Album review: The Shacks

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

OVER THE last 10 years indie music has rediscovered and re-explored 1990s genres, but it is rare to see young musicians going back any further than that. Recently however, a new series of disparate bands - School Damage, Mermaidens, Starcrawler, and now The Shacks - have delved into different aspects of sixties and seventies rock, delivering fresh new presentations of those forms.

My Fellow Sponges set to 'blur lines between gig and theatre'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

MUSICIANS, WRITERS, performance artists, jugglers, videographers, animators, conductors, designers, and all kinds of doers, will partake in a genre defying ‘live music video’ experience, as part of the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival.

'An English Fiddler On The Roof'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY MUSICAL Society encamps in The Black Box Theatre for the first week of May with its bravura staging of The Hired Man, which is based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life.

Cinema review: Rampage

Films Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RAMPAGE OPENS in space. An off-planet research ship is breaking apart and three vials of genetic altering substance falls to earth. One of them lands in a San Diego wild life reserve run by Davis Okoye, played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

Guitar great Albert Lee to play Town Hall

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ALBERT LEE boasts a career that is the envy of many musicians, having worked with numerous legends in rock and country, and becoming something of a legend in his own right.

Examining choices in The Streets Are Ours

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

"IN THE city you choose your friends, here you take the hand you're dealt." Four friends are trapped, all in different ways, and each finds that the freedom to choose is not always a welcome privilege, that it can be a burden in itself.

Out of the Ordinary with Moya Roddy

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

AMONG THE feast of events at next week’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature is the launch of the debut book of poems by well-known Galway writer Moya Roddy - Out Of The Ordinary, published by Salmon Poetry.

Enni Liessem exhibition

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ENNI LIESSEM, the German artist now based in Dunmore, north Galway, is currently displaying her latest works in an exhibition at the Renzó Gallery Café, Eyre Street.

Arrival on Irish poetry scene of true original

Literature Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

RACHEL COVENTRY was born in Scotland to an Irish mother, spent her teenage years in Galway attending the Mercy secondary school, and lived for most of the 1990s in north London.

Galway Loves Music #1

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY LOVES Music is a new evening of discussion and performances in the Róisín Dubh, and a chance for musicians in Galway to meet local and national voices who will share their knowledge of how music works.

A night of dance with Youth Ballet West

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

YOUTH BALLET West will present what promises to be a spectacular evening of classical and contemporary dance, when its dancers take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Olivia to spin the decks @ Electric

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

DJ OLIVIA, a key player in the Polish electronic music scene for more than a decade, returns to Galway to play the next Factory night at the Electric Garden and Theatre.

The Hot Sprockets @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

TAKE SOME good-time revolutionary spirit, add a pinch of psychedelic flavour, simmer with some indie-soul and seventies style rock, and you have the cosmic vibe of The Hot Sprockets.

State Lights set for Monroe's

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

"STYLISTICALLY PERCHED between classic U2 and The Killers, State Lights songs are made for radio." So said Golden Plec about the rising Irish band who are playing Monroe's Live.

Cúirt/Over The Edge New Writing Showcase

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

DARA Ó Foghlu, Paul Denby, and Vinny Steed will read from their work at the 13th annual Over The Edge/Cúirt Festival of International Literature New Writing Showcase.

Is that a Galway accent?

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

IS THAT A Galway Accent?, the debut album collecting both published and broadcast work, by the award winning Galway writer Anne Marie Kennedy, is to be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.

NC Grey - a jazz show for Galway

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

NC GREY, the British-Nigerian jazz singer begins her British and Irish tour with a show in The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street, this weekend.

Jenny Greene and RTÉ Concert Orchestra return to festival Big Top

Wed, Apr 18, 2018

JENNY GREENE and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, which was the fastest selling music gig in Galway International Arts Festival’s 40-year history, have announced they will return to the 2018 festival.

Tin Lies to spread its hilarity this May in Tuam

Wed, Apr 18, 2018

After last year's success in The Mall Theatre, Tuam, and An Taibhdhearc, Galway, the two act play The Crossing written by Patricia King-Callaghan from Tuam explored traditional themes which had their roots in the troubled history of the Irish peasantry.

Ireland's Public Sector Showcased at Public Sector Digital Marketing Summit!

Wed, Apr 18, 2018

Ireland's Public Sector Showcased at Public Sector Digital Marketing Summit - In-house staff innovating in the Digital Age to benefit the public and other stakeholders - Thursday, June 14th, The Round Room at the Mansion House.

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