Rachael Sage - ‘one part Elton John, one part Kate Bush’

Wed, Feb 25, 2015

SHE IS “one part Elton John, one part Kate Bush” according to Uncut, while Billboard.com declared her “keen ironic sense of humour and quirky sense of the profound is what makes her special as a songwriter”. She is American folk/chamber-pop singer-songwriter Rachael Sage who plays Monroe’s Live.

A classical Saturday at the museum

Wed, Feb 25, 2015

THE MUSIC of Schumann, Saint Saens, and Britten will be heard in the Galway City Museum this Saturday from 11am in the last of the 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music concert series.

Le Galaxie - new album and Róisín Dubh show

Tue, Feb 24, 2015

LE GALAXIE, one of the greatest live bands in Ireland, make a welcome return to Galway on Friday May 1 as part of their Irish tour to support their new album Le Club.

Duke Special plays Róisín Dubh next week

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

DUKE SPECIAL will preview music from his new album Look Out Machines! when he plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 27 at 8pm.

Album review: Rural Savage

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 19, 2015

WITH AN album cover and title that references the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks and all manner of Jamie Reid inspired multiple typeface, Rural Savage leave entrants to their second album in no doubt that their feet are firmly placed within the punk camp.

Karen Egan to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

KAREN EGAN, a former barrister-at law and former member of comedy trio The Nualas, now a musician, songwriter, and theatre-maker, is about to tour Ireland.

Córus Galway seeks new voices

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE CÓRUS Galway choir starts its new term on Thursday February 26 at 7.30pm in NUI Galway’s Arts Millennium Building, in room AM107.

Old-school ska @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, hailed as “the future of ska in Ireland” by The Late Late Show’s Ryan Tubridy, bring their old-school Jamaican style ska to Kelly’s this Saturday at 9.30pm.

Michigan choir’s Galway charity concert

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE SKYLINE High School Choir from Ann Arbor, Michigan, will give a concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church this Saturday at 1pm to raise funds for Jigsaw.

Kinvara Mardi Gras 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

SKA BAND Big Jelly, inspired by The Skatalites, Prince Buster, and Toots & the Maytals, play the ninth annual Kinvara Mardi Gras in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday at 8pm.

Claire Watts launches new EP

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

DREAMING OUT Loud, the new EP by contemporary folk singer-songwriter Claire Watts, will be launched with a gig upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday.

Spyfu to launch new EP @ Monroe’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

GALWAY ROCKERS Spyfu will launch their new EP, Knights Of Tainted Armour, with a gig in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Phantom Planet Outlaws @ Factory

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

LIVERPOOL TECHNO trio Phantom Planet Outlaws make their Irish debut as a collective in Factory this Saturday when they play the Epoch clubnight.

‘We all live in a yellow submarine’

Wed, Feb 18, 2015

THE SUBMARINE exhibit at the Galway City Museum will be the setting for a performance of The Beatles’ famous ode to a yellow underwater craft, this Saturday at 11am.

Little Green Cars to support St Vincent

Tue, Feb 17, 2015

LITTLE GREEN Cars, the acclaimed Irish indie band, will support St Vincent at her Galway International Arts Festival Big Top concert on Tuesday July 14.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis to play Galway in May

Mon, Feb 16, 2015

BEFORE THE Strypes, even before Imelda May became a star in Ireland and Britain, three London based teenagers were paving the way for a serious rock’n’roll and blues revival. Their names? Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.

Hudson Taylor play Black Box next week

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

AS PART of their largest Irish tour to date, and following the release of their debut album, folk-pop brothers Hudson Taylor play the Black Box Theatre on Monday February 23 at 8pm.

Soulful Slow Club for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

SLOW CLUB have been called “Sheffield’s very own two person take on The Commitments” by the NME, and their soul-influenced sound is coming to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

Pete Kennedy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

NASHVILLE BASED country singer-songwriter Pete Kennedy plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm as part of his I Am The One world tour.

We Banjo 3 to record new album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GALWAY FANS of the great We Banjo 3, who want to cheer on the band and have themselves recorded while doing so, should get down to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.

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