The Southern Fold to play Monroe's Live
Thu, Oct 06, 2016
THEY CITE Hank Williams and Kurt Cobain as their inspirations, and they seek to communicate messages of truth and honesty through harmony singing and the craft of songwriting in its simplest, purist, form.
Read more ...Two guitarists - one tour of Galway
Thu, Oct 06, 2016
PETER VON TOY, the singer-guitarist who plays "rock drenched blues tinted folk", and Galway based guitar wizard Tom Portman, will play a number of dates around Galway city and county.
Read more ...Strap on the air guitar and widdle!
Thu, Oct 06, 2016
STRAP ON the air guitar and get ready to widdle on an imaginary fretboard and pull all kinds of rock god face and shapes at the Air Guitar Heroes event which takes place in Galway next week.
Read more ...The New 52 - new album and Róisín Dubh gig
Wed, Oct 05, 2016
THE NEW 52 is a name that to many signifies DC Comics' relaunch of its superhero titles, but it is also the name of the new indie/pop-rock project of Dublin singer-songwriter Darragh Cullen, who has a new album and a show in Galway this week.
Read more ...Zinc to launch debut album at Galway Jazz Festival
Tue, Oct 04, 2016
GALWAY POST-rock trio Zinc, whose music is "capable of knocking an audience clean off their feet" according to The Thin Air, launch their eponymously titled debut album on Thursday October 6 at 8pm in Biteclub, Abbeygate Street, as part of the Galway Jazz Festival 2016.
Read more ...Spats Colombo set to release new EP Caught In A Bind
Tue, Oct 04, 2016
SKA, RETRO-rock, songs in Irish and English, all recorded in a former pub by a group whose members hail from several Irish counties and one of the English home counties, who take their name from the gangster played by George Raft in Some Like It Hot - it can only be Spats Colombo.
Read more ...Ciaran Lavery - songs of innocence and experiecne
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
OKKERVIL RIVER is the title of a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. It is also the name of the American indie-rock band led by Will Sheff, and more recently the name of a single by Ciaran Lavery.
Read more ...Declan O'Rourke and orchestra to play Salthill
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
DECLAN O'ROUKE will re-imagine and re-interpret many of his finest songs on his forthcoming album In Full Colour, and perform those re-imaginings in concert in Salthill in November.
Read more ...PolyMath - a FEAST of densely layered math-rock
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
POLYMATH, THE Brighton based math-rockers, known for densely layered, off kilter instrumentals, drawing from the heavier elements of early Battles, The Mars Volta, and ASIWYFA, play Galway tonight.
Read more ...Vladimir and Anton - in concert at the Black Box
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
VLADIMIR & ANTON, the Slovakian violin virtuosos, who have been touring Britain with Katherine Jenkins, played the BBC Proms In The Park in Belfast, and released a new album this month, come to Galway in October.
Read more ...The Riptide Movement play Monroe's Live in November
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
"IT'S BEEN an amazing two years since we released Getting Through, with so many highs to recall - from our first No 1 gold selling album, to touring the UK, Europe and Australia, to our first main stage appearance at Electric Picnic - it has been an incredible journey."
Read more ...Galway to hear The Goldberg Variations
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
"I DON'T know much about classic music," Sandy Bates, Woody Allen's character in Stardust Memories noted. "For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr and Mrs Goldberg tried on their wedding night."
Read more ...The sound of Amsterdam comes to Electric
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
BORIS WERNER, a major figure in the Dutch dance music scene, is coming to Galway as part of the Heineken Sound Atlas event which takes place in the Electric Garden on Abbeygate Street.
Read more ...Indie-pop band Penrose to play Seven
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
IRISH INDIE-pop band Penrose mix the harmonies of The Beatles and ELO with 1990s Britrock sensibilities of Richard Ashcroft and Oasis, as Galway will hear when they play The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 9.30pm.
Read more ...Jungle Boogie/Get Boogie fifth birthday bash
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
GALWAY CLUBNIGHTS Jungle Boogie! and Get Boogie! will celebrate their fifth birthdays with a special night in The Commercial Boatclub, Woodquay, this Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...Pop Gods and Cafolla & Engel @ HALO
Thu, Sep 29, 2016
POP GODS and Cafolla & Engel will play HALO this weekend, with Pop Gods playing tomorrow night, while DJ and saxophone duo Cafolla & Engel hit the stage on Saturday.
Read more ...Award winning jazz singer to perform at Electric
Wed, Sep 28, 2016
LAUREN KINSELLA, the London based, Irish, vocalist, and winner of the UK Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 JazzFM Awards, is in Galway next month to perform at the upcoming Galway Jazz Festival.
Read more ...Album review: David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? boxset
Music Reviews Tue, Sep 27, 2016
THE KEY artefact in this lavish new Bowie boxset, charting the artist's journey from post-Ziggy to 'Plastic Soul', to Thin White Duke, is one of the great missing pieces of the Bowie discography - The Gouster.
Read more ...The Blossoms announce 2017 Galway show
Mon, Sep 26, 2016
“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 have just announced a Galway concert for 2017.
Read more ...Coronas announce two shows for Salthill
Mon, Sep 26, 2016
THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's best loved bands, and no strangers to Galway, were ulikley to let the year pass withouyt heading west and today they announced two shows for the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, in November.
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