Enter the jungle, hear the bass

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

JUNGLE, BASS, and dub will be the order of the night when DJs Welfare, Badmandeego, Seriaz, and Man-G play Puzzle at The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

Whole lotta classic rock @ Monroe’s Live

Tue, Jan 06, 2015

IF YOU have tickets to AC/DC in the Aviva in July but need to whet your appetite for some live acca dacca sounds before then, or if you love Led Zeppelin and know that the 2007 reunion is unlikely to happen again, then help is at hand.

She must be magic - Julie Feeney's new one woman show

Tue, Jan 06, 2015

JULIE FEENEY, the Athenry born composer, singer, producer, and orchestrator, is to perform shows in New York and Amsterdam, while her new one woman show is set for a 10 night run in Dublin.

Monroe’s Live to host Galway's Remembrance for Phil Lynott

Mon, Jan 05, 2015

TWENTY-NINE YEARS ago this week Ireland lost its most iconic rock musician and still greatest rock star, Phil Lynott. The Dublin singer-songwriter died on January 4 1986, but his extraordinary legacy continues and will be celebrated in Galway this week.

Galway Advertiser’s Galway Musicians of the Year 2014

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

GALWAY BAND OF THE YEAR: So Cow
So Cow, the indie-rock/pop-punk trio led by Tuam vocalist and songwriter Brian Kelly are one of the great success stories in Galway music. Though resolutely underground and alternative, they have achieved the kind of peaks most bands never see - playing Barcelona’s prestigious Primavera Sound festival; having their albums favourably reviewed on Pitchfork; working with Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier; touring internationally.

2014 - THE MUSICAL YEAR IN REVIEW

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 18, 2014

BEST ALBUMS OF 2014:
1 Lucius - Wildewoman (Play It Again Sam)

Kíla - new album and Monroe’s Live show

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

KÍLA, THE mighty Irish trad meets world music fusion group, have just released their first album in four years and are in concert at Monroe’s Live on Monday December 29.

Music for Galway’s midwinter festival

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

SOUNDTRACKS FOR Superpowers, a celebration of the music of Haydn and Shostakovich, the Music for Galway 2015 midwinter festival, is at the Town Hall Theatre from Friday January 16 to Sunday 18.

Galway indie band’s BYOB Christmas bash

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

BRING YOUR own beer/mulled wine, wear something Christmassy, and dance your woolly socks off to the absolute cream of the Galway indie-music scene at the Galway Bands BYOB Xmas Gig.

The West Cork Ukulele Orchestra @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THEY SPAN the decades of music, they cross its genres, they pay no heed to what is ‘cool’ or ‘un-hip’, they just play great music, and they do it all on ukuleles.

Amazing Apples Christmas concert

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THE AMAZING Apples, one of Galway’s finest and most popular bands, play a concert in HALO on Tuesday December 23.

Roots rockers The Deans to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THE DEANS, the Athenry roots-rock trio now based in France, return to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday December 21 at 9pm.

Shaunna McEvilly to launch debut EP

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

SHAUNNA MCEVILLY, the Galway singer-songwriter, will launch her debut EP Towers with a gig Upstairs in Kelly’s Bar tomorrow at 9.30pm.

Kevin Hynes’ DJ night @ Kelly’s

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THE FOUNDER of the Burrow Sessions radio-show on Australia’s Rabbit Radio, Kevin Hynes, will DJing in Kelly’s Bar this Saturday.

Kinetika @ The Cellar

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

TO SEE out 2014 and for its last night in The Cellar, the Kinetica Clubnight will host Dublin DJ Jon Hussey.

Galway Gospel Choir Christmas concert

Tue, Dec 16, 2014

THE GALWAY Gospel Choir will hold its Christmas concert in the Claddagh Church tomorrow [Wednesday December 17] at 8.30pm, with proceeds this year going to Childline.

Jape - Róisín Dubh show and new album

Mon, Dec 15, 2014

JAPE, THE solo indie-electro project of singer-songwriter and Redneck Manifesto bassist Richie Egan, returns in 2015 with a new album and an Irish tour that includes the Róisín Dubh.

Declan O’Rourke - Róisín Dubh show and new album

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

IN THE late-noughties, many believed the album as way of presenting music was dead and that digital media would see everything reduced to individual tracks. Fast forward to 2014 and instead of abandoning the album, artists are using digital media as a new way to present and re-imagine the album format. This and the corresponding resurrection of vinyl means the album has plenty of life in it yet.

Album review: AC/DC

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 11, 2014

GIVEN THAT founder and driving force Malcolm Young can no longer play music owing to dementia, AC/DC would have been forgiven for calling it a day.

The Harp, The Accordion and The Ugly album launch

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

THE HARP, The Accordion and The Ugly are seven Galway based musicians and one film-maker who put on live-music cinema shows as will be seen when they play Monroe’s Live.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.