The Waterboys to play Fisherman’s Blues in Leisureland
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
IN THE Mid 1980s, a band of Scottish musicians came to County Galway and between the city and An Spidéal they created the album many see as their masterpiece.
Read more ...Contemporary dance classes
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
THE GALWAY Dance Project will host contemporary dance classes with Katherine O’Malley in Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay, next month.
Read more ...‘A situation only interests me when it becomes very fraught’
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
AMONG THE many exciting authors making their way to Galway for next month’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, is the much-praised American fiction writer Ben Marcus.
Read more ...Good Vibrations - when Belfast was the heart of punk
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
IF IT was not for Terri Hooley there might never have been a punk scene in Ireland. Dublin was never convincing, Cork was virtually silent, and Tuam’s Blaze X ploughed a lone furrow west of the Shannon.
Read more ...See new Irish film Pilgrim Hill in The Eye
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
PILGRIM HILL, the new Irish film directed by Gerard Barrett, winner of the Rising Star awards at this year’s IFTA, will be shown in The Eye Cinema next month.
Read more ...Attack of the killer B-movies
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
MONSTER FLICKS, gory horrors, B-movies, and cult films will be the order of the day at the first NUI Galway Film Society film festival from Monday April 1 to Wednesday 3.
Read more ...Tea & Choonage
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
TEA & CHOONAGE, the local electronic music collective/event at The Secret Garden tea shop, hosts its final gig this evening from 5pm to 11pm.
Read more ...Voice of Ireland winner @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
THE 2012 winner of the Voice of Ireland, Pat Byrne, will play Monroe’s Live on Saturday April 6 at 9pm.
Read more ...Get ready to boogie with Michael Kaeshammer
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
MICHAEL KAESHAMMER, the jazz, swing, and boogie pianist, vocalist, and songwriter returns to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday April 4 at 8pm.
Ryan Tubridy has described him as “a cross between Michael Bublé and Jools Holland”, while in his native Canada, the Calgary Herald has called him “technically brilliant and a spectacle...like taking a Ferrari for a drive through winding mountain highways and then going for a gourmet meal”.
Read more ...GAC(h) Duine music fest @ Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
SOME OF Galway’s best indie-rock and folk/roots bands will perform across three days in the Galway Arts Centre for the venue’s new music festival GAC(h) Duine.
Read more ...One Night Love Affair @ Electric
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
LEADING EUROPEAN DJs San Soda and Mr Ties are coming to One Night Love Affair, a celebration of all things house and disco at the Electric Garden & Factory this Saturday.
Read more ...The Vincents @ Monroe’s
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
INSPIRED BY psychedelia, surf rock, and nineties alternative rock, The Vincents are part of a new indie wave in Cork.
Read more ...Rudeboys v Soulboys this Saturday night in the Cellar
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
This Saturday night sees the return, in a brand new venue, of the Rudeboys v Soulboys clubnight. Expect to hear anything from Jamaican Ska, 60s R&B, Latin Boogalloo, Northern soul and more from some of the countries top vinyl DJs.
Read more ...The Amazing Apples reach last five of Le Crunch contest
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
POPULAR GALWAY band The Amazing Apples have made it into the last five for the national final of the Le Crunch Apple of My Eye Song Contest.
Read more ...Galway writers and workshops at Cúirt
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
GALWAY WRITERS will feature in this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature through readings, booklaunches, and The Cúirt Literary Brunch.
Two of the Galway based writers featured this year are Mike McCormick and Mary Costello, who will take part in a public interview with editor and publisher of The Stinging Fly, Declan Meade, in An Taibhdhearc, on Sunday April 28 at 2pm.
Read more ...An Estonian/Irish fusion
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
LINKS BETWEEN Irish and Estonian traditional music will be explored at a concert in Johnston’s Hall, Kinvara, this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Lorg Printmakers night at the dogs
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
LORG PRINTMAKERS will hold a fundraising event at the Galway Greyhound Stadium, aka The Sporstgound, on College Road, tomorrow, Good Friday.
Read more ...Clifden Traditional Music Festival
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
THE CLIFDEN Traditional Music Festival runs from Thursday April 4 to Sunday 7 throughout the town’s pub, hotels, and at a the stage in Market Square.
Read more ...Savage Eye @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
DAVID MCSAVAGE, the man behind RTÉ’s Savage Eye and one of Ireland’s leading comedians, is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Friday April 5 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Food and funny business
Thu, Mar 28, 2013
COMEDY FANS and foodies are in for great laugh at two special lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head.
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