The Circus of Lir
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
ONE HUNDRED and fifty young Galwegians will be performing in the Black Box Theatre at circus spectacle styled show, The Circus of Lir.
Read more ...Argo well worth seeing
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
ARGO is in the news this week after scooping the Best Film BAFTA and will probably have greater glory next week in LA. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck he pulls off a comical and brilliant performance.
Read more ...J90 @ HALO
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THEY HAVE scored five Number 1 singles in the download charts, appeared on TV show Fade Street, and enjoy regular radio play.
Read more ...Monroe’s Live nominated for IMRO award
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
MONROE’S LIVE has been nominated for an IMRO Connacht Live Music Venue of the Year 2012 award.
Read more ...The Nualas @ Town Hall
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE NUALAS return to Galway’s Town Hall Theatre with their new show The Nualas: One Night of Dignity on Friday February 22 at 8pm.
In this show, the Irish all-female comedy singing sensations will perform such favourites as ‘Manolo’ and ‘Girl With A Cabbage For A Head’ as well as new songs like ‘The Sexy Farm Song’ and ‘Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Why Am I So Fat?’ There will also be scintillating vocal harmonies, ambitious choreography, and plenty of craic.
Read more ...Epic indie from Admiral Fallow
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
ADMIRAL FALLOW play “epic indie-pop” with “big, yearning choruses and swaying anthems,” according to Q, and Galwegians will be able to see for themselves this weekend.
Read more ...Levon Vincent @ Factory
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
NEW YORK born, Berlin based, DJ Levon Vincent, makes his Galway debut on Saturday at the Epoch night as part of Factory’s first birthday celebrations.
Read more ...Get the Love Buzz @ The Cellar
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
EXTEND THE Valentine’s mood at the Cellar Underground tomorrow when the Digi_Plast crew host the ‘Valentines In Love’ party from 10pm.
Read more ...Scullion to play Moycullen
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
SCULLION, ONE of the great Irish folk-rocks bands, return to County Galway to play The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday February 22 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Armagh songwriter for Monroe’s Live
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE ARMAGH singer-songwriter Ben Reel returns to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 11pm, accompanied by Tommy Womack.
Ben mixes roots, blues, and soul, with an occasional injection of reggae and he has supported Jools Holland, Alabama 3, Nancy Griffith, and Hal Kethcum. He has also been playlisted on RTÉ Radio 1 and by Bob Harris’ (Old Grey Whistle Test) BBC Radio 2 show.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
AFTER FIVE competitive heats featuring 48 competing comics, the final of Show Me The Funny, takes place in The Kings Head on Monday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Win What Richard Did DVDs
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE ACCLAIMED Irish film, What Richard Did, is out on DVD and the Galway Advertiser, in association with Element Pictures, has three copies to give away.
Read more ...Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
WHO IS Afraid of The Big Bad Woods? is the intriguing title of Maev Lenaghan’s exhibition in the University Hospital Galway Arts Corridor.
Read more ...Hysteria and film in 126 exhibition
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THURSDAY’S CLINIC is a new exhibition by Breda Lynch, currently running in the 126 gallery on Queen Street.
Read more ...Duo Vocis to sing at Town Hall
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
DUO VOCIS, the popular duo of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, will perform their show From Broadway to La Scala at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Entries sought for the Dead Good Poetry Competition
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
GALWAY POETS are encouraged to enter the Dead Good Poetry Competition run by The Galway Rape Crisis Centre and Over the Edge.
Read more ...The songs of the United Irishmen
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
THE SONGS published by the United Irishmen in the late 1700s will be the subject of a public lecture in Galway next week.
Read more ...The return of TedFest
Thu, Feb 14, 2013
FATHER TED, the classic 1990s comedy series, will be celebrated this month at the annual TedFest in Galway city.
Read more ...The songs he writes so well
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
“I’LL TELL you something, I mightn’t be in this business at all if it wasn’t for a Galwayman, Des Kelly,” Phil Coulter tells me during our interview on Tuesday morning. “He was the leader of the Capitol Showband who were the biggest in Ireland when I was a student in Queen’s in Belfast.”
Read more ...Follow – exploring the world of the deaf
Thu, Feb 07, 2013
DUBLIN’S WILLFREDD Theatre come to the Town Hall Theatre next week with their remarkable play, Follow, written and performed by Shane O’Reilly, which explores the world of the deaf.
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