Carnevil - enter if you dare...

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

ARE YOU feeling brave? Are you feeling nervous? Are you looking for something to test the limits of your courage, and are you prepared to look deep into the abyss? Are you prepared for the abyss to…look back?

Skratch Bastid to DJ @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

SKRATCH BASTID, the Canadian DJ celebrated for his comfort and versatility in mixing hip hop, funk, disco, club, and rock, into a fusion that demands people dance, is coming to Galway.

Maxi Jazz to DJ in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

HE WAS the face and the voice of Faithless, whose songs 'God Is A DJ', 'Insomnia', and 'We Come 1' dominated the charts and the airwaves in the 1990s and early noughties, and now that voice, Maxi Jazz, is coming to Galway.

Cúla Bula's Repocalopera

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

A NIGHT of conspiracy, tinfoil head protection, and eternal damnation awaits Galway when trad/folk-rock band Cúla Búla bring their new rock opera, Repocalopera, to the Monroe's Live stage.

Whiplash - Metallica tribute @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act play The Loft at Seven next week and can be expected to deliver a thrilling two hour set from the band's classic 1983 - 1991 era.

RobotRock @ HALO

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

PARTY BAND RobotRock, whose re-mixing and mashing up of classic dance anthems create a floor filling experience, play the HALO nightclub tomorrow.

Invasion of the body slammers

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

AL PORTER in a leotard; muscular American wrestlers Chris Hero and X-Pac; somewhere in the middle of it all the Rubberbandits; and all part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway - this is set to be the most hilariously homoerotic fun since Top Gun!

'Mazda' - The Clockworks release new single

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

HOT CHOCOLATE may have boasted about love being in the back seat of lead singer Errol Brown's motocar, but for the character who narrates The Clockworks' new single, the back seat of a old Mazda is a much more squalid place.

'Alice in Wonderland meets Hieronymous Bosch'

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

VISITORS TO the Town Hall Theatre bar this week will find themselves transported to Shona Shirley MacDonald’s strange and magical otherworld of Juniper, showing as part of the Baboró International Children's Festival.

Harvester and Dvne - metal tour begins in Galway

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

GALWAY STONER rock/metal band Harvester and Edinburgh doom/black metal quartet Dvne, will tour Ireland next week, with both bands playing Galway city at the start of the tour.

Blood Thread - metal band to make Galway debut

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

BLOOD THREAD will bring their bone crushing, modern, death metal to Galway next week for what will be the Scottish band's first appearance in this city, accompanied by Words That Burn, who are also making their Galway debut.

'I approach it all in a pretty gentle way, but I'm nasty as hell'

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHEN AUSTRALIAN comedian Sam Simmons brings his award winning show, Not A People Person, to this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival, it will be a double first debut for the Adelaide native.

Gerry Conneely's Shakespeare in Connemara

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

OLDER READERS will remember those halcyon days in the 1990s when lunchtime theatre was part of daily life in Galway. It was part of the streetscape itself as merry mischief-makers like The Flying Pigs and The Mad Susans took to the thoroughfares to coax the unwary into the back of The King’s Head.

Ken Bruen's 'brilliant...surreal' take on Galway

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

IN THE pristine minds of the inoffensive middleweights who like to think they dominate Irish literary culture post-Heaney, Ken Bruen is problematic. He writes novels people they describe as ‘ordinary’ like to read, with no higher aim in their devastatingly average minds than pure pleasure.

The Bolshoi Ballet - Live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE GOLDEN Age, a satire of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, will mark the first in a new season of live broadcasts from The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Julio Bashmore to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

INSPIRED BY the French electro and dance sounds of Daft Punk and Cassius, and the bass scene of his native Bristol, DJ Julio Bashmore is acclaimed for his forward thinking, constantly future focused approach, to music.

The Dan Band - 'Dan, That’s Funny’

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHETHER YOU know it or not, The Dan Band is the most popular wedding band in the world. Nobody can nail a 1980s classic better than Dan Finnerty as Galway will find out at this month's Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

No easy answers as TULCA explores 'the city'

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

WHAT HAS gone wrong with our cities? And what are we going to do about it? These two questions will be explored in TULCA 2016, Galway's annual visual arts festival, and audiences can expect the answers to be unsettling.

Ballinasloe to examine women's role in 1916 Rising

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

THE ROLE of Women in 1916, and specifically the part played by Cumann na mBan in the run up to, and during, the Rising, will be the focus of a free conference taking place in the Ballinasloe Library this weekend.

North American invasion at Comedy Carnival

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

FANS OF great stand-up will get a chance to expand their comedy horizons at this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival, for while the line-up is predominantly Irish or UK based, there is a huge contingent of US and Canadian comics making the trip to Galway this year.

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