GalwayIndependent.com Entertaiment Feed http://www.galwayindependent.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:12:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.galwayindependent.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.galwayindependent.com GalwayIndependent.com Entertaiment Feed http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18746&Itemid=89 For an up and coming songwriter, James Vincent McMorrow has already had an eventful few years in the music business. He picked up in a publishing deal with EMI in 2008, his songs 'We Don't Eat' and 'Follow You Down To The Red Oak Tree' have just been included on One Tree Hill series and as part of the children's charity Barnardos TV campaign respectively. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18747&Itemid=89 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Rating: 18 Genre: Crime/Mystery/Thriller Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sven-Bertil Taub Director: Niels Arden Oplev Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18748&Itemid=89 Wednesday 10 March Where: Central Park What: Disco Divas Ladies Time: 10.45pm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18749&Itemid=89 Galway's electronic collective Lowerstate put on their first local show for 2010 on St Patrick’s Day in Deeper where London deep house don Wbeeza will be playing live. Wbeeza's sound has been burning discerning dancefloors worldwide in the last two years thanks to a slew of quality releases. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18750&Itemid=89 Planetlove returns to the GPO for a night of electrifying sounds as Dutch DJing legend Marcel Woods spearheads the club's St Patrick's Eve celebrations on Tuesday 16 March. Woods will be joined by Ireland’s favourite dance music duo, Timmy & Tommy with support from local rising heroes Michael Doherty and Damo Kay. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18751&Itemid=89 Cuba is putting on two huge shows on St Patrick's Day this year as they bring The Beastie Boys DJ, Mix Master Mike to The Warwick and the electronic madness of The Bloody Beetroots to Cuba. After winning three DMC World Titles in a row in 1992, '93 and '94 with Q-Bert as 'The Dream Team' friends and fellow turntablists D-Styles, Triple Threat, Apollo and Shortkut joined Mike and Q-Bert to form the turntablist supergroup Invisible Skratch Picklz and soon after this the Beastie Boys asked Mike to become their resident DJ. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18752&Itemid=89 After last month’s sold out Classics party, Disconauts return to take the controls at Deeper this Saturday, 13 March, bringing their trademark deep, soulful house and dubby, sleazy disco vibes to Deeper. Doors 11pm til late, dancing tax €10 and there are half-price concessions available from The Cellar and other clued in Galway establishments. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18753&Itemid=89 Grouchy, deadpan, comic genius Rich Hall plays the second of two shows in the Laughter Lounge in Roisin Dubh tonight, Wednesday 10 March. A master of absurdist irony, Edinburgh fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner Hall plays to full houses at clubs and festivals all over the world such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and, as his musical alter-ego Otis Lee Crenshaw. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18754&Itemid=89 The Laughter Lounge takes a break from its weekly Wednesday comedy sessions for St Patrick's Day, but comes back with a bang on Wednesday 24 March with a show from the 2002 Time Out Comedy Award winner Mike Wilmot. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18755&Itemid=89 Popular Galway 1996 Olympian Francie 'Southpaw' Barrett will make his first appearance on stage in 'Stags N Hens' by Willy Russell (Shirley Valentine), which will be staged at the Black Box Theatre from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 March. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18756&Itemid=89 Local theatre group TrueWest opened their adaptation of 'The Head of Red O'Brien' (the first play scripted by 'Garage' and 'Adam and Paul' writer Mark O'Halloran) in the Nuns Island Theatre last night and it runs nightly until Sunday 14 March. The tragic-comedy sees Red O'Brien reflect on the disintegration of his relationship with his wife Mary, while he recovers following a near-fatal knife attack on him by Mary. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18757&Itemid=89 Leigh Arnold, Claire Tully, Alan Shortt and Alan Devine star in a play of firsts that comes to the Town Hall Theatre later this month. My First Time features the four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18758&Itemid=89 Acorn's Theatre Company brings Martin McDonagh's uniquely funny play 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to Hayden's Hotel, Ballinasloe later this month. This dark comedy, which is not without some powerful moments of pathos, is sure to entertain, containing as it does elements of farce, amazingly eccentric characters, witty banter, bitingly sharp dialogue and varying degrees of political incorrectness. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18759&Itemid=89 New York's Fun Lovin' Criminals have just released their new single and album 'Classic Fantastic' and the boys have announced two intimate Irish dates on Easter Saturday 3 April at The Palace Navan, Co. Meath and Easter Sunday 4 April at The Academy Dublin. