Album review: Field Mouse

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014

INDIE MUSIC, in its ‘classic’ sense is the union of two seemingly disparate and incompatible forms into a whole that, in practice, ends up making perfect sense.

Album Review: Bear In Heaven

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 14, 2014

SOUTHERN BOYS they may be, but Bear In Heaven’s DNA is not Dixie, but the electronic art-pop of Britain and Germany in the 1980s.

Harlem Gospel Choir to play Galway in November

Tue, Aug 12, 2014

THE LEGENDARY Harlem Gospel Choir returns to Ireland in November for a nationwide tour which will take in Galway.

Somerville to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

SOMERVILLE, the indie/experimental/soul music project of Corr na Móna’s Maria Somerville plays Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 14 at 9pm.

Tradiohead in concert tomorrow

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

TRADIOHEAD, THE Galway band who take the music of Radiohead and reimagine it as Irish trad and folk, are in concert tomorrow night.

Zeppelin tribute to touch down in Galway

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

NO STAIRWAY, the Galway based Led Zeppelin tribute band will be bringing a heavy dose of ‘Rock and Roll’ to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday August 15.

Seamus Walshe - new album

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

IT HAS taken nearly 20 years, but Galway accordionist Seamus Walshe is getting ready to launch his new album, Turas (Journey), with a gig in The Crane Bar.

Enter the electronic soundscapes of Tailor Birds

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

TAILOR BIRDS are an electronic neo-folk band whose members hail from the Netherlands and Australia and tonight they play Galway.

DeFeKT to make Galway debut @ Factory

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

IRISH ELECTRO powerhouse DeFeKT will make his Galway debut at the Get Boogie night in Factory tomorrow.

Cruinniu na mBad trad singing event

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, formerly of Sweeney’s Men and a titan of Irish folk music, will take to the stage as part of An t-Amhran Beo this weekend.

Dave Barry @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle!) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.

Indie disco @ Blue Note

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

PANIC! THE indie disco, returns to The Blue Note, William Street, tomorrow night at 9pm.

Free classical music concert

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

THE CONTEMPO Quartet will give a lunchtime concert in the Hardiman Building at NUI Galway on Friday August 8 at 1pm.

Arctic Monkeys tribute night @ Monroe’s

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

ARCTIC MONKEYS’ fans in Galway are in for a treat when tribute act Favourite Worst Nightmare play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.

Galway to go Ska and blues mad tomorrow night

Wed, Aug 06, 2014

SKA WILL be the order of the day when seven-piece outfit Big Jelly take to the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow [Thursday August 7] for the next Musical Soup night.

Beth Nielsen Chapman - the Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Aug 06, 2014

BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, is a woman of many talents, commitments, and achievements.

Weed Priest’s new EP reviewed and streamed

Music Reviews Tue, Aug 05, 2014

IF THERE was a musical sound to denote heavy, dense, flows of molten lava, slowly burning everything under its wake, then the opening riff to Weed Priest’s ‘Possessed’ would be it.

Beth Nielsen Chapman to play Galway

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, and Faith Hill, is coming to Galway.

The Ollam - a prog/trad/ jazz fusion

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

“NEO-ACOUSTIC Celtic post-rock” and “progressive traditional” are two of the terms which have been used to try to capture the sound and style of The Olllam.