Death Do Us Part - Burlesque on the edge

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

KNIFE-THROWING, sword-swallowing, and whip-cracking, featuring performers who are "all blonde bombshell and man mountain muscles" - it can only be The Death Do Us Part Danger Show.

Irish and New York music at the Fringe

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

A GERMAN, a Galwegian, and two New Yorkers will gather together to play Irish and American traditional music at a gig which is part of the Galway Fringe Festival 2016.

The Irish pub as existential prison

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

JEAN PAUL Sartre's famous view that "Hell is other people", captured the difficulties of coexistence, and how an individual can feel alienated from those around him/her.

Toploader to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

"DANCING IN the moonlight, everybody's feeling warm and bright, it's such a fine and natural sight..." Back in 1999 there was no getting away from Toploader's cover of the King Harvest song, which went on to eclipse the original.

Paddy Casey to play Galway in Race Week

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

PADDY CASEY'S musical journey began with him busking on the streets of Galway, and this city is a place to which he returns regularly, with his next show here taking place during Race Week.

DJ Tamo Sumo @ Electric tonight

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

DEEP, SOULFUL house and techno cuts, with heavy Detroit, Chicago, and African influences will be heard tonight at Electric when DJ Tamo Sumo hits the decks.

ConTempo concert in Oughterard tomorrow

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

An evening with the RTE ConTempo String Quartet will be held in Oughterard’s Kilcummin Church tomorrow (Friday) at 7.30pm. Described as the ‘The ABBA of classical music’, the ConTempo Quartet is currently RTE’s quartet in residence.

GIAF16 Theatre Review: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour

Theatre Reviews Wed, Jul 20, 2016

OUR LADIES of Perpetual Succour is The National Theatre of Scotland's second visit to the Galway International Arts Festival and a raucously entertaining affair it is too.

Suede - five days until they play Galway

Tue, Jul 19, 2016

THE OLD and the new, the classic and recent, the audio and the visual, the cinematic and the musical, all will come together when Suede play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top this weekend.

The Savage Loves His Native Shore

Tue, Jul 19, 2016

DIALYSIS PATIENTS in Galway, and the nursing staff who look after them, have created a fascinating exhibition for this year's Galway International Arts Festival - The Savage Loves His Native Shore.

How well do you know your other half?

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

"WHAT ARE his favourite pair of socks?”, “How does she like her bacon?” If you think you could answer these kind of questions about your partner, you should take part in The Newlyweds Game.

Dirty Circus - the best of Galway burlesque

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

HARLEY SPARKS, Steven Sharpe, and The Mighty Boobs will be among the performers showing just how raunchy, racy, saucy, and downright brilliant Galway burlesque is at the next installment of The Dirty Circus.

Dan Deacon and his 'teeming crackpot electronica'

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

DAN DEACON is "a self-confessed pop weirdo who sits at the edge of pop and experimentation," according to The Guardian, who makes "teeming crackpot electronica" says The Times, and he plays Galway next week.

The colourful world of two artists called Callaghan

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

MALAYSIAN BORN Australian artist Stef Callaghan and County Antrim's George Callaghan are known for their vibrant, colourful, and distinctive style of painting, and Galway will be able to see both exhibit together.

Sammy J & Randy - tomfoolery, songs, and filth

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE skinny man and purple puppet, Sammy J & Randy, are heading to Galway armed with nothing but a keyboard and a suitcase full of songs, plus undies, toothpaste, and international adaptor plugs, but mostly, songs.

Theatre reviews: GIAF 16 week one

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 14, 2016

DYSTOPIAS, ISOLATION, characters on the edge are just some of the recurrent themes that announce themselves in Eoghan O’Tuairisc’s Fornocht do Chonaic/Naked I Saw You at An Taibhdhearc, Enda Walsh’s Arlington [a love story] in Leisureland, and Druid’s new staging of Waiting for Godot.

'I couldn't believe people had no problem with who I was'

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THERE IS no standing still in the world of Villagers' leader, vocalist, and songwriter Conor J O'Brien. The Ivor Novello winning, Mercury Prize nominated, artist has undergone a prolific last 18 months, releasing two albums and seeing his music evolve in new and different directions.

New farce starring Edwin Sammon @ Galway Fringe

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

A COMPULSIVE liar asks his eejit of a friend to pose as his psychiatrist for a couple's counselling session, because what could go wrong if you were to try that, right?

The Pajama Men - surreal sketch comedy @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THE PAJAMA Men "create a cartoon of the mind – a shape-shifting world in which anything seems not just possible, but imminent". So said The Guardian about the comedy phenomenon coming to Galway tomorrow.

The Souljazz Orchestra - 'eruptive improvisations' and hope

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

SOUL, JAZZ, Afro, Latin, and Caribbean styles, biting social commentary and a core message of hope, will come together in the music of French-Canadian collective The Souljazz Orchestra.

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