Award winning jazz singer to perform at Electric

Wed, Sep 28, 2016

LAUREN KINSELLA, the London based, Irish, vocalist, and winner of the UK Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 JazzFM Awards, is in Galway next month to perform at the upcoming Galway Jazz Festival.

Album review: David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? boxset

Music Reviews Tue, Sep 27, 2016

THE KEY artefact in this lavish new Bowie boxset, charting the artist's journey from post-Ziggy to 'Plastic Soul', to Thin White Duke, is one of the great missing pieces of the Bowie discography - The Gouster.

The Blossoms announce 2017 Galway show

Mon, Sep 26, 2016

“WE WANT to be as mainstream as Will Smith, as great as The Smiths, and as uplifting as Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” So said The Blossoms who have just announced a Galway concert for 2017.

Coronas announce two shows for Salthill

Mon, Sep 26, 2016

THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's best loved bands, and no strangers to Galway, were ulikley to let the year pass withouyt heading west and today they announced two shows for the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, in November.

James Vincent McMorrow - Black Box concert in October

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

JAMES VINCENT McMorrow follows the release of his critically acclaimed new album, We Move, with an Irish tour taking in the Black Box Theatre on Wednesday October 5 at 8pm.

Album review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 22, 2016

NO PARENT wants to outlive their child, to do so seems wrong, unnatural. When that child is wrenched from his mother and father so suddenly, in circumstances both extreme and tragic, coming to terms with it must be near impossible.

A season of Brahms begins next week

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

SOME OF Johannes Brahms' most iconic pieces of chamber music will be performed by six outstanding musicians as part of the opening concert of a season of music where Brahms is centrestage.

Aimee Banks to give debut concert in Galway Cathedral

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

AIMEE BANKS, the 14-year-old soprano who burst on to the international scene last year after representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, will give her debut Irish concert in Galway.

Waze & Odyssey @ Electric

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

WAZE AND Odessey are at the forefront of the contemporary house music scene, and Galway can expect an energetic, explosive, set from the pair at their Electric Garden show.

Naoise Roo kicks off new tour in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

NAOISE ROO, the Dublin singer-songwriter whose music Horslips drummer Eamon Carr called "atmospheric grunge cabaret", launches her multi-date '#WHORETOUR in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday September 24.

Chicago bands @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

CHICAGO BANDS Dowsing and Ratboys come to Galway next week as part of a European tour, playing the Róisín Dubh, where the bill also includes Irish trio Shrug Life.

A piano played with nuts, bolts, and erasers

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

A PIANO treated with bolts, but also plastic, rubber and a pencil eraser will be played in Druid's Mick Lally Theatre for one of the most 'out there' and experimental shows of the Galway Jazz Festival.

Ex-Portishead member to DJ in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

ANDY SMITH, the former DJ and sample supplier for Portishead, who has also worked with The Prodigy will be DJing in Galway this evening with Galway's Dave Barry at Shuffle! in The Blue Note from 9pm.

Killer Joe’s Jazz Club @ Monroe's

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

FROM BE-BOP, to laid back instrumentals, to standards by Miles Davis, Art Blakley, Benny Golson, and Grant Green, all will be played at Killer Joe's Jazz Club in Monroe's The Side Bar this Sunday from 8pm.

Eoin Dolan - new song, debut solo album out this week

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

TO SAY The Beachboys Brian Wilson is influential is an understatement, and one of the many who have fallen under the composer's spell is Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan.

Loner Deluxe - lunar folk and sci-fi sounds

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 19, 2016

"THERE IS abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilisations have been visiting us for a very long time. Their appearance is bizarre from any materialist Western point of view..."

Salthill's Burren Mount Hotel inspires epic electronica album

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

THE BURREN MOUNT Hotel in Salthill has long exercised fascination on, and prompted speculation within, the public mind, but also on artists, having been portrayed by painter Jennifer Cunningham, and more recently through a musical interpretation by The Cube Of Unknowing.

Lisa O'Neill - live at Nocturne

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

"AT A time when sameness threatens to drain the world of charm and surprise, Lisa O’Neill stands tall for difference, as an outlier with a mission to frame the world as she sees it and to perform it accordingly. Her voice is her own."

Get the Shivers for Maurice Fulton

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

“SIT DOWN, smoke, get the keyboards, maybe hire a drummer or programme it myself, smoke, mix it down, put it on CD, smoke, listen to it.” This is how Maurice Fulton, one of house music’s true originals, describes his working methods.

Moother Mooch - psychedelic doom grunge

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

MOTHER MOOCH deliver "a full spectrum of heavy music", according to Doomed & Stoned, with "Alice In Chains style vocals, up-beat Venom-esque tempos and groovy psychedelic solos".

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