Album review: Kyle Craft

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 11, 2019

IN SOME corner of a foreign field - Portland, Oregon, to be precise - it is forever 1972. David Bowie is always Ziggy Stardust and T.Rex's glitterburst boogie is the soundtrack to everyone's teenage years.

Pillow Queens - rising Irish indie band to play GIAF

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

“IF I could rewind 10 years, and if I saw a band like us on stage, I would be obsessed." So says Pillow Queens' drummer Rachel Lyons, and while modesty may not rest easy on this band's shoulders, they have every reason to walk tall right now.

Saharan Blues - Tinariwen headline the Big Top

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

TINARIWEN, THE Grammy-winning Saharan blues band, make a welcome return to the city to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Heineken Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Tuesday July 16 at 7pm.

Metal, punk, and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thu, Jul 11, 2019

WHEN ARNOCORPS finished their ferociously entertaining show - their concerts are so much more than a gig... - singer/front-man Graf Holzfeuer bellowed out in true Schwarzenegger fashion: "We'll be baaaack!"

Field Trip headline Citóg Records launch

Wed, Jul 10, 2019

SOME OF the cream of Galway's indie rock bands, singer-songwriters, and solo artists will take to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for the launch of the fourth compilation album from Galway label Citóg Records.

European music - better than anything Brexiteers can offer

Tue, Jul 09, 2019

BREXIT PARTY MEPs showed, not only their ignorance and bad manners when turning their backs on musicians in the European Parliament, but their cultural cretinism in disrespecting 'Ode to Joy', the final movement of Beethoven's magnificent 9th Symphony.

Dan Deacon - late show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

DAN DEACON is a composer whose work has been heard in Carnegie Hall. He is a legend within indie and electronic music. He is an artist. He is an entertainer. He is all these things.

Album review: Jesca Hoop

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 04, 2019

IT WAS often said of The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, that after beginning with the words, "It doesn't matter if we all die", it proceeded to get bleaker from there.

Mikaela Davis - the harp, but not as you know it

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

“A LOT of these songs came from feeling stuck and also like people were pulling me in a bunch of different directions. I wanted to say, ‘Just wait for me. I’ll figure it out.’”

A jazz night with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THE HISTORY of New Orleans jazz is, in many respects, the early history and origins of jazz itself, and The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys style is resolutely that of The Big Easy.

The Big Geraniums - back in Galway

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

AFTER A 21-year hiatus, folk-pop band The Big Geraniums have reformed - with all the original members - to play two special, one-off shows, in Dublin and Galway this month.

Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir Academy's debut Galway show

Thu, Jul 04, 2019

THREE-TIME Grammy winning US choir, the Pacific Boychoir Academy, are making their debut tour to Ireland, and on the itinerary is a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church this Saturday, July 6.

see night - melodic, dreamy, and like the Pixies

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

"CAPTIVATING, SUBTLY gripping, delicately engrossing...Listen closely and you can pick out some shoegaze, a dash of psychedelia, traces of Sonic Youth angst...and melodic sensibilities worthy of the Pixies."

Peter Regan - Fantastique!

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

HE HAS played New York's Carnegie Hall, Toronto's The Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre; as well as venues in Madrid, Salzburg, and Dublin, but he has never played Galway - until now.

No Stairway to perform Led Zeppelin I and II

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

AN E chord on a Fender Telecaster; an E chord on a Gibson Les Paul; both played at the 7th fret by a young Englishman; both the first track of his band's first two albums. Music was never the same again.

Maija Sofia and A Lilac Decline in concert

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

MAIJA SOFIA, and A Lilac Decline, two Galway indie singer-songwriters, play the next Eclectics night at The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street, on Wednesday July 3 at 9pm.

Aimee Banks to open Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals 2019

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

ACCLAIMED GALWAY soprano Aimee Banks makes her Galway Cathedral Summer Recitals debut on Thursday July 4, the opening date of this latest series of summer concerts, now in it's 26th year.

Marcus Fields to launch debut EP in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Marcus Fields will launch his new EP, Death and Magic, with a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 5 at 9pm.

Bagatelle to play Lough Rea Hotel

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

BAGATELLE, THE Irish band who created one of the most famous songs in the nation's rock catalogue, 'Summer In Dublin', play the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on Thursday July 4.

Two Door Cinema Club - new album, GIAF 19 show

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

THEY'RE BACK Jim, but perhaps not quite as you have heard them before? Ahead of the European tour that takes them to the Galway Arts Festival Big Top, Two Door Cinema Club have released their new album.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.