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A FEAST of fools, ticking clocks, apocalyptic visions, and a time warp - time is of the essence at the 20th Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17.

A NEW clubnight starts in Factory, Abbeygate Street, tomorrow. Given it is a collaboration between Bap to the Future and 110th Street, it promises to be exciting.

Galway journalist and Hotpress writer Olaf Tyaransen won Journalist of the Year at the recent 2013 Irish Magazine Awards which were held in Dublin.

Galway-based author and Hot Press journalist Olaf Tyaransen will be performing and conducting public interviews at the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally at the end of the month. The acclaimed author – described by the Sunday Independent as “demonstrably the best rock ‘n’ roll interviewer in the world”- will be reading on The Word Stage in the Mindfield area at 7pm on Friday August 30, and again on Sunday September 1.

One of the great iconic Irish acts of the last 25 years, Whipping Boy, have announced a Kilkenny gig this Christmas, as part of the group’s return to the Irish live scene.

GALWAY WRITER and journalist Olaf Tyaransen will be performing and interviewing live at Electric Picnic in Stradbally this weekend.

TODAY, TOMORROW, Saturday, and Sunday, the narrow streets of Galway city centre’s mediaeval past will come alive with mediaeval music for the 16th annual Galway Early Music Festival.

THE BRILLIANT Cathy Davey plays at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday May 8 at 8pm for what will be the first date on this full theatre nationwide tour.

The 40s+ social club has moved venue and this Valentine’s weekend the event will take place in the Newpark Hotel.

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of one master and the birth of another – Haydn, one of the most important composers of the classical period and Mendelssohn, an early Romantic.