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18760&Itemid=89 The third Forge At Gort takes place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 March and a preliminary line-up of events has just been announced. Some of the events featured at this year's festival will include: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18761&Itemid=89 MUSIC: Joanna Newsom – 'Have One On Me' - (Drag City) The long awaited follow up to Ys is an 18 song three CD box set but don't let that put you off. Newsom's harp and her Kate Bush-esque falsetto still sparkle and, as you dive into the record at any given point, there's a welcoming warmth to the songs. The seductive sound of someone a little bit older and wiser. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18762&Itemid=89 Community, social and voluntary groups from around Galway are being invited to take part in a project that will allow them make their own documentary. ID Projects, now in its eleventh year, is funded by the Arts Council with Galway City and County Councils. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18763&Itemid=89 This Sunday 14 March sees the launch of The Sunday Club at Aras na Gael on Dominick Street. The Sunday Club will run weekly and is a fundraiser for the Cycle to Africa at the end of May in aid of Galway Hospice for whom the organisers are hoping to raise over €40,000. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18764&Itemid=89 A special St Patrick's Eve celebration is to take place at Claire's Tea Rooms in Clarinbridge next Tuesday. The event is being held to fundraise for a volunteering initiative with Open Arms Malawi, being undertaken by Ailbhe Timmons of Kinvara, and promises good food and great music from TG4 Musician of the Year 2009 Charlie Harris and friends. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18765&Itemid=89 Moonfish Theatre will present the Irish premiere of Brewers Fayre, by well-known Scottish playwright David Grieg, at Kelly's Lunchtime Theatre this week. In an unusual twist, the entire audience is invited to play one of the roles in this sensitive and topical play 'full of questioning and tenderness about our sometimes desperate strategies for making life worth living'. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18766&Itemid=89 The internationally renowned medium and psychic Margaret Hurdman comes to the Town Hall Theatre for one evening on Thursday 25 March. Margaret has written two books, 'Margaret the Person' and 'A Little More Time', and appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18767&Itemid=89 Visual artist, Aideen Barry will be tutoring a six evening animation course at Galway Film Centre this month, commencing Tuesday 23 March. The course, aimed at beginners and those with a little knowledge, will show participants how to make their own short animation films using every sort of material including photgraphs, video, drawings and clay. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18768&Itemid=89 Over The Edge presents readings by Orla Higgins, Cahal Dallat, Moya Roddy and Kate Dempsey at Sheridan's Wine Bar on Friday 12 March at 8pm. Having recently graduated with an MA in Writing from NUIG, Orla Higgins won the Over the Edge New Fiction Writer Competition in 2009 for Thin Blue Line and was a featured reader at the Over The Edge Emerging Writers Showcase at the 2009 Cuirt International Festival of Literature. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18769&Itemid=89 Wednesday 10 March Where: Fibber Magees What: Resident DJ Time: 9.30pm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18770&Itemid=89 Though line-up changes have inevitablty occurred over the years, The Fureys & Davey Arthur celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2008 and George, Eddie, Davey Arthur and co continue to delight audiences. The oldest of the brothers, Eddie Furey left home in 1966 and travelled to Scotland at the time of the great folk revival where he met and shared accommodation in Edinburgh with then unknown folk singers Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty and Alex Campbell, now all famous in their own right. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18771&Itemid=89 British singer-songwriter Tom McRae has just released his fifth album 'Alphabet of Hurricanes' and, as part of his Irish tour, he calls into the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night Thursday 11 March. 'Alphabet of Hurricanes' is McRae's first album for Cooking Vinyl and his most ambitious album to date. It was written over a two-year period during which he toured extensively across Europe, North America and the Far East. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18772&Itemid=89 From 'Dancing Queen' to 'Waterloo', ABBA is still one of the most popular groups in the world today, their record-breaking songs continuing to thrill generations. Abbamania, widely regarded as the UK's Top ABBA Tribute Band, will show the enduring popularity of the ABBA legacy when they play the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday 24 March. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18773&Itemid=89 With their high-energy live performance creating waves around the country, Midlands four-piece Adamslocker bring their live show to Monroe's Live this Friday, 12 March. Brothers Paul, Des and Simon Sheerin and front man Joe Rabbette will bring their crowd-pleasing mix of classic rock with past and current chart toppers to Galway's newest live venue. