Alien pop at Spirit of Voice
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
‘ALIEN POP’ and avant garde electronica will be the order of the day when electro-duo Nanu Nanu take to the stage of An Taibhdhearc for the Spirit of Voice festival.
Read more ...Scullion to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
SCULLION, ONE of the great Irish folk/rock/trad bands, featuring Sonny Condell, Robbie Overson, and Philip King, play the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 16 at 8pm.
Read more ...Mötley Crüe man for Monroe’s
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
HE WAS a member of the high priests of sleaze rock Mötley Crüe, he has toured with LA Guns, and worked with KISS’s Bruce Kulick.
Read more ...Christy Moore to play Galway in January
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway to play two shows, where he will be joined by a stellar line-up featuring Mairtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O’Dowd, and Jimmy Higgins.
Read more ...Coldplay in concert @ Galway Omniplex
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
COLDPLAY LIVE 2012, the concert film, will be screened at the Galway Omniplex on Tuesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I would happily settle for a couple of hours peace and quiet with my wife.
Put some sax in your classical music
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
THE VATICAN once declared that the saxophone “gave reasonable concern for scandal”, but a concert coming to Galway will show the real scandal is how neglected this instrument is by classical composers.
Read more ...An intimate view of the everyday
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
THE AWARD winning photographer and artist Patrick Hogan will be exhibiting as part of this year’s TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which opens tomorrow.
Read more ...Body duet @ Town Hall
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
BODY DUET, from the John Scott Dance company, which has received rave reviews in New York and Germany, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
THIS MONTH’s North Beach Poetry Nights will have a fiction slant as the night will see the launch of a new short story anthology.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
FIONA SCOBLE, Mary Noonan, and Dave Donovan will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 15 at 6.30pm.
Kent native, Fiona Scoble, works as an artist and illustrator. In 2011 her children’s book, Bright Minds in the “Dark Ages”, was published by CE4CE as a teaching resource. She recently joined the “Java Writers” in publishing a collection of short stories, Infusions, to be launched this December.
Read more ...Tommy Tiernan’s World Tour of Galway
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
THE GREAT Tommy Tiernan has announced dates for his World Tour Of Galway, a series of shows around the county, which take place next month.
Read more ...Berlin Philharmonic @ The Eye
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
THE BERLIN Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a programme of Russian music to be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.
Read more ...Be the first to see Niko 2 - Little Brother Big Trouble
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
NIKO 2 - Little Brother Big Trouble, the family adventure film co-produced by Tidal Films in Galway, will receive a special preview screening this weekend.
Read more ...Digital Chaos @ The Cellar
Thu, Nov 08, 2012
DIGITAL CHAOS DJs will be taking to the decks of the Cellar Underground this Saturday for a night of sinister techno and rocking electro.
DJ Tri State is first up at 10pm, followed by William R and Long John playing techno grooves, and ending with Jay Dee. Admission is €5.
Read more ...‘I’m just getting started’ - Jimeoin comes to Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 01, 2012
THE GALWAY Comedy Festival may be done and dusted for another year but comedy fans are in for another special treat next week as the inimitable Jimeoin comes to the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday November 6 as part of his current tour, Jimeoin - What?!
Read more ...The loneliness of the long distance writer
Thu, Nov 01, 2012
MY MOTHER sometimes articulated a memory of a Friday evening sometime in the early 1950s when a young girl and boy entered the shop and spent the afternoon there.
Read more ...Wildflowers - the sound of Galway Americana
Thu, Nov 01, 2012
WILDFLOWERS, the folk/roots/Americana band of Noriana Kennedy, Noelie McDonnell, and Nicola Joyce, play this month’s Spirit of Voice festival.
Read more ...KATS take on Agatha Christie
Thu, Nov 01, 2012
KATS, THE Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society take to the stage of the Town Hall studio next week in a staging of Agatha Christie’s compelling thriller, The Unexpected Guest.
Read more ...Theatre for children at An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Nov 01, 2012
THE BABORÓ festival has concluded but that does not mean that theatre shows and experiences for children should come to a close for another year.
As a result, Branar Téatar do Phaistí in association with An Taibhdhearc and Baboró will present a season of theatre for children on the first Saturday of each month starting this Saturday and running until April. The ‘Saturday Shows’ take place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, with two performances of each show at 11am and 1pm.
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