Only Fumes & Corpses to release new EP

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

GALWAY HARDCORE/punk band Only Fumes & Corpses will launch their new EP Selfish Act I with a gig in the Róisín Dubh tonight from 8.30pm.

Darren Emerson to DJ @ Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

FORMER UNDERWORLD member and now solo DJ Darren Emerson will DJ at the MUSIK clubnight in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday.

The Atlantic Pirates charity gig @ Town Hall

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

THE ATLANTIC Pirates, the folk group which entertains the public every day on Shop Street with their renditions of Irish folk songs play a charity gig this Easter Weekend.

Win Sensation DVDs

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

SENSATION, THE Irish comedy film about a young farmer and a call girl who move from clients to business partners to lovers is out on DVD tomorrow.

Fox Force Five - the exhibition

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

IN PULP Fiction’s diner scene, Uma Thurman’s character Mia Wallace tells hitman Vincent Vega (John Travolta) about a TV pilot episode she starred in called Fox Force Five.

Physical stuff made strange

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

PRINTED PROJECT 15: Physical Stuff Made Strange a new exhibition, curated by Vivienne Dick, is currently running in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street.

A history of electronic music

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

THE TERM electronic music conjures up the names Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and images of batteries of keyboards and computers.

Galway writers long-listed for award

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

THREE GALWAY writers - Jim Mullarkey, Orfhlaith Foyle, and Fred Johnston - have been long-listed for the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2012.

Laoise Kelly and Michelle O’Brien @ The Crane

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

MAYO HARPIST Laoise Kelly and Clare fiddler Michelle O’Brien will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Saturday at 6.30pm.

The pair often collaborate together and in 2010 released the album The Wishing Well. Their skill as musicians has drawn praise from the critics with Irish Music Magazine calling Kelly “an exuberant and innovative talent [who] catches the spirit of the modern Irish music movement a way that few harpers have done to date”.

Elaine Mai - one woman a multitude of sounds

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

IT STARTS off with just one woman and her guitar, on stage singing her song, but as the music progresses it sounds as if more and more musicians and backing vocalists are behind her. By the end the ears believe she is accompanied by a full band and choir, but it is still just one person on stage.

Irish roots, Emily Dickinson, and being poet laureate

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

THE NEW York Times described him as “the most popular poet in America”, and Billy Collins certainly enjoys the kind of following that many a writer would envy.

Franz Ferdinand to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

GALWAY AUDIENCES are in for a real treat in May when the great Franz Ferdinand play an intimate show at the Róisín Dubh.

Andrew Flynn at the double in Cúirt

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

THEATRE DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn is in for a busy few weeks in the lead up to Cúirt as he is directing two plays in the festival.

Gift Grub Live 2 is coming

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

GIFT GRUB Live 2 starring Mario Rosenstock as a host of Irish political, media, sporting, and celebrity characters is coming to the Radisson Blu Hotel on Sunday April 22

The Nualas: One Night of Dignity

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

GOOD FRIDAY was once a day of severe solemnity but over the last few years it has become a day of laughter and merriment in Galway and that tradition is set to continue this year.