Riff jugernaut Anciients are Galway bound

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

ANCIIENTS, THE riff juggernaut from Canada, will headline the first gig to be presented by the new Galway collective, Old Noise, made up of veterans of the city's underground metal and punk scene.

All ages Oh Boland gig

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

AN ALL-ages opoen mic and gigs from Galway bands Liquid Space and Oh Boland form part of Sos. #2 - the gig nights that celebrate Galway city and county's diverse and original music community.

Galway's Cat Turner releases new single and EP

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

CAT TURNER, the Galway-based electro-pop producer/singer has released her new single, 'Waster', as a taster for her debut EP Contrast, which is out tomorrow.

The Flaming Lips to play festival Big Top

Wed, Mar 07, 2018

THE FLAMING Lips, the three-time Grammy Award winning psychedelic indie-rock band, and one of Q magazine’s ‘50 Bands to See Before You Die’, play their only Irish gig at this year's Galway International Arts Festival.

AGU - new single, Róisín Dubh gig

Tue, Mar 06, 2018

AGU, THE Galway based Polish-Czech singer-songwriter, called "one of the most remarkable new singer-songwriters in the Czech Republic" by Milan Tesar in Magazin UNI, releases her new single 'Ines' today as a taster for her forthcomign album.

Stephanie Rainey - new single, Galway show

Tue, Mar 06, 2018

STEPHANIE RAINEY has just released her new single 'Question Mark', the follow-up to her radio hit 'Sorry', and singles '100 Like Me' and 'Nothing Of You Left To Love', which have amassed nearly 10 million streams across all platforms.

Paddy Hanna - debut album launch at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

GIVEN STRANGE Brew Rekkids' releases to date have been firmly rooted in electronica, the sound of a gentle electric guitar, piano, and an oboe playing a melody faintly recalling Bette Midler's 'The Rose', is the last thing you expect to hear.

Album review: The Breeders

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 01, 2018

ANY DISCUSSION of what constitutes The Breeders finest hour will always, and only ever, really consider one of two possible answers - the mega selling Last Splash (1993), or its unhinged older sister, Pod (1990).

Gwendolyn Masin - a 'formidable talent' comes to Galway

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

"THE EXPERIENCE of live music is everything. It’s the ultimate form of communication, moving us into dimensions that language cannot reach. A word is not a sentence, but a note can be an entire story.”

Shivers second birthday @ Electric

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

NEW JACKSON, Barry Redsetta, and Jamie Tiller will be in the Electric Garden & Theatre tomorrow night, while the Gash Collective will takeover Factory, all to celebrate the second birthday of the Shivers clubnight.

World music and a 'Bollywood céilí' in Gort

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

A BOLLYWOOD céilí and world music will be heard from five Irish youth orchestras at the 11th annual Coole Music Orchestra Festival which comes to Gort, south Galway, next weekend.

Intimate gig from Billy Bragg approved Seán McGowan

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

BILLY BRAGG has called singer-songwriter Seán McGowan "one to watch" and Galway will get a chance to see why, up close and personal, when the Englishman plays The Secret Garden tonight.

Chris Wise And The Hidden Revolution @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

THEY HAVE been called "Manchester's finest emerging talents" by TJEvents, and sound "as if they have something mighty brewing. Who knows how big it could be if they manage to let it out", according to Chris Long at BBC Manchester.

Hip hopper Kojaque is Galway bound

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

HE TAKES his name from one of the most popular TV cop shows from the 1970s and early 1980s, but alters the spelling, to give it his own spin - rather like his own individual approach to hip hop.

Cider Wasps to play Monroe's

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

CIDER WASPS clearly know what they are doing, having been mentored by the late Dennis Sheehan, U2's world tour manager for more than 30 years; and in getting support slots with the Original Rude Boys and Walking on Cars.

The Stunning to play festival Big Top this summer

Wed, Feb 28, 2018

THE STUNNING will be 'brewing up a storm' at the Galway International Arts Festival this summer, when the much loved and legendary band play the Big Top in the Fisheries Field.

Tracy Bruen - new single, Galway shows

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

TRACY BRUEN, one of Galway's most outstanding singer-songwriters, recently released her new single, 'Fall Away', and will tour Ireland, Germany, and the Czech Republic over the coming weeks.

Ciaran Lavery - new album, Monroe's show

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

IN HIS five years as a solo artist, Ciaran Lavery has clocked up more than 80 million streams on Spotify, while in 2016 he won the Northern Ireland Music Prize for his album Let Bad In.

Steven Sharpe and Tara Stacey - live

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

THE OUTRAGEOUSLY brilliant Steve Sharpe, and the quirkily wonderful Tara Stacey, will be in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh, for a double bill of great music and song.

Redmond O'Toole - one day, two concerts

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

REDMOND O'TOOLE, described as "an important ambassador for the classical guitar in Ireland" by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, is coming to Galway next week to play a lunchtime concert.

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