Album review: AC/DC
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GIVEN THAT founder and driving force Malcolm Young can no longer play music owing to dementia, AC/DC would have been forgiven for calling it a day.
Read more ...Starting Christmas the sexy-naughty way
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GALWAY’S PREMIERE burlesque and cabaret night The Dirty Circus returns to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday December 18 for its Christmas party.
Read more ...The Harp, The Accordion and The Ugly album launch
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
THE HARP, The Accordion and The Ugly are seven Galway based musicians and one film-maker who put on live-music cinema shows as will be seen when they play Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...A comedy opera by Wagner
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
DIE MEISTERSINGER von Nürnberg, a comedy-opera by Richard Wagner is being staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and will be broadcast live to The Eye, Wellpark.
Read more ...Once Loved Showroom returns
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
THE ONCE Loved Showroom returns to the Róisín Dubh on Sunday December 14 for the second instalment of its Christmas market.
Read more ...Christmas Crackers 2014 exhibition
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
CHRISTMAS CRACKERS, the sixth annual exhibition of paintings by students of Geraldine Folan’s Art Classes, takes place tomorrow.
Read more ...Album review: John Grant
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 11, 2014
AFTER RUINING his second album Pale Green Ghosts with ill-advised dabbling in, and often insipid stabs at, techno and electronica, John Grant re-connects with more organic sounds on this live album.
Read more ...Mary Coughlan to play Town Hall
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
MARY COUGHLAN, the Galwegian rightly regarded as Ireland’s leading jazz and blues vocalist, plays the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Jack and the Beanstalk
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
BOYZONE AND former Coronation Street star Keith Duffy is the ‘baddie’ in this year’s University Concert Hall, Limerick, panto Jack and the Beanstalk.
Read more ...Classical guitarist in concert at Nuns Island
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
CLASSICAL GUITAR and Irish trad will combine in the playing of Dublin guitarist John O’Shea, who is in concert at the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday.
Read more ...Christmas Crooners at the Town Hall
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
“CHRISTMAS CROONERS is guaranteed to get you in the festive mood; singing and swaying all the way home.” So said the Daily Herald about a show coming to Galway.
Read more ...ConTempo to host Christmas concert in the museum
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GUITARS, VIOLINS, voices, and saxophones will be heard in the Galway City Museum when The ConTempo Quartet host a concert of classical and Christmas music.
Read more ...The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
IT WAS a dark and stormy night in Cavan. Locals were taking shelter in the pub, but none of them expected Joe Dolan to walk through the door.
Read more ...Drum’n’bass night @ The Cellar
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
DRUM’N’BASS, dubstep, and different permutations of techno will be heard when DJs Zenji, Phunty, and Teknonotice hit the decks in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.
Read more ...The return of The Whileaways
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GALWAY folk-rock/trad/Americana trio The Whileaways return to live music duties with a show at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, this Saturday.
Read more ...Manchester DJ for Electric
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
MANCHESTER DJ, producer, remixer, and MC, Chimpo makes his Irish debut tomorrow night at Get Boogie! in Factory, Abbeygate Street.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers in Tuam
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
Galway Baroque Singers travel to Tuam on Sunday December 21 where they will present a concert of seasonal music in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Read more ...Rebel songs for Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
REBEL SONGS and Irish roots music will be heard loud and proud when Galway band The Uncurables play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Thursday December 18.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh concert for Simon
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
COIS CLADAIGH choir will present a concert of seasonal music in aid of the Galway Simon Community in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Beauty and the Beast - as Gaeilge
Wed, Dec 10, 2014
OH NO it’s not! Oh yes it is! The An Taibhdhearc panto is back and this Christmas Beauty and the Beast will get the as Gaeilge make-over as Áille agus Allta from December 17 to 20.
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