Create bars at Electric Picnic

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

HEINEKEN IS calling on music fans to create their own Electric Picnic ‘memory’ bar at this year’s festival.

Fight blindness @ Carbon

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE CARBON night-club will host a blind date night in aid of Fighting Blindness Ireland on Friday August 24.

Little Cinema to screen new films

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE LITTLE Cinema club will screen three, new, short films by Galway film makers in Kelly’s Bar, on Tuesday August 21.

This month’s event will be a little different from the club’s normal nights where films under 10 minutes in length are shown. The three films to be screened will be longer than 10 minutes and are: The Body, directed by Darren Hinchy; Impetuous by Dave Thorpe; and Unheard by Carla Maria Tighe.

Autumn/winter at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

FOLK, INDIE, pop-punk, prog-rock, singer-songwriter, and electro acts ranging from The Cast Of Cheers to Pierre Bensusan, will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming months.

Duke Special to play Inishbofin

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

COUNTY ANTRIM singer-songwriter Duke Special will be heading west to play the Dolphin Hotel on Inishbofin, this Tuesday.

Noel Gallagher’s brother @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

PAUL GALLAGHER, who has recently completed a DJ tour with his brother Noel Gallagher and his band ‘High Flying Birds’, is coming to Galway.

Them Martyrs release new EP

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

GALWAY HARDCORE band Them Martyrs will launch their new EP Wretched, with a gig in Sally Longs tomorrow night.

The Four of Us @ HALO

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

LONG RUNNING County Down band The Four Of Us return to Galway to play Upstairs @ HALO tomorrow at 11pm.

Hijackers @ Carbon

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

HIJACKERS - duo Richie Burke and Sean Hayden - best known for the singles ‘Stronger’, ‘Lose Your Mind’, ‘Sparks’, and ‘Piece Of Me’, play Carbon, Eglinton Street, tonight.

Hijackers’ debut album Negotiations spawned several hits and enjoyed rotation on radio and in the clubs, as well as topping the iTunes dance chart in Ireland. The duo’s music combines big room house and electro anthems.

Tuam Arts Festival takes place this weekend

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Cregg Castle artists’ exhibition

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A GROUP exhibition by the resident artists of Cregg Castle Arts Venue opens in the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 6pm.

A concert fit for a king

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

CEOL DON Rí/Music Fit For A King is the title of a concert which takes place this evening at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.

Paintings of Irish life in Britain

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE EXPERIENCES of Irish people in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s haunts the Irish imagination, whether in songs, the plays of Tom Murphy, or in films such as Kings.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

Day long animation workshop

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A DAY long animation workshop, entitled Animation For A Change, will be hosted by the Galway One World Centre on Friday August 31.

Bernard O’Shea @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

BERNARD O’SHEA delivers “left-field imaginative, but not up its arse, lovely comedy” according to Hotpress, and it is what audiences can expect at his Róisín Dubh show next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

Aras Éanna Europe’s most westerly arts centre

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

THE SUMMER months will, as ever, see a steady stream of visitors venturing from the mainland to the Aran Islands to enjoy the spectacular scenery, the flora and fauna, and sample the distinctive character of island life.

On Inis Óirr there is the added attraction of Aras Éanna, which can claim the dual distinction of being the only arts centre on any of our offshore islands and Europe’s most westerly arts and heritage centre.

The cream of Irish indie for Popical Island Invasion

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

POPICAL ISLAND, the exciting Irish indie label, will showcase some of its very best bands with a major night in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 16 from 8pm.

Amazing Apples to play Electric Picnic

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

ROOTS ROCK/folk-pop band The Amazing Apples will be playing the Electric Picnic festival in County Laois on September 2.

Ava Vidal - rising comedy star to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

AVA VIDAL’S route to comedy was the least predictable and most unexpected of her peers, but it has made for a thoughtful, intelligent, and often savagely funny take on contemporary life.

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