The Rat Pack Live - at Seven
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
THE ERA, the music, the men - the Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, have become a byword for cool and male sartorial style.
Read more ...Purple Rain - A Celebration of Prince
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
THE FIRST anniversary of the death of Prince - the soul, funk, rock, r'n'b genius and visionary - is drawing close, and a show is coming to Galway intends to celebrate the man, his life, and his music, in some style.
Read more ...Killer Joe's Jazz Club returns to Monroe's
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
THE GALWAY Jazz Quartet is back with a new line-up for the Killer Joe's Jazz Club sessions, which return to the Side Bar at Monroe’s Tavern on Sunday February 12 at 8pm.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser's Best New Songs #1
Essential Playlist Wed, Feb 08, 2017
SEVEN WEEKS into the New Year and already there has been some great music released by Future Islands, The Flaming Lips, Tinariwen, Father John Misty, and others.
Read more ...Chris Haze releases new EP - We Are One
Fri, Feb 03, 2017
GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Chris Haze's EP, We Are One, is about to be released. The five track EP will feature the singles 'Let Us Be Heroes' and 'I'll Run', along with three new songs.
Read more ...Jack Lukeman - in concert in Galway
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
FOLLOWING A successful run at the Hollywood Fringe festival where he picked up two awards for his show, The King of Soho and Other Stories, Jack Lukeman is back in Ireland for a nationwide tour that takes in Galway.
Read more ...Album review: Sleater-Kinney
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 02, 2017
LIVE ALBUMS are very much a seventies phenomenon, the closest many fans could get to being at a show from a time when most bands would not darken the door of venues outside (a few) capital cities.
Read more ...Breathe in a Pink Floyd experience
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.
Read more ...Exmagician to play Seven
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
EXMAGICIAN, THE Belfast duo of Danny Todd and James Smith, formerly members of Cashier No9, are touring Ireland, playing songs from their acclaimed debut album, Scan The Blue.
Read more ...One Man Town @ Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
SINCE THE release of their eponymous debut EP, and the single 'Cutthroat Desire', Donegal/Derry blues-rockers One Man Town have been causing something of a stir - and Galway can see why this weekend.
Read more ...Lunchtime concert with ConTempo at St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
THE CONTEMPO Quartet begin a new season of their popular lunchtime concerts at St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, starting on Tuesday February 7, and focusing on the late string quartets of Joseph Haydn.
Read more ...Galway bands get set to Rock For The Hospice
Wed, Feb 01, 2017
SOME OF Galway's best cover bands will take to the stage of Seven Bar, Bridge Street, this weekend for Rock For The Hospice, a night of live music to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Countdown to Frightened Rabbit
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
BLOOD, TOIL, tears, and sweat, ravaged emotions, heartbreak, and cathartic confessional honesty, these are the things the words and music of Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit are built on.
Read more ...Album review: Rose Elinor Dougall
Music Reviews Thu, Jan 26, 2017
IT DOESN'T matter if you remember the Pipettes or not, as there is no trace of their doo-wop revival style in former member Rose Elinor Dougall's second album, which instead brims with high end pop and sumptuous indie.
Read more ...A FEAST of psych, prog, indie, and punk
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
"IRISH-LANGUAGE psych-rock noise from outer space" is how Donegal band Tuath describe themselves, and Galway will see and hear why when they play the next FEAST gig at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Rollin’ Empire - hard rock @ Seven
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
IMAGINE A band who were the child of The Black Keys and Queens Of The Stone Age, one that draws from blues and rock, but modern in its outlook and approach, and you have Rollin’ Empire.
Read more ...The loves of Brahms and the Schumanns
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
HE HAS played roles in National Treasure, Game Of Thrones, Blackadder, and Notting Hill, and now British actor Tim McInnerny is coming to Galway to take part in a show about the complex relationship of Brahms with Clara and Robert Schumann.
Read more ...A classical concert for charity
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will play New Beginnings, a charity concert for heart and stroke charity Croí and the Galway Music Residency, in Croí House, Moyola Lane, Newcastle, on Thursday February 2 at 7pm.
Read more ...Weekend gigs @ The Quays
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, with the venue also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.
Read more ...Dott - new EP and Galway gig
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
DOTT, THE brilliant Irish indie-pop/garage rock band, mark two milestones at their gig in the Galway Arts Centre this weekend - the fifth anniversary of their first show and their first Galway show since returning from a year living in Toronto.
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