Jedward competition

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to see Jedward at the Summer Pop concert in Galway later this month is Chloe Cooke from Oughterard.

Create bars at Electric Picnic

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

HEINEKEN IS calling on music fans to create their own Electric Picnic ‘memory’ bar at this year’s festival.

Heineken is asking Galwegians to name the best festival moments of the last eight Electric Picnics as inspiration for each of the three Heineken bars at EP 2012.

Fight blindness @ Carbon

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE CARBON night-club will host a blind date night in aid of Fighting Blindness Ireland on Friday August 24.

Little Cinema to screen new films

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE LITTLE Cinema club will screen three, new, short films by Galway film makers in Kelly’s Bar, on Tuesday August 21.

Autumn/winter at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

FOLK, INDIE, pop-punk, prog-rock, singer-songwriter, and electro acts ranging from The Cast Of Cheers to Pierre Bensusan, will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh over the coming months.

Duke Special to play Inishbofin

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

COUNTY ANTRIM singer-songwriter Duke Special will be heading west to play the Dolphin Hotel on Inishbofin, this Tuesday.

On the night, Duke will performing tracks from his new album Oh Pioneer, as well as the forthcoming single ‘Condition’, which is released on September 7.

Noel Gallagher’s brother @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

PAUL GALLAGHER, who has recently completed a DJ tour with his brother Noel Gallagher and his band ‘High Flying Birds’, is coming to Galway.

Them Martyrs release new EP

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

GALWAY HARDCORE band Them Martyrs will launch their new EP Wretched, with a gig in Sally Longs tomorrow night.

The Four of Us @ HALO

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

LONG RUNNING County Down band The Four Of Us return to Galway to play Upstairs @ HALO tomorrow at 11pm.

Hijackers @ Carbon

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

HIJACKERS - duo Richie Burke and Sean Hayden - best known for the singles ‘Stronger’, ‘Lose Your Mind’, ‘Sparks’, and ‘Piece Of Me’, play Carbon, Eglinton Street, tonight.

Tuam Arts Festival takes place this weekend

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

Cregg Castle artists’ exhibition

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A GROUP exhibition by the resident artists of Cregg Castle Arts Venue opens in the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 6pm.

The exhibition, entitled Between Now and Then, features work by Alan Murray, Siobhan Ross, Susan Walsh, Paddy Quigley, Martina Finn, and John O’Sullivan, who work in a variety of mixed media.

A concert fit for a king

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

CEOL DON Rí/Music Fit For A King is the title of a concert which takes place this evening at 8pm in the Nuns Island Theatre.

At the show, the Coracle trio - Siobhán Armstrong (harp), Barnaby Brown (triple and Highland pipes), and Griogair Labhruidh (vocals) - along with American harpist Ann Heymann and Scots Gaelic singer Talitha MacKenzie, will perform Gaelic music for pipe and harps, as well as song, from Scotland and Ireland. The era of music being covered runs from the medieval period to the 18th century.

Paintings of Irish life in Britain

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

THE EXPERIENCES of Irish people in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s haunts the Irish imagination, whether in songs, the plays of Tom Murphy, or in films such as Kings.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

Day long animation workshop

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

A DAY long animation workshop, entitled Animation For A Change, will be hosted by the Galway One World Centre on Friday August 31.

Bernard O’Shea @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2012

BERNARD O’SHEA delivers “left-field imaginative, but not up its arse, lovely comedy” according to Hotpress, and it is what audiences can expect at his Róisín Dubh show next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

Aras Éanna Europe’s most westerly arts centre

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

THE SUMMER months will, as ever, see a steady stream of visitors venturing from the mainland to the Aran Islands to enjoy the spectacular scenery, the flora and fauna, and sample the distinctive character of island life.

The cream of Irish indie for Popical Island Invasion

Thu, Aug 09, 2012

POPICAL ISLAND, the exciting Irish indie label, will showcase some of its very best bands with a major night in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 16 from 8pm.