Cúirt New Writing Prize 2017

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

THE CÚIRT New Writing Prize is seeking entries in poetry and fiction, with a €500 cash prize for the winner of each category and the opportunity to read at the Cúirt/Over The Edge Showcase at Cúirt 2017.

The adventures of two little shapes

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

THE SHAPE Of Things, Branar Teatar do Pháistí and Starcatchers' new show for those aged from six months to two years has its Irish premiere at the 2016 Babaró International Children's Festival.

Karl Spain to play Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

KARL SPAIN, a recent star of RTÉ’s Operation Transformation, who has delighted comedy audiences for years with his razor sharp wit and sense of mischief, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow from 9pm.

Terrordome to headline metal/punk night

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

TRASH METAL, sludge metal, prog and punk from Poland, Dublin, and Galway will be heard loud and unleashed when Terrordome, Snowblind, Ten Ton Slug, and Psychopigs, play the next Hexen Haus gig.

Rory Gallagher tribute at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

RORY GALLAGHER, possibly the greatest guitarist, and certainly the greatest bluesman, to ever emerge from Ireland, died in 1995, and next week Galway will celebrate both the man and his music.

Carnevil - enter if you dare...

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

ARE YOU feeling brave? Are you feeling nervous? Are you looking for something to test the limits of your courage, and are you prepared to look deep into the abyss? Are you prepared for the abyss to…look back?

Skratch Bastid to DJ @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

SKRATCH BASTID, the Canadian DJ celebrated for his comfort and versatility in mixing hip hop, funk, disco, club, and rock, into a fusion that demands people dance, is coming to Galway.

Maxi Jazz to DJ in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

HE WAS the face and the voice of Faithless, whose songs 'God Is A DJ', 'Insomnia', and 'We Come 1' dominated the charts and the airwaves in the 1990s and early noughties, and now that voice, Maxi Jazz, is coming to Galway.

Cúla Bula's Repocalopera

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

A NIGHT of conspiracy, tinfoil head protection, and eternal damnation awaits Galway when trad/folk-rock band Cúla Búla bring their new rock opera, Repocalopera, to the Monroe's Live stage.

Whiplash - Metallica tribute @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act play The Loft at Seven next week and can be expected to deliver a thrilling two hour set from the band's classic 1983 - 1991 era.

RobotRock @ HALO

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

PARTY BAND RobotRock, whose re-mixing and mashing up of classic dance anthems create a floor filling experience, play the HALO nightclub tomorrow.

Invasion of the body slammers

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

AL PORTER in a leotard; muscular American wrestlers Chris Hero and X-Pac; somewhere in the middle of it all the Rubberbandits; and all part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway - this is set to be the most hilariously homoerotic fun since Top Gun!

'Mazda' - The Clockworks release new single

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

HOT CHOCOLATE may have boasted about love being in the back seat of lead singer Errol Brown's motocar, but for the character who narrates The Clockworks' new single, the back seat of a old Mazda is a much more squalid place.

'Alice in Wonderland meets Hieronymous Bosch'

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

VISITORS TO the Town Hall Theatre bar this week will find themselves transported to Shona Shirley MacDonald’s strange and magical otherworld of Juniper, showing as part of the Baboró International Children's Festival.

Harvester and Dvne - metal tour begins in Galway

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

GALWAY STONER rock/metal band Harvester and Edinburgh doom/black metal quartet Dvne, will tour Ireland next week, with both bands playing Galway city at the start of the tour.

Blood Thread - metal band to make Galway debut

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

BLOOD THREAD will bring their bone crushing, modern, death metal to Galway next week for what will be the Scottish band's first appearance in this city, accompanied by Words That Burn, who are also making their Galway debut.

'I approach it all in a pretty gentle way, but I'm nasty as hell'

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHEN AUSTRALIAN comedian Sam Simmons brings his award winning show, Not A People Person, to this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival, it will be a double first debut for the Adelaide native.

Gerry Conneely's Shakespeare in Connemara

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

OLDER READERS will remember those halcyon days in the 1990s when lunchtime theatre was part of daily life in Galway. It was part of the streetscape itself as merry mischief-makers like The Flying Pigs and The Mad Susans took to the thoroughfares to coax the unwary into the back of The King’s Head.

Ken Bruen's 'brilliant...surreal' take on Galway

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

IN THE pristine minds of the inoffensive middleweights who like to think they dominate Irish literary culture post-Heaney, Ken Bruen is problematic. He writes novels people they describe as ‘ordinary’ like to read, with no higher aim in their devastatingly average minds than pure pleasure.

The Bolshoi Ballet - Live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE GOLDEN Age, a satire of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, will mark the first in a new season of live broadcasts from The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

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