Tristan und Isolde opens new Met Opera season @ The Eye

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

WAGNER'S TRISTAN und Isolde in a new production by Mariusz Trelinski, with Sir Simon Rattle conducting, opens the new season of operas broadcast live via satellite from New York's Metropolitan Opera to The Eye Cinema.

Ten things you didn’t know about the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Comedians

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

The Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway kicks off on Tuesday the 25th of October and runs until Monday the 31st. Get to know the perfomers a little bit better with these:

Christian Wallumrød to play Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

CONSIDERED ONE of Norway's most prominent and influential contemporary musicians and composers, Christian Wallumrød is a solo artist, band leader, and diverse collaborator, who plays Galway this weekend as part of the Galway Jazz Festival.

Mike McCormack to read at Over the Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

MIKE MCCORMACK, the Galway based author whose latest novel Solar Bones, has been nominated for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize, will be the featured reader and judge at the eighth annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam.

Donal Vaughan @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

AFTER THREE weeks of the Irish Comedian of the Year competition, it is time to get back to regular comedy nights at the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, and getting the ball rolling is Donal Vaughan.

Spanking good fun at The Dirty Circus

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

IT'S NAUGHTY but nice, sexy and saucy, tasteful rather than filthy and depraved. It is Galway burlesque and cabaret night The Dirty Circus, and it kickstarts this year's Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

The Queen Has Vanished – a play about loss and hope

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

THE BABORÓ International Children's Festival is just a couple of weeks away and one of the top attractions will be the Flemish ensemble Kopergietery, one of Europe’s most exciting theatre companies, with its original play, The Queen Has Vanished, a beautiful story that speaks about loss, sadness and hope.

French pianist Adam Laloum to make Galway debut

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

THE BRILLIANT young French pianist Adam Laloum makes his Irish debut with a Music For Galway concert next week, performing works by Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart.

Brendan Grace is coming to Moycullen

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

BRENDAN GRACE, Ireland's much loved and legendary comedian, will bring his It's A Funny Old World show to The Forge Pub, Moycullen, this Saturday at 8pm.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

EVERYONE HAS a story to tell and if you are a teenager with ambitions to write, why not tell your story through prose or poetry, and help is at hand with a new series of creative writing classes.

Antal to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

ANTAL, THE Amsterdam DJ of the moment will be spinning the decks at the Shivers clubnight in the Electric Garden and Theatre, Abbeygate Street, for a three hour set tomorrow from 11pm.

The Southern Fold to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

THEY CITE Hank Williams and Kurt Cobain as their inspirations, and they seek to communicate messages of truth and honesty through harmony singing and the craft of songwriting in its simplest, purist, form.

Two guitarists - one tour of Galway

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

PETER VON TOY, the singer-guitarist who plays "rock drenched blues tinted folk", and Galway based guitar wizard Tom Portman, will play a number of dates around Galway city and county.

Strap on the air guitar and widdle!

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

STRAP ON the air guitar and get ready to widdle on an imaginary fretboard and pull all kinds of rock god face and shapes at the Air Guitar Heroes event which takes place in Galway next week.

The New 52 - new album and Róisín Dubh gig

Wed, Oct 05, 2016

THE NEW 52 is a name that to many signifies DC Comics' relaunch of its superhero titles, but it is also the name of the new indie/pop-rock project of Dublin singer-songwriter Darragh Cullen, who has a new album and a show in Galway this week.

Zinc to launch debut album at Galway Jazz Festival

Tue, Oct 04, 2016

GALWAY POST-rock trio Zinc, whose music is "capable of knocking an audience clean off their feet" according to The Thin Air, launch their eponymously titled debut album on Thursday October 6 at 8pm in Biteclub, Abbeygate Street, as part of the Galway Jazz Festival 2016.

Spats Colombo set to release new EP Caught In A Bind

Tue, Oct 04, 2016

SKA, RETRO-rock, songs in Irish and English, all recorded in a former pub by a group whose members hail from several Irish counties and one of the English home counties, who take their name from the gangster played by George Raft in Some Like It Hot - it can only be Spats Colombo.

Rubber souls

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

“A MAN is least himself when he talks in his own person,” observed Oscar Wilde. “Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.” While Wilde would undoubtedly have sniffed at their suspect sartorial style - cheap tracksuits, gaudy jewellery, balaclavas expertly fashioned from plastic shopping bags - it seems likely he would have otherwise heartily approved of comedy hip-hop duo The Rubberbandits.

Why Shakespeare's tragedies still matter

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

A FASCINATING and insightful book on four key Shakespeare tragedies, aimed at Leaving Cert and undergraduate students, theatregoers, and those who would like to ‘get’ Shakespeare, will be launched next week.

Ciaran Lavery - songs of innocence and experiecne

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

OKKERVIL RIVER is the title of a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. It is also the name of the American indie-rock band led by Will Sheff, and more recently the name of a single by Ciaran Lavery.

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