Fanlights @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THEY HAVE an average age of 21, describe their music as “ethereal, neo-psychedelic dream pop”, and they play Galway tonight.

Clubnights @ Factory

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

FEBRUARY AND Mars live, the start of a new clubnight, and the second instalment of Get Boogie! are all taking place at Factory this weekend.

Factory has started a new clubnight for Thursdays - Long Hot Summer Nights - which will see Factory resident DJs alongside the best local and national DJs and live acts, and admission is free.

Become a TULCA patron

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has launched a number of patron packages for those interested in supporting the arts.

Advanced fiction writing classes

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

AN ADVANCED class for people serious about writing short or long fiction with Galway writer Susan Millar DuMars takes place in September.

Phosphorescent - five Essential Songs playlist

Tue, Jun 10, 2014

PHOSPHORESCENT IS Alabaman singer-songwriter Matthew Houck and he is Phosphorescent in the way Neil Hannon is the Divine Comedy and Trent Reznor is Nine Inch Nails.

Theatre on-screen @ The Eye

Mon, Jun 09, 2014

ALAN AYCKBOURN’S celebrated and award winning play A Small Family Business is enjoying a revival in London’s National Theatre, but Galway will be able to see it too.

Dancing with the devil – in Cavan

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

SMASH-HIT play The Devil’s Céilí comes to the Black Box Theatre next weekend, fresh from a sell-out run at Dublin’s Peacock Theatre, and from winning the 2014 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone.

Boys keep swinging

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

BEFORE THERE was Conchita Wurst, there was Steven Sharpe. Before the Austrian singer’s ‘bearded lady’ drag persona stole the show at Eurovision, Steven was already rocking the ‘dude in a dress’ look.

Róisín Dubh Tenth Birthday Weekender

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

AND SO I Watch You From Afar, Dott, Delorentos, Le Galaxie, and Phill Jupitus will gather in the Róisín Dubh next weekend to celebrate the venue’s 10th birthday.

Welcome to The End Of The World

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

THE END of the world takes place in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, tomorrow evening. It has been foretold, there is no going back. It will happen.

The amazing story of The Tailor Of Inverness

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

THE TAILOR Of Inverness, by Matthew Zajac, tells the extraordinary story of Zajac’s father who grew up on a farm in Galicia - then eastern Poland, now western Ukraine - and worked as a tailor in Inverness after surviving the terrors and upheavals of WWII.

Seventeen writers to read in a library

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

AWARD WINNING writer Martin Dyar, Alan McMonagle, Pete Mullineaux, and Susan Lindsay will be among the writers reading at an event in the Westside Library.

Nora Barnacle’s Galway years

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

NORA BARNACLE, famous as the liberated woman who stole James Joyce’s heart and who stood by him during numerous controversies, is the subject of a new play.

A family concert with The Specks

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

“IF YOUR little ones love fantastic, magical songs...then The Speks are the boys for you!” according to Newstalk’s Tom Dunne.

June Rodgers’ merry month

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

COMEDIAN JUNE Rodgers is bringing her In The Merry Month of June tour to the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday June 12 at 8pm.

Two gigs from Emmet Scanlan

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

EMMET SCANLAN, the London based singer-songwriter, is coming back to his native Galway to play two shows in the county.

The Church Sundays @ Coyote’s

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

THE CHURCH Sundays in Coyotes Late Bar is a new event for parties and groups in Galway for a wild weekend, and feeling in the mood for ‘Round Two’.

The Church Sundays starts this Sunday and runs from 12 noon to 3pm, in Coyote’s, The Stock Exchange, Shop Street. There will be live music, entertainment, drink promotions, and a free cloakroom.

Baile an Salsa @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

BAILE AN Salsa, the exciting Irish trad/Latin music fusion band, return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Rory Gallagher/Joni Mitchell tribute gigs

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

TRIBUTE ACTS to Rory Gallagher and Joni Mitchell will take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 8.30pm.

New clubnight @ Factory

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

A NEW clubnight starts in Factory, Abbeygate Street, tomorrow. Given it is a collaboration between Bap to the Future and 110th Street, it promises to be exciting.

Hold The Line will feature DJs spinning disco, Italo, synthpop, and eighties music. The nights will also be streamed live from the club at mixlr.com/hold-the-line/, and requests are welcome.

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