Electric 6’s Dick Valentine @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

DICK VALENTINE, the lead singer of Electric Six, the band best known for the songs ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘Danger! High Voltage’ is coming to Galway.

Alex Arnout to DJ @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

LEADING BRITISH DJ and producer Alex Arnout is coming to Galway to DJ at the Basement Project clubnight in The Cellar Bar on Friday April 24 at 9pm.

No Spill Blood to bring Heavy Electricity to Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

NO SPILL BLOOD’s “ferocious dose of synth-laden aggression comes across with all the brutal heft of underground metal and with the clever intellect of post-punk”.

ConTempo to perform Beethoven quartets

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

“BEETHOVEN’S MUSIC is not written for the generation of mankind that reached the moon, or the iphone generation; it goes beyond that; for those yet to come! It is timeless.”

Nirvana tribute @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

NAMED AFTER the song that closed Side A of Bleach, Nirvana tribute band Negative Creeps are coming to Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday April 24.

Plutonic House @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

PLUTONIC HOUSE will bring their fusion of hard-hitting synth melodies, punk/funk bass, and lo-fi analogue disco beats to Monroe’s Live on Thursday April 23.

Leading poets to read at Cúirt

Wed, Apr 15, 2015

THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature began life 30 years ago as a festival dedicated exclusively to poetry. Its remit is wider today, but poetry remains a key factor.

Follow the literature inspired art trail around town

Wed, Apr 15, 2015

AN ART trail, in and around the city’s ‘Latin Quarter’, opens tomorrow [April 16] to coincide with this month’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

The Games People Play - the play for the ‘negative-equity generation’

Tue, Apr 14, 2015

THE GAMES People Play, the award winning play for the “negative-equity generation” comes to the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm. Winner of Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards, it stars Aonghus Óg McAnally and Fair City’s Lorna Quinn.

Grace Wilde - debut EP and Monroe’s Live show

Tue, Apr 14, 2015

GRACE WILDE, the Irish duo of Audrey Fay and Enda Duffy, praised by The Irish Times as delivering “delicious melodrama” and “a tightly disciplined mix of intimate rock and bluesy soul” play Monroe’s Live.

Tommy Tiernan - back on the islands

Mon, Apr 13, 2015

TOMMY TIERNAN is bringing his show Out Of The Whirlwind of a tour of the islands along the west coast this July, and Galway’s islands are included.

Cinema review: Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Films Reviews Mon, Apr 13, 2015

IT IS so hard to write about comedies. Comedy is, of course, incredibly subjective. It is, however, not hard to write about comedy sequels as they are nine out or 10 times complete rubbish.

Reduced Shakespeare Company reduce The Complete History of Comedy

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

FOLLOWING A hugely successful season at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Reduced Shakespeare Company arrive in the Town Hall Theatre next week as part of their roistering new tour of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged).

Only Our Own at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

FRESH FROM a critically-acclaimed run in London, Ann Henning Jocelyn’s new play, Only Our Own comes to An Taibhdhearc next week, for two performances only.

Galway Early Music Festival returns in May

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE 20TH Galway Early Music Festival returns, from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17, with ancient, medieval, Renaissance and baroque music and dance. This year’s theme is ‘Time’, focussing on the cycle of the seasons, the monastic hours, the ‘ages of man’, and the ages of the world.

Vincent Van Gogh on screen @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

TO MARK the 125th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s death, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is hosting a major re-showing of the gallery’s collection of works by the much loved artist.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? back at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

WHOSE LINE Is It Anyway?, featuring the talents of Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen, and Ireland’s Ian Coppinger, make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh.

Tradiohead - live at The Loft

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE MOST unusual and original of tribute bands, Tradiohead, who take the music of Radiohead and reinterpret it as Irish folk and trad, are back.

Hourglass Theatre Company’s Loose Change

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

GALWAY COMPANY Hourglass Theatre grace the Town Hall studio next week with a trilogy of new one act plays by local writer Ian Patterson, under the title Loose Change.