Brass Eye - behind the scenes with Michael Cumming

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

BRASS EYE was a British comedy series which parodied current affairs shows. It ran for seven episodes on Channel 4 between 1997 and 2001, and featured such writers as Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker, and David Quantick.

Album review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 16, 2017

IF LIAM'S As You Were was about getting back to basics, Noel's album - arriving only weeks after Our Kid's - is all for defying expectations and pushing into previously unexplored territories.

The death penalty and The Exonerated

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

THE EXONERATED, hailed as “an artful and moving evening of documentary theatre” by Variety, in its examination of the lives and experiences of six people exonerated from death row, has its first staging in Galway this month.

Julie Felix - a folk legend comes to Galway

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

SHE TAUGHT Leonard Cohen the art of songwriting; featured The Kinks and Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist Jimmy Page on her BBC TV show in the 1960s; and despite being a Californian, The Times called her "Britain's First Lady of Folk".

Brave Giant - headline show at Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

THEIR SINGLE 'The Time I Met The Devil', 'featuring actor and comedian, Joe Rooney, has enjoyed more than 80,000 views since it was released in the spring; their new single 'Way To Love' reached No 1 in October, and this month they tour Ireland.

The Good Father returns

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

ON NEW Year's Eve, two very different strangers meet, each looking to shake off the disappointments of the past, but champagne and cheap lager leave this unlikely couple with an unplanned pregnancy.

Vladimir and Anton - sibling revelry

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

VLADIMIR AND Anton, the Slovakian violinist brothers described as “the Nigel Kennedy’s of their nation”, by the London Evening Standard, will give a concert in Galway at the end of this month.

Field Trip to play Bus King

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

FIELD TRIP, the Galway band who mix garage rock, indie-pop, and surf rock, with a grasp of songwriting and arrangement it takes others years to master, play the next Bus King gig.

Luka Bloom - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

LUKA BLOOM makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh this weekend, following last month's release of Refuge, possibly the most personal album the Kildare born singer-songwriter has made.

Padraig Jack to play The Crane

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

ARAN ISLAND singer-songwriter Padraig Jack is on tour this month and brings his intimate, soulful music, to The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday November 24 at 8.30pm.

NUIG Concert Orchestra winter concert

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

MUSIC BY such different composers as Gustav Holst and Terry Reilly will be performed by the NUIG Concert Orchestra as part of its annual winter concert in aid of the charity Draíocht.

Long dead English king to finally make royal visit to Galway

Wed, Nov 15, 2017

He died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in August 1485 and his mortal remains were found under a carpark in Leicester in 2012. In between, he became one of the most demonised of all English monarchs - but this month, he visits Galway.

Maureen Langan @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Wed, Nov 15, 2017

SHE HAS been called "condescendingly brilliant!" by Edinburgh's Daily News and ranked among the “Ten Standout Stand-ups Worth Watching” by Backstage Magazine. She is Maureen Langan and she is coming to Galway.

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.

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