Lee 'Scratch' Perry - reggae legend for Monroe's Live

Mon, Nov 13, 2017

VISIONARY, ECCENTRIC, legend - Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the man who produced the early music of Bob Marley and The Wailers, and an enormously influential and significant figure in reggae music in his own right, is coming back to Galway.

Online archives of what you could and could not do at a pier

Mon, Nov 13, 2017

'ALL HOOKERS carrying turf to pay a licence fee of 3c. per year or for any part of a year. Strange boats entering the harbor for shelter, or wind-bound, to pay sixpence for any period not exceeding 30 days’.

'I just committed straight away to the piano'

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

SHE HAS played the piano dangling high from a crane in Sãu Paolo; she has played it while being pulled by a car past the canals of Amsterdam; but never let these distract from the fact that Daria van den Bercken is one of the most outstanding young classical pianists at work today.

Dx2 - a double-bill of dance duets

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

DX2, A double bill of duets from the award winning Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre, and acclaimed dancers Laura Murphy and Rob Heaslip, will be performed in Galway as part of a national tour.

Ten Ton Slug + Weed Prist = Epic doom metal

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

TWO OF Galway's most exhilarating metal bands and purveyors of some of the heaviest, sludgiest, contemporary stoner rock riffing human ears can bear, launch their latest releases with a gig in the city tonight.

Comediversity - difference is beautiful

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

COMEDIVERSITY IS a diverse night of comedy which recognises that sometimes, for whatever reason, comedy lineups are seldom as diverse as they could possibly be.

Mountbellew to host conference on The Fenians and Manchester Martyrs

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

In September 1867, 50 Fenians attacked a prison van at Hyde Road, Manchester, intent on releasing their comrades Thomas Joseph Kelly, a Galwegian, and Timothy Deasy. An unarmed police sergeant, Charles Brett was shot dead and 26 men were tried for partaking in the attack.

Mahalia - honest to goodness soul music

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

SHE GREW up 100 miles from London in the English East Midlands city of Leicester, but being away from the metropolis has proven an advantage for Mahalia, and her dreams of a career in music.

Beauty and the Beast - Renmore Panto 2018

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

REHEARSALS ARE in full swing for Renmore’s 39th annual pantomime, Beauty and The Beast, which runs at the Town Hall Theatre from December 30 to January 14.

The electric mayhem of King Kong Company

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

YEARS FROM now, it’s probably starting already, people will speak about King Kong Company’s show in the main tent at Electric Picnic 2017 with near mythical awe, and will boast ‘I was there!’. Everyone else, to preserve their credibility, will pretend they were.

Galway to mark Polish Independence Day this weekend

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

Galway will mark National Polish Independence day with a series of events on Saturday and Sunday, including a celebration of the life and work of Joseph Conrad, a Polish national regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

Experimental trad and jazz @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

NOTIFY, IRELAND'S experimental trad virtuosos, and America's Mark Lettieri Trio, featuring members of the Grammy Award winning jazz supergroup Snarky Puppy, will give a special collaborative performance at Monroe's Live.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and Tim Rice's much loved musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre by Claregalway's 9 Arch Musical Society.

An evening of poetry at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

THE POETS Gillian Hamill, Ursula Shields-Huemer, and Penelope Shuttle will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, which also sees the launch of the new issue of Skylight 47.

PINS - Manc indie-punk band return to Galway

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

FOLLOWING THE release of the 'Serve The Rich' single, Manchester indie-rock/post-punk band PINS hit the road for a European tour, with four dates in Ireland, including one in Galway.

Auditions for Sister Act

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

SISTER ACT, the musical about a soul singer who is placed in witness protection in a convent and who revolutionises the life of its nuns, will be staged by Twin Productions in the Town Hall in March 2018.

Rising SON to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

HER MOTHER did not want her "hanging around the streets", so "if you’re spending all your time indoors, what else is a music-mad kid gonna do with her time except learn to play an instrument?”

Camelphat play Electric tonight

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

'COLA' PUSHED electronic duo Camelphat to the top of the tech/house charts across the globe earlier this year and tonight sees the British duo of Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala play Electric.

Scythian to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

THE SCYTHIANS were a group of Iranian people and Eurasian nomads who inhabited the western and central Eurasian steppes from the 9th to the 1st centuries BC. Scythian is also the name of a US roots-rock band.