Indie rock @ Citóg

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

CORK BANDS Private Underground Residence and Superblondes as well as Galway’s Fires Of Babylon play Citóg at The Cellar Bar tomorrow night.

Private Underground Residence take influence from groups such as Battles, Fugazi, The Oxes, Aphex Twin, and Squarepusher.

Brooklyn singer-songwriter @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

BROOKLYN BASED singer-songwriter Pat Hull will play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Wednesday at 9pm.

Shack Up and Musik @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE CLUBNIGHTS Musik and Shack Up at Kelly’s on Bridge Street return to their normal slots this weekend.

Götterdämmerung @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, THE climax of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle operas, will be broadcast live from The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to the Eye Cinema.

Galway Omniplex Valentine’s competition

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE GALWAY Omniplex in association with McSwiggan’s Restaurant and Bar is offering one lucky couple the chance to win a romantic night out this Valentine’s Day.

Win The Woman In Black goodie bags

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE CLASSIC gothic horror tale The Woman In Black is coming to cinemas tomorrow and we have three film tie-in goodie bags to give away.

Paul Roe and Contempo in concert

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

PAUL ROE, the distinguished clarinettist, will join the ConTempo Quartet for a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Friday February 17 at 8pm.

Show Me The Funny

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

THE COMPETITION is intense, the array of talent spectacular, and the pints are flowing. It has to be the next heat of the hugely popular Show Me The Funny.

Renzo Café art exhibition

Thu, Feb 09, 2012

ANNAGHDOWN BASED artists Susanna Lambeck and Colm MacSuibhne are currently holding an exhibition of paintings in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Entitled Recent Works, February 2012 it features various new works by this husband and wife team. Susanna, originally from East Berlin, works in oil, acrylic, watercolour, and pastels as well as in relief and intaglio printmaking. Colm, from Sligo Colm, works mainly in oil and acrylic.

Here come the girls

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

DESCRIBED AS a cross between Mamma Mia and Desperate Housewives, the smash-hit show Girls Night: The Musical is coming to the Black Box from Monday February 13 to Saturday 18.

Zeitgeist - looking afresh at the Holocaust

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

LAST WEEKEND saw worldwide ceremonies observing International Holocaust Memorial Day, including a commemoration at Dublin’s Mansion House, attended by President Michael D Higgins.

The Memorial Day was officially designated in 2005 by the United Nations and marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, on January 27 1945, by soldiers of the Red Army.

A sixties take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, fairy folk playing pranks, romance, and mischief, and on this occasion, hippies and free love, all combine in Shakespeare’s wonderful A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Galway to host Irish premier of A Tale of Two Cities

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TO MARK the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Galway Musical Society will present the Irish premiere of the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities.

SBB Ina Shuí is back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

EARLY EVENING on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A shot of a bus rolling down a road in Connemara soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.

Duo Vocis - Naughton and Costello are back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

DUO VOCIS, the popular vocal team of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, bring their show, From Broadway to La Scala, back to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only.

Patrician Musical Society reaches the big sixty

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year with a staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s much loved Showboat.

Set on The Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River showboat, Showboat’s dominant themes include racial prejudice; tragic enduring love; and classic musical numbers such as ‘Make Believe’, ‘Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine’, and ‘Ol’ Man River’.

New Irish film The Pier to be screened @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PIER, a new Irish film, which has already won praise at film festivals in the Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, and Georgia, will be shown at The Eye this week.

Movie table quiz @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

GALWAY MOVIE buffs take note - Kelly’s Official Movie Table Quiz takes place next Monday at 8pm.

Curfew @ The Cellar

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

CURFEW, THE new DJ night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, returns this Saturday with DJs Yoseph and Fuz on the decks.

The night will feature tunes, glowsticks, and all round divilment. Expect to hear electro/chillwave and disco remixes to help you forget those mid-week blues and get you in a great mood.