Dirty Circus - the best of Galway burlesque

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

HARLEY SPARKS, Steven Sharpe, and The Mighty Boobs will be among the performers showing just how raunchy, racy, saucy, and downright brilliant Galway burlesque is at the next installment of The Dirty Circus.

Dan Deacon and his 'teeming crackpot electronica'

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

DAN DEACON is "a self-confessed pop weirdo who sits at the edge of pop and experimentation," according to The Guardian, who makes "teeming crackpot electronica" says The Times, and he plays Galway next week.

The colourful world of two artists called Callaghan

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

MALAYSIAN BORN Australian artist Stef Callaghan and County Antrim's George Callaghan are known for their vibrant, colourful, and distinctive style of painting, and Galway will be able to see both exhibit together.

Sammy J & Randy - tomfoolery, songs, and filth

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE skinny man and purple puppet, Sammy J & Randy, are heading to Galway armed with nothing but a keyboard and a suitcase full of songs, plus undies, toothpaste, and international adaptor plugs, but mostly, songs.

Theatre reviews: GIAF 16 week one

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 14, 2016

DYSTOPIAS, ISOLATION, characters on the edge are just some of the recurrent themes that announce themselves in Eoghan O’Tuairisc’s Fornocht do Chonaic/Naked I Saw You at An Taibhdhearc, Enda Walsh’s Arlington [a love story] in Leisureland, and Druid’s new staging of Waiting for Godot.

'I couldn't believe people had no problem with who I was'

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THERE IS no standing still in the world of Villagers' leader, vocalist, and songwriter Conor J O'Brien. The Ivor Novello winning, Mercury Prize nominated, artist has undergone a prolific last 18 months, releasing two albums and seeing his music evolve in new and different directions.

New farce starring Edwin Sammon @ Galway Fringe

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

A COMPULSIVE liar asks his eejit of a friend to pose as his psychiatrist for a couple's counselling session, because what could go wrong if you were to try that, right?

The Pajama Men - surreal sketch comedy @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THE PAJAMA Men "create a cartoon of the mind – a shape-shifting world in which anything seems not just possible, but imminent". So said The Guardian about the comedy phenomenon coming to Galway tomorrow.

The Souljazz Orchestra - 'eruptive improvisations' and hope

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

SOUL, JAZZ, Afro, Latin, and Caribbean styles, biting social commentary and a core message of hope, will come together in the music of French-Canadian collective The Souljazz Orchestra.

Galway Mechanics Institute art exhibition

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

'CONNECTIONS WITH Galway, landscape and nature' is the theme of a series of works by Galway artists which are currently being exhhibited in the Galway Mechanics Institute in Middle Street.

'Galway is always special'

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

AMONG THE many storming music gigs I’ve had the pleasure of seeing in Galway, one of them was the first time I saw Hothouse Flowers, all of 30 years ago, during the arts festival, when they raised the roof and rocked the joint big time at the Burren Mount Hotel.

GIAF 16 gigs @ Electric

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

KEITH MCIVOR and Jonnie Wilkes, the DJs behind Glasgow clubnight Optimo will be among those spinning the decks at the Galway International Arts Festival shows taking place in Electric.

Blue Wine - one act comedy for the Fringe

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THREE HOUSEMATES, one as eccentric as the other, are desperately trying to pawn off a mysterious artifact, only to find themselves in a series of bizarre situations caused by that very same artifact.

Metallers Ainriail - album launch and Cellar gig

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

SLUDGE DOOM metal duo Ainriail launch their debut full length album, My Heart Is A Knot of Blood, in The Cellar this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Italian organist to play Galway cathedral

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

A NEW work by the Italian composer Claudio Perugini, will be performed by the Italian organist Antonio Caporaso at the next Galway Cathedral Recitals concert, this evening at 8pm.

Electric Six's Dick Valentine @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

DICK VALENTINE, leader of Detroit band Electric Six, best known for the singles ‘High Voltage’ and ‘Gay Bar’, is coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Monday August 8 at 9pm.

The Lucia Comnes Band to play Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

THE LUCIA Comnes Band, a four-piece folk powerhouse fusing rock, blues, Irish trad, and bluegrass, led by a singer with a "singular voice", according to the San Francisco Chronicle, are coming to Galway.

Bagatelle - last chance to see

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

BAGATELLE ARE drawing the curtain on their 35 year career with an Irish tour that takes in Galway, and this upcoming show will be the last chance Galway fans have to see the band.

Matty Rea @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 14, 2016

AUSTRALIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER Matty Rea, a rising star in his own country, is coming to Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday July 29 at 8pm as part of his upcoming British and Irish tour.

King Kong Company - blowing bulbs and destroying dance-floors

Wed, Jul 13, 2016

GALWAY HAS been picking up some monkey shaped blips on its music radar recently, blips that are growing ever stronger, especially as the mighty and outrageous King Kong Company play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.

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