One night - all manner of metal

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

CELTIC FOLK-Metal, Trash Metal, Groove Metal, and alternative rock will sound loud and dangerous when Na Cruithne, Snowblind, Afterlife To Ashes, and Sixth Extinction, play The Cellar Bar.

Hot Chip to DJ @ Electric fifth birthday

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

HOT CHIP front men Alexis Taylor and Owen Clarke DJ at Electric Garden & Theatre this weekend to mark the Upper Abbeygate Street venue's fifth birthday.

Freddie White - Monroe's Live gig in August

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

"THERE'S STILL nobody to match Freddie White at his best," said The Irish Times. His loyal followers know this well and will be waiting in anticipation for his upcoming show at Monroe’s Live.

A classical concert for St Nicholas'

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

THE CHAMBER Philharmonia Cologne, one of Germany's finest classical music ensembles, makes its annual visit to Galway net week, to perform a concert in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

Emma Lohan - new music and Galway gig

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Lohan has released 'Serekunda', the first single from her forthcoming album Black Atlantic, ahead of a home-town gig this weekend.

Brunch + Dancing @ Biteclub

Thu, Jul 27, 2017

CYRIL BRISCOE of 110th Street, Anthony Collins, and the Good Life DJs will be spinning the decks at the next Brunch + Dancing rooftop party at the Biteclub Streetfood Discotheque this weekend.

Galway's Rofi James shortlisted for 2FM's Play The Picnic

Tue, Jul 25, 2017

GALWAY BAND Rofi James have been shortlisted for 2FM's Play The Picnic, and are calling on the public to vote for them, and put them in with a serious chance of performing at Electric Picnic this September.

Saint Sister - Róisín Dubh GIAF 17 gig

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

WHEN SAINT Sister play the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival, they will perform the recent single ‘Causing Trouble’, a song which says much about them and their music.

Album review: Japanese Breakfast

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 20, 2017

DESPITE THE name, Japanese Breakfast - vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, Michelle Zauner - is not Japanese, but Korean-American, and musically, this new album is indebted to the1990s lo-fi American alternative rock and British shoegaze movements.

Inishbofin summer concerts

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

MICK FLANNERY, Wallis Bird, and Declan O’Rourke are among the leading Irish singer-songwriters who will be making their way to Inisbofin, for the Connemara island's 21st series of summer concerts.

GIAF 17 DJ nights @ Electric

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

BILL BREWSTER, the DJ extraordinaire and human music–encyclopedia, and the enigmatic, Berlin based DJ, Privacy, will be spinning the decks at the Electric Garden & Theatre, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Dermot Kennedy announces Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

DERMOT KENNEDY, the Dublin singer-songwriter Clash magazine called "something special", this week announced dates for a new European tour, which includes a Galway show in October.

Arnocorps - Swarzenegger punk

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

THEY BASE all their songs on Arnold Swarzenegger movies and describe their sound as "Action adventure hardcore rock and roll". They are San Francisco metal/punk band Arnocorps.

Rodney Owl - two Galway gigs

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

RODNEY CROWELL is a Grammy award winning Texan country music singer-songwriter, but Rodney Owl is an entirely different proposition altogether as Galway will see at two gigs this month.

Whitewater to play The Quays

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

WHITEWATER, regarded as one of Ireland’s top cover bands, performing at major events, festivals, and venues throughout Ireland and Britain, play The Quays Live tomorrow night.

Galway Hearts Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

GALWAY HAS no shortage of festivals, especially in July, and another has just been added to the bill - the Galway Hearts Festival, celebrating the city's original music scene - past and present.

LOAH - GIAF17 gig @ Róísín Dubh

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

SHE IS "a unique talent, a magnetising performer, and any time you see her sing, there’s a palpable sense of a musician on the rise.” So said Nialler9 about Loah, who plays the Róisín Dubh as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Overhead, The Albatross - GIAF 17 concert

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE FIRST three words of the opening lines of Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' are also the moniker for one of Ireland's most ambitious bands, whose music, like the Floyd's, is wide screen, cinematic in scope, heavily atmospheric, and epic.

AGU - Fringe Fest gig @ The Quays

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

SHE HAS been called "one of the most remarkable new singer-songwriters in the Czech Republic" by Milan Tesar in Magazin UNI. Today she is baed in Galway and about to play the Galway Fringe Festival.

Aimee Banks to sing at Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

AIMEE BANKS, the 15-year-old soprano who shot to fame representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Bulgaria, will give a concert at the Augustinian Church as part of the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival.

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