Katie O'Connor to launch new album

Thu, May 04, 2017

KATIE O'CONNOR, the Kerry born, Galway based singer-songwriter, will launch her new album, Fuel For Dreaming, and play live at Seven, Bridge Street, this weekend.

Bingo Loco @ Club 44

Thu, May 04, 2017

THE CRAZY world of Bingo Loco - think MCs, CO2 cannons, confetti, and Ireland's finest DJs - comes to Club 44, Upper Abbeygate Street, on Thursday May 11 at 6.30pm.

Arts Festival 2017 programme announced

Tue, May 02, 2017

THE WORLD premieres of a new play by Conall Morrison, and a new opera by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh; a major exhibition by Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco; new theatre productions from Druid; Beach Boys’ legend Brian Wilson at the Big Top; and Syrian architect and author Marwa Al-Sabouni - these are just some of the highlights of the 40th Galway International Arts Festival.

Cccahoots @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

FOLLOWING IN the footsteps of Foil, Arms & Hog, and Mr Trelis, Ireland has a new sketch group - Cccahoots from Cork - who have already caused a sensation online and on Republic Of Telly.

Walpurgis Night VI

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

THE NEW, the old, and the heaviest descend on Galway this weekend for the city's Doom Metal festival, Walpurgis Night VI, with gigs from Graveyard Dirt, Soothsayer, and Genuflection.

Galway Early Music Festival 2017 programme revealed

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

'EARLY MUSIC' covers music from the mediaeval, Renaissance, and early baroque periods. Jazz is a form which arose in the early decades of the 20th century. So what are they doing together at the Galway Early Music festival?

Album review: Ásgeir

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 27, 2017

WITH HIS debut album, In The Silence (aka Dýrð í dauðaþögn) having come out of nowhere to be a phenomenon in his native Iceland, and winning critical acclaim and audiences across Europe, expectations are very high for the follow-up.

Confessions Of An Immigrant - Peadar de Burca is back

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

THROUGHOUT THE noughties writer/director/performer Peadar de Burca was a familiar presence on Galway's theatre scene with a string of shows under the Morwax Productions banner.

'You can feminise yourself in a macho way and no one can touch you'

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

TRY SAYING ‘Shut Up, Dylan’, the title of Steven Sharpe & The Broke Straight Boys' debut album, either in your head or out load, and it’s near impossible to deliver it without the inflections, patterns, and tones with which Steven would say it himself.

Far From Literature returns to Cúirt

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

FAR FROM Literature We Were Reared, the night showcasing prose, poetry, spoken word, music, and comedy from local writers and performers, returns to the Róisín Dubh this weekend as part of the Cúirt literary festival.

Colin Bateman's Bag For Life

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

CAN FORGIVENESS overcome the desire for revenge in 21st century Northern Ireland? This is the question Colin Bateman asks in his new, blackly humorous play, Bag For Life, which is coming to the Town Hall.

Cabbage to play Strange Brew

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

CONTROVERSIAL MANCHESTER punk band Cabbage are "hell-bent on filling the current vacancy for rock’n’roll commentator on Brexit Britain" according to The Guardian, and they have Galway in their sights.

William McCarthy - Music For The People

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

WILLIAM MCCARTHY was songwriter and vocalist of the American indie rock band Augustines, but since that band's split, he has embarked on a solo journey as a singer-songwriter, storyteller, visual artist, and troubadour.

Rock Of Ages - glamour and decadence

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

SQUEEZE INTO the spandex, get that poodle perm, strap on your air guitar, remembering to heroically abuse and overuse the imaginary whammy bar, and party like it's 1987 and you are about to hit the Sunset Strip with a vengeance.

Four hands - one piano

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

THEY WILL play the piano separately and then, side by side, they will play the piano together, just to show that, not only do 'many hands make light work', but can, if they are the right hands, play wonderful music.

Áine Cahill to play The Loft

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

A FUSION of classic 1950s style jazz with contemporary pop defines the sound, style, and approach of Cavan singer-songwriter Áine Cahill, who plays Galway next week.

Baile An Salsa @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

FRESH FROM their recent tour of the US, Baile an Salsa - the Latin music/Irish trad fusion band - are back in Galway and will play the Monroe's Live Main Stage this Saturday from 9pm.

Bluesman WOLFF @ Monroe's

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

BLUES AND grunge combine in a primal and intense manner in the music of Wexford singer-songwriter WOLFF who plays Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Saturday May 6 at 9pm.

My Fellow Sponges Cúirt concert

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

GALWAY PROG-folk band My Fellow Sponges will play a one-off lunchtime concert, in the Ruby Room, The King's Head, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Bank Holiday weekender @ Electric

Thu, Apr 27, 2017

WITH THE May Bank Holiday Weekend coming hot on the heels of the Easter Bank Holiday, it will be another chance to dance, with leading Galway and Irish DJs taking over all floors of the Electric Garden and Theatre.

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