Love, Rosie competition winners

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE WINNERS to this week’s preview screening of Love, Rosie at The Eye were:

Noah and the Whale member brings new band to Galway

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

NOAH AND The Whale are best known for catchy, joyous, indie-pop like ‘5 Years Time’ and ‘LIFEGOESON’, but there is another side to member Matt Owens.

The Sound Of Music in Oranmore

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE SOUND Of Music will be performed by students of Calasanctius College Oranmore in the school’s Nano Nagle Hall.

Jacques Renault @ Electric

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

JACQUES RENAULT, the Washington DC DJ and producer and Let’s Play House label head makes his Galway debut this weekend.

Scot McWatt - songs for the working man

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

GLASWEGIAN SCOT McWatt is a Scottish contemporary folk singer/songwriter with political, pop and blues tendencies, and a distinctly working class outlook on life.

Phill Jupitus and Gugai go head to head

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

VINYL RIVALS, comedian Phill Jupitus and music promoter Gugai will pit their DJ skills against one another for The Magnificent 7s night.

Shuffle! tommorrow night @ Roisin Dubh

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

SHUFFLE! IS back once again for this months instalment of foot stomping floor filler. Expect to hear jump blues, funk, northern soul, rockabilly, latin boogaloo, reggae, Jamaican ska, disco and what ever else ends up in the packed boxes of vinyl.

John Denver as sung by Marc Roberts

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

MARC ROBERTS has won huge acclaim over the years for his Tribute to the Music of John Denver show, and he is bringing it back to the Town Hall Theatre.

Brendan Bowyer - playing the hits at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE HUCKLEBUCK’ may have been written and first performed by r’n’b saxophonist Paul Williams, but in Ireland that song is unquestionably owned by Brendan Bowyer.

The Superior Inferior @ Factory

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE SUPERIOR Inferior, aka Belfast DJ and producer Graeme Morrison, makes his Galway debut in Factory this Saturday night.

PLAY @ The Cellar

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

HAVE YOU a song to sing? Are you a songwriter, guitarist, etc, and want to share your music but have no opportunity to get on stage?

Coyote Factor starts next week

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE FIRST round of heats for Coyote Factor 7 starts on Thursday October 23 in Coyotes Late Bar, Shop Street, with 12 contestants taking part.

Why Not? film festival - Let the adventure begin!

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

GET READY to sail to the Arctic, stand atop rugged mountainous peaks and descend with adventurers deep in the heart of vast canyons, when the Why Not? Adventure Film Festival comes to Galway.

Aindrias de Staic - The Man From Moogaga

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

THERE WAS The Man From UNCLE, the man from Del Monte, The Man From Laramie, and ‘The Man From God Knows Where’, but Aindrias de Staic is The Man From Moogaga.

Theatre review: Trickster in the Black Box

Theatre Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

THERE WAS a time, and not so long ago, when disability arts was regarded as little more than a kind of occupational therapy, like basket-weaving, and viewed with polite, yet condescending indulgence.

Cinema review: Gold

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

IFTA AWARD winning director Niall Heery’s latest film Gold is a wonderfully well worked comedy-drama set in rural Ireland.

Play by Love/Hate creator for the Linenhall

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

A play from the creator and writer of crime drama smash hit Love/Hate is coming to the Linenhall this month.

Soaring choral concert for Louisburgh

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

The Mayo Male Voice Choir is joining forces with mezzo soprano Annemarie Gibbons to perform a special concert in the Derrylahan, Louisburgh, tonight at 8.30 pm.

Ms Gibbons is internationally acclaimed for her operatic performances and will return to her native Louisburgh to perform with the choir and raise funds for the local Order of Malta.

So Cow - the long road to The Long Con

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUR TWENTIES are not necessarily the best years of your life, certainly not the years between 25 and 29. In a city, your 20s become an extended adolescence, but after the parties and the wildness is over, you reach a crossroads of ‘Thirty is on the horizon - what the hell am I going to do with my life?’