Strange Brew’s 555th night

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

FOR 11 years Strange Brew has championed “indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations” and this month it celebrates it’s 555th night.

Jemson Green @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

IN A ERA when everything is alt-, post-, sub-something it is refreshing to hear a band like Jemson Green declare: “To hell with sub-genres! We are a rock band”.

Their music is a straight ahead mix of good songwriting and hard-rocking guitar. The band’s 2012 debut single ‘Growing Stranger’, a brooding piece of crunching yet melodic rock, was described by Hot Press “as compelling and irresistible a rocker as you’ll hear all year”. Their debut album will be released in the near future.

Digital Chaos @ The Cellar

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

DIGITAL CHAOS returns to the Cellar Underground for a Halloween fancy dress party this Saturday.

Common Tongues - Villagers are fans

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

VILLAGERS’ CONOR O’Brien is a fan of Brighton band Common Tongues, as is British TV presenter Dermot O’Leary. Galway will see why this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Yehudi Menuhin approved cellist to play Galway

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

“AN IMPRESSIVE artist with remarkable, unfailing musicality always moving with the most natural, electrifying, and satisfying interpretations.”

Stockton’s Wing man publishes debut novel

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

TONY CALLANAN, originally lead singer with Stockton’s Wing, has published his first novel, Encounters.

Burlesque cabaret @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

Ms Shir Madness (pictured) will be among the burlesque and cabaret performers at The Dirty Circus when it comes to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 2 at 9pm. Expect devilish tricks and dark delights. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.v

Over The Edge October reading

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

GALWAY ACTRESS Sarah O’Toole, poet Frank Dullaghan, and Margaret Brady will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday October 31 at 6.30pm.

The opera about a run-away nose

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

SHOSTAKOVITCH’S SURREAL comic opera about a Russian official whose nose runs away and gets into all manner of scrapes is to be screened at The Eye Cinema.

Galway teen to release debut album

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

TARA SPELMAN, the 16-year-old Galway singer-songwriter, will release her debut album I Like It Like This, next month.

The return of Daft Funk

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

DAFT FUNK, the celebrated tribute act to Daft Punk are coming to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday at 11pm.

Street theatre on the pier

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

GIANTS RATS and other swamp characters will out in force along Nimmo’s Pier next week, but fear not, it’s all in the name of fun.

Disclosure Settle for the Black Box

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

FROM EXPERIMENTING with laptops and software in their music technology class at school to a critically and commercially acclaimed chart-topping debut album and a Mercury Prize nomination, Disclosure have come a long way in short space of time.

Steve Bennett - the hilarity of heartbreak

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

AS THE song goes, “You’ve gotta suffer if ya wanna sing the blues” and sometimes to make good comedy you have to suffer first before you can find the laughter.

Comedy festival shows @ The King’s Head

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

PHILL JUPITUS, stars from Fr Ted, rising star Colm O’Regan, and the screening of a comedy documentary take place in The King’s Head for the Galway Comedy Festival.

Caught Red Handed

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

AP hotel in an autumnal Dublin, where the wife of an ambitious politician secretly meets her old lover after 15 years. She soon discovers how dramatically their lives have changed, yet still determines to bridge the gulf between them and shape their future together, whatever it takes.