Club GASS - two shows for Pride
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
CLUB GASS, Galway's only LGBT+ club night, will run for two nights as part of the 2017 Galway Community Pride festival, taking place in the Róisín Dubh this Friday and Saturday night.
Read more ...Steven Sharpe - a pint and a song for Pride
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
THE FLAMBOYANT and brilliant Galway based singer-songwriter Steven Sharpe is inviting people to join him for a drink and a song in the Róisín Dubh's upstairs bar this weekend.
Read more ...Dick Valentine @ Monroe's Backstage Bar
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
AS FRONTMAN for outrageous Detroit band Electric Six, he brought us to the ‘Gay Bar’ and warned us of the dangers of ‘High Voltage’. These days Dick Valentine is solo and about to make a welcome return to Galway.
Read more ...Don Mescall to play Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED Irish singer-songwriter, producer Don Mescall, who has written songs for Lulu, The Backstreet Boys, and Frances Black, is coming to Galway this month to play Monroe's.
Read more ...Trad On The Prom
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
TRAD ON The Prom, celebrating Irish music, dance, and song, begins the final leg of its 2017 run, starting Sunday, August 13, at Leisureland, Salthill, and continuing until September 28.
Read more ...No Quarter - Led Zeppelin tribute @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 10, 2017
NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway Led Zeppelin tribute band, fronted by the multi-talented phenomenon that is Steven Sharpe, plays the Róisín Dubh next week.
Read more ...Imelda May - Galway bound this winter
Wed, Aug 09, 2017
FOR THE first time since her dramatic reinvention - ditching the rockabilly queen image for a sultry, black clad, look - Imelda May will play Galway, having announed a concert for Leisureland in December.
Read more ...Art Exhibitions at Murrays - Friday August 18th
Wed, Aug 09, 2017
After a successful first season of exhibitions, Murrays of Nile Lodge are looking forward to hosting a number of exciting and unique exhibitions in the coming months.
Read more ...Godzilla on the rampage
Wed, Aug 09, 2017
WHAT STARTS as a peaceful day in Tokyo is turned into a living nightmare when a massive, gilled monster emerges from the sea depths and tears through the Japanese capital, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake - another typical day for Godzilla.
Read more ...Holy F@*! Batman it's Holy F%$@
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
HOLY F*** have been called "a hardcore thrift-store found-object punk band" with a relentless commitment to rhythm and a sense for atmosphere better matched to a close encounter with the third kind than a simple rock concert.
Read more ...Alan McMonagle to read at Utter Word
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
THE WRITERS Alan McMonagle and Nicole Flattery, and the artist Dolores Lynn, will headline the next Utter Word, the series of literary events at the Oranmore Library, which takes place on Wednesday August 9 at 7.30pm.
Read more ...Titus Andronicus live at The Eye
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
SHAKESPEARE WAS never afraid to have plenty of violence and killing in his plays, but Titus Andronicus, which is being staged by The Royal Shakespeare Company in London, just may be his most bloody.
Read more ...Jason Byrne - he has three brains you know
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
JASON BYRNE has three brains which kick into action when he hits the stage. His left brain scans the audience, looking for improv moments. His right brain collates stand-up material and stunts, while his centre brain wants to push him to the limit.
Read more ...World premiere of new Little John show
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
THE WORLD premiere of Radio Rosario, the new show by writer, actor, theatre-maker, musician, entertainer and, in the words of Irish Theatre Magazine, “a unique talent”, Little John Nee, opens in The Mick Lally Theatre next month.
Read more ...‘Nothing was ever planned in The Undertones’
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
NEARLY 40 years after they announced their arrival with their classic debut single ‘Teenage Kicks’, The Undertones remain an exhilarating live act and next week sees the quintet breeze into the Roisín Dubh.
Read more ...Week two GIAF 17 play reviews
Theatre Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017
DRUID'S GIAF offering this year was Mark O’Rowe’s unsettling 2003 play Crestfall, directed by Annabelle Comyn. Designer Aedin Cosgrove sets the action in a corrugated red box resembling a shipping container where three female prisoner-protagonists, wearing plain smocks, relate their stories.
Read more ...Collective Apathy @ Oughterard Courthouse
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
REFUSE AND waste are having a devastating effect on the environment, particularly the use of plastics; the overuse of fossil fuels is contributing the global warming - the greatest threat to our continued existence.
Read more ...Nadia Reid to play Strange Brew
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
NADIA REID has been called "a remarkable talent" with "a devastating youthful wisdom that gives her songs a feeling of lasting profundity" by The Guardian. Galway will have a chance to see why later this month.
Read more ...Album review: Mermaidens
Music Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017
WHEN IT comes to describing New Zealand rock music, associations tend towards either the melodic post-punk/indie of The Chills or The Clean (both linked with the Flying Nun label) or the melodic, sophisticated pop-rock of Crowded House.
Read more ...Druid seeks submissions for New Writing and FUEL
Thu, Aug 03, 2017
DRUID THEATRE Company is seeking submissions for its New Writing programme, and its artist residency programme, FUEL. Both initiatives are designed to support artists and enrich the company’s artistic programme.
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