Gerry Mallon's Laughter Loft - week one

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

THE BIGGEST laughs in the smallest room? It can only be that much loved arts festival institution - Gerry Mallon's Laughter Loft at The Ruby Room in The King's Head.

Landscape, as seen by Blaise Drummond

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

CHAGRIN FALLS, an exhibition of new work by Blaise Drummond, comprised primarily of landscape paintings, is running at the Engage Art Studios gallery, Churchfields, Salthill.

Craic, jig, reels, and mackerel

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

THE RENT is unpaid. The last of the drink has been consumed. Three folk musicians are on their uppers, and they need to turn around their fortunes ahead of the mackerel season.

'The fire and the spike and the spoke'

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

FOLLOWING ITS triumphant GIAF debut in 2017 with Tristan & Yseult, Kneehigh Theatre Company return with Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs), based on John Gay’s The Beggar's Opera.

Saharan Blues - Tinariwen headline the Big Top

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

TINARIWEN, THE Grammy-winning Saharan blues band, make a welcome return to the city to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Heineken Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Tuesday July 16 at 7pm.

Exploring the Elements in Oughterard

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

ELEMENTS II, an exhibition showcasing work by Andrew Hopkins, Jackie Jefferson, Jane Williams, Norah Brennan, Judy Lawlor, and Pat Flannery, will be on display in the Oughterard Courthouse.

Metal, punk, and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

WHEN ARNOCORPS finished their ferociously entertaining show - their concerts are so much more than a gig... - singer/front-man Graf Holzfeuer bellowed out in true Schwarzenegger fashion: "We'll be baaaack!"

Two artists, one exhibition

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

THE ARTISTS Geraldine O’Rourke and Sacha Hutchinson are displaying their latest works at an exhibition in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Field Trip headline Citóg Records launch

Wed, Jul 10, 2019

SOME OF the cream of Galway's indie rock bands, singer-songwriters, and solo artists will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the launch of the fourth compilation album from Galway label Citóg Records.

European music - better than anything Brexiteers can offer

Tue, Jul 09, 2019

BREXIT PARTY MEPs showed, not only their ignorance and bad manners when turning their backs on musicians in the European Parliament, but their cultural cretinism in disrespecting 'Ode to Joy', the final movement of Beethoven's magnificent 9th Symphony.

The Legends of American Country Show at Athlone Springs Hotel

Mon, Jul 08, 2019

On the 27th of July, we are delighted to announce that we will be opening our doors to The Legends of American Country Show tribute band.

Dan Deacon - late show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

DAN DEACON is a composer whose work has been heard in Carnegie Hall. He is a legend within indie and electronic music. He is an artist. He is an entertainer. He is all these things.

Colin Geddis - Ulster's funniest for the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

COLIN GEDDIS is a huge name in comedy in Northern Ireland. His January 2020 show at the SSE Arena in Belfast is already sold out, and he has just added a second night.

Galway's Rayleen Kenny gets lead role in Wrath

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

RAYLEEN KENNY, a 13-year-old who is a second year pupil at Coláiste Éinde, will take the lead role in Wrath, a Screen Ireland and Bear Print Media short film, which premieres on Sunday July 13 at the Town Hall Theatre.

Celebrate Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

YEHUDA AMICHAI was probably Israel's greatest poet, and his poetry will be celebrated and read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in The Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum next week.

Re-examining the shooting of Michael Brown Jr

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr, an 18-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis.

Emigrant artists explore the impact of place

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

A SARDINIAN and a San Franciscan, both now living in Galway, explore the impact of home, place, and emigration in their new exhibition, Two Places At Once, which opens at the Kinvara Courthouse this evening at 8pm.

‘Where I grew up they didn’t teach soul violin, so I combined my two loves’

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE STORY is well known - but only to an extent. Before she became Joan As Policewoman, she was a member of The Dambuilders, Black Beetle, and then Antony and The Johnsons. What is less remarked on, yet perhaps more crucial to her development as an artist and musician, was her time as a classical violinist.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Yesterday - imagine if Black Mirror was upbeat and fun

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

YESTERDAY IS a kind of a positive feature length episode of Black Mirror - a pretty basic surreal concept but some pretty exciting talent behind the camera in director Danny Boyle, and writer Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill).

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