Leading jazz guitarist to play Galway

Thu, Oct 24, 2019

MIKE NIELSEN, one of Europe's finest jazz guitarists, will join forces with Galway guitar great, Aengus Hackett, for a night of six string magic at The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

Misfits tribute this weekend

Thu, Oct 24, 2019

WHERE GOMIES Dare, who describe themselves as "Galway's ugliest Misfits tribute band" play Sally Longs this Friday [October 25] at 9pm.

The Dirty Circus' Halloween Extravaganza

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

THE REIGNING Miss Burlesque Ireland winner, Bella Curve, and one of Ireland's leading comedians, Paul Currie, take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre for The Dirty Circus' Halloween Extravaganza.

Le Boom play the Róisín this weekend

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

IN THREE years, Irish electro-pop duo Le Boom have racked up 2.1 million streams for their five single releases so far; played Primavera Sound and Electric Picnic, and put on shows in New York, Reykjavik, and Bilbao.

Liam Jones' journeys through the west

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

OLD BOOTS And Other Stories may seem like an odd title for an exhibition of landscape paintings, but this is because the exhibition itself represents various journeys for the artist.

A close-up view on wildlife with Colin Stafford-Johnson

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

COLIN STAFFORD-Johnson, the Emmy award winning Irish cinematographer, whose works has been seen on the BBC's Animal Babies: First Year on Earth and RTE's Wild Ireland - Edge of the World, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Tom O'Mahony - Defending The Caveman

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

DEFENDING THE Caveman, Rob Becker’s celebrated theatre show, mixing stand-up comedy, lecture, and therapy session, is an attempt to resolve the battle of the sexes, is coming to Galway.

Dark Lies The Island - new Irish film opens at The Eye

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

DARK LIES The Island, the new Irish film scripted by acclaimed novelist Kevin Barry, and directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, who directed Perriers Bounty, and episodes of Moone Boy, opens in The Eye tomorrow.

Album review: Daithí

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 17, 2019

INTROSPECTIVE, CONFESSIONAL songwriting is not an approach readily associated with electronic music, which tends mostly towards the austere and abstract on one side, or euphoric, Balearic, hedonism on the other.

'I’ve never done anything like this before'

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

COMING TO the Black Box is Woman Undone, a profoundly moving, brave, and beautiful fusion of theatre, music and dance, which tells the early life of singer Mary Coughlan.

Judy marks major comeback for Renée Zellweger

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 17, 2019

JUDY IS based on the stage play End of the Rainbow. It is a sturdy and competent music biopic, there seems to be one of these every year and this is a one of the good ones.

Silver Jews tribute at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

IN AUGUST, David Berman, the vocalist, songwriter, and leader of the band Silver Jews, took his own life. In his memory, and to raise funds for charity, a show takes place this weekend at the Róisín Dubh.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Eye

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

A MIDSUMMER Night’s Dream, Shakespeare's magical comedy of transformation, jealousy, mischief, and mythology, recorded at London's Bridge Theatre, will be shown at The Eye this evening at 7pm.

Over The Edge Brexit special

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

A POLITICALLY charged Over The Edge reading will place on the day that may - or may not, there is the Benn Act - see Boris Johnson crash the UK out of the EU without a deal.

The Fregoli Heart Project returns

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

THE FREGOLI Heart Project, a theatre show about different forms of love, presented through movement, dance, imagery, storytelling, and voice, is being revived for a performance at NUI Galway this month.

Explore vintage medical equipment with Baboró

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

A WORKSHOP to explore vintage medical equipment, and chemicals that were used in the past, will take place tomorrow as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Johnny Cash’s grandson to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

THOMAS GABRIEL, eldest grandchild of Johnny Cash and June Carter-Cash, and a country and Americana singer-songwriter in his own right, returns to Galway this month to play Monroe's Live.

An Indian romance at the Pálás

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

RAFI IS a struggling street photographer in Mumbai. Under mounting pressure from his grandmother to get married, a chance encounter leads him to Milon, a shy stranger he convinces to pose as his fiancée.

When Faust met Frankenstein...

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

MARY SHELLY'S Frankenstein is a powerful exploration of the consequences of science without ethics and a demand for a duty of care and responsibility to the things we create.

Celebrate the Irish harp at Galway City Museum

Thu, Oct 17, 2019

THE HARP, Ireland's national instrument, will be celebrated in the Galway City Museum this Saturday from 10.30am, with exhibitions, talks, and concerts.

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