Metallica and AC/DC tribute @ Seven

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

WHIPLASH, the Galway based Metallica tribute act, and IE/DC, the Kildare tribure to Australia's finest, will bring the rock and metal thunder to The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 9pm.

Twenty years of the Black Magic Big Band

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE BLACK Magic Big Band celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion the band will be in concert in An Taibhdhearc this evening at 8pm.

Classical and sacred music in St Nicholas'

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

ST NICHOLAS Schola Cantorum will host a series of concerts and performances throughout November, with the shows billed as 'Remembrance, Contemplation, Reflection, Fun, Anticipation'.

'A first class ticket to Americana'

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

THE GRAHAMS music is like "a train ride through the Americana musical landscape - with a first class ticket”. So said music magazine Turnstyled Junkpiled, of the husband and wife duo who are coming to Galway.

Get intimate with The Whileaways

Wed, Nov 04, 2015

ACCLAIMED GALWAY folk/Americana trio The Whileaways, whose new album Saltwater Kisses is the RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week, will play in the Kai Café + Restaurant, Sea Road.

Citóg - Indie, folk jazz - and everything inbetween

Tue, Nov 03, 2015

ONE OF Galway's finest singer-songwriters, Ultan Conlon, the fascinating talents of Maja Elliot, and Hanahazukashi, as well as alternative folk, and indie, will be seen and heard at the next series of Citóg nights in the Róisín Dubh.

Strange Brew 666th Night

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

THE BOOK Of Revelations 13:18 declares: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

Album review: Jeffrey Lewis

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 29, 2015

JEFFREY LEWIS grew up on Manhattan's bohemian Lower East Side and this area of New York acts as a loose theme across the 11 songs on this album.

The Amazing Apples to play An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

GALWAY INDIE-folk band, The Amazing Apples, will play their last hometown gig of the year on Friday November 6 at 7.30pm in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street.

Album review: Beach House

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 29, 2015

IN DEFIANCE of the rule that a new album should only appear every two/three years, Beach House's Thank Your Lucky Stars emerges, with Zappa like prolificness, only three months after Depression Cherry.

Eleanor Shanley - Forever Young at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

ELEANOR SHANLEY has a new album, Forever Young, named after the great Bob Dylan song; she is about to start a tour of Ireland; and she recently moved to Galway, making the county her home.

Cian Finn to launch new album

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

IRISH REGGAE singer-songwriter Cian Finn launches his new album, This Applies, with a gig at The Commercial Boat Club, Woodquay, this Saturday, joined by Rootical Sound System, Ras Tinny, Revelation Sound, and Aminah Dastan.

Tara Erraught to sing in at NUIG

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

TARA ERRAUGHT, the much acclaimed mezzo soprano, will perform songs by Dvorak, Brahms, Wolf, Copland, Mahler, and Britten, in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima on Wednesday November 4 at 8pm.

Rory Gallagher tribute @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

SINNERBOY, THE Rory Gallagher tribute band which has won the praise and admiration of Rory's brother and manager Donal, returns to the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm.

Choral concert in Ardrahan

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

A CONCERT celebrating song and the human voice will take place in the Ardrahan Church of Ireland church on Friday November 6 at 7.30pm.

Black Pope - new single and Róisín Dubh show

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

FREAKY IRISH rock'n'roll band Black Pope are on their Halloween tour of Ireland this week, which takes in the Róisín Dubh tonight, and they have just released their debut single/music video, 'Atom Bomb'.

The Waterboys - in concert in Salthill this Thursday

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

"PEOPLE SHOULD expect the unexpected from The Waterboys,” band leader Mike Scott declared recently. However as Stewart Lee recently noted at his comedy festival gig, the band can be expected to play 'Whole Of The Moon' as an encore.

Accordionist Dermot Byrne to play Monroe's

Tue, Oct 27, 2015

DERMOT BYRNE, one of Ireland’s finest trad accordion players, will be joined by Australian Steve Cooney on guitar and Tyrone's Trevor Hutchinson on bass, for a night of Irish trad at Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday October 30.

Daithí releases new song from new EP

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

DAITHÍ, THE Clare born, Galway based, violinist, producer, composer, electronica artist, and DJ releases the new track 'Mary Keane's Introduction' digitally on November 13.

The North Sea - new single and Monroe's Live show

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

"IF THERE'S a better band mining the rich seam of post-punk individualism we have yet to hear it,” declared The Irish Times about indie-alternative band The North Sea, who critics have also been comparing to Editors, Interpol, and early Killers.

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