Win tickets to IMC Galway's Galactic screen

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

IMC GALWAY has opened its new Galactic screen and to mark the opening, it is offering readers of the Galway Advertiser a chance to win one of five pairs of complimentary passes for any weekend showing of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

Charlie Adley’s Craft of Writing Course

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

GALWAY WRITER, playwright, and columnist Charlie Adley will host his Craft of Writing Course in the Westside Resource Centre, beside the church and library, from September 10, running for eight weeks.

KATS theatre auditions

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

THE KNOCKNACARRA Theatre Association is seeking actors to take part in its new play, an adaptation of a Peter James novella, which will be staged in An Taibhdhearc from November 11 to 14.

Paintclub - a social way to learn painting

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

PAINTCLUB GALWAY, the art night that combines painting classes and cocktails, returns to An Púcán, Forster Street, on Thursday August 6, and is open to absolute beginners and seasoned painters.

Amazing Apples to perform 'secret gig' @ The Loft

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

THE AMAZING Apples, one of Galway's leading and most popular bands, will play a 'surprise gig' on Friday July 31 in The Loft at Seven, Bridge Street, ahead of their upcoming slot at the main stage of the Indiependence Festival in Mitchelstown.

Orpheus - Elizabethan style

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

THE MYTH of Orpheus, retold through the songs and instrumental music of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, is the stuff of Orfea Britannica, a concert in the Galway Cathedral on Thursday August 6 at 8pm.

Chamber Philharmonia Cologne returns to Galway

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

THE CHAMBER Philharmonia Cologne, or to give the ensemble its proper title, the Kammerphilhamonie Köln, make their annual pilgrimage to Galway to play the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in St Nicholas Collegiate Church.

Rural Savage @ Strange Brew

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

RURAL SAVAGE are different. Unlike most punk bands, their dark humour, cynicism, and world view owe nothing to American hardcore and British Oi, but comes instead from the peculiarly strain of the music that is Ulster punk, pioneered by Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Rudi, and The Outcasts.

Get ready to rock and jive

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

THE JIVE Aces, one of Britain's leading jive and swing bands, renowned for their high-energy music and flamboyant live shows, as well as being the first live band to reach the finals of Britain’s Got Talent, are coming to Galway.

A Galwegian and a Galician in concert

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

A GALWEGIAN and a Galician, singer-songwriters Kevin Herm Connolly and Susana Garrido Pombo will play two shows in County Galway this weekend, playing both original songs and "some covers with a twist".

Lunchtime sax with the Chatham quartet

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

CLASSICAL, JAZZ, rock, and music from the films The Little Mermaid and Frozen will be heard in the Galway City Library during the Chatham Saxophone Quartet's free concert there on Tuesday August 4 at 1.10pm.

Mollusk - Niall Murphy's other band to headline Citóg

Wed, Jul 29, 2015

NIALL MURPHY is best known as the leader, vocalist, and songwriter of the great Tuam indie-punk band Oh Boland, but he is hitting such a purple patch these days he needs a second band to explore a different side to his creativity.

Deadline looms for Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition

Tue, Jul 28, 2015

THE DEADLINE for the 2015 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which is open to both poets and fiction writers, is Wednesday August 5, and there is a prize fund of €1,000 up for grabs.

Rising Irish folk/roots bands @ Monroe's Live

Tue, Jul 28, 2015

FOLK BANDS Old Hannah and The Mariannes, both of whom draw on Irish folk, roots, and Americana, pla a double headline show at Monroe’s Live on Thursday August 6 at 9pm.

Cinema review: Inside/Out

Mon, Jul 27, 2015

PIXAR HAS come to the end of a very unPixar like run. Its last three films, Cars 2, Brave, and Monsters University have been two uninspired sequels and a disappointing original film, and had lowered excitement levels for a Pixar original.

Declan Sinnott to play Monroe's Live in August

Mon, Jul 27, 2015

DECLAN SINNOTT is best known as Christy Moore's side-kick, accompanying the great man at his concerts, as well as being a founding member of Moving Hearts, but he is also a superb singer-songwriter and guitarist in his own right.

Strange Brew Summer Shindig 11

Thu, Jul 23, 2015

THE STRANGE Brew Summer Shindig 11, the long running clubnight's annual summer get-together at the Róisín Dubh, celebrating the very best of Irish indie music, with gigs in the Dominick Street venue's live area and upstairs bar, takes place on Thursday July 30 from 8pm.

Art exhibitions at the Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 23, 2015

THE ORGANISERS of the Galway Fringe Festival have done a terrific job in transforming the former snooker hall beside the Victoria Hotel on Queen Street, off Eyre Square, into a art gallery for this year’s festival.

John Grant to headline Big Top as Sinéad O'Connor pulls out

Thu, Jul 23, 2015

JOHN GRANT will now headline the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top concert in the Fisheries Field this evening after Sinéad O'Connor was forced to pull out due to illness.