Bobcat Goldthwait to play comedy festival
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
Bobcat Goldthwait, the man who opened for Nirvana on their last North American tour, star of the Police Academy films and several HBO specials, is coming to the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Monroe’s to host digital battle of the bands
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
MONROE’S LIVE and iRadio are hosting a digital battle of the bands with videos to be submitted online this month and heats taking place in November.
Read more ...When the Duke met Harry
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
HARRY NILSSON is the voice of two immortal, much loved, songs, ‘Everybody’s Talkin’’ and ‘Without You’, and the man John Lennon described as “the missing Beatle”.
Read more ...MMOTHS to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
HE STARTED early, getting his first keyboard aged five, and now 15 years later, he stands as one of the most intriguing and original of Irish electronic musicians.
Read more ...Shuffle with Dave Barry
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
Galway’s leading northern soul and ska DJs, returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow for his Shuffle DJ night.
Read more ...Baile An Salsa - two worlds in one band
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
THE WORLDS of Irish trad and Latin American music join forces in an exciting way when Baile An Salsa take to the stage.
Read more ...Opera live at The Eye
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
THE OPERA Eugene Onegin will be broadcast live via satellite from The Metropolitan Opera, New York to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.
Read more ...Don Stiffe charity gig for Galway Lifeboat service
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
DON STIFFE, one of Galway’s leading folk singer-songwriters, hosts a concert in Monroe’s Live, tomorrow from 10pm, to raise funds for the Galway Lifeboat service.
Read more ...Rainy Day Sessions
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
A NEW night for trad sessions, The Rainy Day Sessions, will take place every Friday night from 10pm to 12 midnight in Garavans Pub, Shop Street.
Read more ...See Thérèse Desqueyroux on Sunday
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
POPULAR FRENCH actress Audrey Tautou plays the title role in Thérèse Desqueyroux which will be screened by the Galway Film Society this weekend.
Read more ...Actors workshops
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
CORE THEATRE College is to hold workshops in the Chekhov and Stanislavski techniques at the Blue Teapot Theatre, Munster Avenue.
Read more ...Second Kevin Bridges show for comedy festival
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
KEVIN BRIDGES’ Galway Comedy Festival show on Sunday October 27 sold out in record time so a second show has just been announced for Monday 28 at the Radisson Live Lounge.
Read more ...Gabriel Rosenstock to read Guantanamo poems
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
THE CELEBRATED Irish language poet Gabriel Rosenstock, will read from his translation of an anthology of poems by Guantanamo prisoners in Galway tonight.
Read more ...Guitar and cello concert
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
THE ENGLISH cellist Raphael Wallfisch and Irish classical guitarist Redmond O’Toole will be in concert in the Druid Lane Theatre on Wednesday October 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...Over The Edge Fiction Slam
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
THE OVER The Edge fifth annual Fiction Slam takes place on Friday October 11 at 8pm in The Kitchen in the Galway City Museum.
Read more ...Artists to give public talk on their working methods
Thu, Oct 03, 2013
ARTSPACE ARTISTS will hold a public talk about the process and methodology of collaboration in The Shed, Centre Pier, Galway Harbour, this Sunday from 2pm to 4pm.
Read more ...‘People focus on the bad stories but there are many good stories’
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
‘EXOTIC DANCING’, ‘East European immigrant’; put these two phrases together and straightaway you have the raw materials for a story of sexual exploitation set amid shady nightclubs and sleazy impresarios. Or perhaps not.
Read more ...‘People focus on the bad stories but there are many good stories’
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
EXOTIC DANCING’, ‘East European immigrant’; put these two phrases together and straightaway you have the raw materials for a story of sexual exploitation set amid shady nightclubs and sleazy impresarios. Or perhaps not.
Mirjana Rendulic’s one-woman show, Broken Promise Land, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre studio next week as part of the Galway Theatre Festival, offers a different perspective on a milieu we normally encounter via excitable TV exposés or tabloids.
Read more ...What are you going to in the Galway Comedy Festival?
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
“THE MOST wasted of all days is one without laughter,” said the poet e e cummings, so don’t let the October Bank Holiday Weekend go to waste, as there are seven days of laughter to be had at the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival.
The comedy festival runs from Tuesday October 22 to Monday 28 and will see more than 50 Irish, Britain, and North American comedians performing across 13 different venues in the city.
Read more ...Five chances to see Phill Jupitus at the comedy festival
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
PHILL JUPITUS is talking over Galway for the October Bank Holiday weekend as there will be no fewer than five chances to see him during the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.
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