Show Me The Funny - The Final

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

THE GRAND final of Show Me The Funny will take place this Monday at The Kings Head at 8pm.

See Foo Fighters @ the Omniplex

Thu, Mar 31, 2011

FOO FIGHTERS: Back & Forth, a major new feature length documentary on the band will be screened at the Galway Omniplex on Thursday April 7 at 8pm.

Simon Armitage - Northern star

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

HE HAS a CBE for services to poetry, an Ivor Novello Award for his songlyrics, scripted award-winning documentaries, penned plays, novels, and memoirs, and, to round it all off, has developed a recent sideline performing with a rock group.

Hamlet at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

SECOND AGE Theatre Company come to the Town Hall with a sleek new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, one of the brightest young directors in contemporary Irish theatre and a graduate of NUI, Galway.

Get ready for the Menfolk

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

FOR ROCK bands the traditional line is two guitars, bass, drums, and vocals. Denmark’s Menfolk however are not your traditional rock band.

Sunday Morning Coming Down at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

SUNDAY MORNING Coming Down, a new written and directed play by Michéal Donnellan, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio from Tuesday March 29 to Saturday April 2 at 8.30pm.

Bedbound from Toronto to Galway

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

OVER THE past few years Galway audiences have become well acquainted with the work of Enda Walsh due to his association with Druid which has yielded riveting plays like The Walworth Farce, New Electric Ballroom, and Penelope.

The Forge at Gort Festival

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

THE FORGE at Gort literary festival, featuring readings, book launches, music, and exhibitions, returns to the south County Galway town tomorrow and Saturday.

Show Me The Funny final heat

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

THE FOURTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny, the competition to find the freshest new voice in Irish comedy, takes place next Monday at 8pm in The King’s Head.

Stompin’ Dave Allen is coming to Galway

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

“HIS STYLE is mesmerising and infectious and he ought to be booked at every festival going,” so said Blues Matters about the English Americana folk/roots musician Stompin’ Dave Allen.

UK Pink Floyd Experience @ Black Box

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

“SO YA thought ya might like to go to the show?” sang Roger Waters on the opening lines of The Wall, and for Galway Pink Floyd fans the answer will be a resounding ‘Yes’.

Norman Jay to DJ at Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

NORMAN JAY, the only DJ to have received an MBE for “deejaying and services to music” returns to Galway to play Kelly’s on Friday April 1 at 11pm.

Norman Jay is an innovative and pioneering British DJ who first came to prominence playing unlicensed or ‘warehouse’ parties in the early 1980s. His diverse musical knowledge, and refusal to be restricted to playing from any single genre distinguished him from his peers.

Win copies of the novel The Dark Fields

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

LIMITLESS, THE new film starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, based on the novel The Dark Fields by Irish author Alan Glynn, is now on in cinemas.