Daithí launches new single ‘Have To Go’
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
ELECTRO WONDERKIND Daithí officially launches his new single ‘Have To Go’ with a gig in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 11.30pm.
Read more ...Doom metal night @ The Cellar
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
BELFAST DOOM metallers Nomadic Rituals have been called “sonic terrorists”, “mystical tribesmen”, and “the heaviest band in the world”.
Galway music fans will have a chance to hear for themselves when the trio - Craig Carson (bass/vocals/synth), Peter Hunter (guitar), and Mark Smyth (drums) - play The Cellar tomorrow from 9pm.
Read more ...Chart-topper Route 94 @ Electric
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
CHART-TOPPING DJ Route 94 will be in Galway tonight playing the Electric Garden and Theatre from 11pm.
Read more ...Shuffle! tomorrow night @ Roisin Dubh
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
Vinyl junky Dave Barry is back again for the March installment of Shuffle! This night is gaining momentum and proving to be one of Galway’s more popular nights.
Read more ...Punk night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
A PUNK night will be held upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday from 8pm.
Gnarwolves; a pop punk group from Brighton, will headline. Support is from The Winter Passing; an indie-punk band from Tipperary; Old Bean, and Dream State.
Read more ...Transatlantic soul with Niall McCabe
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THERE IS a peculiarly kid of Irish soul music, one which infuses r’n’b, jazz, rock, and folk, and whose original master, if not creator, is arguably Van Morrison.
Read more ...The 4 of Us announce Monroe’s show
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THE 4 of Us, who were recently voted No 7 in TV3’s Top 10 Irish Bands of All Time poll, play Monroe’s Live in June.
Read more ...Galway Simon fundraising variety concert
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
MORE THAN 20 performers, from comedians to guitar soloists, will take to the stage of The Quays for the LiveMicsWorld variety show on April 10 at 8pm.
Read more ...CPNHGN @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
DESPITE THE Scandinavian moniker, CPNHGN hail from Kildare, and take their musical influences from New York’s Sonic Youth and Manchester’s Joy Division.
Read more ...A court summons to listen to music
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
COURT ROOMS are not associated with musical concerts - unless there was a fall-out between artist and promoter - but they are places of performance and controversy.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to judge Choirfactor 2014
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
JULIE FEENEY, the award winning, Athenry-born, vocalist and composer, will be among the judges at Galway’s Choirfactor competition.
Choirfactor 2014, a competition specifically for choirs, takes place in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday April 12. Also judging will be Cois Cladaigh musical director Brendan O’Connor and music educator Maire Ní Dhuibhir.
Read more ...Líadan to play Claregalway
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
TRAD/FOLK band Líadan celebrate their 10th anniversary this year with a nationwide tour which begins with a gig in County Galway next month.
Read more ...Freddie White to play Moycullen
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
WHETHER INTERPRETING songs by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, or performing his own compositions, Freddie White’s live performances are legendary.
Read more ...Galway bands to release new singles
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
GALWAY BANDS Harrison & The Devil and The Followers Of Otis release new singles, at two separate gigs, in the Róisín Dubh.
Harrison & The Devil, whose sound draws on Nick Drake, Nick Cave, and Supergrass, and whose debut EP Cat Matters featured on Nialler9’s reader’s Top 5 Irish EPs list, release the double A-side single ‘Mary/Blue Blood’ on Citóg Records.
Read more ...Frankie Gavin to play NUIG concert
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
TRAD FIDDLE great Frankie Gavin will be among the stellar line-up of musicians performing at the NUI Galway’s Arts in Action Finale Concert.
Read more ...Rackhouse Pilfer album launch
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
RACKHOUSE PILFER, the Sligo alt-country and bluegrass sextet, launch their new album, Love and Havoc, at a concert in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 10pm.
Read more ...Beardyman @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
BEARDYMAN – DJ, producer, and entertainer – brings his Eat Sleep Shave Repeat Irish Tour to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday April 3.
Read more ...Cornerboy @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
COMBINING APPALACHIAN folk, sea shanties, arena rock choruses, vocal harmonies, and an indie sensibility, Wexford’s Cornerboy epitomise nu-folk.
Read more ...The ‘indietronic’ Mineral
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
“THE MINERAL album is really beautiful... it reminds of Screamadelica.” So said Alan McGee whose Creation label released the Primal Scream classic in 1991.
Read more ...Nicole Maguire @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
AHEAD OF the release of her debut album next week, Cork singer-songwriter Nicole Maguire plays upstairs in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.
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