Album review: Dream Wife

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 25, 2018

DREAM WIFE just might be the most exciting new indie-rock band of 2018. Throughout the album's 35 minutes these songs rock hard, without abandoning an indie sensibility, and with a catchiness and pop smarts, while never being mainstream.

'I once got asked to satirise every Pokemon character – in numerical order!'

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

POLITICS, SPORTS, puns, and just about any subject you care to mention, are all grist to the comic mill of satirist supreme Andy Zaltzman who is appearing at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 10.

Galway Actors’ Workshop get NSFW

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HAVING SEEN out 2017 with a very fine production of Will Eno’s Middletown, Sarah O’Toole’s Galway Actors’ Workshop ushers in 2018 next month with the Irish premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW.

A gourmet feast of piano music

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

A GOURMET has refined taste in good food. A gourmand also appreciates good food, but cannot help 'pigging out' on it. If you have a passion for classical piano, you can indulge your sophisticated taste - without the risk of indigestion - at Music For Galway's 'Piano Gourmand' event.

Emmerdale star goes Drinking In America

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

EMMERDALE AND Fair City actor Liam O'Brien will play 12 separate roles in one play when Limerick's Bottom Dog Theatre Company stages Eric Bogosian's 1986 play Drinking In America.

PJ Gallagher - talking about D**kheads

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

"THAT GUY cracked me up for an entire afternoon that I forgot to meet my wife for lunch. It’s classic comedy but with a twist." So said one of America's leading talk show hosts, Conan O’Brien, about Irish comic PJ Gallagher.

Red Bird's polymorphic display

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

POLYMORPHISM - A state of existing in multiple forms at once. The term is both the title and the theme of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre from its youth collective Red Bird.

‘We have to put our biases under the microscope'

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

EMILY CULLEN is a poet, an academic, a harpist, and, in April, will preside over her first Cúirt International Festival of Literature as programme director. Cúirt has been a passion since her student days, and now in a position to run the festival, she has a vision for it that places 'diversity' at its core.

Show Me The Funny #2

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

THE SECOND heat of the annual Show Me The Funny competition returns to The Kings Head next Monday, with the Fred Cooke as special guest, and Gerry Mallon as MC.

Uoo, mee, weee!

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

UOO, MEE, Weee! - the title may be taken from nonsense talk, but this show is significant. It is the first production by the Baboró festival, in conjunction with Branar Téatar de Pháistí, and premieres at the new Wide Eyes festival.

Once Upon A Time Back The West

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

ONCE UPON A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture to shake off the winters blues, returns in February.

Acclaimed uilleann piper for Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HE LEARNED uilleann pipes from Lunasa's Brian Vallely; is a three times All-­­Ireland Champion piper, and is the only Irishman to have won the BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award.

Mercury Rev - sold out

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

MERCURY REV's upcoming show in the Róísín Dubh, where they will perform their classic 1998 album, Deserter's Songs, is now sold out.

A classical winter recital

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

THE GALWAY Music Residency's apprentice ensembles, who have been working under the acclaimed ConTempo Quartet, will hold a recital this weekend in NUI Galway.

Detroit Swindle return to Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

JUST WHAT lies behind the success of house duo Detroit Swindle? Perhaps it is their acclaimed ability to strike just that right groove; their talent at seamlessly blending and mixing music from across five decades and continents?

Sound Of The Sirens 'celestial voices' come to Galway

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

SOUND OF The Sirens, the English duo whose music straddles folk, indie, and pop, and who Acoustic magazine described as "two celestial voices weaving over acoustic guitars", play Galway this weekend.

Wyvern Lingo - debut album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

WYVERN LINGO'S long awaited debut album finally arrives in late February, while March sees the Wicklow trio tour Ireland, including a stop-off in Galway to play the Róisín Dubh.

Hope and Fury at Town Hall studio

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

TWO ESTRANGED sisters, on the run from each other and their respective pasts, are forced to come fact to face - with each other and their demons - after their mother's death. And why is the local grocery boy executing her will?

Album review: The Go! Team

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE GO! Team's fifth album occupies a space equidistant from the funk, soul, and samapdelic urban of 2010's Rolling Blackouts and 2015's indie-pop/dream pop The Scene Between.

A weekend of hit European movies in Galway

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

A WEEKEND of hit movies - from comedies to thrillers to drama - which have been box office smashes and/or won awards on the European continent, will be screened at the Town Hall Theatre when the annual Subtitle - European Film Festival comes to town.

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