Bolshoi ballet live @ The Eye
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s staging of Marco Spada, or The Bandit’s Daughter, will be broadcast live from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.
Read more ...Doom metal night @ The Cellar
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
BELFAST DOOM metallers Nomadic Rituals have been called “sonic terrorists”, “mystical tribesmen”, and “the heaviest band in the world”.
Galway music fans will have a chance to hear for themselves when the trio - Craig Carson (bass/vocals/synth), Peter Hunter (guitar), and Mark Smyth (drums) - play The Cellar tomorrow from 9pm.
Read more ...Chart-topper Route 94 @ Electric
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
CHART-TOPPING DJ Route 94 will be in Galway tonight playing the Electric Garden and Theatre from 11pm.
Read more ...Shuffle! tomorrow night @ Roisin Dubh
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
Vinyl junky Dave Barry is back again for the March installment of Shuffle! This night is gaining momentum and proving to be one of Galway’s more popular nights.
Read more ...Punk night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
A PUNK night will be held upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday from 8pm.
Gnarwolves; a pop punk group from Brighton, will headline. Support is from The Winter Passing; an indie-punk band from Tipperary; Old Bean, and Dream State.
Read more ...Transatlantic soul with Niall McCabe
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THERE IS a peculiarly kid of Irish soul music, one which infuses r’n’b, jazz, rock, and folk, and whose original master, if not creator, is arguably Van Morrison.
Read more ...The 4 of Us announce Monroe’s show
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THE 4 of Us, who were recently voted No 7 in TV3’s Top 10 Irish Bands of All Time poll, play Monroe’s Live in June.
Read more ...Ceara Conway’s Making Visible
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
CEARA CONWAY’S Making Visible project, combining art, music, and politics, is coming to the 126 Gallery, Flood Street, this weekend.
Read more ...Galway Simon fundraising variety concert
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
MORE THAN 20 performers, from comedians to guitar soloists, will take to the stage of The Quays for the LiveMicsWorld variety show on April 10 at 8pm.
Read more ...Japanese Film Festival returns to Galway
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THE GREAT Passage, Japan’s official submission to the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film category, will receive its Irish premiere at The Japanese Film Festival.
Read more ...A weekend of dancing days
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
A MUSICAL about capitalism, site-specific performances, and a symposium will form the Galway Dance Days festival which takes place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...CPNHGN @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
DESPITE THE Scandinavian moniker, CPNHGN hail from Kildare, and take their musical influences from New York’s Sonic Youth and Manchester’s Joy Division.
The band’s musical style, as heard on their debut album, Inhale Exhale, features rumbling bass-lines, angular guitar riffs, and soaring, melodic, choruses.
Read more ...A court summons to listen to music
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
COURT ROOMS are not associated with musical concerts - unless there was a fall-out between artist and promoter - but they are places of performance and controversy.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to judge Choirfactor 2014
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
JULIE FEENEY, the award winning, Athenry-born, vocalist and composer, will be among the judges at Galway’s Choirfactor competition.
Read more ...Líadan to play Claregalway
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
TRAD/FOLK band Líadan celebrate their 10th anniversary this year with a nationwide tour which begins with a gig in County Galway next month.
Read more ...Freddie White to play Moycullen
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
WHETHER INTERPRETING songs by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, or performing his own compositions, Freddie White’s live performances are legendary.
Read more ...Galway bands to release new singles
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
GALWAY BANDS Harrison & The Devil and The Followers Of Otis release new singles, at two separate gigs, in the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Mark Thomas - a dissenter’s challenge to the status quo
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
HE IS taking the British police to court over data collection; held a flash mob in Apple’s London store in protest against multi-nationals and tax avoidance; ran a pro-choice rally in Belfast; and is determined to get banned from every Tesco store.
Read more ...‘The Irish public’s interest in fiction perks me right up’
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
ONE OF the most praised novels of recent years was Patrick deWitt’s highly original western tale The Sisters Brothers, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won a number of prestigious awards in deWitt’s native Canada.
Read more ...Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
THE MADNESS, mayhem, and hilarity of Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience, returns to Galway for one night only at The Salthill Hotel.
Basil, Sybil, and Manuel will guide you to your table, serve you your meal, and aski if ‘Everything is alright?’ throughout the evening. However, with Basil being manic, Sybil domineering, and Manuel being Manuel, everything that can go wrong, does.
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