Citóg Records Christmas charity gig
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
INDEPENDENT GALWAY record label, Citóg Records, holds its annual Christmas Charity Gig in The Black Gate Cultural Centre, featuring leading Galway singer-songwriters, while also raising funds for charity.
Read more ...Galway musicians to celebrate the songs of John Prine
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
HE IS admired by Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Roger Waters; has won numerous awards throughout a near 50 year career; and his songwriting has infleunced generations of musicians.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh Christmas charity concert
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
THE COIS Cladaigh Choir presents its annual Christmas concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm, with proceeds going to Breast Cancer Research.
Read more ...Galway's Cat Turner releases new single
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
CAT TURNER, the Galway 'dark-pop'/‘goth pop’, vocalist, songwriter, and producer, who has won praise from Hot Press and Clash Music, has released her new single 'Easier'.
Read more ...Theatre Fest seeks participants for Creative Europe project
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
GALWAY THEATRE Festival is accepting applications to participate in its Make A Move project, aimed at individual artists or collectives in contemporary movement-based theatre practices.
Read more ...The Late, Late, Late Toy Show: Bringing Christmas Cheer UHG Children’s Ward
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
Get into the Christmas Spirit this Saturday, 15th December, at DNA Nightclub’s Late, Late, Late Toy Show.
Read more ...The Academic to play Galway International Arts Festival
Wed, Dec 12, 2018
IRISH ROCK band The Academic, best known for hit singles like ‘Different’, ‘Mixtape 2003’, ‘Bear Claws’, and ‘Why Can't We Be Friends?’, play the Galway International Arts Festival next summer.
Read more ...Entertainment Around The Clock
Mon, Dec 10, 2018
It’s entertainment around the clock this New Years Eve at The Skeff Late bar, Galway.
Read more ...The 'tangible magic of Christmas', Whileaways-style
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
AFTER A sold-out nationwide tour, The Whileaways play their final gig of 2018 in Galway city, with the high-flying trio set to transform The Black Box, bringing the warmth and intimacy of their unique live show to one of Galway's biggest venues.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser Musicians of the Year 2018
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
THE LAST 12 months have seen Galway musicians produce some outstanding work, but three in particular stood apart from the rest.
Read more ...A lot wrong, and a lot right with Creed II
Films Reviews Thu, Dec 06, 2018
AFTER HIS defeat in Rocky 4, Ivan Drago was ostracised by Russia and abandoned by his allies, including his wife. He comes out from the wilderness with his son, Viktor, a young boxer who is so comically large he looks like he has been CGI’d.
Read more ...Spiderman's dad for the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
DOMINIC HOLLAND has been called "the UK’s master of observational comedy" by The Sunday Times and "a top notch stand-up who everyone should see" by The Daily Telegraph.
Read more ...The Best Music and Albums of 2018
Essential Playlist Thu, Dec 06, 2018
THIS YEAR has seen the emergence of an array of very exciting new indie-rock artists, with female performers - as has been a very noticeable trend in recent years - arguably producing the best music of the last 12 months.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser editor to read at Over The Edge
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
DECLAN VARLEY, the editor of the Galway Advertiser, will read from his new novel, The Confession of Peadar Gibbons, at the final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2018.
Read more ...Dirty Circus's 'Legendary Christmas Party'
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
SAUCE, SLEAZE, and all things 'naughty but nice', and with a hefty dose of body positivity and celebrating diversity, Galway's much loved burlesque and cabaret night, The Dirty Circus, is hosting its 'Legendary Christmas Party'.
Read more ...Pálás to screen Netflix film Roma
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
ROMA - THE new film by the Oscar winning director Alfonso Cuarón, will be screened at the Pálás from Friday December 14 to Thursday 20.
Read more ...Laoise unleashed at the Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
ONE OF the brightest rising stars in Irish pop music today is Galway woman Laoise and she hits the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 14, for what promises to be a triumphant homecoming gig.
Read more ...Fontaines DC - new single, Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
"WE ARE in the midst of a dominant age of streaming music and instantaneous playlists. Perhaps because of this, physical copies of music continue to hold their virtue in the market."
Read more ...Paraic Breathnach - The Macnas Was On Me
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
FOLLOWING ITS successful premiere at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway in October, Paraic Breathnach is bringing his new show, The Macnas Was On Me, to the Nuns Island Theatre, for one night only.
Read more ...Little Green Cars @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 06, 2018
WHEN LITTLE Green Cars play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night [Friday December 7], they are likely to play songs from their forthcoming third album, which by all accounts is close to being ready for release.
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