Galway Fringe Festival theatre @ NUIG

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

NUI GALWAY is hosting a variety of plays and theatre events in the university’s new Cube Theatre in Áras na Mac Léinn as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Get ready to slap on the Tan

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

AISLING AND Siobhán get ready for a night on the town, putting on make-up, discussing lads, ordering a taxi, straightening the hair, and plastering themselves in fake tan.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

Celtic Flames nights @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

CELTIC FLAMES, a 20 piece Galway group, play traditional Irish music, song and dance every Wednesday this month at Monroe’s Live.

The unpredictable Terry Alderton

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

IT IS not often that where the word “unstable” is used to describe someone this is actually a compliment, but in the case of Terry Alderton, it is.

Comedy, magic, and a dragon

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

PIFF THE Magic Dragon is a reptilian comic and magician who will be coming to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Monday at 8.30pm to perform his unique style of stand-up.

Planet of sound

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
(In The Red)

The Driftwood Manor to launch new EP

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

THE DRIFTWOOD MANOR, the folk band centred around singer-songwriter Eddie Keenan, will launch their new EP with a show in the Róisín Dubh.

The Deans @ Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

ATHENRY ROOTS-ROCKERS The Deans return from their recent European tour, to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday July 20 at 9pm.

Folk and roots @ Citóg

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

TWO OF Galway’s finest folk and roots influenced acts - A Band Called Wanda and Fia Rua - will play Citóg at The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 9.30pm.

Fundraising house and techno night

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

THE SUMMIT Seekers are hosting ALTITUDE, a night of techno and house music from DJs Sasha Von Thulen and Eamonn Day Lavelle in The Cellar Bar on Saturday at 11pm.

Rooftop Anthem and KIF @ HALO

Thu, Jul 12, 2012

INDIE BAND Rooftop Anthem and popular covers band KIF will play Upstairs at HALO tonight and Friday.

Eric Bell - adventures of a Belfast blues man

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

WERE IT not for Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy may never have happened. It was the Belfastman’s idea to form the band and an imporpmtu meeting after a gig in Dublin convinced Phil Lynott that Bell’s idea was a good one.

‘My imagination is Galway-shaped’

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

IN BALLINASLOE train station two men sit and wait. One is Jude, a London-Irishman who has been involved in wild adventures and outrageous scrapes. Beside him sits a man who may well be his match.

Michelle Campion exhibition tonight

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

SOULS, AN art exhibition from Michelle Campion which opens tonight, promises something a little different from the usual run of how these events take place.

Souls will not take place in a gallery, but in the Factory nightclub on Upper Abbeygate Street, and it runs only for today.

Flying the flag for Galway

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

FOUR COMPANIES, two shows; one rewires a theatrical two-hander for a cast of 35, the other blends dance, drama, and music in a tale about fallen angels and warring families, set in St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

Apples Of The Golan

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

IN 1967 Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria. Before the occupation, there were 139 villages. Following the occupation, 130,000 Syrians were forced from their homes. Today only five villages remain.

Fleadh to premiere new film on Martin Hayes

Thu, Jul 05, 2012

CLARE FIDDLER Martin Hayes is one of the pivotal figures of Irish traditional music, and the subject of a major new documentary which will premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh.

Natural Grace – Irish Music and Martin Hayes will receive its world premiere on Wednesday July 11 at 5pm in the Town Hall Theatre.