The Murder Capital - Strange Brew bound

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

THERE IS a lot of excitement about Dublin punk/garage/shoegaze band The Murder Capital right now, and Galway will get a chance to see why when the quintet play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh.

A lunchtime date with Debussy

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

CLAUDE DEBUSSY is the starting point of modern music. As music critic Roger Nichols wrote: "If one omits Schoenberg...a list of 20th-century composers influenced by Debussy is practically a list of 20th-century composers tout court."

The Tuam man and the president

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

TOMORROW IS not only the day on which the presidential election takes place - or, as looks virtually certain, the presidential re-election - it is also the day a new EP comes out, named after a former Irish president.

Sos #4 - all ages music night

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, the Galway based blues-rock singer-songwriter and 60 Watt Girl will play Sos #4 - a celebration of Galway city and county's diverse original music community - at the Nuns' Island Theatre.

Emma Lohan - debut album out today

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

EMMA LOHAN, the Galway singer-songwriter, releases her debut album, Black Atlantic, today, in association with Citóg Records. The album features the singles 'Three Sparrows', 'Wander Free', 'Serekunda'.

A night of Mongolian music in the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

QUGE ULAN Muqir, from Inner Mongolia, in the People's Republic of China, will perform a night of traditional Mongolian music in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday November 4 at 8pm.

Bell X1's Paul Noonan @ Spiegeltent Sessions

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

PAUL NOONAN, lead singer with Bell X1 is taking time off from the band to pursue solo work and collaborations, with this month seeing the release of the solo single 'Moth To Your Flame', and his concert at the Galway Spiegeltent Sessions.

Emma Johnson and Finghin Collins in concert

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

EMMA JOHNSON, one of the few clarinettists to have established herself as a major solo artist, and who has since become of the biggest selling classical artists in Britain, is coming to Galway.

Epoch x Gash Collective weekender

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THE WEEKEND sees a slew of Irish and international DJ talent grace the turntables of Factory at Electric, with a collaboration between the Epoch clubnight and the Gash Collective.

Niall Teague - new album, Galway show

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

NIALL TEAGUE, one of Galway's leading folk/roots musicians and songwriters, releases his new album, Big Red Bridge, this month and launches it with a gig in Galway city.

John Grant to play Galway in 2019

Tue, Oct 16, 2018

JOHN GRANT, who delivered one of the most memorable Galway International Arts Festival Big Top gigs in 2015, is coming back to Galway next year, to play Lesiureland, Salthill.

Album review: The Fall's Kurious Oranj re-release

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGINS with two of the greatest songs in The Fall's vast catalogue - one definitive, the other highly uncharacteristic - and the genesis of the album itself is possibly the oddest in the band's career.

Dream Wife - 2018's best band in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGAN as an art project in a Brighton art college, with three students performing as a ‘fake girl band’ as part of an exhibition. What the trio did not expect was for that impromptu band to go down so well.

Ultan Conlon - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

ULTAN CONLON and his band The Night Owls play the Black Gate Cultural Centre in St Francis Street, next week, to promote his new duet single with Mary Coughlan, ‘A Weak Heart Like Mine’.

Harlem Gospel Choir return to the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

FOR MORE than two decades, The Harlem Gospel Choir have been the USA's premier gospel choir and have toured the globe thrilling audiences with the inspirational power of African-American gospel music.

Sylvie Simmons to play Monroe's

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

ONE OF rock music's leading journalists and writers, who deservedly won high praise for her magnificent biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, Sylvie Simmons is also a singer, songwriter, and performer.

Fynne to play Monroe's

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IN JANUARY this year, 'When I See You Standing There' by Irish singer-songwriter Fynne, was picked as the January ‘18 Select Irish Track for FM104, Q102, LMFM Radio, Limerick Live 95, and Cork 96FM.

Saint Sister - debut album, Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Oct 10, 2018

FOLLOWING THE release last week of their long awaited debut album, Shape Of Silence, the brilliant Irish "atmosfolk" duo Saint Sister return to the Róisín Dubh on Friday October 19 as part of their current Irish tour.

Album review: Lala Lala

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 04, 2018

THE ALBUM shudders into abrupt life with a low growling of 'wall of sound' guitars, then everything quietens, and over a steady beat, a voice intones: "Following a lead of all my debt/I sense violence and know you're still a threat."

Okkervil River - 'Let's make people feel good in this crazy time of fear'

Thu, Oct 04, 2018

OKKERVIL RIVER have been on the go for 20 years, in that time they have had many members, but at the centre of it all has been the band founder, lead singer, and songwriter, Will Sheff.

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