John Grant to play Seapoint in January

Tue, Sep 29, 2015

JOHN GRANT, whose Big Top concert was the undoubted highlight of last summer's Galway International Arts Festival, returns to Galway in the New Year, playing the Seapoint Ballroom on Saturday January 30 at 8pm.

In Light of Salt Rings They Drew

Tue, Sep 29, 2015

FOLLOWING A car crash, the circumstances of which cannot be explained, Maisie reluctantly takes up residence in a mental rehabilitation centre for a period of observation. Then she gets some surprising news.

Andy McKee - the acoustic master returns

Mon, Sep 28, 2015

"LIKE AN explorer from the 16th Century, Kansas-born Andy McKee has taken uncharted waters with his instrument and is circumnavigating the globe of guitar possibilities, mixing traditions from American folk with Millennial sensibilities to create a whole new genre of not only playing, but approach to his trade."

Album review: David Bowie

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 28, 2015

DAVID BOWIE has long had a habit of dating the start of his career to 1969 and his hit single 'Space Oddity', conveniently airbrushing the first five years of his career completely out of history.

'I am a shameless liberal'

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

IN 1961, a young singer-songwriter, originally from Seattle, but now part of the thriving folk community in New York's Greenwich Village, released her debut album, A Maid Of Constant Sorrow. The closing track was 'The Rising Of The Moon', an Irish ballad inspired by the 1798 Rebellion. The choice of that song was both a confirmation of deep Irish roots, and of a long association with Ireland that continues to this day.

Bravo Theatre presents The Last Five Years

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

LOUGHREA'S BRAVO Theatre Group make their Galway city debut this weekend at the Town Hall Theatre with the musical drama, The Last Five Years. Written by Jason Robert Brown, it is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress, told from both points of view.

Roger Waters The Wall @ IMC Cinema

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

ROGER WATERS The Wall unfolds on many levels – an immersive concert experience of the classic Pink Floyd album, a road movie of Waters' reckoning with the past, and a stirring anti-war film.

Oyster festival Silent Disco Ball

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

HAVE YOU always wanted to go to a silent disco but thought it was for those in their twenties or younger? Think again. The Galway Oyster Festival is hosting the Silent Disco Ball this Saturday and it is for strictly over 25s.

Faulty Towers - the Dining Experience is back

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

"A GIN and orange, a lemon squash, and a scotch and water please!" Ordering this at Faulty Towers may require you to repeat it numerous times, increasingly in a raised voice, and at risk from assault by the hotel manager, and when it comes to dinner, don't forget - Duck's off!

Girl Band - debut album and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

GIRL BAND are a group with no female members. An ironic moniker? A piece of hipster humour? Or a name in the tradition of Girls and Girls Names, groups who are also all-male configurations?

Ad Hoc choir singing workshops

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

THE AD-HOC Choir will host a series of singing workshops, in the Galway Technological Institute and the Galway Arts Centre, with classes suitable for a variety of levels and interests.

Love conquers all in How to Keep an Alien

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

HOW TO Keep An Alien, written and performed by Sonya Kelly, and which comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a staging by Rough Magic, is a hilarious, yet tender, autobiographical tale, recounting how Sonya and her Australian partner Kate had to prove to the Department of Immigration they had the right to live together in Ireland.

A taste of Southern Blues @ Rocktoberfest

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

"THESE GUYS do the nasty blues like the devil hisself was hurting and rock like they'll skate come Judgement Day," Texan country singer and songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard has said of Irish blues trio Crow Black Chicken.

Niamh Marron @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

SIMON COWELL called her “risky, edgy and a very naughty girl", while Hotpress declared her "consistently excellent". She is Niamh Marron, and she headlines the next installment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow at 9pm.

Spanish thriller to open Indreabhán film season

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

AS SPAIN transitions from dictatorship to democracy, two detectives investigate the disappearance of two sisters in a town still very much pro-Franco and not that bothered by the vanishing of girls, who, supposedly, had 'reputations'.

Crazy fun at Baboró with Paper World

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

THE CRAZY clowns from Ukraine's Mimirichi Clown and Pantomime Theatre are bringing their wild, wacky, and hilarious family comedy show, Paper World, to the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Beardyman to DJ @ Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

“A CROSS between a DJ, a comedian, and a human sound-sample library," is how The Guardian described Beardyman. It could have also added front-rank improv artist and entertainer to that description of the man who plays the Vodafone Comedy Carnival next month.

The perfect family falls apart

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

SCANDINAVIA HAS been home to some of the finest TV drama of recent years, and it also has a long history of quality film-making, and the Galway Film Society will screen a recent example in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Pianist Finghin Collins in concert in October

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

MOZART AND Stravinsky will dominate the programme of an upcoming classical concert featuring one of Ireland's leading pianists Finghin Collins, accompanied by the Irish Chamber Orchestra, under director Katherine Hunka.

New age rockers Moxie @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

FUSING JAZZ, rock, Irish trad, and bluegrass, Moxie have been called "five of the best musicians on the scene today...sophisticated, slick and adventurous yet exciting," by Lunasa's Kevin Crawford.

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