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18774&Itemid=89 The winsome poet laureate of Irish music plays the Roisin Dubh on Friday 12 March. Fionn Regan recently released his second album The Shadow Of An Empire, a more bluesy, electric trip from his debut album, the Mercury Prize and Choice Music Prize nominated 'The End of History'. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18775&Itemid=89 Acclaimed Irish guitarist Declan Sinnott plays The Crane Bar with his band Small Town Talk tonight, Wednesday 10 March. Joining Declan are a band of seasoned and experienced musicians including singer-songwriter Hank Wedel, drummer Martin Leahy and bassist Eleanor Healy. Sinnott is well known throughout Ireland and beyond, having worked since the '70s with Christy Moore, Mary Black and Moving Hearts. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18776&Itemid=89 Since the release of their debut EP 'Blackboots & Blackhearts' in 2008, the Dublin trio Sweet Jane have been one of Ireland's most talked about new bands. They've toured the UK and Ireland with Glasvegas, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Kills and White Lies and, over the last 18 months, have been an integral part of Alan McGee and BP Fallon's infamous Rock & Roll circus DEATH DISCO in London and Dublin. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18777&Itemid=89 Gilbert O'Sullivan's Galway show on Monday 15 March in the Radisson Blu Hotel has been moved to the Town Hall Theatre. Promising a hugely entertaining night for Gilbert fans old and new, the Waterford born superstar will be performing all of his massive worldwide hits such as 'Claire Get Down' and 'Nothing Rhymed' and he'll also be treating fans to a little taste of his new album 'Mum's The Word'. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18778&Itemid=89 Coirmcheoil Phádraig, the traditional St Patrick’s Day concert of music and song of the nation produced by An Taibhdhearc in association with Tom Cullivan, will be held in St Patrick's Band Hall, Fairgreen, next Sunday 14 March at 8pm. Singers Hildegarde Naughton, Sandra Schalks and Seosamh O Flaithearta, violinist Éamonn Rabbitte and pianists Elena Gekker and Tom Cullivan will give the concert. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18575&Itemid=89 The Head of Red O'Brien was the first play scripted by Garage and Adam and Paul writer Mark O'Halloran, and local theatre group TrueWest gives the play its debut outside of Dublin when they take it to the stage of the Nuns Island Theatre from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 March. This tragic comedy sees Red O'Brien reflect on the disintegration of his relationship with his wife. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18576&Itemid=89 Grouchy, deadpan, comic genius Rich Hall plays two shows in the Laughter Lounge in Roisin Dubh next week on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 March. Edinburgh Fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner Hall left his job as a hurricane namer for the United States Meteorological Service two decades ago and hasn't looked back. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18577&Itemid=89 The fourth annual Tedfest is well underway and tonight, Wednesday 3 March, at the Laughter Lounge sees a special Fr Ted standup show followed, in true Father Ted style, by a Lovely Girls Competition. There's a welcome Galway return for two of Father Ted's favourite characters in standup mode when Patrick McDonnell (sickly sweet television presenter and pop singer Eoin McLove) and Joe Rooney (Fr Damo) take to the stage. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18578&Itemid=89 Local purveyors of punk and rock UsVsThem are bringing Belfast punk'n'roll three-piece The Dangerfields back to Galway to mark the ten-year anniversary of their first performance in the city. The band will perform at Sally Longs tonight, Wednesday 3 March. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18579&Itemid=89 Wednesday 3 March Where: Fibber Magees What: Resident DJ Time: 9.30pm Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18580&Itemid=89 Their last Galway show a year ago was a sell-out and Smokie, one of the most travelled bands in the world, make their long-awaited return to Galway for one night only when they appear in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday 16 March. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18581&Itemid=89 Loughrea man Ultan Conlon released his highly anticipated debut album Bless Your Heart to much acclaim at the end of 2009 and the genial Galwegian plays Roisin Dubh this Friday 5 March, where he'll be joined by James Vincent McMorrow. Conlon put in years of hard graft honing his craft and touring the country with the likes of John Martyn, Lisa Hannigan, Mark Geary, Roesy and David Kitt and all the hard work has obviously paid off. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18582&Itemid=89 Following their storming end-of-night set at the Haiti fundraiser in Monroes Live a few weeks ago, The Timbertramps return to the new Dominick Street venue for another night of revelry on their monthly residency this Friday 5 March. Doors 11pm and tickets €10. