Breathe in a Pink Floyd experience

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.

Michel Déon - Galway’s adopted Frenchman

Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 02, 2017

IN THE late sixties, when a French author and revered member of the Academie Francaise, Michel Déon, came to County Galway with his wife Chantal, he probably had no idea he would spend the remainder of his life - spanning almost a half of a century - here, and that Galway was where he would pass away.

Show Me The Funny - Heat 4

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

THE NEXT heat of the Show Me The Funny competition takes place in The King's Head this coming Monday, and the organisers are expecting it to be "one of the toughest yet".

Egypt and its role in Irish Christianity

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

COULD THE Coptic Christian church of Egypt have played a decisive role in influencing the shape and formation of early Irish Christianity? A public lecture next week in Galway will argue that it did.

Exmagician to play Seven

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

EXMAGICIAN, THE Belfast duo of Danny Todd and James Smith, formerly members of Cashier No9, are touring Ireland, playing songs from their acclaimed debut album, Scan The Blue.

Galway Community College to stage The Devil In Drag

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

AN INCORRUPTIBLE judge investigates an arson attack on a local circus, but the more he investigates, the more dark forces try to discredit him, and then things take a very strange turn, as two devils, dressed as clowns, try to possess him.

One Man Town @ Monroe’s

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

SINCE THE release of their eponymous debut EP, and the single 'Cutthroat Desire', Donegal/Derry blues-rockers One Man Town have been causing something of a stir - and Galway can see why this weekend.

Lunchtime concert with ConTempo at St Nicholas’

Thu, Feb 02, 2017

THE CONTEMPO Quartet begin a new season of their popular lunchtime concerts at St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, starting on Tuesday February 7, and focusing on the late string quartets of Joseph Haydn.

Galway bands get set to Rock For The Hospice

Wed, Feb 01, 2017

SOME OF Galway's best cover bands will take to the stage of Seven Bar, Bridge Street, this weekend for Rock For The Hospice, a night of live music to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.

Russell Brand - RE:BIRTH in Galway

Mon, Jan 30, 2017

THERE ARE three great questions that philosophers, theologians, mystics, and artists have sought to answer: Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going? These are questions Russell Brand is also asking, along with another important ponderable: Where did this baby come from?

Countdown to Frightened Rabbit

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

BLOOD, TOIL, tears, and sweat, ravaged emotions, heartbreak, and cathartic confessional honesty, these are the things the words and music of Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit are built on.

‘Trump’s hair might get caught in the helicopter blades, that’ll be the end of him’

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

IF YOU are going to Jason Byrne’s latest stand-up show, Propped Up, there is a good chance you might see the comic - or indeed find yourself - standing on stage wearing a wolf mask - If so, Galway city is to blame.

Joyce's The Dead - 'Letting the music tell the story'

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

THE DEAD, James Joyce’s best-loved short story, has been given a thrilling new operatic treatment by the much-acclaimed company Performance Corporation, which is bringing it to the Town Hall Theatre, next month.

Album review: Rose Elinor Dougall

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 26, 2017

IT DOESN'T matter if you remember the Pipettes or not, as there is no trace of their doo-wop revival style in former member Rose Elinor Dougall's second album, which instead brims with high end pop and sumptuous indie.

Rock me Amadeus

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

LUCIAN MSAMATI, who has starred in Taboo, Game Of Thrones, and Luther, takes on the role of Mozart in an acclaimed new production of Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, Amadeus, which will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema in Galway.

Emma Heatherington to launch new novel this weekend

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

NOVELIST EMMA Heatherington launches her new book, The Legacy of Lucy Harte, a bittersweet story dealing with organ donation, at two events in County Galway this weekend.

Tony Law - the King of post-modern nonsense'

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

TONY LAW might be the closest thing to experiencing nonsense nirvana. The Daily Telegraph crowned him "the King of post-modern nonsense", while The Guardian said he "takes post-modern stand-up to a dangerously funny new level".

GUMS presents Urinetown: The Musical

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

GUMS, OTHERWISE known as the Galway University Musical Society present their 17th annual show, the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical, at the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 7 to Saturday 11.

The French nurse and the nuns

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

AS WWII draws to a close, Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, comes to the aid of a group of nuns, many of whom have been violated by Soviet soldiers on their march west to Berlin.

New art classes with Denise Hogan

Thu, Jan 26, 2017

A NEW series of one-day and weekend workshops in painting, along with a new spring term of weekly art classes, will be held in Galway and Mayo by the award-winning artist Denise Hogan.

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