Worries Outernational bring the reggae this weekend

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

WORRIES OUTERNATIONAL, one of the leading soundsystems pushing reggae and dancehall music in Ireland, hit Galway this weekend when they take over the Commercial Boatclub in Woodquay.

Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

'We’re a three-headed monster!'

Thu, May 25, 2017

THEY GREW up in a house where good music was always being played, where parents and neighbours loved a sing-song. That Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor would eventually form a band seems to have always been on the cards, but it could have been so different. Had things worked out another way, the sisters could today be a comedy trio.

Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Competition seeks entries

Thu, May 25, 2017

ENTRIES ARE sought for the 29th Galway Film Fleadh's Pitching Competition, which seeks ideas, at any stage of development, from budding screenwriters and filmmakers.

Michael Flaherty's exhibition of happy endings

Thu, May 25, 2017

ANOTHER VERSION Of The Happy Ending, a new exhibition by the Kerry artist Michael Flaherty, depicts the landscape and native fauna of the artist’s home county of Kerry.

'A powerful First World War story'

Thu, May 25, 2017

A YOUNG soldier on the Western Front, Tommo Peaceful, as he awaits his execution by firing squad, looks back on the whole of his life. This is Private Peaceful, a deeply moving story by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.

Mike Skinner to DJ @ HALO

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOR 10 years Mike Skinner was the man behind the musical phenomenon The Streets. In that time he won an Ivor Novello, a Brit, and made a significant impact on British urban music.

Album review: Sea Pinks

Music Reviews Thu, May 25, 2017

SEA PINKS' last album, Soft Days, was solid, but lacked a true stand-out song. Watercourse has no such trouble though, as this new album from the Belfast trio boasts several great moments.

Rubberbandits at the Róisín this weekend

Thu, May 25, 2017

THEY'RE BACK! The Rubberbandits - the plastic bag masks clad duo of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome - will bring their inspired, highly intelligent, and as sharp as it is funny hip-hop comedy to the Róisín Dubh.

INISH: Island Conversations Festival

Thu, May 25, 2017

"ONE OF the most innovative, original, and downright entertaining events I'd been to in a long time," was how writer Kevin Barry described the INISH: Island Conversations Festival, which returns next month.

New solo exhibition from Pat Flannery

Thu, May 25, 2017

GALWAY ARTIST Pat Flannery will open The Journey, her second solo art exhibition, at the The Brazco Coffee Academy, Carraig Lair Shopping Centre, Oranmore, this evening at 7.30pm.

Metal, heft, sludge - and two FEAST debuts

Thu, May 25, 2017

IT IS their first Galway gig in four years, and their debut gig at FEAST. Either way if you have not seen Belfast band Hornets before, this weekend provides you with the excuse to rectify that omission.

Karl Spain returns to the Comedy Clubh

Thu, May 25, 2017

KARL SPAIN is so much craic on his regular visits to Galway, that the Galway City Council named the Spanish Arch after him. This is a little known fact you should not Google because of fake news.

American orchestral music at the Town Hall

Thu, May 25, 2017

ICONIC AMERICAN music, such as Bernstein's scores for West Side Story, will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra on their America Tour, which comes to Galway next month.

Mad Dog McRea - rowdy and room shaking

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOLK, ROCK, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music is what Galway can expect when Mad Dog McRea take to the stage of Monroe’s BackStage Bar next month.

US choir to sing at Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 25, 2017

THE SONORAN Desert Chorale from Arizona will give a concert at the Galway Cathedral featuring Renaissance and contemporary Irish compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish songs.

Go back to the eighties with Delorean

Thu, May 25, 2017

GOING BACK to the 1980s need not involve one of 'Doc' Brown's time machine Delorean car - it just needs 1980s covers band Delorean, who play HALO this weekend.

Seán McGinley and Garry Hynes reunite for upcoming Druid production

Wed, May 24, 2017

SEÁN MCGINLEY, one of Ireland's finest actors, will revive his long association with Galway's Druid Theatre Company company and director Garry Hynes, by starring in a new production of Eugene McCabe's King Of The Castle this autumn.

Galway African Film Festival 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

THE FATHER of African film, Cape Verde's best loved LGBT woman, and the coming of age of an Afro hipster, these are just some of the stories and people to feature at the 10th annual Galway African Film Festival.

Reginald D Hunter - back in Galway in 2017

Tue, May 23, 2017

HE HAS often been controversial, he has often been provocative, he is always challenging. He is Reginald D Hunter, the comedian who, according to The Times, is always "going for broke, flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating".

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