Face The Music with Equinox
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
EQUINOX, THE acclaimed jazz/rock/fusion band, comprising Dutch, Irish, and American musicians, are coming to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Moonfish recast Pinocchio as ‘cool teen’
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
ONE OF the highlights of next week’s Baboró is the return of Moonfish Theatre Company’s much-acclaimed Tromluí Phinocchio/ Pinocchio – a Nightmare.
Read more ...Led Zeppelin tribute night
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A NIGHT of classic hard rock and a tribute to Led Zeppelin will take place in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Saturday October 19 from 9pm.
Read more ...Calling all students at The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE QUAYS Music Hall new student night, Lockdown, continues tonight with a concert by folk-rockers The Kilkennys.
Read more ...Charity night in The Quays
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A CHARITY night and gig, in memory of Gosia Urbanik, takes place on Sunday, upstairs in The Quays.
Gosia Urbanik died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 31. There will be music by The Pearly Whites. Admission is €10 and all proceeds will go to ICU Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe.
Read more ...Three films from the Arab Mediterranean
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Film Society will screen three films in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend, all of them from the southern Mediterranean region.
Read more ...New Youth Film Club opens tomorrow
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE GALWAY Youth Film Club opens tomorrow in the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, and is open to young people aged between 14 and 18.
Read more ...Get free tickets to Disclosure’s Black Box concert
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
CHART CONQUERING dance duo Disclosure are coming to the Black Box Theatre on November 14 as part of Heineken Live Project.
Read more ...Session Americana at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
SESSION AMERICANA, a who’s who of the Boston folk music scene, bring their Irish and American folk fusion to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Hard rocking tonight @ Monroe’s
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
IF YOU pine for the days of hair-metal, epic guitar solos, spandex, and a time when Guns‘n’Roses, Whitesnake, and Mötley Crüe, ruled the world, read on.
Limerick band Dirty Diamonds are intent on re-creating that era and they cite the above mentioned bands as their inspiration. Also fitting is that their forthcoming debut album is entitled Let’s Get Loud!
Read more ...Harrison & The Devil - gig and debut EP
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
GALWAY BAND Harrison & The Devil are set to launch their debut EP Cat Matters and will play Club Áras na nGael, Dominick Street, at 9.30pm.
Read more ...It Was All A Bit Black & White album launch
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
GALWAY BASED post-rock duo It Was All A Bit Black & White will launch their debut album Retro Futurism at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Art exhibitions
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
A DIVERSE range of artistic approaches and methods will be on display in four exhibitions which have just opened around the city.
Read more ...Wagner, Nietzsche, and Engelbert Humperdinck
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
RICHARD WAGNER and Friedrich Nietzsche were once close friends but a serious falling lead to the philosopher vomiting in public after hearing the composer’s newest work.
There will, however, be a kind of reconciliation when the music of Wagner, and a song written by Nietzsche are performed by tenor Paul McNamara, pianist Philip Mayers, and narrator Helen Gregg at The Song, In Truth, Is Not Mine... on Tuesday October 15 at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, for a Music For Galway/Wagner Society of Ireland concert.
Read more ...Build an instrument and take part in a gig
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE BELGIAN based, American singer-songwriter, Le Ton Mité is coming to Galway to perform a concert and give an ‘instant instrument workshop’.
Read more ...Galway Jazz Festival is now on
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
THE NINTH annual Galway Jazz Festival, which opened on Tuesday, will see Irish and international jazz musicians performing across throughout the weekend.
Read more ...TG4 to explore the Tuam connection to punk
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
PUNK’S MOST enduring icon, Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, is second-generation Irish, his father having come from Tuam.
Read more ...We Town Criers to launch debut album
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
WE TOWN Criers play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night from 8.30pm to mark the Galway launch of their debut album Swing Beast.
The Roscommon quartet have won praise for their music. Goldenplec.com said: “Thank God for We Town Criers, single-handedly reigniting our faith in music”; while Music Review Unsigned said the band sound “achingly catchy, radio friendly and yet not even slightly like something that’s been commercially affected or in any way geared toward the market.”
Read more ...Bell Book and Kindle Act II
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
LAST JANUARY, in this column, I ruminated on the nature of and effect the Kindle may have on the printed book. On foot of the varied reaction to the article, I decided it was something that deserved further investigation and to this end, let my nearest and dearest know that a Kindle would be a most welcome birthday gift.
Read more ...Stories you would not find in Ireland’s Own
Thu, Oct 10, 2013
NAZISM IS something of a theme for Galway born, New York based writer Seamus Scanlon in his new short story collection, As Close As You’ll Ever Be, published by Cairn Press.
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