Paul Heaton - Five Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Jul 23, 2014

PAUL HEATON has enjoyed a 30 year career as leader of The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, and as a solo artist. Showing no signs of stopping, he is going back on tour this autumn, re-united with Beautiful South co-vocalist Jacqui Abbott.

Listen to stream of Fia Rua's new album

Tue, Jul 22, 2014

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert in Áras na nGael this Saturday [July 26] at 9pm. In advance of the show, listen to the new album, which is streamed here in it's entirety:

Booka Brass Band - the Irish sound of New Orleans

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE ONLY New Orleans style brass band in Ireland - the Booka Brass Band - are coming to play the Róisín Dubh as part of this summer’s Galway International Arts Festival.

Owen Pallet - the indie-pop violinist returns

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE LAST time Owen Pallet played the Róisín Dubh in 2009, he was operating under the name Final Fantasy. These days he goes under his birth name.

Singer songwriter prodigy Sarah Jarosz to play Campbell’s Tavern this weekend

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

SARAH JAROSZ will play Campbell’s Tavern this Saturday July 19 at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Featuring X for Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

FEATURING X, the Louth indie-rock/alternative pop quintet, whose song ‘Wild Love’ is clocking up serious hits on YouTube, play the Galway Fringe Festival.

Luka Bloom tonight

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

LUKA BLOOM is heading west to play the Monroe’s Live tonight as part of Galway International Arts Festival.

Factory’s Electronic Music Weekender

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

TWO NIGHTS of international, cutting edge, electronica - involving Greek house, Irish urban, and Belgian techno - take place at Factory.

Praise be! It’s the Dublin Gospel Choir

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE DUBLIN Gospel Choir have been called “a must-see – who’d have thought gospel would be this cool?” by The Irish Times, and “uplifting” by Hot Press.

The Last Friday Club @ Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE LAST Friday Club in Monroe’s Backstage Bar, the clubnight for anyone over 30, returns on Friday July 25 at 10pm.

The club features music from the 1970s to today and next week’s instalment will be a ‘summer cocktail party’ with special drinks promotions. DJ Jon Richards will be spinning the decks.

Alkalinear Records take over Get Boogie

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

GET BOOGIE, the clubnight at Factory, continues its Thursday sessions with tonight’s main act being Ventolyn & Becotyde.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Jul 17, 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.

Wpect 100 per cent more funk, reggae, soul, disco, boogaloo, jump blues and nuggets from everywhere in between giving everyone an excuse to work up a sweat on the dancefloor.

Avant-jazz fusion from Dinosaur

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

AMSTERDAM TRIO Dinosaur will bring their elegant, at times explosive, jazz/folk/rock fusion to County Galway this month at four separate shows.

Earthship - new EP and Galway gigs

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

EARTHSHIP, THE Galway funk-dance-jazz fusionists have just released their new EP, The Proximity Effect, and will mark the occasion with two shows in Galway city.

Kinetika @ The Cellar

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE FOURTH instalment of Kinetika, takes place tomorrow night in The Cellar Bar, with Digital Animals Of Disco Nouveau.

Digital Animal will play some old-school ‘acid analogue techno’ and things are expected to get psychedelic. Admission is €3 for the first 30.

Kevin Devine - Five Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Tue, Jul 15, 2014

KEVIN DEVINE is a prolific singer-songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York. Perhaps little known over this side of the ocean, he has amassed a dedicated following in the States, having been knocking about the New York indie rock scenes for more than 15 years.

The Sonics - ‘punk long before punk’

Thu, Jul 10, 2014

IN THEIR mid-1960s hey day, The Sonics were never really known outside of the American Northwest, despite being the wildest, loudest, most outrageous band around.

Music @ The Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 10, 2014

THE ALTERED Hours, Nanu Nanu, Myles Manley, and My Fellow Sponges are among the bands that will be playing the Galway Fringe Festival which opens this Saturday.

Hot 8 Brass Band @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 10, 2014

THE SOUND of New Orleans, hip hop, and Black America are embodied in The Hot 8 Brass Band who make a welcome return for a Galway International Arts Festival show.