Galway bands to feature in Patrick’s Day parade

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE 2015 St Patrick’s Day Parade will showcase the wealth of talented and imaginative bands, musicians, and community music groups, at work in the city.

Bondage? S&M? It has to be Fifty Shades of Grey

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE CONTROVERSIAL, best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey finally hits cinema screens and will be shown in The Eye Cinema on Friday February 13.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

THE SIXTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny is on this Monday at The King’s Head, High Street, with the last eight comics battling for a place in the grand final.

Exhibition to examine affect of direct provision system

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

ASYLUM ARCHIVE, a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre, will examine the Direct Provision system in Ireland and the effect on the people who go through it.

Compántas Lir bring The Memory of Water to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

CARNMORE/CLAREGALWAY group, Compántas Lir grace the stage of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe this month with its production of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water. Galway audiences will have two opportunities to see this production, Sunday February 22 and again in March, FROM Wednesday 25-Friday 27.

13 Hours, 11 songs, one rollicking, rootsy feast

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

DEVOTEES OF American roots and rockabilly should check out 13 Hours, the latest release from Joe Fury & The Hayride, which is guaranteed to get juke joints jumping, shebeens swinging, and honky-tonks hopping.

I’m a boy but my mom won’t admit it

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

IS HE masculine? Is he feminine? Is he straight or is he gay? He’s not sure, and it’s hard when his mother wants to treat her growing boy as a little girl.

Soulful Slow Club for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

SLOW CLUB have been called “Sheffield’s very own two person take on The Commitments” by the NME, and their soul-influenced sound is coming to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

Pete Kennedy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

NASHVILLE BASED country singer-songwriter Pete Kennedy plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm as part of his I Am The One world tour.

We Banjo 3 to record new album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GALWAY FANS of the great We Banjo 3, who want to cheer on the band and have themselves recorded while doing so, should get down to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.

Saturday is classical music day

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FEBRUARY’S REMAINING Saturdays will, through a new series of concerts, hear the variety of instruments and musical styles that make up the broad world of classical music.

Tchaikovsky and Bluebeard @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FIRST LOVE and erotic, violent, love are the stuff of the operas Iolanta and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which will be screened at The Eye for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.

Beethoven’s piano sonatas - live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

REGARDED AS one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven’s music, French pianist François-Frédéric Guy will be in concert in Galway next week.

Alt folk at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

ALT-FOLK band The Longtails play Monroe’s Live on Friday February 20 at 10pm in support of their recently released debut EP Lindsay Road.

A nineties styled Valentine’s @ HALO

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

VALENTINE’S WEEKEND at HALO will be a mix of 1990s fun and nostalgia and the intriguing pairing of a DJ and a saxophonist.

Queen tribute at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FLASH HARRY, one of the world’s leading Queen tribute bands, are coming to Galway, playing the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm.

Get Boogie!

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GET BOOGIE! is back tomorrow night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, for a collaborative gig weekend with east coast crew Drank.

From city to wasteland in one animation

Wed, Feb 11, 2015

JOURNEY THROUGH a series of modernist buildings on your way to a construction site intended for people who will be alive thousands of years in the future, but will not understand any languages we speak today.

Gaelgáirí - comedy as Gaeilge

Wed, Feb 11, 2015

TÁ GAELGÁIRÍ, an t-aon chlub grinn Gaeilge sa tír ag teacht go Gaillimh den chéad uair ar Satharn an 7ú Márta mar chuid den fhéile Seachtain na Gaeilge.

American Sniper to kick-start subtitled screenings at IMC

Tue, Feb 10, 2015

AMERICAN SNIPER, the new film starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, will be screened with subtitles this Thursday at 6.30pm in the IMC Galway.

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