The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

IT WAS a dark and stormy night in Cavan. Locals were taking shelter in the pub, but none of them expected Joe Dolan to walk through the door.

Drum’n’bass night @ The Cellar

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

DRUM’N’BASS, dubstep, and different permutations of techno will be heard when DJs Zenji, Phunty, and Teknonotice hit the decks in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

The return of The Whileaways

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

GALWAY folk-rock/trad/Americana trio The Whileaways return to live music duties with a show at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, this Saturday.

Manchester DJ for Electric

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

MANCHESTER DJ, producer, remixer, and MC, Chimpo makes his Irish debut tomorrow night at Get Boogie! in Factory, Abbeygate Street.

Galway Baroque Singers in Tuam

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Galway Baroque Singers travel to Tuam on Sunday December 21 where they will present a concert of seasonal music in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Rebel songs for Monroe’s Live

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

REBEL SONGS and Irish roots music will be heard loud and proud when Galway band The Uncurables play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Thursday December 18.

Cois Cladaigh concert for Simon

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

COIS CLADAIGH choir will present a concert of seasonal music in aid of the Galway Simon Community in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Beauty and the Beast - as Gaeilge

Wed, Dec 10, 2014

OH NO it’s not! Oh yes it is! The An Taibhdhearc panto is back and this Christmas Beauty and the Beast will get the as Gaeilge make-over as Áille agus Allta from December 17 to 20.

Cork folk and roots musicians for Monroe’s Live

Wed, Dec 10, 2014

TWO STALWARTS of the Cork folk and roots music scene - Greenshine, the band consisting of Mary Green and Noel Shine, and singer-songwriter Hank Wedel - play Monroe’s Live on Monday December 22.

Syd Arthur - neo-psychedelic quartet play Galway

Tue, Dec 09, 2014

IN PSYCHEDELIC music, few figures as pivotal as Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and Love’s Arthur Lee, so it is hardly surprising that both men should appeal to a quartet of Canterbury psych fans.

Galway singer releases charity single for Alzheimer Society

Tue, Dec 09, 2014

INDIE-FOLK singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan, best known as leader of blues/roots/folk-pop band The Followers Of Otis, has released a new Christmas single in aid of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Damien Rice to play Galway Arts Festival Big Top

Mon, Dec 08, 2014

DAMIEN RICE will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top on Thursday July 16. The concert, which will take place in the Fisheries Field, will be the singer-songwriter’s arts festival debut.

Cinema review: St Vincent

Films Reviews Mon, Dec 08, 2014

A BILL Murray movie is always time for celebration. Certainly one of the most beloved actors of all time, when he has a movie out you always have to see it - and he has been on an decent run lately, mainly thanks to his collaborations with Wes Anderson.

Johnny’s gift – the story behind the charity single ‘Part Of A Tribe’

Mon, Dec 08, 2014

IT IS the gift of a songwriter to put together a story that in lyrics and melody transcends time and place to transport us to a place of his/her making, often without us ever noticing the hand steering us along.

The body and soul behind Corp + Anam

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

TONIGHT SEES TG4 broadcast the second episode of the gutsy drama series Corp + Anam, written and directed by Darach Mac Con Iomaire and produced by Paddy Hayes’ Magamedia Productions.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

LÉIREOIDH AISTEOIRÍ an Spidéil Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn sa Spidéal i dTír an Fhia agus i nGailimh i rith mhí na Nollag agus mhí Eanáir.

Ben Ottewell - Gomez man to play solo Galway show

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

HE IS a lead singer in Gomez, the British band that brought the blues to student and indie audiences in the late nineties/early noughties, but he also operates as a solo artist.

Two exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

work by British artist Mel Brimfield and the debut Irish show of Denmark’s Stine Marie Jacobsen both take place in the Galway Arts Centre.

New book on life in Ardrahan

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ARDRAHAN, ITS people, life, and times from the 1930s to the 1960s, is the subject of a new book, Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen, which will be launched this weekend.

Old Galway’s hidden urban landscape

Literature Reviews Thu, Dec 04, 2014

ONE OF the great pleasures of the early morning walk, jog, or run through the streets of Galway is that you can experience our urban landscape unencumbered with either human or motorised traffic.

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