Madness to play Festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

MADNESS, THE British ska-pop legends who lit up the British charts in the 1980s with 'Baggy Trousers', 'Houser Of Fun', 'It Must Be Love', and 'Our House', and who remain a much loved institution and concert draw, will play Galway this summer.

Bicep & Hammer play Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 31, 2018

CREATIVE HEAD honchos, childhood friends, Belfast natives, and curators of one of the largest cult followed music repositories in club music history, DJ trio Bicep & Hammer can certainly boast an impressive CV.

An electronic night of new Irish music

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

A GATHERING of some of the Ireland's leading electronica/indie acts in the Róísín Dubh next week is likely to be a highlight of Once Upon A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture.

Kodaline to play Festival Big Top

Mon, Jan 29, 2018

KODALINE, ONE of Ireland’s biggest and most internationally successful bands, are coming west this summer to play the Galway International Arts Festival's Big Top in the Fisheries Field.

Countdown to Franz Ferdinand

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

FRANZ FERDINAND'S new album, Always Ascending, will be released on Friday February 9, and on Saturday 10, they kick off their European tour with a 'Róisín Dubh presents...' concert in Leisureland, Salthill.

Album review: Dream Wife

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 25, 2018

DREAM WIFE just might be the most exciting new indie-rock band of 2018. Throughout the album's 35 minutes these songs rock hard, without abandoning an indie sensibility, and with a catchiness and pop smarts, while never being mainstream.

A gourmet feast of piano music

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

A GOURMET has refined taste in good food. A gourmand also appreciates good food, but cannot help 'pigging out' on it. If you have a passion for classical piano, you can indulge your sophisticated taste - without the risk of indigestion - at Music For Galway's 'Piano Gourmand' event.

Once Upon A Time Back The West

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

ONCE UPON A Time Back The West, Galway's West End's celebration of live music, comedy and club culture to shake off the winters blues, returns in February.

Acclaimed uilleann piper for Monroe's Live

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HE LEARNED uilleann pipes from Lunasa's Brian Vallely; is a three times All-­­Ireland Champion piper, and is the only Irishman to have won the BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award.

Mercury Rev - sold out

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

MERCURY REV's upcoming show in the Róísín Dubh, where they will perform their classic 1998 album, Deserter's Songs, is now sold out.

A classical winter recital

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

THE GALWAY Music Residency's apprentice ensembles, who have been working under the acclaimed ConTempo Quartet, will hold a recital this weekend in NUI Galway.

Detroit Swindle return to Electric tomorrow night

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

JUST WHAT lies behind the success of house duo Detroit Swindle? Perhaps it is their acclaimed ability to strike just that right groove; their talent at seamlessly blending and mixing music from across five decades and continents?

Sound Of The Sirens 'celestial voices' come to Galway

Wed, Jan 24, 2018

SOUND OF The Sirens, the English duo whose music straddles folk, indie, and pop, and who Acoustic magazine described as "two celestial voices weaving over acoustic guitars", play Galway this weekend.

Wyvern Lingo - debut album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

WYVERN LINGO'S long awaited debut album finally arrives in late February, while March sees the Wicklow trio tour Ireland, including a stop-off in Galway to play the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: The Go! Team

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE GO! Team's fifth album occupies a space equidistant from the funk, soul, and samapdelic urban of 2010's Rolling Blackouts and 2015's indie-pop/dream pop The Scene Between.

Hayseed Dixie - let there be rockgrass

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THEY CREATED the musical genre rockgrass - a fusion of classic rock and bluegrass/American folk - have won the respect of legendary rockers, been going for nearly 20 years, and have a new album out.

Mary Coughlan to play Druid Sessions #3

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

MARY COUGHLAN, Ireland's greatest jazz singer, will headline the next in Ollie Jenning's new series of gig nights, the Druid Sessions, with the show taking place in early March.

Derek Ryan - new single, Town Hall concert

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

IRISH COUNTRY singer-songwriter Derek Ryan has just released his new single, ‘Down On His Uppers’, and will play the Town Hall Theatre this month.

U.M.A.N to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

U.M.A.N - an acronym for U. Must. Act. Now - and the stage name of Irish soul singer and songwriter Brian Flanagan, play the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

Circus VIII to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

THE CLUE is not so much in the band name of Circus VIII, as in the title of their EP - Rock + Disco + Bad Ass!! This is what the London trio are promising to deliver to Galway.

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