The Amazing Apples to launch debut EP

Thu, May 31, 2012

GALWAY BAND The Amazing Apples will launch their debut EP 3 or 4 Shoes with two separate live performances tomorrow.

Jape to play Jägermeister Freezer Sessions

Thu, May 31, 2012

THE BRILLIANT Jape, led by Redneck Manifesto bassist Richie Egan, will headline a strong line-up of Irish rock and indie bands at the Jägermeister Freezer Sessions in the Róisín Dubh.

The Galway Sessions @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, May 31, 2012

THE GALWAY Sessions festival, a celebration of the folk and traditional musics of Ireland, Scotland, and America, will hold its festival club at Monroe’s The Backstage Bar.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, May 31, 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.

Lecture on James Joyce’s Galway

Thu, May 31, 2012

WHILE JAMES Joyce will be forever associated with Dublin, Galway played a role in his life and writings through his wife Nora Barnacle.

A reading at Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, May 31, 2012

THE POET and critic Kevin Higgins and the novelist Esther Murbach will be reading in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.

Submissions sought for new exhibition

Thu, May 31, 2012

SUBMISSIONS ARE being sought for the Outside: Insight 2012, the fifth annual arts event presented by Brigit’s Garden and the Galway Arts Centre.

Galway choirs to perform memorial concert

Thu, May 31, 2012

Three of Galway’s leading community choirs will perform a tribute concert on Saturday June 9 in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church for Monica Narciandi Junco.

Ultan Conlon @ Citóg

Thu, May 31, 2012

THE LOUGHREA singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon will play Citóg at The Cellar Bar tomorrow night.

Ham Sandwich to play Halo

Thu, May 31, 2012

HALO IS best known as a nightclub but tomorrow night it will launch Upstairs @ Halo, a new venture featuring live music gigs on a Thursday and Friday night.

Tom Rhodes @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 31, 2012

IN A stand up career spanning 25 years, Tom Rhodes has been on HBO, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and filmed two half hour specials for Comedy Central.

Little Cinema club @ Kelly’s Bar

Thu, May 31, 2012

THE LITTLE Cinema club, a monthly short film showcase for local filmmakers to show their work on a big screen, takes place next Tuesday at 9pm at Kelly’s Bar.

Mumford & Sons: Gentlemen on tour

Thu, May 24, 2012

MUMFORD & SONS could be classed as idealists. They have a strong belief in the ideas of community and locality. It’s an idea that comes through in the band’s name, but also in their approach to the current tour - the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover.

Mary O’Malley’s journey to the sea

Thu, May 24, 2012

IN 2007 Mary O’Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship the Celtic Explorer. It took her out into the Atlantic and returned her to a country made strange.

John Sinclair and Howard Marks - Radical Rogues on the Road

Thu, May 24, 2012

ONE IS the former manager of the MC5 and a man about whom John Lennon wrote a song. The other is former international drug trafficker who has appeared on record sleeves by The Super Furry Animals.

The Galway Sessions 2012

Thu, May 24, 2012

THE GALWAY Sessions festival, a celebration of the music of Ireland, Scotland, and America, and the historical, cultural, and ethnic links between the three nations, returns next month.

The festival, which runs from Monday June 11 to Sunday 17, will be offically launched by Labour city coucnillor Billy Cameron, this evening at 6.30pm, in The Crane Bar, Sea Road.