Bronagh Gallagher to play Monroe's Live
Mon, Mar 27, 2017
AS AN actor she has appeared in The Commitments, Pulp Fiction, Grabbers, Shooting For Socrates, and You, Me, and The Apocalypse. She is also a powerful blue-eyed soul singer, and as The Irish Times said, you, "overlook her musical career at your peril".
Read more ...No Monster Club play Strange Brew this week
Mon, Mar 27, 2017
NO MONSTER Club, the cartoonish art-pop brainchild of Dublin songwriter and vocalist Bobby Aherne, have songs which NYLON described as "a stripped-down, sugar high Pet Sounds", and which The Irish Times said have "the kind of tunefulness that makes a joke of so much contemporary pop music".
Read more ...Harvester - championing classic metal values
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
WHEN IT comes to metal I am unapologetically old school. When I hit play I want the riffs of a Tony Iommi, the leads of Murray/Smith or a Gorham/Robertson, and all that topped with the voice of a Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford.
Read more ...Album review: Laura Marling
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THE OPENING track 'Soothing' lives up to its name, but its languid, bass-led, rhythms, and Marling's sultry croon are something of a red herring. Unlike this song, wonderful though it is, the album will not be an indie-pop/jazz hybrid.
Read more ...Coole Music Orchestra Festival - celebrating 10 years
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THE COOLE Music Orchestra Festival, which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year, returns on Saturday March 11, with a series of afternoon and evening concerts, in the Gort Community Centre, south Galway.
Read more ...Coirmcheoil Phadraig 2017
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
COIRMCHEOIL PHADRAIG 2017, the annual St Patrick's Festival concert of music and song of the nation, featuring the renowned Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, takes place this weekend.
Read more ...Bob Skeleton - and the sound of 'Midnight Pop'
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
THEY DESCRIBE themselves as playing "Midnight-Pop", with late night grooves and melodies that "create a dynamic blend of West Coast cool and Mancunian mood".
Read more ...Stomptown Brass play Monroe’s on St Patrick’s Day
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
STOMPTOWN BRASS have released a new single, 'I Got A Plan', and the 10-piece urban street-funk band are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.
Read more ...Ilenkus - new EP out next month
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
HUNGER, THE new EP from Galway post-metal band Ilenkus will be released next month on vinyl, and officially launched at an upcoming FEAST show in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Cooney, Byrne, and Harper for Monroe's Live
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
STEVE COONEY, Altan's Dermot Byrne, and Bríd Harper, three outstanding Irish trad musicians, are coming to Galway to play Monrtoe's Live next week.
Read more ...Free concert ahead of European Day of Early Music
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
A FREE concert, to take place next week in St Joseph’s Church, on the Presentation Road, will launch a week of pan-European celebrations ahed of the European Day of Early Music.
Read more ...The Blossoms - 'guitar pop's shooting stars' for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
“WE WANT to be as mainstream as Will Smith, as great as The Smiths, and as uplifting as Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” So said The Blossoms who play Galway next week.
Read more ...Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn at NUIG
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
THE MUSIC of Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn, will be heard in the Emily Anderson Concert Hall in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima when the Trio Dali and Nathan Braude play the next Music For Galway concert.
Read more ...The Stoles to play Monroe’s
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
DUBLIN ALTERNATIVE rock band, The Stoles, who "have a Black Keys vibe going on, but with maybe more of an emphasis on heavy rock than blues" according to TXFM, will play Galway.
Read more ...No Stairway - Led Zeppelin tribute @ Monroe's Live
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway tribute act to Led Zeppelin, featuring the flamboyant Steven Sharpe on vocals, play the main stage at Monroe’s Live on Friday March 10.
Read more ...Elvis is alive and well in Monroe's
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
AUGUST 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of 'The King of Rock'n'Roll' - Elvis Presley, and in advance of that, a major Elvis tribute show is coming to Monroe's Live.
Read more ...Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta to launch new album
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
AFTER A 17 year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player, Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta, returns with a new album, An Rithim Réidh, which he will launch at a show in Indreabhán next week.
Read more ...Distortion final to take place at The Quays
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
CONMAN, DEAD Horse Jive, Foxy Boxxing, Patrick Conneely, and Tobi will fight to be the first winner of Distortion, the new music competition organised by NUI Galway Music Society.
Read more ...Passenger to play Galway International Arts Festival in 2017
Wed, Mar 01, 2017
HE HAS amassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube for his hit single 'Let Her Go', won the Independent Music Award in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2014, and enjoyed a No 1 album with 2016's Young as the Morning Old as the Sea. This year he plays Galway.
Read more ...Album review: WHY?
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2017
THERE ARE few more individual, yet conversely definitive, voices in American indie than WHY? founder/leader/singer Yoni Wolf, and his brilliance and ambition as a songwriter, indeed composer, is writ large on Moh Lhean.
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