Bell X1 announce Galway date for upcoming tour

Wed, Apr 22, 2015

BELL X1 have announced they will play Galway’s Town Hall Theatre as part of their 17 date October Acoustic Tour 2015, tickets for which go on sale this week.

Kodaline add second Big Top concert date

Wed, Apr 22, 2015

KODALINE HAVE added a second show at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top, and will now play on Friday July 17 alongside the already sold-out Saturday 18 show.

Delorentos play Seapoint on Saturday

Tue, Apr 21, 2015

DELORENTOS CONTINUE their ascent as one of Ireland’s finest, and most popular, bands with a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, this Saturday at 8pm.

A Saturday evening with ConTempo and Beethoven

Tue, Apr 21, 2015

ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will be filled with the sound of the very first quartet for strings composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven - even if it is numbered as his third.

Cobain: Montage Of Heck - second showing at IMC on Wednesday

Mon, Apr 20, 2015

COBAIN: MONTAGE Of Heck, the extraordinary new documentary on the life of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, will get a second screening at the IMC Galway cinema this week. Owing to overwhelming public demand, the film, written and directed by Brett Morgen, with Kurt’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, as executive producer, will be screened this Wednesday [April 22] at 8.30pm.

Father John Misty announces Róisín Dubh show

Mon, Apr 20, 2015

FATHER JOHN Misty, the alter-ego of singer-songwriter and Fleet Foxes drummer J Tillman, will play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 22.

‘We’re not comedians by the way’

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE RUBBERBANDITS, the satirical hip hop duo of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome, who had dominated Irish comedy through their shows, hit songs like ‘Horse Outside’, radio appearances, and videos going viral, seemed to go very quiet, very suddenly, over the last year and a half.

Three sides of Steven Sharpe @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE PHENOMENON that is Steven Sharpe will be taking over the Róisín Dubh in his guise as band leader, Led Zeppelin tribute singer, and comedy/musical team member on Friday April 24 at 9pm.

God Bless The Child at Town Hall

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE SHORT stories of Cork born author Frank O’Connor are universally regarded as being classics of their kind. Now, for the first time, three of those funniest stories are being brought together as the play God Bless The Child.

Pádraic Reaney’s Crazy Jane at Coole Park

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

TO MARK the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats, artists Pádraic Reaney is hosting an exhibition of some of his graphic work based on Yeats’s Crazy Jane poems.

Album review: Pale Honey

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 16, 2015

CONTEMPORARY INDIE could be said to divide into two strands, one which takes its cues from the 1980s, the other which looks towards the 1990s.

Cúirt/Over The Edge New Writing Showcase

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

EMERGING WRITERS Alvy Carragher, Mary McGill, Teresa Sweeney, Daniel Roy Connolly, and Sonya Gildea, will read at the Cúirt and Over The Edge New Writing Showcase.

Take a stroll through Joyce’s Ulysses

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THIS EVENING [April 16] at 8.30pm Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop hosts Robert Gogan’s entertaining and illuminating show on James Joyce’s Ulysses, entitled Strolling Through Ulysses.

Reinventing the heroines of Irish myth

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

DRAWING INSPIRATION from the great Irish epic, the Táin Bo Cuailgne, Women In Arms is a show about Irish myths from the point of view of the women involved.

Dott - new release and Record Store Day concert

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

GALWAY INDIE-pop/garage rock band Dott, launch their new record, Carousel, a 12” split with California’s Night School, at Saturday’s Record Store Day concert.

Cúirt Fringe to remember Nora Crubs - “Galway’s first nightclub”

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

NORA CRUBS, a one time Quay Street venue, described by some as “Galway’s first nightclub” will be remembered and celebrated at an event at the Cúirt Fringe next week.

New Tom Stoppard play @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

TOM STOPPARD’s new play The Hard Problem is running in the National Theatre London, but Galway can see it via a live broadcast to The Eye Cinema.

Galway Arts Centre creative writing classes

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is hosting daytime classes for beginner and continuing creative writing students, taught by Susan Millar DuMars.

Tucan - new album and The Loft show

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

TUCAN HAVE been away for a while but return to active live duy this month following the release of their new album Towers. Towers was released through the new Quiet Arch label (www.quietarch.com), and will be supported by a tour taking in The Loft (formerly Kelly’s), Bridge Street, on Friday April 24 at 9pm.