Show Me The Funny grand final 2017

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

AFTER FIVE hotly contested and sometimes controversial heats, the Show Me The Funny grand final takes place next week at The King's Head, with 12 comedians battling for a slot at this year's Electric Picnic Comedy Tent.

Cafolla and Engel @ HALO

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

CAFOLLA AND Engel, the live saxophone and DJ duo, eturn to Galway to play the HALO nightclub this Saturday from 11pm.

Matters romantic, carnal, and rapturous

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

AS IT is Valentine's week, the Town Hall Bar Theatre bar and the new Black Gate Cultural Centre, on Francis Street, joined forces to mark the occasion and host an exhibition entitled Desire, celebrating matters romantic, carnal, and rapturous.

Gender battles and a sexually ambiguous Greek (rock) god

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

CURRENTLY RUNNING at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre, Max Hafler’s terrific production of Euripides’ The Bacchae attests to the gifted student talent of NUI Galway’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance and Chekhov Training and Performance Ireland.

The Redneck Manifesto - 11 essential tracks

Essential Playlist Tue, Feb 14, 2017

POST-ROCK, indie-rock, jazz, metal, hardcore, and avant-garde all fuse brilliantly in the music of The Redneck Manifesto, arguably Ireland's greatest post-rock band. With the band touring this month, and rumours of new material on the way, we present a 'Best Of' the Dublin quintet's work to date:

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh - The best of Tuesday, but on a Friday

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THIS WEEK'S instalment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Club could be described as "the best of Tuesday, but on a Friday", with a 'tapas menu' of some of the best comedians who play the Róisín's regular Tuesday Comedy Showcase.

Protest prayers of the Hello magazine era

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 09, 2017

AN EMINENT literary gent recently used the pages of a leading poetry journal to take issue with “the new troubadours of protest and dissent whose combative views” are, he claimed, “promulgated like Papal bulls.”

The return of The Redneck Manifesto

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

FIRST CAME the announcement of live dates, then the appearance of their albums on streaming services, and now there is speculation The Redneck Manifesto are recording, and will be releasing, new music.

That Same Old Story – celebrating love’s vagaries for Valentine's

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

GERRY CONNEELY returns to the Town Hall studio on St Valentine’s week with a delightful musical play on the subject of romance, The Same Old Story. The show portrays Conor and Katie, two 20-year-olds in the first flush of new love and Frank and Maggie, an older couple, who are contemplating divorce.

Putting ‘the Big Fellow’ onstage

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE TUMULTUOUS life and times of Michael Collins is recreated in Declan Gorman’s gripping new play, The Big Fellow, based on Frank O’Connor’s classic 1937 biography, and which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

The Galway women who built the bombs

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A LECTURE on the Galway women who built bombs for the British Army in WWI in the Galway munitions factory, and a film screening on the life nad work of Michael Davitt, will both take place in the Galway City Museum.

Show Me The Funny final heat

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE FIFTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny 2017 takes place in The King's Head on Monday February 13 with special guest, Eric Lalor, who many will know as Fair City bad boy, Cathal.

Athenry Youth Orchestra to perform in Dublin

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE ATHENRY Youth Orchestra has been chosen as one of only eight such orchestras from across Ireland, to perform at the 22nd Festival of Youth Orchestras in the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

A FEAST of prog-rock bands

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

VASA, "ONE of the most exciting, dynamic instrumental bands in the UK," according to The Independent, who play "riffs the size of King Kong's scrotal baskets", are coming to Galway this weekend.

Dancing along Ireland's coastline

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

"A MULTI-layered meditation on overcoming the constant force of gravity, and the fear of falling, in order to achieve the joyous freedom of the peak” is how Irish Theatre Magazine described The Cove.

Two classical concerts of Brahms and Bach

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A SUNDAY afternoon with Brahms, and a lunchtime show, also involving Brahms, along with Bach and others, await classical music lovers, with two Music For Galway shows taking place over the coming days.

Hard lovin’ Valentines with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE LIGHTS will be low, but the spirits will be high as the cream of Irish and world burlesque struts its sexy stuff on stage for The Dirty Circus' Valentines Hard Lovin' Party in the Róisín Dubh.

Roesy - two Galway shows

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

ROESY, THE Australian based Irish singer-songwriter is bringing his The Very Round Robin tour across Ireland, playing shows where he will be joined by Kilá's Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Ye Vagabonds.

A Back To Basics singer-songwriter night

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

IRISH SINGER-songwriters Greg Clifford, Ian N Brennan, and Barry Jay Hughes are bringing their Back To Basics 'three-act showcase' tour around Ireland this month, covering 16 venues in three weeks.

The Rat Pack Live - at Seven

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

THE ERA, the music, the men - the Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, have become a byword for cool and male sartorial style.

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