Sara Baume - walking the thin line

Literature Reviews Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THERE IS something of a desolate feeling about the opening line of Sara Baume’s second novel, A Line Made By Walking, just published by Tramp Press: “A smudged-sky morning, mid-spring. And to mark it, a new dead thing, a robin."

Noises Off starts in An Taibhdhearc tonight

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

A BEDRAGGLED road company is flailing through the dress rehearsal for Nothing On, a silly sex romp scheduled to open that night in the backwater hamlet of Weston-super-Mare.

Dusky to play Electric tonight

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

DUSKY, THE London based duo Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell, and leaders of underground British dance, play the Electric Garden & Theatre, tonight from 11pm.

Athenry Music School's Guitar Orchestra Festival

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THE MUSIC of Mozart and Rihanna, along with John Cage's non-music 4’33, will be performed as part of the Athenry Music School's first Guitar Orchestra Festival, part of the school's 10th birthday celebrations.

Saucy tomfoolery at The Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

A NIGHT of burlesque and cabaret, the most fantastic foolishness ever imaginable, all delivered with lashings of sauce and sexiness await Galwegians when The Dirty Circus brings its April Fools! show to the Róisín Dubh.

Hipster Bingo - expect the unexpected (and marshmallows)!

Wed, Mar 29, 2017

GROOM THAT magnificent beard, check your angular haircut, squeeze into the most crotch compressing pair of skinny jeans you can, crack open a craft beer, listen to music by indie bands so cool they don't yet exist, then head down to the Róisín Dubh for the next Hipster Bingo night.

Oscar winning Iranian film for Town Hall

Wed, Mar 29, 2017

IRANIAN FILM, The Salesman, exploring the moral questions facing a married couple, following a sudden violent act at the apartment they are temporarily living in, closes the current Galway Film Society season.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh - the best of new and Galway comedy

Tue, Mar 28, 2017

FOUR AWARD winning comedians, all at the early stages of their careers, and three of whom are based in Galway, will gather together for your entertainment at the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh this week.

Bronagh Gallagher to play Monroe's Live

Mon, Mar 27, 2017

AS AN actor she has appeared in The Commitments, Pulp Fiction, Grabbers, Shooting For Socrates, and You, Me, and The Apocalypse. She is also a powerful blue-eyed soul singer, and as The Irish Times said, you, "overlook her musical career at your peril".

No Monster Club play Strange Brew this week

Mon, Mar 27, 2017

NO MONSTER Club, the cartoonish art-pop brainchild of Dublin songwriter and vocalist Bobby Aherne, have songs which NYLON described as "a stripped-down, sugar high Pet Sounds", and which The Irish Times said have "the kind of tunefulness that makes a joke of so much contemporary pop music".

Róisín Dubh Comedy Showcase: Every Tuesday at Róisín Dubh

Mon, Mar 20, 2017

Róisín Dubh has long been the home of comedy in Galway. Every week, the promoters of Friday night’s “Comedy Clubh” bring us the very best of Irish and international stand up, improv and sketch acts. From Foil Arms & Hog at the Town Hall Theatre and British-Iranian comic Omid Djalili in Black Box later this month to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival in October (now a major highlight of the Irish festival calendar) they really do spoil us with top acts week in, week out.

'Music can express something poetry can’t - it gives extra emotional colour'

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

TWO VERY different albums - one a debut, the other something of a ‘comeback’ - are about to be released on the independent Galway record label Rusted Rail, and both will be launched at a forthcoming Citóg gig.

Blue Teapot to host fantastic fundraising event in Eye Cinema, g Hotel & Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

EVENT 1 – MATINEE SCREENING
Blue Teapot are delighted to announce that tickets for a FUNDRAISER MATINEE are now on sale via the TOWN HALL THEATRE 091-569 777.

Paisiún‎..... talking is the first step in the right direction

Wed, Mar 15, 2017

The why?
In Ireland, over 400 people each year end their lives by suicide and we have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe among 15-24 year olds.

Harvester - championing classic metal values

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

WHEN IT comes to metal I am unapologetically old school. When I hit play I want the riffs of a Tony Iommi, the leads of Murray/Smith or a Gorham/Robertson, and all that topped with the voice of a Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford.

Album review: Laura Marling

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THE OPENING track 'Soothing' lives up to its name, but its languid, bass-led, rhythms, and Marling's sultry croon are something of a red herring. Unlike this song, wonderful though it is, the album will not be an indie-pop/jazz hybrid.

Keith Fox @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

HE MAY have a bleak view of life, but he make uproarious, indeed joyous comedy, from it. He is Keith Fox, and he plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night from 9pm.

What if you knew your days were numbered?

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

WHAT WOULD a society look like if people knew from the outset how long they are going to live? This is the question asked by the play Die Befristeten, which is to be performed by NUI Galway students.

Angeline Cooke holds second solo exhibition

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

ANSEO IS Ansiud – Here and There, the second solo exhibition by Galway artist Angeline Cooke is currently running at the Renzo Gallery Café, Eyre Street.

A Swedish woman’s Galway view of Scandinavia

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THE LAST Wilderness is set to be a milestone in the career of Galway based artist Cecilia Danell. Not only a major solo exhibition, opening in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street, tomorrow evening, it will be the most extensive, and varied, display of work from this multi-talented creative to date.

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