'Ilenkus is a marriage between sounds'

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

THERE ARE few sonic hurricanes of such intense fearsomeness as that which is unleashed by Galway post-metal band Ilenkus, and in their new EP, Hunger, they have delivered their most uncompromisingly ferocious music to date.

JANAJ - debut EP, two gigs - including an all ages show

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

JANAJ, THE Galway based alt-rock band, are set to release their debut EP this month, and ahead of that play two all-ages shows - at Monroe's Live and at Citóg in the Róisín Dubh.

Biteclub's Disco Brunch Garden Party

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

BITECLUB WILL host a Disco Brunch Garden Party on its rooftop garden area on Sunday April 16 from 12 noon, as part of this year’s Galway Food Festival.

Evelyn Cusack and a fun family concert

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

EVELYN CUSACK, the well known meteorologist, will tell the story of 'The 3 Little Musical Piggys', featuring a porcine Mozart playing a concerto on the hosepipe, at a show coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

The Seven Last Words of Christ

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

THE SEVEN Last Words of Christ, Haydn’s celebrated work, exploring Christ’s anguish on the cross, and more broadly, on suffering and the human condition, will be performed in Galway this month.

Music For Galway's Good Friday Concert

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

POPULA MEUS - Oh My People - is the title of this year's Music for Galway concert of reflective music on Good Friday, which will a performance from the Collegium Chamber Choir in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

RobotRock - Live in HALO

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

ROBOTROCK, the party band/DJ, best known for live re-mixing and mashing up music by Daft Punk, Groove Armada, The Prodigy, and The Chemical Brothers, hit the dance floor of HALO tomorrow night from 11pm.

Leonard Cohen protege to play Galway this month

Wed, Apr 05, 2017

SHE SPENT time with the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, worked with street children in Egypt, and with Tribal Elders of Wekweti, an isolated First Nation community in northern Canada, but she is best known as the late Leonard Cohen's protege.

Theatre review: Spamalot (Twin Productions, Town Hall)

Theatre Reviews Wed, Apr 05, 2017

SEAN AND Brian Powers’ Twin Productions brought a feast of Monty Python-inspired laughter, zaniness, and song to the Town Hall Theatre last week with their lively staging of Broadway smash Spamalot - the musical’s first Irish production.

ASIWYFA - 11 essential tracks

Essential Playlist Mon, Apr 03, 2017

IT IS not easy selecting the best music by the game-changing, visionary Antrim post-rock band And So I Watch You From Afar - almost everything from their last two albums alone would make up an essential list. However here's a broad taste of the Ulstermen's brilliance ahead of their upcoming Róisín Duibh show:

Demystifying Hamlet

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

GALWAY'S JAMES Connolly Forum has set itself the task of 'Demystifying Hamlet' and explaining, in layman’s terms, the world of William Shakespeare’s tragedies with a public talk tomorrow at 7.30pm in The Western on Prospect Hill.

Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson - back from retirement

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

KEVIN 'BLOODY' Wilson retired in 2012 after bringing his unique brand of Aussie humour to the world for more than quarter of a decade. Five years later, Kev realised retirement was a bit boring, so he has hit the road once more.

Japanese Film Festival returns to Galway in April

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

FROM AWARD winning thrillers, to examinations of modern Japanese youth, to a film about the most famous Japanese metal band you have never heard of - the ninth annual Japanese Film Festival has it all.

Damien Dempsey - hbound for Galway in June

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, deservedly described by The Guardian as "one of Ireland’s great singer-songwriters" and by The Daily Express as "one astonishingly gifted individual", returns to Galway this summer.

EP review: Field Trip

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 30, 2017

NEVER JUDGE a book by its cover, or an EP for that matter. The sleeve of Field Trip's Evening's Over gives the impression this will be five tracks of slacker-rock and odes to student burn-out after one Buckfast too many.

Foil Arms and Hog - the end of Doomdah, the beginning of Oink

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

WHEN THE crowd in the Town Hall Theatre rose to give Foil Arms and Hog a standing ovation after they performance their show, Doomdah, last Friday night, it was a deserved accolade, but perhaps, for the comedians, a bittersweet one.

GIAF to host world premiere of major new music/theatre show

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THE WORLD premiere of Woyzeck in Winter, a major new music theatre production, will take place in Galway as part of the Galway International Arts Festival 2017, after which the show transfers to London’s prestigious Barbican Centre.

Heroes, rebels, and vampires - Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

A LADY vampire with designs on your daughter; puppets re-enacting the mighty clash between Connacht and Ulster, and the Galwegian accused of killing a leading Canadian politician - it's all at the Galway Theatre Festival.

FEAST - from punk to 'space neo-prog'

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

POST-PUNK, "space neo-prog", and Galway punk/hardcore with a sense of divilment, are all on the cards when the next FEAST gig takes place at the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

'I felt part of the Irish and Caribbean communities at the same time'

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THE 'GRACE' case, which has generated many headlines lately, has focused attention on the foster care system and its shortcomings. It is a story that adds topicality to the Cúirt appearance of Kit de Waal, whose much-praised novel My Name is Leon, conjures a world of broken families and fostering in 1980s London.

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