Disconauts - back with a bang for 2015

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE DISCONAUTS and the phenomenal Atlantic Horns - two DJs and a three piece horn section - take to the Róisín Dubh stage for the first time in a year this Saturday at 11pm.

When the cellist met the DJ

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE CELLIST Matthew Barley is passionate about improvisation, multi-arts projects, and new music, which explains his joining forces with leading Galway DJ Cyril Briscoe.

Jarrod Dickenson to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

HIS VOICE has been compared to “a young Tom Waits” and he is said to have “melodies many of his peers would give their left arm for”. He is Texan singer-songwriter Jarrod Dickenson.

The Certain Three Tour @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

TWO AMERICAN musicians and a Cork singer-songwriter play Kelly’s Bar on February 26 as part of The Certain Three tour, which supports emerging artists.

Something To Sing About choir in concert

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE SOMETHING To Sing About choir, whose members are all cancer survivors, will perform a charity concert at the g Hotel on Friday February 6 at 8pm.

The Tales Of Hoffmann @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE TALES Of Hoffmann is to receive a spectacular production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, and be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema.

Nineties dance @ Stock Exchange

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

DJ MICKY MAC of 2FM will be in The Stock Exchange Bar tomorrow to launch the Shop Street venue’s new clubnight - Old School Insomnia.

Puzzle clubnight comes to Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE PUZZLE clubnight has returned to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, with DJs Zanmato, Zenji, Mooney, and Wendy dropping drum’n’bass and jungle this Saturday from 10pm.

DJ Sotofett @ Factory

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

NORWEGIAN DJ Sotofett will make his Irish debut when he spins the decks this Saturday at both the Bierhaus and the Epoch clubnight in Factory, Abbeygate Street.

Rob Wade returns to the stage

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

ROB WADE, the Galway singer-songwriter is back in action and returns to live and musical duties with a gig in Monroe’s Live this Saturday night.

Baldonnel Singers charity concert

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE BALDONNEL Singers will perform a fundraising concert, in aid of Domestic Violence Response, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

St Vincent to play arts festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

ST VINCENT, one of the most singular contemporary pop and rock musicians, a woman Pitchfork has declared “one of the past decade’s most distinct and innovative guitarists”, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top.

Are you ready for The Darkness?

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

UNITARDS, FLAMBOYANCE, falsettos, and gargantuan guitar riffs will explode onto the stage of Monroe’s Live when The Darkness play the Dominick Street venue on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Citóg returns with three gigs in February

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

ATMOSPHERIC INDIE-ROCK, blues with a touch of grunge, and passionate folk will be heard in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesdays in February during that month’s instalment of the Citóg nights.

The Coronas play Róisín Dubh in February

Mon, Jan 26, 2015

IRELAND’S FAVOURITE pop-rock band The Coronas have just announced that they will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 12 at 8pm and tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am.

Oh Boland to headline Strange Brew

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THEY CONTINUE a proud tradition of Tuam indie, rock, and punk; they have just finished recording their debut album; and they are about to play their second headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Panda Bear

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONCE UPON a time, January was the graveyard shift in the album release schedule, a time when contractual obligations, works deemed not good enough, and albums labels were not interested in, were unleashed into the post-Christmas commercial wasteland.

Grounds For Invasion to launch debut album

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

GALWAY ELECTRO-POP duo Grounds For Invasion launch their debut album Dying Stars at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 5 and a taste of what is in store comes through the new single 'Bruce Lee'.

Carmina Burana to be sung in Seapoint

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

FOR THOSE of a certain age Carmina Burana is ‘the music from the Old Spice’ ad, others associate it with X-Factor, but what is often forgotten is that that section, called ‘O Fortuna’, is part of a much larger work.

Interskalactic to deliver the Ska

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, IRELAND’S only 10-piece ska band are set to deliver a night of ?rst-wave, old-school, Jamaican ska including covers of Skatalites and Prince Buster classics.

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