Chieftains’ Matt Molloy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE CHIEFTAINS’ Matt Molloy and London-Irish fiddle great John Carty - both winners of the TG4 Musician of the Year Award - play Monroe’s Live on Tuesday January 27.

Get Boogie is back

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE GET Boogie clubnight returns to the Factory at Electric Garden tomorrow from 11pm with Dublin’s Northside Jungle Collective hitting the decks.

Shuffle! back @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

JANUARY CAN be a grim month, a time of bills and the post-Christmas blues, but it does not have to be that way - it can be a time of uptown soul and stomping funk.

Sinead O’Connor and John Grant for festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

SINEAD O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s most individual, eclectic, and controversial singer-songwriters, and John Grant, the American singer-songwriter, whose music The Guardian described as “completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful”, play the Galway International Arts Festival this summer.

The artists will play the Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Thursday July 23, and the pairing makes sense given that they have collaborated previously, O’Connor having performed backing vocals on Grant’s songs ‘It Doesn’t Matter To Him’ and ‘Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore’, from his album Pale Green Ghosts.

Wyvern Lingo to play Róisín Dubh in February

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

“FLAWLESS IS the only word to describe their harmonious melodies and perfectly written songs that are a mish-mash of pop, r’n’b and folk.” This is how Outmost.com described Wicklow’s Wyvern Lingo.

Boyfights to play Citóg tomorrow night

Tue, Jan 20, 2015

BOYFIGHTS, THE exciting indie-rock quartet play the new series of Citóg nights for 2015 when they take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.

Galway venues shortlisted for IMRO music venue award

Mon, Jan 19, 2015

THREE OF Galway city’s leading music venues - The Róisín Dubh, Monroe’s Live, and The Quays Bar - have been nominated for the IMRO Connacht Live Music Venue of the Year 2014.

Cinema review: Whiplash

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 19, 2015

A CLAUSTROPHOBIC, unrelenting, tense, but maybe slightly unrealistic take on a tired formula, Whiplash is still gaining Oscar buzz week on week.

The world is on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

FAMILY DRAMAS, WWII, gender identity, comic adventures, and examinations of Australian and Russian society will be played out on-screen as part of the Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season of films at the Town Hall Theatre.

Beowulf: The Blockbuster

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

AN EARLY highlight of the Town Hall’s spring season comes around next week with Bryan Burroughs’ hugely acclaimed solo show Beowulf: The Blockbuster.

Album review: Belle and Sebastian

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE TWIN peaks of Belle and Sebastian’s artistic achievements, 1996’s If You’re Feeling Sinister and 2003’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress, have set a high standard for a band that, over its long career, has regularly delivered quality work.

The Fear’s Ross Browne @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

ROSS BROWNE, one of the stars of RTE’s hit hidden camera show The Fear, is taking his Professional Idiot show on his first national stand up tour and Galway is one of his stops.

Over The Edge reading returns for 2015 season

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2015 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 22 from 6.30pm to 8pm, with writers Liz Quirke, Michelle Coyne, and Paula Cunningham.

Coming to Monroe’s Live in February

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

FROM KRAUTROCK to country, mainstream rock to full on techno, a range of bands and singers working in diverse styles are set to play Monroe’s Live next month.

Galway Arts Centre to host films by Gareth Kennedy

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE MOST comprehensive presentation to date of the work of Gareth Kennedy, the award winning Irish artist, who co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, opens this week in Galway.

Show Me The Funny - round two

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE SECOND round of this year’s Show Me The Funny, takes place on Monday at The King’s Head Bar, with special guest, the great Karl Spain.

Irish Youth Choir seeks Galway members

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE IRISH youth choir is seeking singers aged between 18 and 28 and auditions for new members will take place in Galway this Saturday.

Treasure Island on stage and live on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic story of murder, money, and mutiny is currently running in the National Theatre, London, in a new staging by Bryony Lavery.

Mná Mná @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

SINGER-SONGWRITERS Niceol Blue and Ruth Dillon play the Mná Mná showcase in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8.30pm.

New exhibition from Arja Sweeney

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

SPIRIT OF Nature II - Beauty of Life, the second solo exhibition by Galway based artist Arja Sweeney, opens in the Renzo’s Cafe, Eyre Street, next week.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.