JANAJ - debut EP, two gigs - including an all ages show

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

JANAJ, THE Galway based alt-rock band, are set to release their debut EP this month, and ahead of that play two all-ages shows - at Monroe's Live and at Citóg in the Róisín Dubh.

The Seven Last Words of Christ

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

THE SEVEN Last Words of Christ, Haydn’s celebrated work, exploring Christ’s anguish on the cross, and more broadly, on suffering and the human condition, will be performed in Galway this month.

Music For Galway's Good Friday Concert

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

POPULA MEUS - Oh My People - is the title of this year's Music for Galway concert of reflective music on Good Friday, which will a performance from the Collegium Chamber Choir in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

RobotRock - Live in HALO

Thu, Apr 06, 2017

ROBOTROCK, the party band/DJ, best known for live re-mixing and mashing up music by Daft Punk, Groove Armada, The Prodigy, and The Chemical Brothers, hit the dance floor of HALO tomorrow night from 11pm.

Leonard Cohen protege to play Galway this month

Wed, Apr 05, 2017

SHE SPENT time with the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, worked with street children in Egypt, and with Tribal Elders of Wekweti, an isolated First Nation community in northern Canada, but she is best known as the late Leonard Cohen's protege.

ASIWYFA - 11 essential tracks

Essential Playlist Mon, Apr 03, 2017

IT IS not easy selecting the best music by the game-changing, visionary Antrim post-rock band And So I Watch You From Afar - almost everything from their last two albums alone would make up an essential list. However here's a broad taste of the Ulstermen's brilliance ahead of their upcoming Róisín Duibh show:

Damien Dempsey - hbound for Galway in June

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, deservedly described by The Guardian as "one of Ireland’s great singer-songwriters" and by The Daily Express as "one astonishingly gifted individual", returns to Galway this summer.

EP review: Field Trip

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 30, 2017

NEVER JUDGE a book by its cover, or an EP for that matter. The sleeve of Field Trip's Evening's Over gives the impression this will be five tracks of slacker-rock and odes to student burn-out after one Buckfast too many.

FEAST - from punk to 'space neo-prog'

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

POST-PUNK, "space neo-prog", and Galway punk/hardcore with a sense of divilment, are all on the cards when the next FEAST gig takes place at the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Dusky to play Electric tonight

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

DUSKY, THE London based duo Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell, and leaders of underground British dance, play the Electric Garden & Theatre, tonight from 11pm.

Athenry Music School's Guitar Orchestra Festival

Thu, Mar 30, 2017

THE MUSIC of Mozart and Rihanna, along with John Cage's non-music 4’33, will be performed as part of the Athenry Music School's first Guitar Orchestra Festival, part of the school's 10th birthday celebrations.

Bronagh Gallagher to play Monroe's Live

Mon, Mar 27, 2017

AS AN actor she has appeared in The Commitments, Pulp Fiction, Grabbers, Shooting For Socrates, and You, Me, and The Apocalypse. She is also a powerful blue-eyed soul singer, and as The Irish Times said, you, "overlook her musical career at your peril".

No Monster Club play Strange Brew this week

Mon, Mar 27, 2017

NO MONSTER Club, the cartoonish art-pop brainchild of Dublin songwriter and vocalist Bobby Aherne, have songs which NYLON described as "a stripped-down, sugar high Pet Sounds", and which The Irish Times said have "the kind of tunefulness that makes a joke of so much contemporary pop music".

Harvester - championing classic metal values

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

WHEN IT comes to metal I am unapologetically old school. When I hit play I want the riffs of a Tony Iommi, the leads of Murray/Smith or a Gorham/Robertson, and all that topped with the voice of a Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford.

Album review: Laura Marling

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THE OPENING track 'Soothing' lives up to its name, but its languid, bass-led, rhythms, and Marling's sultry croon are something of a red herring. Unlike this song, wonderful though it is, the album will not be an indie-pop/jazz hybrid.

Coole Music Orchestra Festival - celebrating 10 years

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THE COOLE Music Orchestra Festival, which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year, returns on Saturday March 11, with a series of afternoon and evening concerts, in the Gort Community Centre, south Galway.

Coirmcheoil Phadraig 2017

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

COIRMCHEOIL PHADRAIG 2017, the annual St Patrick's Festival concert of music and song of the nation, featuring the renowned Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, takes place this weekend.

Bob Skeleton - and the sound of 'Midnight Pop'

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THEY DESCRIBE themselves as playing "Midnight-Pop", with late night grooves and melodies that "create a dynamic blend of West Coast cool and Mancunian mood".

Stomptown Brass play Monroe’s on St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

STOMPTOWN BRASS have released a new single, 'I Got A Plan', and the 10-piece urban street-funk band are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Ilenkus - new EP out next month

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

HUNGER, THE new EP from Galway post-metal band Ilenkus will be released next month on vinyl, and officially launched at an upcoming FEAST show in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.

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