European music - better than anything Brexiteers can offer

Tue, Jul 09, 2019

BREXIT PARTY MEPs showed, not only their ignorance and bad manners when turning their backs on musicians in the European Parliament, but their cultural cretinism in disrespecting 'Ode to Joy', the final movement of Beethoven's magnificent 9th Symphony.

Dan Deacon - late show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

DAN DEACON is a composer whose work has been heard in Carnegie Hall. He is a legend within indie and electronic music. He is an artist. He is an entertainer. He is all these things.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Mikaela Davis - the harp, but not as you know it

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”

A jazz night with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE HISTORY of New Orleans jazz is, in many respects, the early history and origins of jazz itself, and The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys style is resolutely that of The Big Easy.

The Big Geraniums - back in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

AFTER A 21-year hiatus, folk-pop band The Big Geraniums have reformed - with all the original members - to play two special, one-off shows, in Dublin and Galway this month.

Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir Academy's debut Galway show

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

see night - melodic, dreamy, and like the Pixies

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

"CAPTIVATING, SUBTLY gripping, delicately engrossing...Listen closely and you can pick out some shoegaze, a dash of psychedelia, traces of Sonic Youth angst...and melodic sensibilities worthy of the Pixies."

Peter Regan - Fantastique!

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

HE HAS played New York's Carnegie Hall, Toronto's The Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre; as well as venues in Madrid, Salzburg, and Dublin, but he has never played Galway - until now.

No Stairway to perform Led Zeppelin I and II

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

AN E chord on a Fender Telecaster; an E chord on a Gibson Les Paul; both played at the 7th fret by a young Englishman; both the first track of his band's first two albums. Music was never the same again.

Maija Sofia and A Lilac Decline in concert

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

MAIJA SOFIA, and A Lilac Decline, two Galway indie singer-songwriters, play the next Eclectics night at The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street, on Wednesday July 3 at 9pm.

Aimee Banks to open Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals 2019

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

ACCLAIMED GALWAY soprano Aimee Banks makes her Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals debut on Thursday July 4, the opening date of this latest series of summer concerts, now in it's 26th year.

Marcus Fields to launch debut EP in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Marcus Fields will launch his new EP, Death and Magic, with a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 5 at 9pm.

Bagatelle to play Lough Rea Hotel

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

BAGATELLE, THE Irish band who created one of the most famous songs in the nation's rock catalogue, 'Summer In Dublin', play the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on Thursday July 4.

Two Door Cinema Club - new album, GIAF 19 show

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THEY'RE BACK Jim, but perhaps not quite as you have heard them before? Ahead of the European tour that takes them to the Galway Arts Festival Big Top, Two Door Cinema Club have released their new album.

Acclaimed folk singer Daoirí Farrell to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THERE ARE few folk/trad musicians in Ireland today as acclaimed and admired as Daoirí Farrell. Indeed, Dónal Lunny has called him "one of the most important traditional singers to emerge in the last decade".

The 'mesmerising' Her Crooked Heart

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

IN 2013, after two and a half years of marriage, Rachel Ries found herself touring a record around the world, accompanied by a stack of divorce papers in a pocket of her suitcase. She had taken a leap into the unknown.

Ye Vagabonds to play Traidphicnic

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THE EIGHTH Féile Traidphicnic, the community-based festival of "music, art, and inclusion" takes place in and around the An Ceardlann Craft Village and Café, in An Spidéal, from July 5 to 7.

Ceara Conway's debut album Kickstarter campaign

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

CEARA CONWAY, the singer and visual artist from Connemara, is launching a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to help her record and release her debut album, which will be entitled Caoin.

Jeffrey Lewis - the indie-rock bohemian

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

HE GREW up in a counterculture atmosphere on New York’s Lower East Side, surrounded by music, comic books, and alternative ways of looking at the world. He is Jeffrey Lewis - singer, songwriter, lyricist, artist, storyteller, and comic book creator.

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