Hang On with Fidget Feet

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

HANG ON brings the suited denizens of the business world into the sumo wrestlers’ circle of combat, and in the process mixes an aerial dance trapeze duet with a musical performance, all wrapped up in the battle of the sexes.

Remembering Patrick Kavanagh in Galway

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

“IF EVER you go to Dublin Town/In a hundred years or so/Inquire for me in Baggot Street/And what I was like to know” wrote the poet Patrick Kavanagh, but you do not have to go to Dublin to find out about him.

The Stoles to play Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

DUBLIN ALTERNATIVE rock band, The Stoles, who "have a Black Keys vibe going on, but with maybe more of an emphasis on heavy rock than blues" according to TXFM, will play Galway.

Public lecture on Irish-Americans and Independence

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

WHILE THE contribution of Irish Americans to the events of 1916 are well documented, their campaign to undermine British imperial rule in Ireland in the decades before the Great War is often neglected.

No Stairway - Led Zeppelin tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway tribute act to Led Zeppelin, featuring the flamboyant Steven Sharpe on vocals, play the main stage at Monroe’s Live on Friday March 10.

Elvis is alive and well in Monroe's

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AUGUST 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of 'The King of Rock'n'Roll' - Elvis Presley, and in advance of that, a major Elvis tribute show is coming to Monroe's Live.

Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta to launch new album

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AFTER A 17 year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player, Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta, returns with a new album, An Rithim Réidh, which he will launch at a show in Indreabhán next week.

Distortion final to take place at The Quays

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

CONMAN, DEAD Horse Jive, Foxy Boxxing, Patrick Conneely, and Tobi will fight to be the first winner of Distortion, the new music competition organised by NUI Galway Music Society.

Passenger to play Galway International Arts Festival in 2017

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

HE HAS amassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube for his hit single 'Let Her Go', won the Independent Music Award in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2014, and enjoyed a No 1 album with 2016's Young as the Morning Old as the Sea. This year he plays Galway.

Theatre review: Eternal Youth (Cáca Dána Theatre Company)

Theatre Reviews Tue, Feb 28, 2017

BRIGHT YOUNG things Cáca Dána Theatre Company, formed in Galway just last year, were in the Town Hall Studio recently with their second production; Niamh Ryan’s hugely impressive Eternal Youth.

Druid announces 2017 programme of plays

Mon, Feb 27, 2017

CRESTFALL, AN early play by Mark O'Rowe, best known for scripting the films Intermission and Perrier's Bounty, will be staged as part of the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

Kathy Ross's street scenes of Galway

Mon, Feb 27, 2017

SOME OF Galway's best known street scenes are depicted by Galway artist Kathy Ross in an exhibition currently running in the Leaf and Bean Café in Tuam.

Album review: WHY?

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THERE ARE few more individual, yet conversely definitive, voices in American indie than WHY? founder/leader/singer Yoni Wolf, and his brilliance and ambition as a songwriter, indeed composer, is writ large on Moh Lhean.

Frankie Gavin and Liam Ó Maonlaí headline Éigse an Spidéil

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FRANKIE GAVIN and Liam Ó Maonlaí will headline Éigse an Spidéil 2017, the village's annual arts festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, and which runs from Thursday March 2 to Sunday 5.

Tull MacAdoo needs your vote to be The Successful TD

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

VOTE FOR Tull MacAdoo and he will look after you. A vote for Tull is a seat for yourself. He fought in the 1916 Rising, brought 200 jobs to the region, and has arranged television licenses and free electricity grants for “constituents in need”.

‘The far right don’t get the subtleties of provocative humour’

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE SCOTTISH scourge of Trump supporters; exposer of the hypocrisy of Alt-Right 'free speech’ advocates; an inveterate Tweeter; a star of TV, Vine, and webcams; author of “daft wee stories”; a phenomenon - Limmy is a Renaissance man of modern Comedy.

Isabelle Huppert in Things To Come

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FRENCH FILM Things To Come, winner of Best Director at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, and starring Isabelle Huppert will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Film Society.

The Black Gate Centre - Galway’s newest, hippest arts venue

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

GALWAY'S CULTURAL landscape has just acquired a lively and impressive addition in The Black Gate Centre, on St Francis Street. Catering for music, literature, art, film, dance, and learning, it aims to be a home for the artist and a haven for art lovers.

Remembering The Screamers for TULCA 2017

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FROM ITS beginnings in a leftist London commune in the 1970s, to its becoming a controversial source of fascination in 1970s Ireland, 'The Screamers' were advocates of Arthur Janov primal therapy, and have inspired this year's TULCA festival.

Dinosaur - British jazz 'supergroup' to play Clifden

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

"IMAGINE THE impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies." That was how The Guardian described jazz 'supergroup' Dinosaur.

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