Wingnut Records night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
PRIVATE UNDERGROUND Residence have been compared to Battles, Fugazi, Slint, and The Melvins, and they play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...A feast of DJs for Electric Garden
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
THE INNOVATIVE Detroit DJ Dabyre is coming to Galway to play the Bap To The Future night at the Electric Garden this Saturday.
Read more ...Art exhibitions
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
FROM DIFFERENT views of Galway, to Icelandic landscapes, to the work of GMIT students, a host of exhibitions in Galway city and county open, or have just opened, this week.
Read more ...Classical and trad concert for Coláiste Iognáid
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
THE JES Choir and the NUI Galway Medical School Orchestra join forces with Frankie Gavin and Cora and Breda Smyth for a major concert on the university campus.
Read more ...The day Munster beat the All Blacks
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
IT IS one of the legendary days in Irish rugby. In Thomond Park, Limerick, on Tuesday October 31 1978, Munster took on one of the greatest New Zealand sides of all time - and beat them, 12 - 0. Afterwards All Blacks wing Stu Wilson said : “We were lucky to get nil.”
Read more ...Vickers Vimy take flight
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY FIVE-piece Vickers Vimy take their name from the aircraft in which Alcock and Brown made the first transatlantic flight. Their music also spans the Atlantic in its influences, exuding a warm and mellow flavour of rootsy Americana.
Read more ...Benny Boot and Neil Delamere @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GREAT Tin Minchin has described fellow Aussie comic Benny Boot as “the real thing. Charming, disarming, and proper f**king funny”. Galway will see why soon.
Read more ...Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience returns
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
ONE OF the big hits of the last two Galway Comedy Festivals was the brilliant and uproarious Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience.
Here Galwegians could experience all the mayhem, madness, hilarity, and brilliance of seeing and being served by Basil, Sybil, and Manuel. Everything that can go wrong, does, in some beautifully controlled chaos and featuring all the best gags from the legendary TV series.
Read more ...Galway Musical Society to stage Jekyll & Hyde
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE MUSICAL of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale, Jekyll & Hyde, will be performed by the Galway Musical Society, in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday March 19 to Saturday 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Be the first to see Our Children
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWEGIANS WILL be among the first in Ireland to see the multi-award winning Belgian/French film Our Children at a special screening in the city this weekend.
Read more ...Theatre workshop
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq techniques for actors, directors, and teachers, takes place from March 25 to 29.
Read more ...Run For Your Wife
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE HILARIOUS comedy Run For Your Wife will be staged in the Turloughmore Social Centre tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...The Three Tenors St Patrick’s Eve concert
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE THREE Tenors, “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have,” according to The New York Times, are coming back to Galway.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre March Poetry Slam
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THIS MONTH’S Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam takes place on Tuesday March 19 at 7pm at the centre on Dominick Street.
Read more ...KNOTS @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DUBLIN TRIO KNOTS, an abbreviation for King’s Now On The Stage, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night at 10pm.
Read more ...Belfast punks for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
BELFAST ALT-PUNK band Empty Lungs play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Tuesday at 9pm as part of a tour promoting their new EP.
Read more ...Doom metallers to launch debut album @ The Cellar
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY DOOM metal trio Weed Priest will launch their eponymous debut album with a gig in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Apartment Records @ Bierhaus and Factory
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DJ KENNY Hanlon, the owner and operator of Apartment Records, is coming to Galway as part of a night featuring three of the label’s acts.
The Epoch clubnight takes place in the Bierhaus and The Electric Garden’s Factory this Saturday. Hanlon will play a four hour set in the Bierhaus from 9pm and Mark Forshaw and TR-One continuing proceedings in Factory.
Read more ...Don Stiffe’s Garvey’s residency
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DON STIFFE, one of Galway’s best loved folk singers can be heard and enjoyed at his residency in Garvey’s Bar, Eyre Square each Sunday from 9.30pm to 11.30pm.
Originally from Bohermore, over the last seven years Don has established himself as a popular singer-songwriter in the folk genre. He released his debut album Start Of A Dream in 2006 and it featured contributions from Frankie Gavin, Sharon Shannon, Arty McGlynn, and Cathal Hayden.
Read more ...Glen Hansard to play the Big Top
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Festival Big Top line up is looking to be among the best in years with Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard confirmed.
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