Colours Fringe Festival 2016

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THE COLOURS Fringe Festival runs from Monday June 27 to Saturday July 2. The festival is in its seventh year and will host events on the NUI Galway campus and in the city centre.

Megacone to headline FEAST

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THEY HAVE been called "jewels of the Emerald Isle prog scene" by Prog magazine, and as "willing to challenge the boundaries of instrumental music and bring their own fresh feel to it," by Goldenplec. They are Megacone.

A feast of short films at the Galway Film Fleadh

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS from Killing Bono's Martin McCann, and films starring Love/Hate's Peter Coonan and The Stunning's Steve Wall, will be seen at the Galway Film Fleadh's short film programme.

Galway Film Fleadh seeks volunteers

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is seeking volunteers to help with this year's festival which runs from Tuesday July 5 to Sunday 10.

Trad music titans GIAF 16 concert

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

Four of the leading lights of Irish trad - Sean Smyth, Alan Kelly, Jim Murray and Jim Higgins - will join forces for a Galway International Arts Festival concert next month.

Rootical Sound System reggae concert

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

LEADING MUSICIANS in Birmingham's industrious and creative reggae, roots, and dub scene are coming to Galway this Saturday to perform at the Boatclub, Woodquay.

4 Men and a Bass to play Monroe's

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

4 MEN and a Bass bring their bluegrass fused harmonies to Monroe’s Live Backstage Bar on Sunday July 3 at 11pm, for a free gig.

Plutonic Dust @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

PLUTONIC DUST, fast becoming a household name for their abstract and trippy, underground techno, and punk/funk disco, play the main stage of Monroe’s Live on Thursday July 7 at 10pm.

Math-rockers Battles announce show at Róisín Dubh

Wed, Jun 22, 2016

INDIE ROCK, post-rock, math-rock, experimental rock...whatever you call it, Battles play it, and few do it as well as the New York trio who today announced they will be playing Galway.

Summer Lovin' with The Dirty Circus

Wed, Jun 22, 2016

STOCKINGS, SUSPENDERS, decadently glamorous women, and outrageously out there men - it's all coming to The Dirty Circus's Summer Lovin' show this weekend.

Mná Mná - three women, three kinds of music @ Roisín Dubh

Mon, Jun 20, 2016

THREE IRISH singer-songwriters - Meaghan La Grandeur, Lauren Ní Chasaide, and Maja Elliot - will play Mná Mná Music at the Róisín Dubh this evening, in the venue's upstairs bar from 8.30pm.

The Clockworks - new single and Seven show

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

"WAKING UP the next morning/Her face is not the same face/The one he fell for on the dancefloor's a smudge on a pillow case...out before she knows/Who says chivalry is dead?"

Galway Fringe Festival 2016

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

MORE THAN 100 events, across theatre, music, comedy, and visual arts, as well as a new cinema strand, make up the fifth Galway Fringe Festival, which runs from Saturday July 9 to Monday 25.

Michael Mee to headline Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

MICHAEL MEE was, at one time, a lawyer, but hung up his chancery wig and gown for life as stand-up comedian and in demand comedy writer. The law's loss has been comedy's gain.

Album review: Kristin Kontrol

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 16, 2016

IT MAY be strange that the opening song, of an album billed as a complete artistic overhaul and change of direction, concludes with the declaration: "There's no need to change yourself".

Sanctuary - Blue Teapots hit the big screen at Fleadh

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

THE CLOSING film at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh is Sanctuary, the screen adaptation of the acclaimed play from Blue Teapot Theatre Company, exploring the issue of sexual and romantic relationships between intellectually disabled people.

Fornocht do Chonac/Naked I Saw You - GIAF 2016

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

AN TAIBHDHEARC'S contribution to this year’s Galway International Arts Festival is Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's Fornocht do Chonac, a multimedia production about Patrick Pearse, performed in Irish with English surtitles.

Páraic Breathnach - four shows of Straight Outta Connamara

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

STRAIGHT OUTTA Connemara, Páraic Breathnach's stand-up comedy show, is coming to The Ruby Room in The King's Head, for a series of four lunchtime dates next week.

Poetry of hammocks, wine, and gynaecologists

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 16, 2016

A STRIKING feature of Marie Cadden’s debut poetry collection - Gynaecologist in the Jacuzzi – is that the voice speaking to us in the more than 50 poems included is, for a first collection, a peculiarly unified one.

The 'pretty groovy' sound of White Boys

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

PANTI BLISS has called their music "pretty groovy!; Joe.ie lauded their “genius production values”, while The Rubberbandits were moved to say "fair Balls”. They are Cork duo White Boys.

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