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Palm D’Or winning Turkish film to be screened next week
WINTER SLEEP, the Turkish film The Guardian described as a “compelling drama” and a “powerful meditation on guilt”, will be shown in Galway this weekend.
Damien Rice to play Galway Arts Festival Big Top
DAMIEN RICE will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top on Thursday July 16. The concert, which will take place in the Fisheries Field, will be the singer-songwriter’s arts festival debut.
Kevin Bridges - two Galway shows in July
KEVIN BRIDGES, the Scottish comedian described by fellow Scot Billy Connolly as “brilliant”, by The Guardian as a “comedy prodigy”, and by the Daily Mirror as “a MUST-SEE act” is coming to Galway next year to play two shows.
Sleaford Mods - the uncompromising voice of urban Britain
FOUL MOUTHED duo channelling the spirit of John Cooper Clark and Mark E Smith, making ‘state of the nation’ addresses, articulating their disgust with the state of modern Britain? This is Sleaford Mods.
Anthemic Raglans set for Strange Brew
THERE MAY be no exact consensus on how to categorise Raglans’ sound, but there is unanimous agreement that it is irresistible and that on-stage the band are phenomenal.
Leonard Elschenbroich - charisma and perfection
A PERFORMER of “tremendous assurance and power” whose playing has “depth, expressivity, charisma and perfection” will play Galway next week.
Marion Cotillard on-screen at Galway Film Society
MARION COTILLARD, one of France’s best known actresses, stars in the Belgian film, Two Days One Night, which is to be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday November 30 at 8pm.
Keith James performs the songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen’s recent world tour of stadium venues has been successful beyond belief, but has not, with regret, exposed the solitary inner strength of the songs in their original form. And that is what Keith James aims to do as he delivers each song stripped back - desolate and naked in an intimate and sensitive way.
David Baddiel - ‘I’m very unreligious, but it doesn’t stop me being Jewish’
David Baddiel has been one of the major names in British comedy over the past near quarter of a century, even if, for most of that time he has been a writer rather than a stand-up, but his new show Fame, Not The Musical, is finally bring him face-to-face with audiences again.
Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life
THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.