Over The Edge October reading
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
GALWAY ACTRESS Sarah O’Toole, poet Frank Dullaghan, and Margaret Brady will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 31 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...The opera about a run-away nose
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
SHOSTAKOVITCH’S SURREAL comic opera about a Russian official whose nose runs away and gets into all manner of scrapes is to be screened at The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Galway teen to release debut album
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
TARA SPELMAN, the 16-year-old Galway singer-songwriter, will release her debut album I Like It Like This, next month.
Read more ...The return of Daft Funk
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
DAFT FUNK, the celebrated tribute act to Daft Punk are coming to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Street theatre on the pier
Thu, Oct 24, 2013
GIANTS RATS and other swamp characters will out in force along Nimmo’s Pier next week, but fear not, it’s all in the name of fun.
Read more ...Disclosure Settle for the Black Box
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
FROM EXPERIMENTING with laptops and software in their music technology class at school to a critically and commercially acclaimed chart-topping debut album and a Mercury Prize nomination, Disclosure have come a long way in short space of time.
Read more ...Steve Bennett - the hilarity of heartbreak
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
AS THE song goes, “You’ve gotta suffer if ya wanna sing the blues” and sometimes to make good comedy you have to suffer first before you can find the laughter.
Read more ...Comedy festival shows @ The King’s Head
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
PHILL JUPITUS, stars from Fr Ted, rising star Colm O’Regan, and the screening of a comedy documentary take place in The King’s Head for the Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Caught Red Handed
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
AP hotel in an autumnal Dublin, where the wife of an ambitious politician secretly meets her old lover after 15 years. She soon discovers how dramatically their lives have changed, yet still determines to bridge the gulf between them and shape their future together, whatever it takes.
Read more ...Gretchen Peters to play Town Hall
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
GRETCHEN PETERS, the Nashville based singer-songwriter returns to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday October 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Renoir and the model
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
THE GREAT impressionist painter Renoir is the subject of the next Galway Film Society screening this Sunday in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Charity flash fiction competition
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
THIS IS A Story... is a new flash fiction competition to raise funds for the Galway Rape Crisis Centre and entries can be submitted now.
Read more ...Spartacus - the ballet
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
SPARTACUS, THE gladiator who led a slave revolt against Rome, has inspired freedom fighters, film-makers, and a ballet by the Bolshoi.
The Bolshoi Ballet’s staging of Spartacus will be broadcast live via satellite from Russia to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Sunday at 4pm.
Read more ...Little Green Cars - extra date added
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
LITTLE GREEN Cars have added a second date at the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 29 and tickets are now on sale.
Read more ...Amelia Curran @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
AMELIA CURRAN “lifts herself above the melee and creates something of poetic loveliness,” said Q, about the singer-songwriter who is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Old school rock from Crafty Fuzz
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
THE POINT where old school rock and heavy metal meet is where Dublin quartet Crafty Fuzz can be found as Galway will hear in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Metal night @ The Cellar
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
COILGUNS, THE Swiss tech/noise metal trio will headline a night of metal bands at The Cellar Bar on Tuesday October 22 from 8pm.
Read more ...WOB @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
A FUSION of drum‘n’bass, jazz, ambient, electro, and house is on the cards when Dublin trio WOB play Monroe’s Live tonight at 10.30pm.
Read more ...Comedy fest shows not to miss
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
TWO SHOWS not to miss at this year’s Galway Comedy Festival are the Mad Hatters Tea Party and Gunther’s Sunday Roast, featuring an eclectic, eccentric array of comics.
Read more ...Pictiúr - the Baboró 2013 exhibition
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
PICTIÚR - AN exhibition of contemporary Irish children’s book illustrations, as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, is running at the Galway Arts Centre.
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