'It’s about what human beings can be, and can be for each other'

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

DECADENT THEATRE Company is set to revisit one of its most acclaimed productions, Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, in a new staging, directed by Andrew Flynn, at the Town Hall Theatre.

Baile An Salsa - new album, Galway gig

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

BAILE AN Salsa, the Latin American/Irish trad fusion band, led by Uruguayan vocalist Andres Martorell, will launch their new album, ÉRIU, with a show in Monroe's Live.

'It feels like a new band. It feels like a new beginning'

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

"WE'VE ALWAYS wanted to make dance records played by live human beings." So declares Franz Ferdinand bassist Bob Hardy, and their new album, Always Ascending, finds the Scottish art-rockers realising that vision to an unprecedented extent.

If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

MIKEY AND CASEY are stuck on a roof, hoping the gardaí will stop circling the house. Yet, 20 feet up in the air they find some truths cannot be climbed down from.

Neil McCarthy - 21st century troubadour

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 01, 2018

I FIRST heard Neil McCarthy read his poems in 1998 at the open-mic in the now long defunct Apostasy Café, Dominick Street, back when Neil was a university student, Bertie Ahern was popular, and history had temporarily ended.

Show Me The Funny #3

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

KEVIN MCGAHERN, the former presenter of Republic Of Telly will be the special guest at heat three of Show Me The Funny in The King's Head on Monday February 5 at 8pm.

Squeeze's Chris Difford returns to Galway

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

CHRIS DIFFORD, co-founder and co-songwriter, along with Glenn Tilbrook, of the long running and much loved English band Squeeze, is coming to Galway to play a solo show in March.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

THE 2018 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring 14 different poets, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow evening at 6.30pm.

GUMS to stage The Producers at Black Box

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

"SPRINGTIME FOR Hitler, a gay romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden...Wow!". "How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"

Eddi Reader - Galway bound on Irish tour

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

THIRTY YEARS on from the hit single 'Perfect' with Fairground Attraction, and 26 years after the release of her debut solo album Mirmama, Eddi Reader is still going strong, and returns to Ireland next month for a nine-date tour.

Come hear the music of Mozart

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

A BRILLIANT 18-year-old pianist, Clara Siegle, will play Mozart’s sparkling Sonata in D Major, composed in 1777 when the Austrian prodigy was just 21 years old, when she plays the next Music For Galway concert.

'Open Mic Presents...' @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

FOR THE past seven years, the Open Mic Night at the Róisín Dubh has promoted, supported, and encouraged new, aspirant, and emerging Galway musicians - now it goes a step further with its new 'Open Mic Presents...' nights.

Madness to play Festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

MADNESS, THE British ska-pop legends who lit up the British charts in the 1980s with 'Baggy Trousers', 'Houser Of Fun', 'It Must Be Love', and 'Our House', and who remain a much loved institution and concert draw, will play Galway this summer.

Bicep & Hammer play Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

CREATIVE HEAD honchos, childhood friends, Belfast natives, and curators of one of the largest cult followed music repositories in club music history, DJ trio Bicep & Hammer can certainly boast an impressive CV.

An electronic night of new Irish music

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

A GATHERING of some of the Ireland's leading electronica/indie acts in the Róísín Dubh next week is likely to be a highlight of Once Upon A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture.

50 First Dates Galway – Will we be as lucky again this year?

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

“I met the man of my dreams, Mike and we've been inseparable since our first date at The Skeff in March 2017. We are together 10 months …..”, quoted Ronah Corcoran who applied last year and found love through this process…

Kodaline to play Festival Big Top

Mon, Jan 29, 2018

KODALINE, ONE of Ireland’s biggest and most internationally successful bands, are coming west this summer to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Big Top in the Fisheries Field.

Countdown to Franz Ferdinand

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

FRANZ FERDINAND'S new album, Always Ascending, will be released on Friday February 9, and on Saturday 10, they kick off their European tour with a 'Róisín Dubh presents...' concert in Leisureland, Salthill.

Alison Spittle - Worrier Princess

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

ALISON SPITTLE, one of the most popular of a new generation of Irish comedians is, as well as being very funny, also a terrible worrier. She worries so much she's decided to do a show about it. Now she's worried about making it a good show.

Jin Youg exhibits new work in Galway

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

JIN YONG, a Chinese artist living in Galway, is hosting an exhibition of his latest works, featuring striking, multicoloured, images of animals, in the Renzo Café and Gallery, Eyre Street.

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