Halo-ween @ HALO

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

THIS WEEKEND is Halloween and HALO's resident DJs and live acts will provide the spooky soundtrack to the stacked line-up including the DJ set from Faithless vocalist Maxi Jazz on Saturday.

Loudon Wainwright III to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Oct 26, 2016

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III is "the most candid diarist among the singer-songwriters who...brought confessional poetry into popular song," says the New York Times, while MOJO calls him "one of America's most astute lyrical commentators".

Aindrias De Staic - hobo to boho to Soho

Tue, Oct 25, 2016

AINDRIAS DE STAIC - actor, singer-songwriter, theatre maker, performer, author - Galway city's wild Renaissance man will display his many talents on the stage of The Loft at Seven, this weekend.

Buzzcocks - punk legends to play Galway in November

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

THE SEX Pistols and The Clash may get all the glory, The Damned will always have released the first British punk album, but Manchester's Buzzcocks might just have cast a larger, and more longer lasting influence on music.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

ORLANDO TOBIAS Edward Higginbottom, better known as British electronic music producer, DJ, and singer, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, will DJ at the next Hoolie night in the Electric Garden and Theatre.

Terrordome to headline metal/punk night

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

TRASH METAL, sludge metal, prog and punk from Poland, Dublin, and Galway will be heard loud and unleashed when Terrordome, Snowblind, Ten Ton Slug, and Psychopigs, play the next Hexen Haus gig.

Rory Gallagher tribute at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

RORY GALLAGHER, possibly the greatest guitarist, and certainly the greatest bluesman, to ever emerge from Ireland, died in 1995, and next week Galway will celebrate both the man and his music.

Skratch Bastid to DJ @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

SKRATCH BASTID, the Canadian DJ celebrated for his comfort and versatility in mixing hip hop, funk, disco, club, and rock, into a fusion that demands people dance, is coming to Galway.

Maxi Jazz to DJ in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

HE WAS the face and the voice of Faithless, whose songs 'God Is A DJ', 'Insomnia', and 'We Come 1' dominated the charts and the airwaves in the 1990s and early noughties, and now that voice, Maxi Jazz, is coming to Galway.

Cúla Bula's Repocalopera

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

A NIGHT of conspiracy, tinfoil head protection, and eternal damnation awaits Galway when trad/folk-rock band Cúla Búla bring their new rock opera, Repocalopera, to the Monroe's Live stage.

Whiplash - Metallica tribute @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act play The Loft at Seven next week and can be expected to deliver a thrilling two hour set from the band's classic 1983 - 1991 era.

RobotRock @ HALO

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

PARTY BAND RobotRock, whose re-mixing and mashing up of classic dance anthems create a floor filling experience, play the HALO nightclub tomorrow.

'Mazda' - The Clockworks release new single

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

HOT CHOCOLATE may have boasted about love being in the back seat of lead singer Errol Brown's motocar, but for the character who narrates The Clockworks' new single, the back seat of a old Mazda is a much more squalid place.

Harvester and Dvne - metal tour begins in Galway

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

GALWAY STONER rock/metal band Harvester and Edinburgh doom/black metal quartet Dvne, will tour Ireland next week, with both bands playing Galway city at the start of the tour.

Blood Thread - metal band to make Galway debut

Tue, Oct 18, 2016

BLOOD THREAD will bring their bone crushing, modern, death metal to Galway next week for what will be the Scottish band's first appearance in this city, accompanied by Words That Burn, who are also making their Galway debut.

Julio Bashmore to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

INSPIRED BY the French electro and dance sounds of Daft Punk and Cassius, and the bass scene of his native Bristol, DJ Julio Bashmore is acclaimed for his forward thinking, constantly future focused approach, to music.

Chic drummer to give Galway workshop

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

RALPH ROLLE, the drummer with Nile Rodgers' Chic, and the man who has drummed for Sting, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Slash, Elvis Costello, and Smokey Robinson, will give a drum clinic in Galway.

Interskalactic to bring the ska to Monroe's

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

HAILED AS “the future of ska in Ireland” by Ryan Tubridy, Interskalactic have firmly marked their place as a live and festival favourite, fusing big band flavour and first-wave, old-school Jamaican ska.

Bach for lunch

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

JOHANN SEBASTIAN Bach's Overture in the French Style will be performed on harpsichord by the acclaimed Irish musician, Malcolm Proud, in a lunchtime concert for Music For Galway.