Album review: The Goon Sax

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 08, 2021

THE THIRD album from the Aussie indie-pop trio is like the child in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem: "When she was good, she was very good indeed, but when she was bad she was horrid.”

Paul Weller to play Galway in November

Tue, Jul 06, 2021

PAUL WELLER is set to return to Galway for the first time in almost 40 years and his days as leader of The Jam, when he plays Salthill this winter.

Iarla Ó Lionáird and Steve Cooney to play Galway pilot concert on July 10

Mon, Jul 05, 2021

IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD and Steve Cooney will play the first indoor gig in Galway since the end of the last year, when they appear at the Róisín Dubh this Saturday, July 10.

Luminosa String Orchestra to give world premiere of new music

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

THE WORLD premiere of a new composition by Sam Perkin, Visualization, will be performed by Galway’s Luminosa String Orchestra next week.

Album review: Dani Larkin

Music Reviews Tue, Jun 29, 2021

THE LATE, great, Mary McPartlan once noted that Irish folk music must not continually rest on a handful of standards, instead new material must be added to keep the form alive.

Former Strypes members new band - The Zen Arcade - to play Róisín Dubh in December

Mon, Jun 28, 2021

THE ZEN Arcade, the Irish garage rock band featuring three former members of The Strypes, will play the Róisín Dubh this winter.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Galway gig for summer 2022

Mon, Jun 28, 2021

CLAP YOUR Hands Say Yeah entered the hearts of many indie fans with the release of their debut album in 2005 and the now classic indie anthem, ‘The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth’ the following year.

Album review: John Grant

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 24, 2021

JOHN GRANT has always been searingly honest, often brutally so, about himself in his songwriting, but Boy From Michigan may be his most personal yet. It is certainly his most political.

Robocobra Quartet to play Róisín Dubh in September

Tue, Jun 22, 2021

ROBOCOBRA QUARTET, hailed as “pioneers” by the BBC and who have been compared to a cross between Fugazi and Charles Mingus by Drowned in Sound, are coming to Galway.

HousePlants - new single and debut album date

Tue, Jun 22, 2021

MEMORIES OF the aftermath of the 2015 marriage equality referendum have inspired the new single by HousePlants, a collaboration between Galway based musician, Daithí, and Bell X1’s Paul Noonan.

‘We Used To Play Here’ - a pop-up concert for Inishbofin

Mon, Jun 21, 2021

A POP-up gig amid the wild splendour of Inishbofin awaits music fans when the ‘We Used To Play Here’ tour comes to the Connemara island next week.

Baba Yarga - Galway multicultural band release new single

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 17, 2021

AN EASTERN European folk song, transformed into a modern, soul-pinching, ethno-pop ballad - this is ‘Vershe’, the new single from Galway multicultural band Baba Yarga.

The Raines - cowgirls get their guns on new single

Wed, Jun 16, 2021

"This is our version of a folk cowgirl song, that feeling of falling madly in love, a whirlwind of desire with someone, and then that same love falling apart.”

The Mary Wallopers - live and unleashed in Galway

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

"ISN’T THERE hope for the country with The Mary Wallopers in it." So said Tommy Tiernan about the raucous Irish folk band who are playing the Róisín Dubh later this year.

Take a musical trip to Greece with ConTempo

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

“THINKING IS the best way to travel,” sang The Moody Blues in 1968, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, journeys of the imagination are the best way to ‘go abroad’.

Album review: Saint Sister

Music Reviews Mon, Jun 14, 2021

“MY BRILLIANT friend traces where I should end and where I should begin, and he touches me with all the need and the want that goes on between us.”

Frankie Gavin, Mairtín O’Connor, Johnny Duhan - live at the Town Hall

Mon, Jun 14, 2021

FRANKIE GAVIN, Mairtín O’Connor, and Johnny Duhan - three titans, not only of the Galway folk and traditional scene, but of Irish music, will be live in concert at the Town Hall Theatre.

Album review: Noel Gallagher

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 03, 2021

NOEL GALLAGHER’S refusal to wear a face mask has hardly been edifying, and his claims of “there's too many liberties being taken away from us”, is verging on tin foil hat territory.

Jane O’Leary’s music to be performed at Mayflower 400

Tue, Jun 01, 2021

MUSIC BY the Galway based composer, Jane O’Leary, will be performed at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, and by Ireland’s National Symphony Orchestra.

‘Summer Boy’ - Crescent Moon releases new single

Tue, Jun 01, 2021

CRESCENT MOON, the Galway rapper and producer, releases his new single ‘Summer Boy’ on Thursday June 4, which also features Dublin rapper Conman Conrad and pop singer Viscose.

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