Sébastien Léger @ Kelly’s
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
SÉBASTIEN LÉGER is the first guest in a new season of events in which the 515 club from Tripod, Dublin, will host monthly parties upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Read more ...The Ralphs to play Citóg @ The Cellar
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
TUAM pop-punk band The Ralphs will take to the downstairs stage of The Cellar Bar tomorrow for the venue’s new original music night, Citóg.
Read more ...Planet of sound
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil (Chemikal Underground)
Read more ...Gaf Drama Group to stage The Apple
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
THE APPLE, a new play by Jimmy Brunelle and directed by Zita Monahan, will be staged in the BOI Theatre, NUI Galway, this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Theatre review: Burn The Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
CÚIRT 2010’s event-packed programme features two plays, Burn the Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon both of which run throughout the week.
Burn the Bad Lamp is adapted by Rod Goodall and Kevin Barry from a short story in Barry’s collection There Are Little Kingdoms. Performed by Goodall and Aine Ní Droighneain, the story centres on down-at-heel, ageing antique-dealer Ralph Coughlan who passes his day polishing his non-selling wares and admiring his comical pompadoured wig.
Read more ...Michael Harding and The Tinker’s Curse
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
WRITER/PERFORMER Michael Harding brings his powerful, much-acclaimed drama The Tinker’s Curse to the Town Hall on Thursday April 29 at 8pm.
Read more ...Madcap football comedy comes to Town Hall
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
TWO FOOTBALL fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score.
Read more ...Cathy Davey to kick off nationwide tour in Galway
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
THE BRILLIANT Cathy Davey plays at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday May 8 at 8pm for what will be the first date on this full theatre nationwide tour.
Read more ...Michael D to read at Kelly’s
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
AN TAIBHDHEARC will mark Cúirt’s 25th anniversary with Aí - Inspioráid Fileata, an evening of poetry, music, and song, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Sunday at 6pm.
Read more ...Scouting For Girls are coming west
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
GOOD THINGS come to those who wait and this old adage is certainly true for British pop-rockers Scouting For Girls.
Read more ...Hay! Ho! Let’s go! - Tommy Ramone @ The Crane
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
TO ROCK fans the world over he is Tommy Ramone, drummer with the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, but to his family he is Erdélyi Tamás.
Read more ...Win Dear John goodie bags
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
DEAR JOHN, the new film staring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum is released in cinemas this week and we have five film tie-in goodie bags to give away.
Read more ...Idiot of Ants - fast paced sketch group have a fan in John Cleese
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
“IF YOU want to guarantee putting a smile on your face, it’s hard to think of a better show to see,” so declared The Daily Telegraph about the English comedy sketch group Idiot of Ants, who make their Irish debut in Galway next week.
Read more ...Football fun and laughs with Aprés Match
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
THE WORLD Cup is approaching so it means it must be time for the ever popular Aprés Match to make a welcome return to stage and screen.
The Aprés Match team of Gary Cooke, Risteárd Cooper and Barry Murphy will perform their new show Possibly So on Friday April 30 at 8pm for a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Go Over The Edge at Cúirt
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
THE OVER The Edge readings are an essential part of the city’s literary scene, so it is appropriate that it also features as a now regular part of Cúirt.
Read more ...A classical concert for children
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
A CLASSICAL concert for children with Galway’s’ newly formed Soundpost Quartet takes place in the St Patrick’s Band Hall this Sunday.
Read more ...Exciting times for ConTempo and expanded Galway Music Residency
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
OVER THE past decade, audiences in Galway city and county have grown hugely fond of The Galway Ensemble in Residence – ConTempo String Quartet.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sunshine, a good book, a lounger, and all day to read and relax.
Sunshine, a good book, a lounger, and all day to read and relax.
Read more ...Oliver Cole - flying solo
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
HE USED to lead the Co Meath pop-punk trio Turn in the days when he was called Ollie. Today he plays more melodic, Beatles influenced, music and goes by his full name Oliver.
Read more ...Blasterbra to play Citóg at The Cellar
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
CITÓG IS the Irish term for someone who is left-handed, but it’s also the name of the new gig night in The Cellar Bar which starts tomorrow.
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