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DARK JOY are the most unlikely, yet uplifting, success story in Galway music. A classic rock/heavy metal band, they are an entirely studio bound creation, do not play live, and have no plans to either.

NICK OLIVERI, along with Josh Homme, has been a key member of both Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyuss, and can arguably claim his place as a significant figure in American alternative rock and metal.

It’s not only humans who like living in Galway — rodents are also attracted by the lifestyle.

INSPIRED BY interviews with current and former soldiers from the Irish Defence Forces, the British army, and survivors of the Bosnian war, Soldier Still, the critically acclaimed new production by Junk Ensemble, is coming to Galway next week.

SUSPENSION, THE final show of its Oughterard Courthouse Summer Arts Programme, featuring the work by sculptor Tim Kelly and visual artist Brenda Flannery, opens tomorrow at 7pm.

Travelling up the motorway on Saturday afternoon to Croke Park for the All-Ireland semi-final, we listened to Padraic Joyce (Galway), Dick Clerkin (Monaghan) and Liam Kearns (Tipperary manager) on Off the Ball on Newstalk to pass an hour of the journey, and all three pointed out that Galway would have to produce an exceptional performance to keep the Dubs at bay.

Just opened in the Linenhall Arts Centre is Showroom, an intriguing installation by Aideen Farrell. Aideen is a Dublin-based installation artist whose practice explores the systems and physical structures that shape, represent, and impose order on our built environments.

STEEPED IN the culture of his native Middle East, Israeli lutenist Ziv Braha is also a man very much at home with English Renaissance music. He is about to make his Galway debut, playing the Galway Early Music Festival this weekend, but his journey to classical and early music began in a most unexpected way.

UNBLESSED, ONE of the leading bands in the Chilean underground extreme metal scene, are about to unleash their ferocious black metal/death metal fusion on Galway.

ARE MUSIC and literature separate art forms? Iron Maiden have drawn inspiration from Tennyson, Coleridge, and Robert Burns for their songs; Leonard Cohen was a poet as well as a songwriter, and novelist Polly Samson has written lyrics for David Gilmour and Pink Floyd.