Invasion of the body slammers

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

AL PORTER in a leotard; muscular American wrestlers Chris Hero and X-Pac; somewhere in the middle of it all the Rubberbandits; and all part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway - this is set to be the most hilariously homoerotic fun since Top Gun!

'Mazda' - The Clockworks release new single

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

HOT CHOCOLATE may have boasted about love being in the back seat of lead singer Errol Brown's motocar, but for the character who narrates The Clockworks' new single, the back seat of a old Mazda is a much more squalid place.

'Alice in Wonderland meets Hieronymous Bosch'

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

VISITORS TO the Town Hall Theatre bar this week will find themselves transported to Shona Shirley MacDonald’s strange and magical otherworld of Juniper, showing as part of the Baboró International Children's Festival.

Harvester and Dvne - metal tour begins in Galway

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

GALWAY STONER rock/metal band Harvester and Edinburgh doom/black metal quartet Dvne, will tour Ireland next week, with both bands playing Galway city at the start of the tour.

Blood Thread - metal band to make Galway debut

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

BLOOD THREAD will bring their bone crushing, modern, death metal to Galway next week for what will be the Scottish band's first appearance in this city, accompanied by Words That Burn, who are also making their Galway debut.

'I approach it all in a pretty gentle way, but I'm nasty as hell'

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHEN AUSTRALIAN comedian Sam Simmons brings his award winning show, Not A People Person, to this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival, it will be a double first debut for the Adelaide native.

Gerry Conneely's Shakespeare in Connemara

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

OLDER READERS will remember those halcyon days in the 1990s when lunchtime theatre was part of daily life in Galway. It was part of the streetscape itself as merry mischief-makers like The Flying Pigs and The Mad Susans took to the thoroughfares to coax the unwary into the back of The King’s Head.

Ken Bruen's 'brilliant...surreal' take on Galway

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

IN THE pristine minds of the inoffensive middleweights who like to think they dominate Irish literary culture post-Heaney, Ken Bruen is problematic. He writes novels people they describe as ‘ordinary’ like to read, with no higher aim in their devastatingly average minds than pure pleasure.

The Bolshoi Ballet - Live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE GOLDEN Age, a satire of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, will mark the first in a new season of live broadcasts from The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Julio Bashmore to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

INSPIRED BY the French electro and dance sounds of Daft Punk and Cassius, and the bass scene of his native Bristol, DJ Julio Bashmore is acclaimed for his forward thinking, constantly future focused approach, to music.

The Dan Band - 'Dan, That’s Funny’

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHETHER YOU know it or not, The Dan Band is the most popular wedding band in the world. Nobody can nail a 1980s classic better than Dan Finnerty as Galway will find out at this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

No easy answers as TULCA explores 'the city'

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHAT HAS gone wrong with our cities? And what are we going to do about it? These two questions will be explored in TULCA 2016, Galway's annual visual arts festival, and audiences can expect the answers to be unsettling.

Ballinasloe to examine women's role in 1916 Rising

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE ROLE of Women in 1916, and specifically the part played by Cumann na mBan in the run up to, and during, the Rising, will be the focus of a free conference taking place in the Ballinasloe Library this weekend.

North American invasion at Comedy Carnival

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

FANS OF great stand-up will get a chance to expand their comedy horizons at this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival, for while the line-up is predominantly Irish or UK based, there is a huge contingent of US and Canadian comics making the trip to Galway this year.

Tower Poetry Slam Competition takes place this weekend

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE FIRST Tower Poetry Slam 2016 competition will be held in Thoor Ballylee, once the south Galway home of WB Yeats, with the event being MC'd by award winning Galway poets Elaine Feeney and Sarah Clancy.

Chic drummer to give Galway workshop

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

RALPH ROLLE, the drummer with Nile Rodgers' Chic, and the man who has drummed for Sting, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Slash, Elvis Costello, and Smokey Robinson, will give a drum clinic in Galway.

Love and independence in Paris

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

FEMINISM, LESBIANISM, independence, and the challenges of love, family, and duty will be explored in French film Summertime which the Galway Film Society wil screen in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.

How the collector becomes The Bookman

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THERE ARE an infinite number of reasons why people buy books, but at the risk of generalisation, two reasons stand out: people who buy books to read them and those who buy books to collect them. While the former will most certainly read their purchases, the latter will probably not read theirs.

Johnny Candon @ Roisin Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

HE HAS appeared on Russell Howard's Good News, Revolver, The Sketch Show, and Mock The Week, and now he is coming to Galway to play the Roisin Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow night.

Interskalactic to bring the ska to Monroe's

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

HAILED AS “the future of ska in Ireland” by Ryan Tubridy, Interskalactic have firmly marked their place as a live and festival favourite, fusing big band flavour and first-wave, old-school Jamaican ska.

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