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18583&Itemid=89 The wonderful Richmond Fontaine return to Galway for an acoustic show upstairs in the Roisin Dubh on Wednesday 10 March. The band released their eighth album We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded like a River last year and the new album delivers Willy Vlautin's classic storytelling, backed by Fontaine's most interesting and accomplished musical performance to date. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18584&Itemid=89 Widely regarded among his peers as one of Ireland's most promising young songwriters, Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to Galway this week when he plays a show upstairs in The Crane Bar on Friday 5 March. Based in New York and with three highly regarded albums under his belt, Connolly released his fourth album Be There I Have To Swim Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18585&Itemid=89 Brian Rooney, one of the most well known faces on the traditional music circuit in London, plays a rare gig in the Crane Bar on Sunday 7 March, where he'll be joined by John Carty and Brian McGrath. Having lived in London for the past 40 years, Rooney astounded the wider traditional community in 1999 with the release of his debut album The Godfather and he was finally recognised as one of the master fiddlers of his generation. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18586&Itemid=89 Northern Irish three-piece Two Door Cinema Club are one of the most talked-about acts at the moment and the Bangor electro pop band play Strange Brew at Roisin Dubh tomorrow, Thursday 4 March. Their music has been loosely compared to the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and Broken Social Scene and the trio's melodic vocals, pulsing rhythms and soaring guitars have been causing major waves of late. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18587&Itemid=89 One of Ireland's finest live performers, the inimitable Jinx Lennon, brings his incendiary brand of punk-folk to the Róisín Dubh this Friday 5 March. Jinx Lennon is a punk/poet/performance artist, whose repertoire contains elements of spoken word, electro, and noise. It is storytelling delivered with a rage and rawness that is beautifully complimented by Jinx's stage partner Miss Paula Flynn's tender vocals. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18588&Itemid=89 MUSIC: Strange Boys - Be Strange - (Rough Trade) Taking off from where last year's excellent debut Strange Boys And Girls Club left off, the Strange Boys have crafted a sophomore album that is an altogether boozier, bluesier affair and is all the better for it. Estranged yet soulful garage pop rock that smacks of the 60s but sounds just right for the here and now. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18589&Itemid=89 Featuring internationally renowned performers and some of the finest talent this country has to offer, Arts in Action and NUI Galway presents a night of traditional arts in the new Bailey Allen Hall on Thursday 25 March. The audience can expect performances from artists based in the West of Ireland including Frankie Gavin, Mairtin O'Connor, Roisin Elsafty, Lillis O'Laoire, Louis de Paor, Ronan Browne, Seosamh O Neachtain, Garry O'Briain and Mary McPartlan, who will treat the audience to an evening of music, sean nos dancing and Irish language poetry. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18590&Itemid=89 The Regina Rogers School of Ballet presents a Gala Concert Programme in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday 21 March. This colourful and entertaining programme will feature both junior and senior dancers, three of whom are members of the Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18591&Itemid=89 Two Galway bands Go Panda Go and The Coonics are among the four bands (along with Sanskrit and Tupelo) announced for the Galway leg of The JD Set, Ireland's longest running unsigned band competition, which takes place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday 26 March The winning band will go on to compete in The JD Set final in The Village on Thursday 29 April. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18592&Itemid=89 Robert C Kelly and Michael Harrison bring the Michael Scott production of My First Time to the Town Hall Theatre from Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 March. Starring Leigh Arnold, Claire Tully and Alan Shortt, the show features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18593&Itemid=89 Promising a little something for everyone to enjoy, the first ever theatre festival kicked off this week in NUI Galway and runs until Friday 5 March. Organisers of the festival are very excited about the prospect of the first theatre festival on campus and Riona Hughes, Societies Officer and Festival Director, said it has been created to showcase the great talents associated with the college. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18594&Itemid=89 A solo exhibition of new work in video, photography and sculptural installation by Galway artist Louise Manifold entitled Unnatural Esoteric will be launched by Galway Arts Centre this Friday 5 March at 6pm in 47 Dominick Street. All of Manifold’s work has the theme of disconnection and distance from the world of which one is living in, while encouraging a creation of an individual reality. