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James Morrison, the BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist, comes to The Royal Theatre on Wednesday, August 22. As the title of James Morrison’s third and by far best album suggests, The Awakening is the sound of an artist coming of age. In his personal life Morrison has become a father, while losing his own father after the latter’s long battle with alcoholism and depression. At the same time, Morrison, 26, has matured as a singer, songwriter, and musician, enabling him to channel all of that emotion into his most accomplished collection of songs yet. “My first two albums felt like practice shots,” he says, “and now I’ve graduated. In many ways this feels like my first proper album.”

GALWAY WRITER Fred Johnston will launch his new collection of short stories Dancing In The Asylum next week.

MATT BERRY is best known for playing Dixon Bainbridge, the evil, megalomaniacal zoo owner in The Mighty Boosh, and the womanising Douglas Raynhom in The IT Crowd.

Anyone perusing the Galway Arts Festival schedule would have been forgiven for raising an eyebrow on encountering the group charged with bringing the comedy programme to its finale. The London Snorkelling Team have been raising eyebrows for a while now, and not just for their name. This inventive ensemble have enjoyed a growing profile in recent months, playing festivals such as Latitude as well as renowned venues like London’s Roundhouse theatre to widespread critical acclaim. Their use of instruments such as the noog, farfisa, trombone, parabolic reflector, overhead projector, drums, saxophone, cavaquinho, coconut shells, baby bass, and horse combines to create a cocktail of music that has seen The Guardian brand them “as brilliant as they are hilarious”.

Physicists tell us everything that exists can be traced to a supposed single point of infinite density, called a singularity, that exploded some 14 billion years ago, and has been expanding ever since, giving rise to both space and time, ants and elephants, galaxies and hummingbirds, and, of course, you and me.

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.

Galwegians who long to see cutting edge and avant garde cinema will be thrilled to hear that the city is about to host a festival of such films which is set to be the only festival of its kind in Ireland.

Amid all the doom and gloom of late, an evening of hilarious comedy with the one and only Jon Kenny is just what the doctor ordered! The Limerick comedian will perform at Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, on Friday December 5 at 8.30pm. Touring Ireland with his fantastic new show, Kenny’s Back to Front is a hilarious critique of contemporary Ireland, hugely inspired by small-town Ireland and its rich crop of characters. In this exhilarating performance, Kenny presents us with his side-splitting observations and characters. With an astute eye for the ridiculous in modern life, Kenny takes no prisoners and delights in emphasising the hilarity in everyday life.

The Galway based actor, writer, and musician Aindrias de Staic has won a ThreeWeeks Editors’ Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his new show The Year I Did The Leaving.