Slow Place Like Home - new single, GIAF show

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

AHEAD OF their Galway International Arts Festival concert, supporting UNKLE, indie-electro trio Slow Place Like Home have released a new digital single, 'When I See You...Ice Cream' via Galway label Strange Brew Rekkids.

Anna Livia Lesbia - when it was harder to be gay in Ireland

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE EARLY gay rights and women's movements, as seen through the eyes of a young lesbian trying to making sense of the scary, bizarre, and sometimes downright funny world that was 1970s Ireland, is explored in a new play by a woman who has lived it all.

Geoff Whiting to play Cellar comedy club

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

BRITISH COMEDIAN Geoff Whiting - the man who gave Jimmy Carr his start - is coming to Galway to perform at The Cellar Comedy Club, which is marking its first birthday this month.

Michael O'Connor to launch new album at Town Hall

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

MICHAEL O'CONNOR, the Galway/Mayo country and folk singer-songwriter, launches his third album, Market Plaice, in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Thursday June 29 as part of the Colours Fringe Festival.

Galway Cathedral Summer Concerts 2017

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

GALWAY CATHEDRAL'S annual international summer concert series returns next month with performances by Paul Kieffer; The Choir of St Paul’s College, Hong Kong; Ansgar Wallenhorst; and an array of Galway talent.

The Curly Organ - a summer of EPs

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THE CURLY Organ, a side project of Donal McConon, a founder member of Galway prog-folk band My Fellow Sponges, will release a slew of EPs throughout the month of July.

Haji Mike to headline world music event

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

DUB REGGAE musician, poet, academic, Haji Mike is something of a renaissance man in the dub scene, and he will be bringing his words and music to the It's A Worldwide Ting event in Galway next month.

Blur tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 22, 2017

THEY ARE the only Blur tribute act in the world endorsed by the band themselves. They headlined Hyde Park on the closing night of the 2012 Olympics. Now they are coming to Monroe's Live.

Calling all young and aspiring Galway documentary makers

Wed, Jun 21, 2017

DIG WHERE You Stand, a new funding scheme for young documentary filmmakers in Galway city and county, operated by the Galway Film Centre, is seeking applicants to create short films set in Galway.

First wave of acts announced for Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2017

Tue, Jun 20, 2017

JON RICHARDSON, Al Porter, Katy Brand, and Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Patton Oswalt - on their own that would be an impressive array of headline comedy acts, but they are only the first wave of performers announced for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2017.

Sex, wire, wood, junk and jollity

Art Reviews Tue, Jun 20, 2017

SCULPTURE AND sex, wire and wood, junk and jollity, all combine to lively and pleasurable effect in the Town Hall bar’s art exhibition by Margaret Nolan and James Fleming.

The 2017 Galway Garden Festival - 1st and 2nd July at Claregalway Castle with, Music, Street Theatre, Food, Craft and a Medieval Tournament.

Mon, Jun 19, 2017

The 2017 Galway Garden Festival will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July, at Claregalway Castle. This will be the 8th year of an uniquely charming garden event which caters for specialist and eclectic tastes.

'It’s a huge thrill for myself and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to go to Galway'

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

AMONG THE array of exciting gigs at the Absolut Big Top during the Galway International Arts Festival is A Night At The Proms with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Entitled Viva America!, the programme offers a pan-American celebration of some of the finest and most colourful orchestral music from that continent.

The 48 Hour Challenge for film

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE LITTLE Cinema and Galway City of Film 48 Hour Challenge takes place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday with filmmakers coming to the city to write, shoot, and edit their films in just 48 hours.

Galway music and musicians @ GIAF 2017

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

SOME of Galway's best comedians, singer-songwriters, electro bands, and DJs will share the stage with headline acts at this summer's Galway International Arts Festival.

Album review: Can

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 15, 2017

TWO MEMBERS studied under avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; another was a jazz drummer who loved Stax soul; their youngest member was a gifted guitarist and violinist; their vocalist was a free spirit from Japan.

Three people walk into a Comedy Clubh...

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

"A NIGERIAN, a Corkonian, and a Human Woman walk into a bar..." This is not the start of a joke. It is a partial description of who is playing the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow.

Galway Fringe Festival reveals line-up

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival has revealed its programme for this year’s event which runs from July 15 to 30. The Fringe is celebrating its sixth birthday and is set to be the largest the city has seen yet, with more than 100 events, including theatre, visual art, poetry, music, comedy, street spectacles, spoken word, and children’s events, across 18 venues.

We need more women in electronic music

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

GALWAY WOMEN, female identifying, and the LGBTQ community are encouraged to take part in this weekend's DJ and production workshops n the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.

SAD13 - a night of Feminist indie-rock

Thu, Jun 15, 2017

"IT'S VERY strange that most of the music we funnel into little girls’ ears - even music written by former little girls - is about how women are petty, pretty garbage, whose only valuable function is to hold perfectly still in men’s boudoirs and wait for intercourse."

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