Nineties dance @ Stock Exchange

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

DJ MICKY MAC of 2FM will be in The Stock Exchange Bar tomorrow to launch the Shop Street venue’s new clubnight - Old School Insomnia.

Puzzle clubnight comes to Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE PUZZLE clubnight has returned to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, with DJs Zanmato, Zenji, Mooney, and Wendy dropping drum’n’bass and jungle this Saturday from 10pm.

DJ Sotofett @ Factory

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

NORWEGIAN DJ Sotofett will make his Irish debut when he spins the decks this Saturday at both the Bierhaus and the Epoch clubnight in Factory, Abbeygate Street.

Rob Wade returns to the stage

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

ROB WADE, the Galway singer-songwriter is back in action and returns to live and musical duties with a gig in Monroe’s Live this Saturday night.

Baldonnel Singers charity concert

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE BALDONNEL Singers will perform a fundraising concert, in aid of Domestic Violence Response, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

St Vincent to play arts festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

ST VINCENT, one of the most singular contemporary pop and rock musicians, a woman Pitchfork has declared “one of the past decade’s most distinct and innovative guitarists”, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top.

Are you ready for The Darkness?

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

UNITARDS, FLAMBOYANCE, falsettos, and gargantuan guitar riffs will explode onto the stage of Monroe’s Live when The Darkness play the Dominick Street venue on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Citóg returns with three gigs in February

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

ATMOSPHERIC INDIE-ROCK, blues with a touch of grunge, and passionate folk will be heard in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesdays in February during that month’s instalment of the Citóg nights.

The Coronas play Róisín Dubh in February

Mon, Jan 26, 2015

IRELAND’S FAVOURITE pop-rock band The Coronas have just announced that they will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 12 at 8pm and tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am.

Oh Boland to headline Strange Brew

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THEY CONTINUE a proud tradition of Tuam indie, rock, and punk; they have just finished recording their debut album; and they are about to play their second headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Panda Bear

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONCE UPON a time, January was the graveyard shift in the album release schedule, a time when contractual obligations, works deemed not good enough, and albums labels were not interested in, were unleashed into the post-Christmas commercial wasteland.

Grounds For Invasion to launch debut album

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

GALWAY ELECTRO-POP duo Grounds For Invasion launch their debut album Dying Stars at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 5 and a taste of what is in store comes through the new single 'Bruce Lee'.

Carmina Burana to be sung in Seapoint

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

FOR THOSE of a certain age Carmina Burana is ‘the music from the Old Spice’ ad, others associate it with X-Factor, but what is often forgotten is that that section, called ‘O Fortuna’, is part of a much larger work.

Interskalactic to deliver the Ska

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

INTERSKALACTIC, IRELAND’S only 10-piece ska band are set to deliver a night of ?rst-wave, old-school, Jamaican ska including covers of Skatalites and Prince Buster classics.

Galway trad/folk titans charity concert @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SOME OF Galway’s greatest trad/folk acts, including Dolores Keane, We Banjo 3, and Dessie O’Halloran, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 8pm for the Walk In My Shoes Campaign.

Earthship to touch down @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

SEVENTIES JAZZ-funk fusion, dance grooves, fiery improvisation, and irresistible pop hooks are on the cards when Earthship touch down at Kelly’s this Saturday at 10pm

Chieftains’ Matt Molloy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE CHIEFTAINS’ Matt Molloy and London-Irish fiddle great John Carty - both winners of the TG4 Musician of the Year Award - play Monroe’s Live on Tuesday January 27.

Get Boogie is back

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE GET Boogie clubnight returns to the Factory at Electric Garden tomorrow from 11pm with Dublin’s Northside Jungle Collective hitting the decks.

Shuffle! back @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

JANUARY CAN be a grim month, a time of bills and the post-Christmas blues, but it does not have to be that way - it can be a time of uptown soul and stomping funk.

Sinead O’Connor and John Grant for festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 21, 2015

SINEAD O’CONNOR, one of Ireland’s most individual, eclectic, and controversial singer-songwriters, and John Grant, the American singer-songwriter, whose music The Guardian described as “completely compelling, profoundly discomforting but beautiful”, play the Galway International Arts Festival this summer.

The artists will play the Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Thursday July 23, and the pairing makes sense given that they have collaborated previously, O’Connor having performed backing vocals on Grant’s songs ‘It Doesn’t Matter To Him’ and ‘Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore’, from his album Pale Green Ghosts.

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