The High Kings Home From Home Tour comes to Galway

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

THE HIGH Kings, always one of the most popular concert draws in Ireland, will be on the road again from this winter, and Galway is in their sights.

Album review: Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 09, 2021

WHAT DO you get when you combine one of the finest contemporary songwriters in the country with one of Irish music’s best kept secrets?

Niamh Regan releases new video for ‘Two Seagulls’

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

‘TWO SEAGULLS’, from Niamh Regan’s acclaimed debut album Hemet, now has an accompanying video, made as part of the First Cut! Youth Film Festival’s Youth Music Video Competition 2021.

Lisa Hannigan to play new music festival at Claregalway Castle

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

AFTER 18 months of no live music, suddenly there are new, in person, outdoor, music festivals for Galway, and Claregalway Castle is the venue.

Album review: Whipping Boy

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 02, 2021

I AM old enough to remember when Whipping Boy were Jesus and Mary Chain wannabes, and their utter transformation a couple of years later as witnessed on a grandstanding performance on The Late Late Show.

Athenry Music School Sinfonietta to give online Culture Night concert

Thu, Sep 02, 2021

THE YOUNG musicians of Athenry Music School Sinfonietta will give their debut performance of ‘A Baroque Session (with Carolan & Friends)’ by Raymond Deane online at 7pm on Culture Night, Friday, September 17.

Pretty Happy - Cork post-punk trio for Fall Right Into Place

Tue, Aug 31, 2021

PRETTY HAPPY, the post punk Cork trio “who sound at times like a deranged Pixies – which is an entirely good thing!", according to Hot Press, are coming to Fall Right Into Place.

Live music is back at Monroe’s

Mon, Aug 30, 2021

SHARON SHANNON, Hudson Taylor, The Frank and Walters, and Kíla are just a few of the names that will be headlining gigs at Monroe’s Live as live music returns to the Dominick Street venue.

Album review: Villagers

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 19, 2021

FEVER DREAMS is expansive, ambitious, and cinematic in scope, fusing the many disparate strands of Conor J O’Brien’s music into one entity. It is also the oddest album of his career.

The Three Tenors to play Galway Cathedral

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

HAILED AS “Ireland’s greatest voices”, The Three Tenors make a welcome return to Galway to play a socially distanced concert at Galway Cathedral.

HousePlants and Jape - live in Galway

Tue, Aug 17, 2021

HOUSEPLANTS, the exciting duo of Bell X1’s Paul Noonan and electro artist Daithí, and Jape, the solo project of The Redneck Manifesto’s Richie Egan, play The Grand Auld Stretch at Nimmo’s Pier this week.

Darragh O'Dea - new album and County Galway shows

Mon, Aug 16, 2021

FOLLOWING THE release of the single, 'Guerrilla Warfare In Your Back Garden', Tuam singer-songwriter Darragh O'Dea, has announced a debut album and two Galway gigs this winter.

Niamh Regan gets ‘Happy Again’ on new single

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

‘HAPPY AGAIN’, the new single from County Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, is released tomorrow, Friday August 13, on all digital platforms.

3 Kinds of Music digital Pop-up weekender

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

3 KINDS Of Music, the Galway Music Residency’s multi-genre concert series returns with an online weekender of classical, jazz, folk and trad.

‘Ditch Drinking’ - Galway Street Club man releases new single

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

FOLLOWING HIS debut single ‘Radio Caroline’, Galway indiepop artist, James Dillon - better known as one of the lead singers in Galway Street Club - returns with new single, ‘Ditch Drinking’.

Free outdoor concerts in Galway in August and September

Wed, Aug 11, 2021

CEOL AN tSamhraidh, a series of live music events taking place across County Galway, begins this weekend, with shows in Ballyglunin and Corr na Móna for audiences of 200 people.

Declan O'Rourke to play Nimmo’s Pier next week

Tue, Aug 10, 2021

“HE WRITES the sort of classic songs people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever. Listen to 'Galileo', possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.”

New single released

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Chris Haze has released his new single entitled 'WDGAF'.

‘After the Movie’ - Partland releases new single

Music Reviews Wed, Aug 04, 2021

‘AFTER THE Movie’, the new single from Galway singer-songwriter Partland, is released today, Wednesday August 4, and is accompanied by a wonderful animated video.

Album review: LUMP

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 29, 2021

THE SECOND album from LUMP - singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng - is, as Marling says, about “desires running wild”.

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