Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Dec 05, 2013

PADDY CASEY began his musical career busking on Galway’s streets, but since that apprenticeship he has become one of Ireland’s best established singer-songwriters.

Award winner Foy Vance @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 28, 2013

THE NORTHERN Irish music scene is at its healthiest and most creative at any time since the 1970s, and one of its leading lights may well be Foy Vance.

Jagermeister Freezer Sessions @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 28, 2013

TIME IS running out to register for free tickets to the Jagermeister Freezer Sessions, featuring O Emperor, The Hot Sprockets, Raglans, and Preacher’s Son, at Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.

iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

FOUR NEW bands will go head-to-head at Monroe’s Live tonight in the second heat of the iRocks competition, in association with iRadio.

Each Thursday for four weeks, four finalists will battle it out for a place in the grand finale at Monroe’s Live, on Thursday December 12. The show will be streamed live on iRadio.ie and see the winner scoop a prize package worth €10,000, including recording time, equipment and promotion.

Disconauts @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE DISCONAUTS will hold their monthly ‘Dex & Percussion Party’ in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 10.30pm.

iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE FIRST heat of the €10,000 iRadio iRocks band competition takes place in Monroe’s Live tonight from 10pm.

Upcoming Gigs @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE ORIGINAL Rudeboys, O Emperor, and Kíla’s Rónán Ó Snodaigh will be playing Monroe’s Live over the coming weeks.

The Hive @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE HIVE clubnight, with 110th St DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11pm.

The Hive focuses on club classics from various eras rather than focus on the fresh four-to-the-floor produce. As a result, Cian and Cyril will run riot through their record collections to spin disco, house, hip-hop, Italo, post-punk, new wave, lost classics, and current anthems. Expect to hear Animal Collective, Ikonika, Green Velvet, Cerrone, Late Nite Tuff Guy, and The Fall.

Jinx Lennon @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 07, 2013

JINX LENNON, AKA The Free State Nova, the agit-folk, performance poet, singer-songwriter plays upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 15 at 9pm.

The Minutes @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 07, 2013

THE MINUTES have been hailed as “the greatest rock’n’roll band in Dublin” by influential UK magazine Artrocker.

Sandra Coffey @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 07, 2013

GALWAY SINGER Sandra Coffey, described as having “an evocative and distinctive voice”, along with her band, plays Monroe’s Live on Friday November 15.

Hallowe’en party @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 31, 2013

MONROE’S LIVE will host its Hallowe’en fancy-dress fright-fest party tonight from 10pm and there will be prizes for the best fancy dress costumes.

Shuffle presents Keb Darge @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

KEB DARGE, the leading Northern Soul, rockabilly, exotica, and r’n’b DJs will be spinning the decks at Shuffle in the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 1 at 11pm as part of his European tour. The Gawlay gig is his only Irish date.

Jemson Green @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

IN A ERA when everything is alt-, post-, sub-something it is refreshing to hear a band like Jemson Green declare: “To hell with sub-genres! We are a rock band”.

Burlesque cabaret @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 24, 2013

Ms Shir Madness (pictured) will be among the burlesque and cabaret performers at The Dirty Circus when it comes to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 2 at 9pm. Expect devilish tricks and dark delights. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.v

Amelia Curran @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

AMELIA CURRAN “lifts herself above the melee and creates something of poetic loveliness,” said Q, about the singer-songwriter who is coming to Galway.

WOB @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

A FUSION of drum‘n’bass, jazz, ambient, electro, and house is on the cards when Dublin trio WOB play Monroe’s Live tonight at 10.30pm.

Hard rocking tonight @ Monroe’s

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

IF YOU pine for the days of hair-metal, epic guitar solos, spandex, and a time when Guns‘n’Roses, Whitesnake, and Mötley Crüe, ruled the world, read on.

Toy Soldier @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 03, 2013

TOY SOLDIER have been described as “your favourite club night with Nine Inch Nails and Blondie mashing it up on the decks”.

Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 26, 2013

AN IRISHMAN, an Englishman, and two Americans, all based in Madrid, make up the band Track Dogs, who play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Their positive, uplifting, music, mixes pop, folk, reggae, and flamenco, and eschews traditional instrumentation, opting for a cajón instead of drums and a trumpet in place of lead guitar. Their eponymous 2012 album was described as having “a touch of class” and being “well worth investigating” by The Sunday Business Post.

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