An African take on Talking Heads

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

AFRICAN MUSIC was a huge influence on Talking Heads, particularly on albums like Fear Of Music and Remain In Light, so it makes sense that a group of West African musicians should re-interpret the New Yorkers' songs through an African filter.

Silent Disco Street Party is back

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

BEAT ON the street! Bop ‘till you drop! Sing ‘till you’re hoarse to the ripest musical fromage imaginable! It can only be the return of the now legendary Silent Disco Street Party.

Rofi James - hometown show for summer tour

Mon, Jul 22, 2019

ROFI JAMES, the Galway pop-rock band, and previous recipients of the Galway Advertiser Galway Band Of The Year accolade, have embarked on their summer tour, which includes a hometown gig in Galway.

Ezra Furman - 'proudly ambiguous' indie-rocker plays GIAF 19

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

"I'M A Queer for life. Outlaw. Outsider!" So declared Ezra Furman on 'I Lost My Innocence', a highlight of his 2018 album, Transangelic Exodus, and a proud statement on just who he is.

Macy Gray headlines Big Top this Sunday

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

MEMORABLY DESCRIBED by MOJO magazine as "the Marge Simpson of soul", Macy Gray's distinctively gravelly, soulful tones, will be heard at the Heineken Big Top as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Lisa O'Neill and Junior Brother at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

THE LAST 12 months have been significant for Irish singer-songwriters Lisa O'Neill and Junior Brother, and both will share the stage of the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Pete Higgins releases new album

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

PETE HIGGINS, the Galway singer-songwriter, has just released his new single, 'The Great Divide’, and his second full-length album Adrift In A Sea Of Apathy, with both available now on all major streaming services.

Monroe’s GIAF line-up

Tue, Jul 16, 2019

The Galway International Arts Festival 2019 line-up is here and Monroe’s have a star-studded

Huun-Huur-Tu - throat singing and trad from Tuvan

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

IT PROMISES to be one of the most exciting, and utterly different, musical events at this year's Galway International Arts Festival, when the extraordinary tradition of Tuvan/Mongolian throat singing comes to the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Kyle Craft

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 11, 2019

IN SOME corner of a foreign field - Portland, Oregon, to be precise - it is forever 1972. David Bowie is always Ziggy Stardust and T.Rex's glitterburst boogie is the soundtrack to everyone's teenage years.

Pillow Queens - rising Irish indie band to play GIAF

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

“IF I could rewind 10 years, and if I saw a band like us on stage, I would be obsessed." So says Pillow Queens' drummer Rachel Lyons, and while modesty may not rest easy on this band's shoulders, they have every reason to walk tall right now.

Saharan Blues - Tinariwen headline the Big Top

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

TINARIWEN, THE Grammy-winning Saharan blues band, make a welcome return to the city to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Heineken Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Tuesday July 16 at 7pm.

Metal, punk, and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

WHEN ARNOCORPS finished their ferociously entertaining show - their concerts are so much more than a gig... - singer/front-man Graf Holzfeuer bellowed out in true Schwarzenegger fashion: "We'll be baaaack!"

Field Trip headline Citóg Records launch

Wed, Jul 10, 2019

SOME OF the cream of Galway's indie rock bands, singer-songwriters, and solo artists will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the launch of the fourth compilation album from Galway label Citóg Records.

European music - better than anything Brexiteers can offer

Tue, Jul 09, 2019

BREXIT PARTY MEPs showed, not only their ignorance and bad manners when turning their backs on musicians in the European Parliament, but their cultural cretinism in disrespecting 'Ode to Joy', the final movement of Beethoven's magnificent 9th Symphony.

Dan Deacon - late show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

DAN DEACON is a composer whose work has been heard in Carnegie Hall. He is a legend within indie and electronic music. He is an artist. He is an entertainer. He is all these things.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Mikaela Davis - the harp, but not as you know it

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”

A jazz night with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE HISTORY of New Orleans jazz is, in many respects, the early history and origins of jazz itself, and The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys style is resolutely that of The Big Easy.

The Big Geraniums - back in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

AFTER A 21-year hiatus, folk-pop band The Big Geraniums have reformed - with all the original members - to play two special, one-off shows, in Dublin and Galway this month.

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