Danny Dowling @ the Galway Comedy Festival

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

HE MAY call himself “Ireland’s slowest rising comedy star!” but Danny Dowling is all over this year’s Galway Comedy Festival both as a participant and an MC of what could be among the festival’s wildest and most outrageous nights.

Kennedy’s children and ‘the loss of heroes’

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

The dreams and disillusions of the Sixties’ generation are movingly portrayed in Robert Patrick’s award-winning play Kennedy’s Children which comes to the Town Hall the week after next.

KATS and an Agatha Christie ‘whodunit’

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S 1943 play, And Then There Were None, based on her 1939 novel, is to be staged by the Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society.

Choral charity concert

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

THE KILTULLAGH Community and Something to Sing About choirs will perform in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday October 31 at 8pm.

Spooky Soul with Sunday Service @ Massimos

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

Massimos weekly afternoon chill-out session with DJ Dave Barry takes on a spooky twist this Sunday. Expect the same mix of soul, jazz, reggae, laid back funk but with a darker twist for halloween. Sunday Service is on every Sunday from 1-3pm with food from the award winning EAT kitchens.

Italian film at Town Hall

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

JEP GAMBARADELLA is a famous journalist, man-about-town, and failed novelist who one day hears about the death of the woman who was his first love.

Set List - comedy without a safety net

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

SET LIST is the ultimate test of a comedian’s creative and improvisational skills. With no script to fall back on, it is truly comedy without a safety net.

Shuffle presents Keb Darge @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

KEB DARGE, the leading Northern Soul, rockabilly, exotica, and r’n’b DJs will be spinning the decks at Shuffle in the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 1 at 11pm as part of his European tour. The Gawlay gig is his only Irish date.

Strange Brew’s 555th night

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

FOR 11 years Strange Brew has championed “indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations” and this month it celebrates it’s 555th night.

Jemson Green @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

IN A ERA when everything is alt-, post-, sub-something it is refreshing to hear a band like Jemson Green declare: “To hell with sub-genres! We are a rock band”.

Their music is a straight ahead mix of good songwriting and hard-rocking guitar. The band’s 2012 debut single ‘Growing Stranger’, a brooding piece of crunching yet melodic rock, was described by Hot Press “as compelling and irresistible a rocker as you’ll hear all year”. Their debut album will be released in the near future.

Digital Chaos @ The Cellar

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

DIGITAL CHAOS returns to the Cellar Underground for a Halloween fancy dress party this Saturday.

Common Tongues - Villagers are fans

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

VILLAGERS’ CONOR O’Brien is a fan of Brighton band Common Tongues, as is British TV presenter Dermot O’Leary. Galway will see why this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Yehudi Menuhin approved cellist to play Galway

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

“AN IMPRESSIVE artist with remarkable, unfailing musicality always moving with the most natural, electrifying, and satisfying interpretations.”

Stockton’s Wing man publishes debut novel

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

TONY CALLANAN, originally lead singer with Stockton’s Wing, has published his first novel, Encounters.

Burlesque cabaret @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

Ms Shir Madness (pictured) will be among the burlesque and cabaret performers at The Dirty Circus when it comes to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 2 at 9pm. Expect devilish tricks and dark delights. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.v

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.

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.