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18595&Itemid=89 Following last year's hugely successful production of Calamity Jane, which scooped two nominations at the AIMS Awards, the Patrician Musical Society's take on one of Gilbert and Sullivan's finest pieces, The Mikado, in the Town Hall Theatre from Tuesday 9 to Saturday 13 of March Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18596&Itemid=89 Celebrating 70 years in 2010, Kenny's Art Gallery have a new exhibition by popular English artist Barry Herniman opening next Saturday 6 March at 2pm. The exhibition features paintings based on Herniman's sketches of his travels around Ireland. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18597&Itemid=89 Alice in Wonderland in 3D Rating: PG Genre: Adventure/Family/Fantasy Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18598&Itemid=89 Talented DJ/producer Kormac plays Bar 903 this Friday night, 5 March, bringing his trademark beat-tastic DJ set, with live visuals by his erstwhile assistant Q the Visual Monkey. Kormac's scratched-up, genre-bending dancefloor sets have seen him share turntables with everyone from Coldcut to Grandmaster Flash and many more and he features regularly on Ninja Tune's Solid Steel radio show. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18599&Itemid=89 Wednesday 3 March Where: Central Park What: Disco Divas Ladies Time: 10.45pm Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18600&Itemid=89 A night of quality tunes for a very good cause is promised this Friday 5 March in Kelly's with DJ's Ronan, Damien G and special guests playing across the board party selections of funk, soul, house, disco and more. All proceeds go directly to Haven Build It Week, with whom event organiser Oonagh will travel to Haiti to help build homes and community facilities. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18601&Itemid=89 Galway's own dadhouse deviants The Disconauts host a special late night party and their first live show of 2010 in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday 6 March. The night will feature deckmonkeys Keith and Padraic on the ones and twos, live Latin percussion from Mark Logan and the sublime trumpet of Ben Edwards. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18431&Itemid=89 Comedy wasn't the first thing on young David O'Doherty's mind as he grew up. His dad Jim is a famous jazz pianist and a young jazz obsessed David harboured dreams of a similar path. "With my dad rehearsing all the time in the house and big bands marching up and down the stairs, it was only natural. But you can't learn jazz, either you have it or you don't." Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18432&Itemid=89 The fourth annual Tedfest comes Galway, as well as the Aran Islands, in March, with Dominick Street the place to see The Toilet Duck awards show, a Fr Ted Table Quiz and a night of stand up comedy from some of stars of the Fr Ted series. On Monday 1 March at 8pm Massimo presents TedFest table quiz. It's €30 for a table of four and first prize is four weekend passes to Tedfest 4. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18433&Itemid=89 Their debut Comedy Comedy in January was a sellout and the new monthly comedy showcase residents John Donnellan and Danny Dowling return to the upstairs bar in Roisin Dubh for round two this Saturday, 27 February with special guest Jarlath Regan. The fastest rising star of Irish comedy, Regan was hailed by BBC4 as possessing 'great one line gags, real style, real presence and impeccable timing'. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18434&Itemid=89 Having initially worked as a child actor in various TV dramas before pursuing a career in stand up comedy, Jack Whitehall has now been hailed as a 'sickeningly young wunderkind' by Time Out magazine. The twenty-one year old was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, co-wrote and hosted TNT Show on Channel 4, hosted Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth for its three week run live on E4 and has appeared on Would I Lie to You? and Mock the Week. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18435&Itemid=89 Wednesday 24 February Where: Fibber Magees What: Resident DJ Time: 9.30pm Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18436&Itemid=89 Much-hyped Irish band Codes drop into Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night, Thursday 28 February, where they'll be joined by very special guests Delays. Codes recorded their debut album 'Trees Dream In Algebra' in Gloucestershire with Manic Street Preachers and Super Furry Animals producer Greg Haver. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18437&Itemid=89 The west coast's finest exponents of the raw and real Americana feel, The Cartoon Thieves play in Galway's newest live venue Monroe’s Live this Friday 26 February. Mixing original songs with fresh interpretations of old gems, The Cartoon Thieves' live show is a rumbling, riotous experience where dirty swamp blues, soulful a capella numbers, bittersweet melodies and straight up rock 'n' roll are all fused together with a junkyard spook. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18438&Itemid=89 BeoFest, a massive charity event to raise much-needed funds for Cancer Care West, takes place this weekend, Friday 26 to Sunday 28 February, in Carraroe. Over the course of the three days there will be top class entertainment in a specially erected marquee in the heart of the village. