is back in November

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FILMS FROM Germany, France, South Africa, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, will be screened at the 14th Junior Film Fleadh which takes place from November 12 to 14.

Films include the celebrated cartoon Perseoplis, which charts one girl’s experience of growing up in Iran, first under the brutal dictatorship of the western backed Shah, and then under the hardline and oppressive ayatollahs.

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.

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.

‘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.

A mix of nasty synths, live electronic drums, and synchronised lips, Elektrische TV is not your average band. The lead singer is a 1980s television set: Trish the Satellite Dish which delivers cathodic performances from synced up lips. Go to www.elektrische.tv

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.

Renowned for their sense of theatrics and exuberant stage dressing, this is Kíla’s first show in Galway since the Galway Film Fleadh premier of Once Upon A Time. The concert film of the band was directed by Kíla band member Lance Hogan and produced by his wife Suzanne Doyle. It was given an open air screening in Eyre Square, which attracted more than 1,500 people.

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.

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