From Brandon to Brooklyn
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.
Read more ...Laughs for youngsters - Comedy Club 4 Kids
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THERE WILL be laughs for the whole family, and especially for children, when comedians from Galway Comedy Festival 2013 play the Comedy Club For Kids.
Read more ...Away with the fairies - Human Child
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild.
Face The Music with Equinox
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
EQUINOX, THE acclaimed jazz/rock/fusion band, comprising Dutch, Irish, and American musicians, are coming to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre.
The quintet play the Town Hall on Saturday October 19, the first date on their Irish tour, to promote their new album Face The Music.
Read more ...Moonfish recast Pinocchio as ‘cool teen’
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
ONE OF the highlights of next week’s Baboró is the return of Moonfish Theatre Company’s much-acclaimed Tromluí Phinocchio/ Pinocchio – a Nightmare.
Read more ...Led Zeppelin tribute night
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A NIGHT of classic hard rock and a tribute to Led Zeppelin will take place in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Saturday October 19 from 9pm.
Read more ...Calling all students at The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE QUAYS Music Hall new student night, Lockdown, continues tonight with a concert by folk-rockers The Kilkennys.
Read more ...Charity night in The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A CHARITY night and gig, in memory of Gosia Urbanik, takes place on Sunday, upstairs in The Quays.
Read more ...Three films from the Arab Mediterranean
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Film Society will screen three films in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend, all of them from the southern Mediterranean region.
Read more ...New Youth Film Club opens tomorrow
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Youth Film Club opens tomorrow in the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, and is open to young people aged between 14 and 18.
The club will be showing a broad range of films that cater for a teenage audience, including independent releases, documentaries, and classics. Films will be shown every Friday from 6pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Get free tickets to Disclosure’s Black Box concert
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
CHART CONQUERING dance duo Disclosure are coming to the Black Box Theatre on November 14 as part of Heineken Live Project.
A limited number of free tickets to the concert will be available on Tuesday October 15 at 2pm through www.heinekenmusic.ie, on a first come, first served basis.
Read more ...Session Americana at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
SESSION AMERICANA, a who’s who of the Boston folk music scene, bring their Irish and American folk fusion to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Hard rocking tonight @ Monroe’s
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
IF YOU pine for the days of hair-metal, epic guitar solos, spandex, and a time when Guns‘n’Roses, Whitesnake, and Mötley Crüe, ruled the world, read on.
Read more ...Harrison & The Devil - gig and debut EP
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
GALWAY BAND Harrison & The Devil are set to launch their debut EP Cat Matters and will play Club Áras na nGael, Dominick Street, at 9.30pm.
Read more ...It Was All A Bit Black & White album launch
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
GALWAY BASED post-rock duo It Was All A Bit Black & White will launch their debut album Retro Futurism at the Róisín Dubh.
The duo - Matthew Sutton (guitar/synth/noise) and Mosey Byrne (drums) - who play a thrilling mix of metal, indie, and electro, will launch the album with a show at Strange Brew, on Thursday October 17. Support is from Nanu Nanu and Blue Whale.
Read more ...Art exhibitions
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A DIVERSE range of artistic approaches and methods will be on display in four exhibitions which have just opened around the city.
Read more ...Wagner, Nietzsche, and Engelbert Humperdinck
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
RICHARD WAGNER and Friedrich Nietzsche were once close friends but a serious falling lead to the philosopher vomiting in public after hearing the composer’s newest work.
Read more ...Build an instrument and take part in a gig
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE BELGIAN based, American singer-songwriter, Le Ton Mité is coming to Galway to perform a concert and give an ‘instant instrument workshop’.
Read more ...Galway Jazz Festival is now on
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE NINTH annual Galway Jazz Festival, which opened on Tuesday, will see Irish and international jazz musicians performing across throughout the weekend.
The highlights of this year’s festival will be legendary pianist Bertha Hope and acclaimed German singer/pianist Olivia Trummer. There will also be shows from Irish saxophonist Michael Buckley and guitarist/composer Mike Nielsen.
Read more ...TG4 to explore the Tuam connection to punk
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
PUNK’S MOST enduring icon, Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, is second-generation Irish, his father having come from Tuam.
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