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18439&Itemid=89 One of the most talked about artists of 2010 drops into the Roisin Dubh for an intimate show upstairs on Saturday 27 February. Manchester based Californian Jesca Hoop has been tipped by a diverse range of publications from Uncut ('excellent'), Time Out ('bewitching'), Sunday Times ('startlingly original… one of alternative folk-pop's most arresting recent arrivals'), OMM (Tips for 2009) and The Sun ('Single of the Week' for 'Murder of Birds'). Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18440&Itemid=89 Gigantic continue their run of live bands before their Saturday club night this weekend, when they welcome local band The Salad Circus to Kelly's on Saturday 27 February. As The Salad Circus themselves say, they have been "knocking around your back garden for several months now preparing to harass an unsuspecting world with songs of love and demotion." They like songs, but they don't like people. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18441&Itemid=89 Belfast singer-songwriter Andy White follows up the release of his latest album 'Songwriter' and the publication of his 21st Century Troubadour book with a short Irish tour White calls into The Crane Bar on Saturday 27 February for an evening of songs and words, where he'll be joined by special guests, including Rod McVey, Glenn Patterson and his sisters, actresses Ali and Cathy White. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18442&Itemid=89 With a multi ethnic catalogue of music that somehow mashes pure pop to the underground, Finley Quaye rose to prominence in 1997 when he reached the UK Top 20 twice with 'Sunday Shining', and 'Even After All'. Fine albums such as Maverick A Strike, Vanguard (2000), Much More Than Much Love (2004) and 2009's 'The Best Of The Epic Years' have kept him at the top of his game and 2010 is another busy year for Quaye. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18443&Itemid=89 Madrid-based Garrett Wall Band play Mullarkeys in Clifden on Saturday. Garrett Wall Band released their first album, Sky Pointing, in 2007, recorded live over three days and mixed in Nashville by David Ferguson, known for his work with Rick Rubin on the American Recordings of Johnny Cash. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18444&Itemid=89 The official launch party of Kelly's Bar and Venue on Bridge Street Galway takes place on Friday 26 February from 9pm. To celebrate, Kelly's have lined up music on two floors from two bands and four DJs and lots of giveaways. Entry is free and early arrivals will get a complimentary drink. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18445&Itemid=89 It's electronic punk madness ahoy at Cuba on St Patrick's Day when much hyped Bloody Beetroots make their Galway debut. Making music that combines samples and electronics with eighties punk and new wave, The Bloody Beetroots (producer and DJ Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo and Tommy Tea) officially began in December 2006 and in the space of a few weeks became one of the most discussed and downloaded phenomenon on blogs around the world. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18446&Itemid=89 Josh Ritter releases his new album, 'So Runs The World Away' in April on Independent Records and as part of the coinciding nationwide tour he'll play The Live Lounge at The Radisson Hotel on Saturday 24 April. It's the fifth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18447&Itemid=89 Known as 'the man of 1000 voices', RTE Nob Nation star Oliver Callan brings his hilarious live show to Co. Galway with shows in the Shannon Oaks Hotel Portumna on Friday 12 March and The Ard Ri House Hotel, Tuam on Saturday 13 March. Slaying audiences nationwide with his flawless vocal renditions and comical facial antics, Callan has sharpened his pen and his voice and scenes of failing banks, falling stock markets, flailing politicians and famous sports stars will come to life on stage in an 80-minute feast of comedy. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18448&Itemid=89 MUSIC: Thomas Hammann & Gerd Janson – 'Live at Robert Johnson' - (Live at Robert Johnson) The fourth in a series of mix CDs from Frankfurt's finest and one of Europe's most influential clubs. Don't let the fact that you may not have heard of these DJs put you off. With a tracklisting containing cuts and remixes from Soundstream, Chez Damier, Radio Slave and DNTEL, this is non-stop house goodness - old and new - all the way. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18449&Itemid=89 Kelly's Lunchtime Theatre will be launched on Thursday 4 March at 1pm upstairs in Kelly's Bar on Bridge Street. In a welcome return for lunchtime theatre this spring, a host of Galway theatre companies and performers will be showing new and exciting work. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18450&Itemid=89 The Patrician Musical Society's 2010 production sees them take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan's finest pieces, 'The Mikado', in the Town Hall Theatre from Tuesday 9 to Saturday 13 of March. Set in the town of Titipu in Japan, this show is a take-off of English society perfectly, with lovable characters such as Koko (The Lord High Executioner) and Katisha (A spurned woman with her eyes set on a young lover). Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100