Uoo, mee, weee!

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

UOO, MEE, Weee! - the title may be taken from nonsense talk, but this show is significant. It is the first production by the Baboró festival, in conjunction with Branar Téatar de Pháistí, and premieres at the new Wide Eyes festival.

Once Upon A Time Back The West

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

ONCE UPON A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture to shake off the winters blues, returns in February.

Acclaimed uilleann piper for Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HE LEARNED uilleann pipes from Lunasa's Brian Vallely; is a three times All-­­Ireland Champion piper, and is the only Irishman to have won the BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award.

Mercury Rev - sold out

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

MERCURY REV's upcoming show in the Róísín Dubh, where they will perform their classic 1998 album, Deserter's Songs, is now sold out.

A classical winter recital

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

THE GALWAY Music Residency's apprentice ensembles, who have been working under the acclaimed ConTempo Quartet, will hold a recital this weekend in NUI Galway.

Detroit Swindle return to Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

JUST WHAT lies behind the success of house duo Detroit Swindle? Perhaps it is their acclaimed ability to strike just that right groove; their talent at seamlessly blending and mixing music from across five decades and continents?

Sound Of The Sirens 'celestial voices' come to Galway

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

SOUND OF The Sirens, the English duo whose music straddles folk, indie, and pop, and who Acoustic magazine described as "two celestial voices weaving over acoustic guitars", play Galway this weekend.

Wyvern Lingo - debut album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

WYVERN LINGO'S long awaited debut album finally arrives in late February, while March sees the Wicklow trio tour Ireland, including a stop-off in Galway to play the Róisín Dubh.

Hope and Fury at Town Hall studio

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

TWO ESTRANGED sisters, on the run from each other and their respective pasts, are forced to come fact to face - with each other and their demons - after their mother's death. And why is the local grocery boy executing her will?

Album review: The Go! Team

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE GO! Team's fifth album occupies a space equidistant from the funk, soul, and samapdelic urban of 2010's Rolling Blackouts and 2015's indie-pop/dream pop The Scene Between.

A weekend of hit European movies in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

A WEEKEND of hit movies - from comedies to thrillers to drama - which have been box office smashes and/or won awards on the European continent, will be screened at the Town Hall Theatre when the annual Subtitle - European Film Festival comes to town.

Let's go crazy with Terry Alderton

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

BACK IN 1972 Slade told Mama "weer all crazee now!". In 2018 Terry Alderton isn't just telling it to Mama, he's telling everyone - and he's made both a radio show and a new stand-up comedy show about it.

Kenny’s Gallery celebrates eight decades of Galway Art Club

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

ONE OF Galway’s most venerable arts groups is celebrated in Kenny’s Gallery from next week, when the venue hosts a large scale exhibition saluting 80 years of Galway Art Club.

Cillian Murphy to launch new history book in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

Cillian Murphy, the acclaimed Irish actor and star of Peaky Blinders and Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley film, will launch a new book on politics of memory in post-independence Ireland.

Hayseed Dixie - let there be rockgrass

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THEY CREATED the musical genre rockgrass - a fusion of classic rock and bluegrass/American folk - have won the respect of legendary rockers, been going for nearly 20 years, and have a new album out.

Bodies, institutions, and art

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

HOW AN individual's body is treated by the State, as well as by corporate, medical and pharmaceutical institutions, is the theme of a new exhibition, about to open at the Galway Arts Centre.

Romeo and Juliet - from The Bolshoi to The Eye

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet will be broadcast live from Moscow to The Eye Cinema on Sunday January 21 at 3pm.

Show Me The Funny 2018

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

IT'S BACK! Show Me The Funny, one of Ireland's major comedy competitions, returns to The King's Head this month, with emerging comedians fighting it out over the coming weeks, for the right to play Electric Picnic.

Cúirt New Writing Prize deadline nears

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE DEADLINE for The Cúirt New Writing Prize is Thursday January 25 at 5pm. The categories are poetry and short stories with a €500 cash prize for the winner of each category and the opportunity to read at Cúirt 2018.

Arts festival's Ballyturk wows New York critics

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The US premiere of the Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival co-production of Ballyturk, written by Enda Walsh, and starring Mikel Murfi, Tadhg Murphy and Olwen Fouéré, has won rave reviews from New York critics.

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