Silent disco @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
THE SILENT Disco returns to the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 10.30pm with DJs Gugai and Graham Dolan going head to head.
Pick up your headphones on the way in and switch between the two DJs to see who is playing the songs you most want to dance to. If you need a break, take the headphones off and marvel at the bizarre spectacle of a room full of people dancing and singing different songs, even though no music is to be heard.
Read more ...The sound garden
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
YOU KNOW that super catchy song from the Discover Northern Ireland ads, ‘Long May You Reign?’ Well it’s part of a pretty nice collection of songs by John, Shelly and The Creatures.
Read more ...We Hate DJs @ Massimo
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
WE HATE DJs return to Massimo tomorrow from 10pm until late, with the 515 Tripod resident DJ Michael Kelly as the special guest.
We Hate DJs will performing a new set with full live drums, percussion, funky guitar riffs, and DJ XL-R8 delivering a tight mix of tech/house/breaks and leftfield style beats with the odd remixed classic thrown in for good measure.
Read more ...The Ralphs play Cuba
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Tuam indie-rockers The Ralphs (pictured) play Cuba*Live tomorrow at 11pm. The band have featured in the IMRO Showcase Tour and were nominated for the 2010 ‘most promising’ Meteor Award. Expect a debut EP later this year. Support is from 21 Outs and Wokajo. Admission is €5.
Read more ...The Salad Circus play Gigantic in Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Galway band The Salad Circus play Gigantic in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Saturday at 9pm. Admission is €5.
Read more ...Andy White will play The Crane Bar
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Belfast singer-songwriter Andy White (pictured) will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Saturday at 9pm. He is currently promoting his latest album Songwriter. For more information and tickets contact The Crane on 091 - 587419 or see www.thecranebar.com
Read more ...AVERAGE Arts Initiative holds first Galway exhibition
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
TO LET is the title of a new exhibition from the AVERAGE Arts Initiative which opens on Thursday March 4 at 7pm in 39 Atlantic House, Prospect Hill.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre events
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
AN ARTIST’S talk, a ‘make your own instrument’ event, and the last week of an exhibition are all happening today in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street.
Artist Ann Maria Healy will speak about her practice and recent projects, including her four month residency in the Galway Arts Centre, today at 2pm.
Read more ...Lunchtime theatre @ Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
LUNCHTIME THEATRE is making a return to Galway with the launch of Kelly’s Lunchtime Theatre in the Bridge Street venue on Thursday March 4 at 1pm.
Read more ...New venue for Story Night
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
GALWAY’S STORY Night is moving from The Spirit Centre, Nuns Island, to the bigger venue of Blue Teapot Theatre Company on Munster Avenue.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Beach house and pool, Lotto winning permitting.
Award winning Danish film Applause, to be screened by the Galway Film Society
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The award winning Danish film Applause (2009) will be screened by the Galway Film Society, in association with Dublin International Film Festival & Access Cinema, in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 8.15pm. It follows an actress making her stage comeback after battling addiction and her ongoing battle to regain the trust of her ex-husband and her son. Tickets are available from the Town Hall on 091 - 569777.
Read more ...Have a laugh when Tedfest comes to town
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
TEDFEST, THE annual celebration of all things Fr Ted, takes place each year on the Aran Islands, but this year some of the fun will also be happening in Galway city.
Read more ...Jarlath Regan @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
JARLATH REGAN, one of the most popular and successful new Irish comedians plays Comedy Comedy upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...A Cuban night out at the movies
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
THE BUENA Vista Social Club will be screened in the Eye Cinema on Monday at 7pm for the Access Music Project’s fund-raising Night at the Movies event.
The Buena Vista Social Club charts a group of legendary Cuban musicians, whose talents had been virtually forgotten by a world happy to impose punishing sanctions on Castro’s Cuba.
Read more ...The Irishman who saved comedy and returned home the all-conquering hero
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.
Read more ...Unlocking the Codes
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
IRISH INDIE electronic quartet Codes have been making waves on the domestic music scene ever since they first got together three years ago.
Read more ...Ken Bruen to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed and award winning Galway crime writer Ken Bruen will be reading from his work at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.
Read more ...KATS’ Hedda Gabler
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
IT’S SPRING time, and that means the KATS - the Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society - are on the prowl again! To start off a new decade, the award-winning drama group are taking something old (125 years old, in fact) and modernising it.
Read more ...The Head of Red O’Brien
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
THEATRE, MUSIC, art installation, and storytelling will combine in a new production of Mark O’Halloran’s The Head of Red O’Brien, which will be staged in Galway next month.
Red O’Brien is recovering in hospital from a near-fatal knife attack by his wife. The resulting injuries temporarily left him without any cognitive processing skills. Slowly, however, they are returning. As he makes his recovery he evaluates and analyse his life, desires, regrets, and hopes, through stories about his wife, Sean Connery, James Joyce, and the Cold War.
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