Eddi Reader - Galway bound on Irish tour

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

THIRTY YEARS on from the hit single 'Perfect' with Fairground Attraction, and 26 years after the release of her debut solo album Mirmama, Eddi Reader is still going strong, and returns to Ireland next month for a nine-date tour.

Come hear the music of Mozart

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

A BRILLIANT 18-year-old pianist, Clara Siegle, will play Mozart’s sparkling Sonata in D Major, composed in 1777 when the Austrian prodigy was just 21 years old, when she plays the next Music For Galway concert.

'Open Mic Presents...' @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

FOR THE past seven years, the Open Mic Night at the Róisín Dubh has promoted, supported, and encouraged new, aspirant, and emerging Galway musicians - now it goes a step further with its new 'Open Mic Presents...' nights.

Madness to play Festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

MADNESS, THE British ska-pop legends who lit up the British charts in the 1980s with 'Baggy Trousers', 'Houser Of Fun', 'It Must Be Love', and 'Our House', and who remain a much loved institution and concert draw, will play Galway this summer.

Bicep & Hammer play Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

CREATIVE HEAD honchos, childhood friends, Belfast natives, and curators of one of the largest cult followed music repositories in club music history, DJ trio Bicep & Hammer can certainly boast an impressive CV.

An electronic night of new Irish music

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

A GATHERING of some of the Ireland's leading electronica/indie acts in the Róísín Dubh next week is likely to be a highlight of Once Upon A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture.

50 First Dates Galway – Will we be as lucky again this year?

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

“I met the man of my dreams, Mike and we've been inseparable since our first date at The Skeff in March 2017. We are together 10 months …..”, quoted Ronah Corcoran who applied last year and found love through this process…

Kodaline to play Festival Big Top

Mon, Jan 29, 2018

KODALINE, ONE of Ireland’s biggest and most internationally successful bands, are coming west this summer to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Big Top in the Fisheries Field.

Countdown to Franz Ferdinand

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

FRANZ FERDINAND'S new album, Always Ascending, will be released on Friday February 9, and on Saturday 10, they kick off their European tour with a 'Róisín Dubh presents...' concert in Leisureland, Salthill.

Alison Spittle - Worrier Princess

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

ALISON SPITTLE, one of the most popular of a new generation of Irish comedians is, as well as being very funny, also a terrible worrier. She worries so much she's decided to do a show about it. Now she's worried about making it a good show.

Jin Youg exhibits new work in Galway

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

JIN YONG, a Chinese artist living in Galway, is hosting an exhibition of his latest works, featuring striking, multicoloured, images of animals, in the Renzo Café and Gallery, Eyre Street.

Album review: Dream Wife

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 25, 2018

DREAM WIFE just might be the most exciting new indie-rock band of 2018. Throughout the album's 35 minutes these songs rock hard, without abandoning an indie sensibility, and with a catchiness and pop smarts, while never being mainstream.

'I once got asked to satirise every Pokemon character – in numerical order!'

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

POLITICS, SPORTS, puns, and just about any subject you care to mention, are all grist to the comic mill of satirist supreme Andy Zaltzman who is appearing at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 10.

Galway Actors’ Workshop get NSFW

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HAVING SEEN out 2017 with a very fine production of Will Eno’s Middletown, Sarah O’Toole’s Galway Actors’ Workshop ushers in 2018 next month with the Irish premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW.

A gourmet feast of piano music

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

A GOURMET has refined taste in good food. A gourmand also appreciates good food, but cannot help 'pigging out' on it. If you have a passion for classical piano, you can indulge your sophisticated taste - without the risk of indigestion - at Music For Galway's 'Piano Gourmand' event.

Emmerdale star goes Drinking In America

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

EMMERDALE AND Fair City actor Liam O'Brien will play 12 separate roles in one play when Limerick's Bottom Dog Theatre Company stages Eric Bogosian's 1986 play Drinking In America.

PJ Gallagher - talking about D**kheads

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

"THAT GUY cracked me up for an entire afternoon that I forgot to meet my wife for lunch. It’s classic comedy but with a twist." So said one of America's leading talk show hosts, Conan O’Brien, about Irish comic PJ Gallagher.

Red Bird's polymorphic display

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

POLYMORPHISM - A state of existing in multiple forms at once. The term is both the title and the theme of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre from its youth collective Red Bird.

‘We have to put our biases under the microscope'

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

EMILY CULLEN is a poet, an academic, a harpist, and, in April, will preside over her first Cúirt International Festival of Literature as programme director. Cúirt has been a passion since her student days, and now in a position to run the festival, she has a vision for it that places 'diversity' at its core.

Show Me The Funny #2

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

THE SECOND heat of the annual Show Me The Funny competition returns to The Kings Head next Monday, with the Fred Cooke as special guest, and Gerry Mallon as MC.

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