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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Canadian Amelia, described by R2 as “a mistress of beautiful music”, with a voice that will “stop you in your tracks”, says Scottish Metro, plays Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9.30pm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New children’s books from Galway authors

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

OF ALL the things to inspire a children’s book, veteran and outspoken journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne does not seem to be one of them.

Performance poetry classes

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

THE AWARD winning performance poet Dave Rock is holding a four week class in this style of poetry at the Galway Arts Centre.

Artists announced for TULCA 2013

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

NEAL WHITE and Tina O’Connell, Bojan Fajfric, Sandra Johnston, and Robert Ellis will exhibit at the 2013 TULCA Festival of Visual Art.

Michael Murphy to read at Dubray

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

MICHAEL MURPHY, one of Ireland’s most respected broadcasters, and a best-selling author, is coming to Galway to read from his new book..

From horses to hilarity

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

SHE GREW up in the Irish equestrian heartland of Kildare, in a family that loved telling stories. She earned her comedy apprenticeship at university, moved to London, and found it made her more Irish and more determined to become a comedian.

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