TONIGHT
20:00: Giggleish All Sorts
Emmett O'Malley
Bob Hennigan
Edwin Sammon
€7 (€7 members) (Upstairs)

TONIGHT
21:00: Sub Rosa
Free

Last minute line up change
Neil Dougan from the Empire in Belfast can not now make tomorrow's show so our good friend John Donnellan has agreed to step in and fill his shoes.
To celebrate we will be running a €5 offer online until 6pm wednesday.

Wednesday 27th August
9pm, €12.50 (online offer €5 now because we love you!)
Laughter Lounge with...
Ben Norris (UK)
Ben has performed stand up on various TV shows including The Stand Up Show (BBC), Gas (CH4), The Comedy Store (Paramount & CH5) "The World Stands up" (Paramount)
He is also a regular performer at London's Comedy Store and all the top UK clubs.
John Donnellan -Semi-Finalist 'So you think you're funny' Edinburgh 2007. Winner: Stand up Showdown @ Galway Comedy Festival 2008.
'John Donnellan just gets funnier everytime I see him.' Evening Herald
Simon O Keeffe - resident M.C. of the Capital Comedy Club
“Fine, witty material” www.chortle.co.uk
open spot from Dawn McDonough

APPOINTMENT IN LIMBO at the Town Hall
This week, Galway based theatre company, Zelig present the premier of APPOINTMENT IN LIMBO by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast of Pluto) at the Town Hall Theatre.
"If Roddy Doyle is The Beatles of modern Irish fiction. Then the edgier and more disturbing Patrick McCabe must be its Rolling Stones." - Irvine Welsh
If you are gay, Protestant, black, male, white, a priest, straight, a paedophile, an orphan, Irish, female, a traveller, a Fenian, Nigerian, a murderer, English, a stripper, a child, a mother, a wife beater, blind or fat, you may be offended by the material in this production. If you are easily offended, DON'T come to this show! Tickets from the Town Hall Theatre Box Office. The show runs from Wednesday to Saturday before heading off for a run at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Strange Brew vs Antics at Electric Picnic
SATURDAY 30TH 11-3am in the Fossett’s Circus Tent

"Antics teams up with one of the biggest Indie Nights in Galway to offer up a wonderful combination of Dj’s who live and breathe great music and even better sessions.
Now approaching its 300th night, Strange Brew is generally considered to be pretty down right awesome!!
Held every Thursday in The Roisin Dubh, it brings you Indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations from the past, the present and the not too distant future!!

Battles to Tony Bennett to Modest Mouse to Why?,
Toots to Pixies, Hot Chip to Dan Deacon and back again. Pretty much.
Anything can happen in this friendly rivalry between Dublin and Galway!!"

Some new shows.....
Róisín Dubh is proud to announce some upcoming shows including....SHEARWATER (Sep 21), O'DEATH (Sep 26), THE BEAT (Oct 4), SHELLAC (Oct 27), TILLY & THE WALL (Oct 30th), I'M FROM BARCELONA (Dec 13) and other exciting stuff we can't tell you about yet.

Doug Stanhope confirmed for September Laughter Lounge
Doug is probably best known in Ireland for his 2006 appearance at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival where he told his lairy, late-night crowd, that Irish men sleep with children, because - as the headline to the following day's Irish Daily Star put it (misreportedly) - "Irish women are too ugly to rape! Comic booed after shocking festival jibe." The Star getting it all wrong, imagine.
Stanhope has been described as a free-thinking nihilist, a vulgar miseriblist, a self-indulgent, drunken washout and a deviant, misanthropic Charles Kuralt. His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. He's also a bit of a boozehound.
One of the greatest stand-ups alive, Stanhope, just announced one Edinburgh gig this year. It's almost worth stumping up the £7,349 to be his one-man audience for a one-off performance - a bloody-minded protest against the commercialisation of comedy. Of course you could just pay €20 to see him in Roisin Dubh on Wednesday 3rd September.

Link: YouTube Clip

Trojan Soundsystem!
Since its creation in 1968, Trojan Records has led the way in presenting the very best in classic Jamaican sounds, from the Rocksteady and early Reggae sounds that dominated in the years of its launch, up to the modern styles of Dancehall and Jungle.Formed in 2004 from London Sound System legends, to represent the label in England and throughout the World. The Sound System has already had hugely successful shows as a single entity and with the greatest names in reggae. They play Róisín Dubh on September 20th.

Link: Trojan Myspace