Seattle Grunge Experience comes to Monroe's

Thu, May 10, 2018

NIRVANA, SOUNDGARDEN, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains - the Holy Quartet of Grunge and late 1980s/early 1990s sound of the Pacific Northwest, will be recreated in Monroe’s Live.

Album review: Liz Phair

Music Reviews Thu, May 03, 2018

IF MOST people found Madonna's 1992 album Erotica shocking, there was no way in 1993 the largely sexless world of indie/alternative rock was going to be able to handle Liz Phair's debut, Exile In Guyville.

Patrick Bergin to launch Galway Sessions Festival 2018

Thu, May 03, 2018

ANDY IRVINE, John and Pip Murphy, and the actor Patrick Bergin, are heading west for the 2018 Galway Sessions Festival, the city's annual celebration of traditional, folk, and roots music.

Jinx Lennon - new album, Róisín gig

Thu, May 03, 2018

JINX LENNON, the agit-punk, performance poet, singer-songwriter is back, and as confrontational and challenging as ever, with his new album, Grow A Pair, and a show at the Róisín Dubh.

The Mouse Outfit - new album, Monroe's gig

Thu, May 03, 2018

TOMORROW SEES the launch of Jagged Tooth Crook, the new album by Manchester hip hop production team The Mouse Outfit, and later this month they play Monroe's Live.

Mary Black plays Town Hall this weekend

Thu, May 03, 2018

MARY BLACK makes a welcome return to Galway and will play the city's Town Hall Theatre this Saturday, May 5, at 8pm, singing the songs of Jimmy McCarthy.

Repeal the Eighth Indie disco

Thu, May 03, 2018

THE REPEAL Session, an indie disco in support of the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment, will take place in the Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay.

Album review: Kacy & Clayton

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 26, 2018

THIS IS a new album, but the cover instantly declares that in Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum's world, every day is somewhere between 1965 and 1972, an impression confirmed and copper-fastened by the music within.

Super Silly - top class Irish r'n'b tonight

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

DO NOT be fooled by the name, there is nothing silly about Super Silly, the Dublin band who are fast become one of the key names in the emerging, fascinating, Irish urban music scene.

Ladies sing the blues

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

WOMEN ARE pivotal in the story of blues music, with Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Mamie Smith being among its earliest recorded exponents and first major stars, but they have been overshadowed by the men who came later.

Unblessed - Chilean extreme metal

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

UNBLESSED, ONE of the leading bands in the Chilean underground extreme metal scene, are about to unleash their ferocious black metal/death metal fusion on Galway.

New Valley Wolves - new EP and Monroe's gig

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

NEW VALLEY Wolves latest single 'Cut-Throat', the first from their new Gospel EP, went straight to #1 in the Irish Rock charts, and the band are coming to Galway as part of their latest tour.

Galway Youth Orchestra - concert and auditions

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

GALWAY YOUTH Orchestra, now in its 36th year, will hold auditions for new members next month, in St Mary’s College, St Mary’s Road.

A lunchtime Beethoven concert

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

THAT MONTY Python sketch, with John Cleese as Beethoven, all roars, shouts, irascible temper, and prone to shooting things, may have been closer to the truth than we realise.

Steven Sharpe - new single, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

STEVEN SHARPE writes about gay male sex with the kind of ribaldry and attention to salacious detail Prince and Snoop Dogg brought to their songs about straight male sexual adventures.

Album review: The Shacks

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 19, 2018

OVER THE last 10 years indie music has rediscovered and re-explored 1990s genres, but it is rare to see young musicians going back any further than that. Recently however, a new series of disparate bands - School Damage, Mermaidens, Starcrawler, and now The Shacks - have delved into different aspects of sixties and seventies rock, delivering fresh new presentations of those forms.

Guitar great Albert Lee to play Town Hall

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ALBERT LEE boasts a career that is the envy of many musicians, having worked with numerous legends in rock and country, and becoming something of a legend in his own right.

Galway Loves Music #1

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

GALWAY LOVES Music is a new evening of discussion and performances in the Róisín Dubh, and a chance for musicians in Galway to meet local and national voices who will share their knowledge of how music works.

Olivia to spin the decks @ Electric

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

DJ OLIVIA, a key player in the Polish electronic music scene for more than a decade, returns to Galway to play the next Factory night at the Electric Garden and Theatre.

The Hot Sprockets @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

TAKE SOME good-time revolutionary spirit, add a pinch of psychedelic flavour, simmer with some indie-soul and seventies style rock, and you have the cosmic vibe of The Hot Sprockets.

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