Samantha Crain - the Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Tue, Jul 01, 2014

NATIVE AMERICAN singer-songwriter Samantha Crain has been quietly making a name for herself over the past five years, with music that has embraced indie, alternative-rock, folk, and acoustic.

Nirvana’s Chad Channing to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

CHAD CHANNING, the former Nirvana drummer who played on the band’s 1989 debut album Bleach, is touring Ireland next month with his new band Before Cars.

Portishead DJ Andy Smith to celebrate one year of Shuffle!

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

HUFFLE! with DJ Dave Barry opened its doors to the public one year ago this July in the Róisín Dubh and has garnered a reputation for a great night of eclectic sounds ranging from soulful disco to uptempo reggae and northern soul. To celebrate this milestone ANDY SMITH, the man who DJed for and supplied samples for Portishead - and even one for The Prodigy - has been drafted in.

Drenge - grungy garage rock @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THEIR MUISIC has been called “a grungy, garage rock racket” by Q while the NME said their future looks set to be “nothing less than heart-stoppingly, bone-shakingly exciting”.

The Original Rudeboys to play all-ages show

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE ORIGINAL Rudeboys play an all-ages show in Monroe’s Live on Sunday July 13, to give younger fans a chance to hear songs from their new album, All We Are, performed in concert.

Róisín Dubh Stage @ Westport Festival

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE CREAM of Irish indie rock, including some of Galway’s best bands, will be taking Mayo by storm when they play the Westport Festival of Music and Food 2014.

Galway’s guitar great on stage

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

TOM PORTMAN, the gifted and inventive Galway guitarist, whose music mixes blues, folk, classical, and Asian styles, plays Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 9pm.

Clubnights @ Factory

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

BOTH FLOORS at Electric will be taken over by the Bap To The Future clubnight this Saturday, with DJ Sunil Sharpe the main attraction.

American song for the fourth of July

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE USA celebrates its Independence Day on July 4 and in that spirit Galway’s Ignite Gospel Choir will perform two concerts of American song.

Album review: Parquet Courts

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 26, 2014

DO I like Parquet Courts's Sunbathing Animal because it is good on its own merits, or is it because I love Pavement and these guys so obviously do as well?

No Crows - a band of all the talents

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE WATERBOYS violinist Steve Wickham and the acclaimed Mallorcan guitarist Felip Carbonell, are two members of a band called No Crows.

Arts festival shows @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

IRISH TRAD and a bit of jazz will be heard in Monroe’s Live at the shows the venue is hosting as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, jump blues, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo all on vinyl. Admission is free. Dave will be returning to Massimo on Sunday for his weekly vinyl chill out session ‘Sunday Service’ from 1 to 3pm while the award winning EAT restaurant supply the food.

Galway Cathedral Recitals return next week

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE ANNUAL series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral returns on Thursday July 3 with a performance by Australian-born organist and pianist Tristan Russcher.

Diarmuid Scahill’s A Night Of Song

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

GALWAY SINGER Diarmuid Scahill has been offered a place at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s training academy, and is staging a concert tomorrow.

We Banjo Three - The Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Jun 25, 2014

WE BANJO Three, a quartet made of two pairs of brothers, have become something of a phenomenon in the folk/trad world, especially these last six months, which has seen them nominated for an award and play Latin America.

Pierre Bensusan - the master guitarist returns

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

PIERRE BENSUSAN, the genius guitarist, whose “playing [is] so far above average as to approach the supernatural”, according to the New York Times, returns to Galway.

Midlake to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, paving the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.