Club GASS Eurovision night
Thu, May 16, 2019
IT'S EUROVISION weekend, the world's campiest, cheesiest, most ridiculous song contest - which is why we love it! So if you're a Eurovision fan Club GASS, Galway's LGBT+ clubnight is the place to be.
Read more ...Charlize Theron and Seth Rogan shine in Long Shot
Films Reviews Thu, May 16, 2019
SETH ROGAN is Fred Flarsky, a left-wing investigative journalist for a news website akin to The Daily Beast or buzzfeed. When it is bought by a Rupert Murdoch-like news mogul named Parker Wembley he quits.
Read more ...Album review: The National
Music Reviews Thu, May 16, 2019
THERE IS something familiar, and yet altogether different, about The National's eighth studio album. This is due partly to it being a film soundtrack, but mostly it is the presence of numerous female voices within this normally masculine environment.
Read more ...Galway International Arts Festival 2019
Wed, May 15, 2019
Rock legend Robert Plant; songwriting legend Burt Bacharach; five world premiers and two Irish and two European premieres for theatre; an on street silent disco/flash mob, and major public discussions on Brexit and climate change - this is the Galway International Arts Festival 2019.
Read more ...Album review: Jobcentre Rejects
Music Reviews Thu, May 09, 2019
WHEN IRON Maiden released their self-titled debut album in 1980, it did something no one thought possible - it fused the still evolving metal genre with styles the previous three years declared sworn enemies - punk/post-punk with prog-rock.
Read more ...Galway Early Music Festival 2019
Thu, May 09, 2019
SHARON CARTY, one of Ireland's leading opera singers, will be among the highlights of this year's Galway Early Music Festival which returns from Friday May 24 to Sunday 26.
Read more ...Paul Currie for the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, May 09, 2019
PAUL CURRIE'S comedy is like few others on the circuit right now - a compelling mixture of sketch comedy, absurdism, puppetry, slapstick, and mime, delivered with great physicality and energy, and often without the comic uttering a single word.
Read more ...Banff Mountain Film Festival 2019
Thu, May 09, 2019
A JOURNEY by bike through the mountains of Nepal, a 97-year-old who runs up Mount Washington ever year, and a mother and daughter's epic ski adventure - this is the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Read more ...Mikel Murfi - The Man In The Woman’s Shoes
Thu, May 09, 2019
THE MAN In The Woman's Shoes, Mikel Murfi's multi-award winning one man show, described as "a miniature masterpiece” by The Times, returns to Galway's Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...What are those Inquisitive Hares up to now?
Thu, May 09, 2019
THE INQUISITIVE hare is a busy fellow, always on the lookout for new facts to learn, adventures to undertake, and experiences to have. His exploits are the focus of an exhibition running as part of the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Striving to be Virtually Perfect
Thu, May 09, 2019
THE FRAUGHT world of social media and the pressures it creates for today’s teenagers is the inspiration for Youth Ballet West’s exciting new show, Virtually Perfect, which plays the Town Hall this weekend.
Read more ...HEALTH - machine gun riffage industrial tech-rock
Thu, May 09, 2019
HOW TO describe HEALTH? Rock Insider described them as playing "artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that are borderline insane".
Read more ...Keanu Reeves season at the Pálás
Thu, May 09, 2019
FROM BILL and Ted's Excellent Adventure to Speed to The Matrix, to the more recent John Wick movies, Keanu Reeves has starred in some of the most popular films of the last 30 years.
Read more ...Poets from opposite ends of the universe
Literature Reviews Thu, May 09, 2019
CHRISTINE VALTERS Paintner and Patrick Chapman are, in most ways, poets from opposite ends of the universe. Dreaming Of Stones is Valters Paintner’s debut collection while Open Season On The Moon is Chapman’s ninth.
Read more ...Theatre57 hosts public discussion on cultural infrastructure
Thu, May 09, 2019
THEATRE57 WILL host a free public discussion on how a village, town, city, or region can support its creative community, and vice versa, as part of this year’s Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl returns to Galway
Thu, May 09, 2019
PUMPGIRL IS a turbo-charged race through diesel fumes and country music in the boggy border regions of County Armagh, and a journey into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three damaged characters.
Read more ...Mik Pyro to play first solo show in Galway
Thu, May 09, 2019
MIK PYRO is no stranger to Galway having played the city many times before as leader of The Republic Of Loose, but when he returns next week, it will be to play his first show as a solo artist.
Read more ...New exhibition from Patrick F Rogers
Thu, May 09, 2019
REFLECT REFRACT is the latest exhibition from artist/animator Patrick F Rogers, which deals with "human anatomy and the space in which it occupies". It is running in the Rezo Café on Eyre Street.
Read more ...Gráinne Cotter - new single, Galway gig
Thu, May 09, 2019
GRÁINNE COTTER, the Clare born, Galway based, multi-instrumentalist and singer, has released her new single, 'Shadows', and will play the Róisín Dubh as part of her current Irish tour.
Read more ...Druid announce second Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary
Thu, May 09, 2019
DRUID THEATRE Company is seeking applications for its second Marie Mullen Bursary, which is open to female theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing, and dramaturgy.
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