Puzzle returns to The Cellar

Thu, May 07, 2015

DUBSTEP, GLITCH-hop, neuro funk, and drum’n’bass will be the order of the night when Puzzle returns to The Cellar Bar this Saturday from 9pm.

Ansome to DJ @ Factory

Thu, May 07, 2015

THE KINETIKA Clubnight celebrates its first birthday in Factory on Friday May 15 with a live set from English Techno aficionado Ansome.

Bows, curtseys, Beethoven, and ConTempo

Wed, May 06, 2015

IN GERMAN-speaking countries, Beethoven’s Quartet No 2 in G major, Op 18, No 2, is called the Komplimentier-Quartett, “the quartet of bows and curtseys” and Galway will hear why this weekend.

A new night for emerging songwriters

Tue, May 05, 2015

THE SONGWRITER’S Collective is the name of a new night which seeks to develop a strong knitted community of songwriters within Galway city, holds its first event downstairs in The Cellar Bar tomorrow [Wednesday May 6] from 9.30pm.

GMIT film student to have short film screened at Cannes

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

A short film by a young Galway-based filmmaker, Luke Morgan, has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner. Morgan is a third year student on the BA (hons) in film and documentary at GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts & Media (CCAM).

‘It’s very exciting discovering characters with the audience’

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE OPENING show of this weekend’s Galway Theatre Festival is Suitcase, ‘an improvised theatrical experience’, presented by The Sky Babies at Nun’s Island Theatre, tomorrow and Saturday.

‘The play is about power’ - Bernard Field discusses The Early Hours

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FIVE YEARS after its premiere, Bernard Field’s tense psycho-drama, The Early Hours, returns to the Town Hall Studio next week in a new production from Field’s own Haw Theatre Company.

Two shows from The Leg Breakers

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

GALWAY COMEDY Improv troupe The Leg Breakers perform two shows in Galway this week, one of which is part of the Galway Theatre Festival.

Race the Flux to launch new EP @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

“A GODZILLA-sized monster boasting melodies that could level a mountain,” say Hotpress; “Dynamic lifts and jumps give their sound a full-scale post-grunge feel”, according to The Last Mixtape; while The Irish Times says “they truly are ones to watch”.

Album review: Rose Windows

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 30, 2015

WHEN THE Seattle sextet unleashed their debut album The Sun Dogs in 2013, its audacity and wide scope was as much part of its appeal as the stunning music that lay within.

Celebrate the life of writer Walter Macken

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

WALTER MACKEN, one of Galway’s most famous writers, was born 100 years ago this May, and An Taibhdhearc and Galway’s West End community will hold commemorative events.

Freddie White to play Monroe’s in May

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FREDDIE WHITE may live in Sydney these days, but the Cork singer-songwriter has never forgotten his roots, and is coming back to Ireland to play a nationwide tour.

DruidShakespeare begins next week

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

DRUIDSHAKESPEARE, the epic cycle of plays where the Galway company takes on, not an Irish playwright, but the greatest English dramatist of all time, starts next week.

Read your favourite poem at Galway City Museum

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

WHAT IS your favourite poem? Would you like to hear other people’s favourites too? Would you like to discover new poets? If the answer is Yes to any of these, then read on.

The Tale Of Ancient Lights

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE TALE Of The Ancient Lights, an award-winning one-man show fusing circus, dance, magic, echnology, and Asian art, is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

The Italian underground comes to FEAST

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE DARLING of the Italian underground Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, makes his first visit to Ireland with (r), a cocktail of introspective-ambient-noise and lyrical songwriting at the next FEAST night in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 9pm.

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FREE COMIC Book Day takes place this Saturday at Sub-City Comics in the Corbett Court Shopping Centre, and there will be a range of comics available absolutely free.

Donál Lunny to play Town Hall

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

DONÁL LUNNY, one of the pivotal figures in Irish folk and trad, will join forces with a fellow Irishman, and a Breton, for a concert of Celtic music.

A night of ballet and jazz dance

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet is to perform what promises to be dazzling display ballet and jazz dance at the Town Hall Theatre from Wednesday May 6 to Friday 8, at 8pm.

Galway Arts Centre poetry workshops

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

POETRY WORKSHOPS, for beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels, taught by acclaimed Galway poet Kevin Higgins, take place in the Galway Arts Centre next month.

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