Album review: Courtney Marie Andrews

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

TO QUOTE The Smiths' 'Sheila Take A Bow', "How can someone so young/Sing words so sad?" Courtney Marie Andrews sings like a women who has lived for twice as long, and experienced twice as much, as any 28-year-old.

Karl Spain to host new weekly comedy night

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

KARL SPAIN, the comedy host and MC par excellence, will host a new weekly comedy night at the Róisín Dubh, starting in April with a show featuring Joe Rooney, Totally Wired, and Sarah O’Gorman.

Paintclub's family painting event

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

PAINTCLUB IS hosting a family 'Painting & Brunch' event in Tribeton this Easter, where both adults and the junior artists of the house, can get together and create a masterpiece.

Galway Theatre Festival unveils line-up

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE PROGRAMME for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, which runs from May 4 to 12, was revealed on Monday evening at a thronged launch in Biteclub on Abbeygate Street. Once again festival director Máiréad Ní Chróinín and her team have assembled a top-notch line-up of shows and ancillary events, guaranteed to entertain, surprise, delight and inspire.

'I don’t mind it not being cohesive as long as it’s not jarring'

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

NEVER MIND your Easter Eggs on Sunday morning; the real treat this weekend is the launch party for My Fellow Sponges’ eponymous new album at the Róisín Dubh.

You Were Never Really Here

Films Reviews Thu, Mar 29, 2018

AFTER A Terrence Malick like absence, one of Britain's finest directors, Lynne Ramsay, has a film back in the cinema, following up her 2011 masterpiece, We Need To Talk About Kevin, with another adaptation.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to play Leisureland

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH Symphony, referred to by Wagner as "the apotheosis of dance", and which received a new lease of life via its inclusion in the soundtrack to The King's Speech, will be performed in Galway.

Tóraíocht - love, monsters and Gaeilge

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

FÍBÍN, THE Galway based Irish language theatre company is celebrating its 15th anniversary with its largest production to date, a nationwide tour, in April, of Tóraíocht, directed by Mikel Murfi.

Leon Vynehall returns to Electric

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

LEON VYNEHALL is that rare thing – an artist with his own agenda rather than a producer aping the sound of the day, as he has shown with his off-kilter EPs on labels like Brighton's Well Rounded Housing Project, George FitzGerald's ManMakeMusic imprint, and Will Saul's Aus Music.

April Foolin’ with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE LIGHTS will be low, but the spirits are sure to be high, as leading burlesque performers hit the stage of the Róisín Dubh for another night of naughtiness, decadence, and glamour at The Dirty Circus.

Dog Tired - Scottish southern groove metal

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

SAY 'dog tired" and it conjures up images of exhaustion, weariness from a hard day's work, and a desire to sleep long. None of these images or ideas applies to the band Dog Tired.

The Camembert Quartet to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE CAMEMBERT Quartet, The Late Late Show's house band, are taking a break from the RTÉ studios, and heading to Galway to play Monroe's Live.

Warsaw Radio - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Mar 28, 2018

WARSAW RADIO have released their debut album, Midnight Broadcast, through Seventh Dial Records, and tonight, the Limerick band play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh.

Una Healy announces Róisín Dubh show

Tue, Mar 27, 2018

UNA HEALY, one-fifth of The Saturdays, and more recently a solo artist and television personality and presenter, plays the Róisín Dubh this weekend as part of her upcoming Irish tour.

JANAJ - new single, Galway show

Tue, Mar 27, 2018

JANAJ, THE exciting new Galway band whose music fuses classic rock, prog, and acoustic, mashing them together to create a throughly modern sound, have released their new single 'Badlands'.

Snow Patrol play Galway in May

Mon, Mar 26, 2018

SNOW PATROL release their new album, Wildness on May 25 but Galway will get a chance to hear some of its tracks before then when the band play Leisureland, Salthill, as part of their Irish tour.

Shamisen - The Yoshida Brothers play Galway

Thu, Mar 22, 2018

THE SHAMISEN is a traditional Japanese instrument about one metre long, with three strings, and played using a large pick called a bachi - and Galway is about to see a show from two of its finest players.

Laugh Out Proud

Thu, Mar 22, 2018

STEVEN SHARPE, singer, songwriter, storyteller, and one of the most exciting talents at work in Galway, is on the bill for the next Laugh Out Proud comedy night in NOVA.

Album review: Yo La Tengo

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 22, 2018

IN 1971, Sly & The Family Stone released There's A Riot Goin' On, a dark, agitated, brooding, washed-out sounding album of suppressed African-American anger at the state of the USA.

John Smith - have guitar, will travel

Thu, Mar 22, 2018

THE ROAD of life is one John Smith walks as both a man and a musician, taking his wonderful songs and sublime guitar skills to wherever there are appreciative ears, and from today he's back on that road, on his latest Irish and British tour.

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