TG4 to record Bosca Ceoil @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

TG4’S NEW folk and trad music show Bosca Ceoil is being recorded in Monroe’s Live from Monday April 7 to Friday 11, and free audience tickets are available.

Raglans to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

LILY ALLEN’S father, actor Keith Allen, who can currently be seen in My Mad Fat Diary, has called Raglans’ “an immensely powerful band!”.

Tae Lane @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

TAE LANE have been described as The Pogues arguing with Warren Zevon, and Galway will see why when they play The Cellar this Saturday.

Tae Lane are a six-piece band of brothers who play original songs with the odd classic thrown in. They will perform songs from their forthcoming EP Not Today, while the video for the song ‘Low Down Pleasures’ can be seen on YouTube. The band has also played the Electric Picnic.

Daithí launches new single ‘Have To Go’

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

ELECTRO WONDERKIND Daithí officially launches his new single ‘Have To Go’ with a gig in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 11.30pm.

Doom metal night @ The Cellar

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

BELFAST DOOM metallers Nomadic Rituals have been called “sonic terrorists”, “mystical tribesmen”, and “the heaviest band in the world”.

Chart-topper Route 94 @ Electric

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

CHART-TOPPING DJ Route 94 will be in Galway tonight playing the Electric Garden and Theatre from 11pm.

Shuffle! tomorrow night @ Roisin Dubh

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

Vinyl junky Dave Barry is back again for the March installment of Shuffle! This night is gaining momentum and proving to be one of Galway’s more popular nights.

Punk night @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

A PUNK night will be held upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday from 8pm.

Transatlantic soul with Niall McCabe

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THERE IS a peculiarly kid of Irish soul music, one which infuses r’n’b, jazz, rock, and folk, and whose original master, if not creator, is arguably Van Morrison.

The 4 of Us announce Monroe’s show

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THE 4 of Us, who were recently voted No 7 in TV3’s Top 10 Irish Bands of All Time poll, play Monroe’s Live in June.

The Newry band, led by brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy, have seen all seven of their studio albums reach the Irish Top 20. At their Galway show, fans can expect to hear ‘Mary’, ‘Drag My Bad Name Down’, ‘Washington Down’, ‘She Hits Me’, and ‘Sunlight’, as well as material from their new album.

Galway Simon fundraising variety concert

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

MORE THAN 20 performers, from comedians to guitar soloists, will take to the stage of The Quays for the LiveMicsWorld variety show on April 10 at 8pm.

CPNHGN @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

DESPITE THE Scandinavian moniker, CPNHGN hail from Kildare, and take their musical influences from New York’s Sonic Youth and Manchester’s Joy Division.

A court summons to listen to music

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

COURT ROOMS are not associated with musical concerts - unless there was a fall-out between artist and promoter - but they are places of performance and controversy.

Julie Feeney to judge Choirfactor 2014

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

JULIE FEENEY, the award winning, Athenry-born, vocalist and composer, will be among the judges at Galway’s Choirfactor competition.

Líadan to play Claregalway

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

TRAD/FOLK band Líadan celebrate their 10th anniversary this year with a nationwide tour which begins with a gig in County Galway next month.

Freddie White to play Moycullen

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

WHETHER INTERPRETING songs by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, or performing his own compositions, Freddie White’s live performances are legendary.

Galway bands to release new singles

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

GALWAY BANDS Harrison & The Devil and The Followers Of Otis release new singles, at two separate gigs, in the Róisín Dubh.

Harrison & The Devil, whose sound draws on Nick Drake, Nick Cave, and Supergrass, and whose debut EP Cat Matters featured on Nialler9’s reader’s Top 5 Irish EPs list, release the double A-side single ‘Mary/Blue Blood’ on Citóg Records.

Frankie Gavin to play NUIG concert

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

TRAD FIDDLE great Frankie Gavin will be among the stellar line-up of musicians performing at the NUI Galway’s Arts in Action Finale Concert.

Rackhouse Pilfer album launch

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

RACKHOUSE PILFER, the Sligo alt-country and bluegrass sextet, launch their new album, Love and Havoc, at a concert in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 10pm.

Beardyman @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 20, 2014

BEARDYMAN – DJ, producer, and entertainer – brings his Eat Sleep Shave Repeat Irish Tour to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday April 3.

Beardyman, who has been called the “king of sound, ruler of beats,” by BBC1 Breakfast, and “like Bobby McFerrin on Speed” by the Evening Standard, is promising audiences a rip roaring, beat filled and lavishly improvised gigs.

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