Ryan Sheridan: Putting the pieces together
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
RYAN SHERIDAN is a man with a very bright future ahead of him. In his mid teens he toured the US with Riverdance and subsequently settled in New York.
Read more ...The Go! Team and Cut Copy for Galway
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THE GO! Team and Cut Copy will play the Heineken Green Spheres event in Galway next month and tickets to the events are free but you need to get them soon.
The Go! Team will play The Black Box Theatre on Thursday March 3 and on the night they will play music from their excellent new album Rolling Blackouts, which features hip hop/soul/funk mash ups, blaxploitation styled instrumental workouts, and old skool indie pop.
Read more ...A Different Animal; an absorbing play
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
A YOUNG woman receives the strangest of visitors with the blue light of dusk. A bottle of wine is opened. Awkwardness turns to passionate fluency. Dusk lingers, unnaturally. And in the growing intimacy, something darker also stirs.
Read more ...An evening of Moliere at Nuns Island
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
MOLIERE IS regarded as one of the greatest writers of comedy to have ever lived and next week Galway will be able to enjoy one act plays by the French master.
Read more ...Something for everyone at the Town Hall
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
SCOTTISH COUNTRY singer Isla Grant, Irish folk singer Johnny McEvoy, and the ever popular Lambert Puppet Theatre are all coming to the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...The return of Gigantic
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
This Saturday sees the return of Gigantic, to their latest residence in the ground floor function room of Monroe’s. DJs Olive, Tom, and Mac will play the best of indie, house, electro, big beat, and quirky. Doors are 11pm with half price concessions available from their Facebook page.
Read more ...Lazy Blues Band @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE has just opened a new regular slot for live music - The Back Bar - and The Lazy Blues Band have a regular slot there, starting tomorrow at 10pm.
The band are Mark Sullivan (guitar/vocals) Maciek Zaworonek (harmonica), Eoin McCann (guitar/vocals), and Donal Kerins (drums). Their set is heavily influenced by BB King, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and Rory Gallagher, mixing blues classics with self penned tracks.
Read more ...Cubs - Galway’s avant garde release new album
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
CUBS - A kind of Irish avant garde supergroup - will release their debut album, The Whispering Woods, tomorrow on Rusted Rail and Deadslackstring.
Read more ...The sound garden
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
ANNA CALVI is a name you are going to hear a lot this year. She is the owner of one of pop’s must powerful, sultry, and hypnotising voices.
She holds an aura of mystery with her slicked back hair and dark eyes. It is as if Anna knows something you do not, and she is not telling you what that is!
Read more ...Rolo Tomassi to play Kelly’s
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THEIR MUSIC mixes punk, hardcore, post-rock, electronica, jazz, and full on metal. They are hip and they have a super cool frontwoman. They are Rolo Tomassi.
Read more ...Big Monster Love album launch
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
BIG MONSTER Love, the stage name of Dublin singer-songwriter Cormac Canney, will release his new album Game Over in the Róisín Dubh this weekend.
The launch will take place in the upstairs bar of the Róisín this Saturday at 8.30pm. Cormac employs acoustic guitar, drum beats, and keyboards to create melodic indie pop that “waxes metaphysical about what’s what and what is not”.
Read more ...Wayne Brennan to play Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
WAYNE BRENNAN been called a “phenomenal guitar player” by Jack L and “an original voice with something to say,” by The Irish Times.
Read more ...Múscailt arts exhibitions
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
ÁRAS NA Mac Léinn in NUI, Galway is to be transformed into an art gallery during the Múscailt arts festival, which runs from Monday February 7 to Saturday 12.
Read more ...Art Essence gallery closing down sale
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THE ART Essence Gallery in Liosban will be closing down and from Tuesday at 10am a 70 per cent sale on glassware and fine art will take place. It will last as long as stock lasts.
Read more ...Like to perform or hold an event in 126?
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
THE 126 gallery on Queen Street will host a range of educational, fun, and unusual events as well as providing somewhere to chill out, during March and April.
Read more ...Celebrate Beethoven next weekend
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
BEETHOVEN’S LAST words were “Clap your hands my friends, the comedy is over,” but almost 200 years after his death, the applause for his magnificent music has stopped.
Read more ...New exhibition at 126 gallery
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
STAGED AND Screened, a solo exhibition by British artist James Brooks will be offically opened in the 126 gallery, Queen Street, tonight at 7pm.
The exhibition draws its inspiration from cinema, theatre, music, and television as departure points to produce a series of drawings, videos, prints, and audio works. The idea is to explore the performance based nature of the source material.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Well, that’s exactly what it is, isn’t it? An idea. Other than that, my own house with a pool and a recording studio.
Abie Philbin Bowman - provocative and hilarious
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
DARING, PROVOCATIVE, thought-provoking, and brilliantly funny, Abie Philbin Bowman is one of the most intelligent and gifted young Irish comedians to emerge in the last few years.
Read more ...The return of Mr Nice
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
HOWARD MARKS was infamous for his cannabis trafficking in the 1970s and is today celebrated for spoken word tours and his autobiography Mr Nice.
That autobiography was recently made into a film of the same title and starred Mark’s friend and compatriot Rhys Ifans
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