One night - all manner of metal
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
CELTIC FOLK-Metal, Trash Metal, Groove Metal, and alternative rock will sound loud and dangerous when Na Cruithne, Snowblind, Afterlife To Ashes, and Sixth Extinction, play The Cellar Bar.
Read more ...Death Do Us Part - thrilling, sexy cabaret
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
A THRILLING, sexy cabaret show, featuring "the most nail-bitingly intense knife-throwing I've ever seen", according to the Pastie Bap website, is coming to Monroe’s Live next month.
Read more ...GIAF 17 Reviews
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 27, 2017
A WEEK and a half into the 40th GIAF and the highlight so far for yours truly, and many others, was Kneehigh Theatre Company’s Tristan & Yseult. Emma Rice’s exuberant, funny, romantic and moving take on the story of a medieval love triangle was a joy from start to finish.
Read more ...Hot Chip to DJ @ Electric fifth birthday
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
HOT CHIP front men Alexis Taylor and Owen Clarke DJ at Electric Garden & Theatre this weekend to mark the Upper Abbeygate Street venue's fifth birthday.
Read more ...Humanity Dick: Hit one-man show comes to the Aran Islands
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
HUMANITY DICK, a hit show of the 2016 Galway Fringe Festival about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duelist Richard Martin, comes to the Aran Islands.
Read more ...Freddie White - Monroe's Live gig in August
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
"THERE'S STILL nobody to match Freddie White at his best," said The Irish Times. His loyal followers know this well and will be waiting in anticipation for his upcoming show at Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Chekhov Technique acting classes
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
ACTING CLASSES using the Michael Chekhov Technique, will take place over four days in NUI Galway and explore atmosphere and how it affects the qualities and power of a character's agency in a play.
Read more ...A classical concert for St Nicholas'
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
THE CHAMBER Philharmonia Cologne, one of Germany's finest classical music ensembles, makes its annual visit to Galway net week, to perform a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Emma Lohan - new music and Galway gig
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Lohan has released 'Serekunda', the first single from her forthcoming album Black Atlantic, ahead of a home-town gig this weekend.
Read more ...Brunch + Dancing @ Biteclub
Thu, Jul 27, 2017
CYRIL BRISCOE of 110th Street, Anthony Collins, and the Good Life DJs will be spinning the decks at the next Brunch + Dancing rooftop party at the Biteclub Streetfood Discotheque this weekend.
Read more ...Jarlath Regan - stand-up show and live podcast
Wed, Jul 26, 2017
JARLATH REGAN has come a long way since his days of doing ice-cream ads on the TV. These days he runs the award-winning An Irishman Abroad podcast and recently supported Jack Whitehall on his arena tour.
Read more ...Galway's Rofi James shortlisted for 2FM's Play The Picnic
Tue, Jul 25, 2017
GALWAY BAND Rofi James have been shortlisted for 2FM's Play The Picnic, and are calling on the public to vote for them, and put them in with a serious chance of performing at Electric Picnic this September.
Read more ...A 'Yidlife crisis' and a hit show about Jewish identity
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
GEFILTE FISH and Chips, the award winning show by theatre maker, songwriter, producer, and broadcaster Daniel Cainer, opens tomorrow in The Cellar Bar, as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Angels In America - Live at The Eye
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
ANGELS IN America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning, two-part play, running in Britain's National Theatre, will be broadcast live to Galway
Read more ...Saint Sister - Róisín Dubh GIAF 17 gig
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
WHEN SAINT Sister play the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival, they will perform the recent single ‘Causing Trouble’, a song which says much about them and their music.
Read more ...Album review: Japanese Breakfast
Music Reviews Thu, Jul 20, 2017
DESPITE THE name, Japanese Breakfast - vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, Michelle Zauner - is not Japanese, but Korean-American, and musically, this new album is indebted to the1990s lo-fi American alternative rock and British shoegaze movements.
Read more ...HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
HEDY LAMARR was a Hollywood film star between the 1930s and 1950s, and an icon of beauty and glamour, but her greatest achievement is all around us, as her work as a scientist and inventor laid the grounds for much of our digital and internet technology.
Read more ...'Art has no borders but it does have edges' – GIAF launch
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
The 40th Galway International Arts Festival got off to a flying start on Monday at the Black Box Theatre with the world premiere of Woyzeck In Winter, Conall Morrison’s daring fusion of Büchner and Schubert.
Read more ...Three Fringe festival shows from Galway
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
INTERNET DATING, family strife, and a life in politics are the subjects of three shows staged by local companies, which are all being staged as part of the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Crime fiction @ the Fringe
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
MONDAYS ARE Murder, an afternoon of noir and crime fiction, featuring Galway based writers Séamus Scanlon, Aoibheann McCann, Órfhlaith Foyle, and Kernan Andrews, takes place as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.
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