Ye Vagabonds to play the Aran islands

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

YE VAGABONDS, the folk-trad duo of brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn, will play a series of concerts across islands in the West of Ireland, including two shows in the Aran Islands this month.

The Family Stone to bring the funk to Galway

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ARE YOU ready to get together with 'Everyday People', 'Dance To The Music', and have some 'Hot Fun' at the end of the summertime, and say at the end of it all, 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'?

Daithí - new single is his best work to date

Tue, Jul 31, 2018

AN AMBIENT soundscape, full of echoing, ghostly drones, underpinned by four gently shifting, rising, falling notes, looms into the ears, before the voice of Bell X-1's Paul Noonan intones, "And the words rain down like confetti..."

Strange Brew Summer Shindig #14

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

THE BEST indie bands - be they indie rock, indie pop, indie-electro, or indie-folk - in Ireland right now, and the best indie bands you have not yet heard of, will be on the stage in the Róisín Dubh for the Strange Brew Summer Shindig #14.

Album review: Phantastic Ferniture

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 26, 2018

RIFF FUELLED indie-rock is not what you expect from a band led by Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin, who describes her folk influenced solo work as "playing sad music with a guitar in my hand".

Mongoose's musical and vocal 'melty-pot'

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

MONGOOSE CALL themselves "a musical melty-pot combining the vocals, instrument-playing and songwriting of four women". They play the Róisín Dubh this weekend as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Chamber Philharmonia Cologne in concert in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

THE CHAMBER Philharmonia Cologne, one of Germany's finest classical music ensembles, make their annual journey to Galway, to play works by Vivaldi, Handel, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Niccolo Paganini.

Hip hoppers Slum Village for Monroe's

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

DETROIT RAPPERS Slum Village have carried the torch for the old-school funk'n'soul hip-hop of genre pioneers like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, enduring for almost 30 years, surviving changing tastes, and the departures and deaths of band members.

Irish Youth Wind Ensemble to play Galway on Sunday

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

MORE THAN 60 of Ireland’s finest young wind, brass, and percussion players have been selected to play in this year’s Irish Youth Wind Ensemble - a week long music course culminating in a series of concerts, one of which will be in Galway.

Seamus Kelleher - Galway guitarist's homecoming gig

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

HE TOOK up guitar as a teenager in the Galway of the 1960s, played in a band that supported Thin Lizzy, and more recently has enjoyed a solo career that has seen him tour across the USA.

Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat and friends for GIAF 18

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

ONE-HALF of Arab Strap; a man not be confused with the founder of Scientology; and another, with a very common name but an uncommonly brilliant ability on guitar, are to appear in the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Body/Head

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 19, 2018

THE SECOND studio album from Body/Head - Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace - is less a savage beast than their 2013 debut Coming Apart, but is no less confrontational, no less challenging.

Declan O'Rourke to open Inishbofin summer concerts

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

THE ANNUAL Inishbofin Concerts return this month to the Connemara island, with a line up including Declan O’Rourke, My Fellow Sponges, The Frank and Walters, and Luan Parle.

Indie music showcase at Galway Fringe

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

INDEPENDENT GALWAY musicians, from singer-songwriters, to punks, indie rockers, prog-rockers, and avant-gardists, will gather over four nights for the Indie Label Showcases as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Beardyman @ Monroe's for GIAF 18

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

“A CROSS between a DJ, a comedian, and a human sound-sample library," is how The Guardian described Beardyman. It could have also added front-rank improv artist and entertainer to that description.

Dylan Murphy - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, the guitarist with Steven Sharpe's band The Broke Straight Boys, releases a new single next week, and joins forces with Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan, for a gig.

'Til They're All Broken - Galway gig

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

GALWAY TRIO 'Til They're All Broken fuse vocal led funk-rock stylings, a dose of instrumental jazz, and a dollop of world music, as the ciuty will hear when they play live next week.

Paddy Hanna - GIAF 18 show @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

GIVEN STRANGE Brew Rekkids' releases to date have been firmly rooted in electronica, the sound of a gentle electric guitar, piano, and an oboe playing a melody faintly recalling Bette Midler's 'The Rose', is the last thing you expect to hear.

Album review: The National

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 12, 2018

LIVE ALBUMS are very much a 1970s phenomenon, a chance to vicariously attend a concert by a band who would never play your town. They have also been among the classic 'contractual obligation' releases.

No failures, just great indie

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

DO NOT be fooled by the title. A Litany Of Failures: Volume II, a new album featuring 18 songs from Irish DIY, post-punk, and indie band, contains some of the most exciting young musicians currently at work.

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