Claire Watts launches new EP

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

DREAMING OUT Loud, the new EP by contemporary folk singer-songwriter Claire Watts, will be launched with a gig upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday.

Spyfu to launch new EP @ Monroe’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

GALWAY ROCKERS Spyfu will launch their new EP, Knights Of Tainted Armour, with a gig in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

Phantom Planet Outlaws @ Factory

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

LIVERPOOL TECHNO trio Phantom Planet Outlaws make their Irish debut as a collective in Factory this Saturday when they play the Epoch clubnight.

‘We all live in a yellow submarine’

Wed, Feb 18, 2015

THE SUBMARINE exhibit at the Galway City Museum will be the setting for a performance of The Beatles’ famous ode to a yellow underwater craft, this Saturday at 11am.

Little Green Cars to support St Vincent

Tue, Feb 17, 2015

LITTLE GREEN Cars, the acclaimed Irish indie band, will support St Vincent at her Galway International Arts Festival Big Top concert on Tuesday July 14.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis to play Galway in May

Mon, Feb 16, 2015

BEFORE THE Strypes, even before Imelda May became a star in Ireland and Britain, three London based teenagers were paving the way for a serious rock’n’roll and blues revival. Their names? Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.

Hudson Taylor play Black Box next week

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

AS PART of their largest Irish tour to date, and following the release of their debut album, folk-pop brothers Hudson Taylor play the Black Box Theatre on Monday February 23 at 8pm.

Soulful Slow Club for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

SLOW CLUB have been called “Sheffield’s very own two person take on The Commitments” by the NME, and their soul-influenced sound is coming to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

Pete Kennedy @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

NASHVILLE BASED country singer-songwriter Pete Kennedy plays Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm as part of his I Am The One world tour.

We Banjo 3 to record new album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GALWAY FANS of the great We Banjo 3, who want to cheer on the band and have themselves recorded while doing so, should get down to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.

Saturday is classical music day

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FEBRUARY’S REMAINING Saturdays will, through a new series of concerts, hear the variety of instruments and musical styles that make up the broad world of classical music.

Tchaikovsky and Bluebeard @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FIRST LOVE and erotic, violent, love are the stuff of the operas Iolanta and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which will be screened at The Eye for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.

Beethoven’s piano sonatas - live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

REGARDED AS one of the finest interpreters of Beethoven’s music, French pianist François-Frédéric Guy will be in concert in Galway next week.

Alt folk at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

ALT-FOLK band The Longtails play Monroe’s Live on Friday February 20 at 10pm in support of their recently released debut EP Lindsay Road.

A nineties styled Valentine’s @ HALO

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

VALENTINE’S WEEKEND at HALO will be a mix of 1990s fun and nostalgia and the intriguing pairing of a DJ and a saxophonist.

Queen tribute at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

FLASH HARRY, one of the world’s leading Queen tribute bands, are coming to Galway, playing the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm.

Get Boogie!

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

GET BOOGIE! is back tomorrow night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, for a collaborative gig weekend with east coast crew Drank.

Guinness Amplify Live Stages - in Galway

Mon, Feb 09, 2015

THE GUINNESS AMPLIFY Live Stages gigs come to Galway on Thursday February 26 with the Róisín Dubh and Monroe’s Live announced as the venues where the shows will take place. Each venue will host three bands on the night.

Amelia Curran at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

AMELIA CURRAN, the Juno Award winning singer-songwriter has been described as “a bit like Leonard Cohen being channelled in a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.”

Album review: Natalie Prass

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 05, 2015

IN JANUARY 2013 Big Inner, an album of blue eyed soul, Memphis horns, funk, and Christianity by singer-songwriter Matthew E White caused a considerable stir. Now he returns to give his schoolfriend Natalie Prass her start, with this, her debut album.

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