Paddy Casey to play Galway in Race Week
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
PADDY CASEY'S musical journey began with him busking on the streets of Galway, and this city is a place to which he returns regularly, with his next show here taking place during Race Week.
Read more ...DJ Tamo Sumo @ Electric tonight
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
DEEP, SOULFUL house and techno cuts, with heavy Detroit, Chicago, and African influences will be heard tonight at Electric when DJ Tamo Sumo hits the decks.
Read more ...ConTempo concert in Oughterard tomorrow
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
An evening with the RTE ConTempo String Quartet will be held in Oughterard’s Kilcummin Church tomorrow (Friday) at 7.30pm. Described as the ‘The ABBA of classical music’, the ConTempo Quartet is currently RTE’s quartet in residence.
Read more ...Suede - five days until they play Galway
Tue, Jul 19, 2016
THE OLD and the new, the classic and recent, the audio and the visual, the cinematic and the musical, all will come together when Suede play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top this weekend.
Read more ...Dan Deacon and his 'teeming crackpot electronica'
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
DAN DEACON is "a self-confessed pop weirdo who sits at the edge of pop and experimentation," according to The Guardian, who makes "teeming crackpot electronica" says The Times, and he plays Galway next week.
Read more ...The Souljazz Orchestra - 'eruptive improvisations' and hope
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
SOUL, JAZZ, Afro, Latin, and Caribbean styles, biting social commentary and a core message of hope, will come together in the music of French-Canadian collective The Souljazz Orchestra.
Read more ...GIAF 16 gigs @ Electric
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
KEITH MCIVOR and Jonnie Wilkes, the DJs behind Glasgow clubnight Optimo will be among those spinning the decks at the Galway International Arts Festival shows taking place in Electric.
Read more ...Metallers Ainriail - album launch and Cellar gig
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
SLUDGE DOOM metal duo Ainriail launch their debut full length album, My Heart Is A Knot of Blood, in The Cellar this Saturday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Italian organist to play Galway cathedral
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
A NEW work by the Italian composer Claudio Perugini, will be performed by the Italian organist Antonio Caporaso at the next Galway Cathedral Recitals concert, this evening at 8pm.
Read more ...Electric Six's Dick Valentine @ Monroe's Live
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
DICK VALENTINE, leader of Detroit band Electric Six, best known for the singles ‘High Voltage’ and ‘Gay Bar’, is coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Monday August 8 at 9pm.
Read more ...The Lucia Comnes Band to play Monroe’s
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
THE LUCIA Comnes Band, a four-piece folk powerhouse fusing rock, blues, Irish trad, and bluegrass, led by a singer with a "singular voice", according to the San Francisco Chronicle, are coming to Galway.
Read more ...Bagatelle - last chance to see
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
BAGATELLE ARE drawing the curtain on their 35 year career with an Irish tour that takes in Galway, and this upcoming show will be the last chance Galway fans have to see the band.
Read more ...Matty Rea @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
AUSTRALIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER Matty Rea, a rising star in his own country, is coming to Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday July 29 at 8pm as part of his upcoming British and Irish tour.
Read more ...King Kong Company - blowing bulbs and destroying dance-floors
Wed, Jul 13, 2016
GALWAY HAS been picking up some monkey shaped blips on its music radar recently, blips that are growing ever stronger, especially as the mighty and outrageous King Kong Company play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.
Read more ...Kristin Hersh announces solo show for Róisín Dubh
Tue, Jul 12, 2016
KRISTIN HERSH, the singer-songwriter, author, leader of Throwing Muses and 50FOOTWAVE, and an icon of American indie and alternative rock, will play Galway later this year.
Read more ...We Are Scientists and 'Helter Seltzer' pop
Tue, Jul 12, 2016
"WE'RE NOT punk — we're too interested in making our songs as pretty as possible. We're not straight-up rock — our tastes are too left-of-centre. We're not indie-rock — our heads aren't far enough up our own butts."
Read more ...'Hard Rock Hallelujah' - Lordi to play Monroe's Live
Mon, Jul 11, 2016
LORDI, THE Finnish heavy metal band who won the Eurovision in 2006 with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’, have announced they will play Galway later this year as part of the European Monster Tour.
Read more ...Popical Island v Citóg Records @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2016
GALWAY'S CITÓG Records, and Dublin's Popical Island, two of Ireland's most exciting, diverse, and creative independent record labels, will go head to head in musical battle, at the Galway International Arts Festival.
Read more ...Pleasure Beach to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2016
PLEASURE BEACH'S music has been described as "melding indie-pop hooks, alternative-folk tinged vocal harmonies and post-rock inflected grandeur", by The Last Mixed Tape, while Pure M said the band were "years ahead in their knowledge of music".
Read more ...Optimo duo to DJ @ Electric
Thu, Jul 07, 2016
OPTIMO - the DJ duo of Twitch and Johnny Wilkes - who play everything from obscure post-punk to floor-filling house music, will spin the decks at Electric on Friday July 15 as part of Galway International Arts Festival.
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