Vickers Vimy take flight
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY FIVE-piece Vickers Vimy take their name from the aircraft in which Alcock and Brown made the first transatlantic flight. Their music also spans the Atlantic in its influences, exuding a warm and mellow flavour of rootsy Americana.
Read more ...Benny Boot and Neil Delamere @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GREAT Tin Minchin has described fellow Aussie comic Benny Boot as “the real thing. Charming, disarming, and proper f**king funny”. Galway will see why soon.
Read more ...Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience returns
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
ONE OF the big hits of the last two Galway Comedy Festivals was the brilliant and uproarious Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience.
Here Galwegians could experience all the mayhem, madness, hilarity, and brilliance of seeing and being served by Basil, Sybil, and Manuel. Everything that can go wrong, does, in some beautifully controlled chaos and featuring all the best gags from the legendary TV series.
Read more ...Galway Musical Society to stage Jekyll & Hyde
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE MUSICAL of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale, Jekyll & Hyde, will be performed by the Galway Musical Society, in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday March 19 to Saturday 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Be the first to see Our Children
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWEGIANS WILL be among the first in Ireland to see the multi-award winning Belgian/French film Our Children at a special screening in the city this weekend.
Read more ...Theatre workshop
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq techniques for actors, directors, and teachers, takes place from March 25 to 29.
The classes, which will be given by actor/director Max Hafler and performer/director Judith Higgins, will cover the story and themes of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circlle.
Read more ...Run For Your Wife
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE HILARIOUS comedy Run For Your Wife will be staged in the Turloughmore Social Centre tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...The Three Tenors St Patrick’s Eve concert
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE THREE Tenors, “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have,” according to The New York Times, are coming back to Galway.
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre March Poetry Slam
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THIS MONTH’S Galway Arts Centre Poetry Slam takes place on Tuesday March 19 at 7pm at the centre on Dominick Street.
Read more ...KNOTS @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DUBLIN TRIO KNOTS, an abbreviation for King’s Now On The Stage, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night at 10pm.
Read more ...Belfast punks for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
BELFAST ALT-PUNK band Empty Lungs play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Tuesday at 9pm as part of a tour promoting their new EP.
The EP, Stand Up, was self-released in association with Quarantine Collective, and contains six songs which draw on the influence of punk, post-hardcore, and nineties indie, with a hint of folk and Americana.
Read more ...Doom metallers to launch debut album @ The Cellar
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY DOOM metal trio Weed Priest will launch their eponymous debut album with a gig in The Cellar Bar tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Apartment Records @ Bierhaus and Factory
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DJ KENNY Hanlon, the owner and operator of Apartment Records, is coming to Galway as part of a night featuring three of the label’s acts.
Read more ...Don Stiffe’s Garvey’s residency
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DON STIFFE, one of Galway’s best loved folk singers can be heard and enjoyed at his residency in Garvey’s Bar, Eyre Square each Sunday from 9.30pm to 11.30pm.
Read more ...Glen Hansard to play the Big Top
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Festival Big Top line up is looking to be among the best in years with Grizzly Bear, Josh Ritter, and Glen Hansard confirmed.
Read more ...Fundraising concert for Pieta HouseFundraising concert for Pieta House
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A FUNDRASIING concert for Pieta House takes place in Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday March 15 from 10pm.
The line-up includes My Fellow Sponges and guests. There will be a raffle with some prizes.
Read more ...Get down to Motown @ HALO
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
SOUL FANS can look forward to Ireland’s leading Motown big band experience, The Papa Zitas, upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night from 11pm.
Read more ...Youth exhibition on city architecture
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
ARTWORKS, SOUND pieces, photographs, and poetry inspired by the architecture of Galway city’s west end forms the basis of a new, youth led, exhibition.
Read more ...Two exhibitions open this weekend
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
TWO EXHIBITIONS open this weekend, one in the Galway Arts Centre, featuring short films, the other in The Shed at the docks, featuring large-scale works.
Read more ...Poetry reading at city museum
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
DESPITE BEING one of the key movers and shakers in the west of Ireland poetry scene, Kevin Higgins has not given a major public reading in Galway since 2007.
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