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.

Better than average horror movie

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

MIRRORS IS a surprisingly old fashioned horror movie, with a ghost story at the heart of the gore and violence. Effectively combining carefully constructed sense of menace and a mystery story, the film manages to be thought-provoking as well as spooky.

Family fun at The Eye this weekend

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

TWO NEW family films - Igor and High School Musical 3 - are released this weekend and to celebrate The Eye cinema in Wellpark is planning some fun activities.

New video from Fake Dog Films

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

GALWAY’S FAKE Dog Films have just made a music video for ‘Distance’, a new single from the Canadian all-girl band Vancougar.

Bringing audiences into the Heart of the crime

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

The darkness is drawing in. The evenings are getting longer. Halloween is approaching. There is no better month than October to stage a story by the genius of horror writers - Edgar Allan Poe.

Three new books from Galway publisher

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE GALWAY based publisher Wordonthestreet, is getting set to launch its three latest publications - two poetry collections and a book of short stories.

NIE: Delving into Europe’s history at Baboró

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

AMONG THE many outstanding companies gathering in Galway for Baboró are the multi-national New International Encounter who are bringing a trilogy of plays inspired by the seismic upheavals of European history over the past century.

Baboró’s favourite songwriter Tom Chapin returns to the Black Box

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

GRAMMY AWARD winning artist Tom Chapin has been described as “the pied piper of children’s music”. His recordings aimed at four to 11-year-olds and their families have brought him worldwide acclaim.

The Comedy Club gets set to move to Fridays

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

THE COMEDY Club in Cuba* is a Galway institution and is synonymous with Sunday nights in the city, but nothing stays the same forever and a change is on the way as the club is about to move to a new slot on Fridays.

Paddy Courtney (Paddywhackery, Prison Break, and the little purple guy in the Lotto ads) plays the Comedy Club this Sunday at 8.30pm and has the distinction of being the last comic to play at the Sunday night slot.

Via Dolorosa returns to the Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

MUST OUR lives in the West necessarily be shallower than those of people for whom the stakes are so much higher?”

Acting classes and workshops

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

SARAH O’TOOLE, a former member of Galway Youth Theatre and a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting, will be giving acting classes for adults in Galway starting next week.

The introduction to acting classes start on October 15 and will be held on Wednesdays from 6.30pm to 9.30pm for six weeks in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill. There are 12/14 places available. Classes cost €120/100. The classes are open to all levels of ability.

Baboró gets sheepish with Schaf!

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

IN KEEPING with its enviable record for introducing children to the full gamut of the arts, Baboró this year features an opera specially written for young audiences.

Jinx Lennon returns

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

CO LOUTH agit-folk troubadour Jinx Lennon, will bring his mix of singer-songwriter, social commentator, satire, humour, and rage to the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.

On the night, Jinx will be joined on-stage by vocalist Miss Paula Flynn and they will be singing songs from Jinx’s forthcoming album.

No half measures from Halfset when it comes to the music

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

IT HAS been three years since Halfset - the Dublin band whose sound combines indie-rock, mood music, electronica, atmospheric instrumentals, and songs - released their debut album Drammanalog.

Let Damien Dempsey teach you something at Campbell’s

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

IT IS not only fans of great songwriting and Irish folk who will be looking forward to this weekend’s activities in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, but also those who aspire to write songs and sing.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting in a restaurant on the harbour front of Loggos, a village on the Greek island of Paxos. Family and friends around me

Songwriter Johnny Duhan to launch autobiography

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

SINGER-SONGWRITER Johnny Duhan, best know for his songs ‘The Voyage’ and ‘Don’t Give Up ‘Till It’s Over’, will launch his autobiography To The Light in Galway next week.

Charlie Byrne’s Literary Table Quiz

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

THE SIXTH annual Charlie Byrne’s Literary Table Quiz takes place in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill on Wednesday at 8pm.

This year’s quiz is supporting Des Kenny in the Dublin City Marathon. Des will be raising money for both Galway Simon Community and Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

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