Over the past three years, Electric on Abbeygate Street has become one of Galway’s leading venues, playing host to an array of exciting and influential figures in techno and house music, while also being home to clubnights such as Bap To The Future.
Electric is currently undergoing a make-over and will launch its new look with a major party - The Soft Launch - this Saturday.
The venue began life when John Leo Gillen started a weekly party for 100 people in a dead space of a commercial nightclub. Since then, Electric has expanded to become a multi-purpose venue with a rooftop restaurant, a cocktail bar, and two performance spaces.
Upcoming gigs include Swedish electronic duo Genius Of Time; House producer and DJ Marquis Hawkes; and Liverpudlian techno stalwart John Heckle.
The Soft Launch will reveal how the venue’s mainroom is now a contemporary club space built from salvaged industrial materials and found objects. There will be capacity for 800 people and the mainroom will stage music gigs, DJ sets, cabaret shows, to “big room international acts”.
This and the venue’s Factory area are “committed to fostering the underground and providing a space for new ideas in music, art, film, food, and design”.
Biteclub, Electric’s rooftop restaurant will revive the “indoor-outdoor”/“all-night-long” experience and serve a “world-inspired” take on street food with influences ranging from Mexican to Middle Eastern to Mediterranean.
Glasshouse is Electric’s flagship cocktail bar. The menu is based on simple, raw, organic, and botanic ingredients, and will include such cocktails as the Pomegranate Sour, and Lychee & Lemongrass Old Fashioned.
For more information see www.electricgalway.com, Facebook, or @electricgalway on Twitter.
