Are you ready for The Darkness?

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

UNITARDS, FLAMBOYANCE, falsettos, and gargantuan guitar riffs will explode onto the stage of Monroe’s Live when The Darkness play the Dominick Street venue on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Complete History of Comedy

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

THEY HAVE taken on the world of Shakespeare, but now the legendary trio are finally tackling the subject they were born to reduce. From the high-brow to the low, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) covers comedy from Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Charlie Chaplin to Chris Rock.

Citóg returns with three gigs in February

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

ATMOSPHERIC INDIE-ROCK, blues with a touch of grunge, and passionate folk will be heard in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesdays in February during that month’s instalment of the Citóg nights.

The Coronas play Róisín Dubh in February

Mon, Jan 26, 2015

IRELAND’S FAVOURITE pop-rock band The Coronas have just announced that they will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 12 at 8pm and tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am.

Cinema review: The Gambler

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 26, 2015

AN UNNECESSARY and boring remake halts what has been a sensational month of film in which each passing week has produced, if not a great movie, at least one worth going to see.

‘It’s all about political corruption’

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE FIRST ‘homegrown’ theatre highlight of the year is Theatrecorp’s staging of one of the greatest of all Jacobean tragedies - John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi - in the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday February 3. First staged around 1614, it is a dark and bloody drama about class, corruption, power, intrigue, murder, and madness.

Subtitle - a feast of European cinema

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

BOX OFFICE smashes from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden will be screened in a feast of continental cinema at the Town Hall Theatre from January 30 to February 31.

THEATREclub - shedding light on Heroin

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONE OF Dublin’s brightest and best-regarded young companies, THEATREclub is bringing its much-acclaimed, award-winning play, Heroin, to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 2 at 8pm.

Oh Boland to headline Strange Brew

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THEY CONTINUE a proud tradition of Tuam indie, rock, and punk; they have just finished recording their debut album; and they are about to play their second headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Panda Bear

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONCE UPON a time, January was the graveyard shift in the album release schedule, a time when contractual obligations, works deemed not good enough, and albums labels were not interested in, were unleashed into the post-Christmas commercial wasteland.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn returns to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

DUE TO popular demand, Aisteoirí an Spidéil’s production of Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, which has played to full houses in An Taibhdhearc, returns for performances throughout the city and county.

Italian film for the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

A FILM which begins at the end, Human Capital, to be screened in Galway this weekend, approaches a tragic death from three very different perspectives.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ERIC LAWLOR, the Dublin comedian voted Comic of the Year by readers of Entertainment.ie, is the special guest at this week’s Show Me The Funny.

Grounds For Invasion to launch debut album

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

GALWAY ELECTRO-POP duo Grounds For Invasion launch their debut album Dying Stars at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 5 and a taste of what is in store comes through the new single 'Bruce Lee'.

The Leg Breakers - comedy improv @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

COMEDY IMPROV group The Leg Breakers play the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 29 at 9pm.

Carmina Burana to be sung in Seapoint

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

FOR THOSE of a certain age Carmina Burana is ‘the music from the Old Spice’ ad, others associate it with X-Factor, but what is often forgotten is that that section, called ‘O Fortuna’, is part of a much larger work.

Small Size Day

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

TWO SHOWS will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Saturday January 31 as part of Small Size Day - a theatre initiative for young children.

Interskalactic to deliver the Ska

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, IRELAND’S only 10-piece ska band are set to deliver a night of ?rst-wave, old-school, Jamaican ska including covers of Skatalites and Prince Buster classics.

Galway trad/folk titans charity concert @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SOME OF Galway’s greatest trad/folk acts, including Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, and Dessie O’Halloran, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 8pm for the Walk In My Shoes Campaign.

Earthship to touch down @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SEVENTIES JAZZ-funk fusion, dance grooves, fiery improvisation, and irresistible pop hooks are on the cards when Earthship touch down at Kelly’s this Saturday at 10pm

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