WE HATE DJS

Thu, May 27, 2010

Catch the We Hate DJs experience in Massimos Bar this Saturday from 10pm. Expect a wide variety of electronic music including lots of left-field, electro, progressive house, techno and classics.

Perry plays Róisín Dubh before album release

Thu, May 27, 2010

EIGHT DAYS before he releases his new solo album, Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry will play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm. Perry’s new album ‘Ark’ is a definitive individual effort with the musical artist writing all lyrics, playing all instruments, and remaining the sole creative force across the eight tracks.

Aslan return to Monroes

Thu, May 27, 2010

VETERAN IRISH rockers Aslan are arguably Ireland’s hardest working live act and they return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this evening.

John Walsh to launch new collection of poetry

Thu, May 27, 2010

CHOPPING WOOD With TS Eliot, the third collection of poems from John Walsh, will be launched in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 1pm.

Printmaking Graduate Exhibition to be held this week

Thu, May 27, 2010

This year’s Printmaking Graduate Exhibition will be held in the Quadrangle Building Art Gallery, NUIG. The official opening is on May 28 at 8pm, doors will be open from 6pm. Siobhan Piercy artist and head of the printmaking department in the Cluain Mhuire campus of GMIT will be officially opening this year’s exhibition.

Baroque singers in Leisureland

Thu, May 27, 2010

ON THURSDAY June 10, the RTE Concert Orchestra will join Galway Baroque Singers for their annual concert in Leisureland at 8pm. This year’s programme is Durufle’s ‘Requiem’ and Puccini’s ‘Messa di Gloria’ that should prove very popular with the audience as it is full of contrasts, darkness and light, pathos and thrilling, exhilarating passages.

Lemon lounge @ The Warwick Hotel, Salthill

Thu, May 27, 2010

GALWAYS NEWEST clubbing experience, Lemon Lounge, is now open for business every Saturday night at the legendary Warwick Hotel in Salthill.

Winter in Wartime

Thu, May 27, 2010

A slow start but once Winter in Wartime really gets into its rhythm it is impossible to look away from the faultless filmmaking, impressive acting, and a plot with real meaning, that is of a teenaged boy who learns about the brutal realities of war.

FIRST FRIDAY COMEDY CLUB AT THE CO-OP

Thu, May 27, 2010

FOLLOWING THE spectacular launch in early May, the monthly 'First Friday' Comedy Club at the CO-OP Moycullen continues on the Bank Holiday weekend with another strong line-up on Friday June 4. Stand-up comic,voice over artist,writer and actor Joe Rooney has many strings to his huge and acomplished bow.

The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 27, 2010

This Wednesday June 2 The Laughter Lounge presents Perrier Award winner Phil Nicol with Damon Blake, Biddy O'Loughlan and Paddy Courtney

Michael Mee headlining a new night of comedy

Thu, May 27, 2010

On Saturday May 29 John Donnellan and Danny Dowling will showcase a night of new jokes, spoofs, and sketches at the Comedy Comedy gig in the Róisín Dubh. Headlining will be Michael Mee who has been described by Time Out New York as ‘Woody Allen with a Cork brogue’. The Irish Times described his performance as simply ‘hilarious’.

The Saw Doctors to showcase new album at extra Kelly’s gigs

Thu, May 27, 2010

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

Keeping it simple with American bluesman Eric Bibb

Thu, May 20, 2010

ACOUSTIC BLUES singer-songwriter Eric Bibb was born in New York in 1951 and grew up surrounded by the Greenwich Village folk music and literary scene which included Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.

Become Possessed at Galway Early Music Festival

Thu, May 20, 2010

AS PART of the Galway Early Music Festival, innovative Dublin-based early music Ensemble eX will perform Possessed, a unique staged and costumed concert exploring the theme of possession through the prism of early music.

The production is conceived by eX’s artistic directors, husband-and-wife duo Caitríona O’Leary and Eric Fraad (who directs the performance). It features internationally celebrated early music specialists soprano Caitríona O’Leary (Ireland), Clara Sanabras (Spain), Paulina van Laarhoven (Netherlands), Steven Player (Sweden), Harvey Brough (Britain), and Francesco Turrisi (Italy), all veterans of former eX productions and recordings.

Playing cards with the devil?

Thu, May 20, 2010

IF YOU played a game of cards with the devil, who do you think would win? The devil no doubt, as he would have no compulsion about cheating and pulling devious strokes.

A new day dawns for Lúnasa

Thu, May 20, 2010

IRISH TRAD ensemble Lúnasa have been touring for more than 14 years and are poised to release their seventh studio album Lá Nua through their own Lúnasa Records.

Get involved in the Glee Summer Camp

Thu, May 20, 2010

IF YOU’RE mad about the hit TV series Glee and would love to be involved in a Glee Club, then take notice as the Glee Summer Camp is taking place around Co Galway this month.

Win tickets to see Ronan Tynan at Town Hall

Thu, May 20, 2010

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED Irish tenor Ronan Tynan plays the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday June 5 at 8pm as part of his first tour in almost six years.

Terry Pratchett novel takes to the Town Hall stage

Thu, May 20, 2010

MEN AT ARMS, the comedy-fantasy Discworld novel by Sir Terry Pratchett, will be performed as a stageplay by Croi8 productions in the Nuns Island Theatre on Friday May 28 and Saturday 29 at 8pm.

Lost Chord and Disconnect 4 headline charity gig at Monroe’s

Thu, May 20, 2010

TWO OF Galway’s leading indie-rock bands - Lost Chord and Disconnect 4 - will take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tonight for the Galway Hospice Charity Night concert.

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