Milan Jay launch new EP @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 21, 2011
BALLINASLOE DUO Milan Jay will launch their new EP with a gig upstairs in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.
The EP is entitled To the Night and Sky and is available to download from Bandcamp and iTunes for €2. Tomorrow’s gig starts at 9pm and admission is free. Support is from Ronan ‘Buggy’ Burke.
Read more ...Fionn Regan @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
IRELAND IS awash with singer-songwriters so it takes someone special to stand out from the hordes of ‘three chords and the truth’ merchants - Fionn Regan is one such individual.
Read more ...Arts festival gigs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
MONROE’S LIVE will host two of what are sure to be among the most popular gigs of this year’s Galway Arts Festival - Jack L and The Walls.
Jack L will bring his mix of cabaret, rock, black romanticism, and undoubted charisma for what is sure to be a high energy show tonight from 9pm.
Read more ...Testify! @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
TESTIFY! GALWAY’S monthly night of music, poetry, and much more is having a party next Monday at 8pm in the Róisín Dubh’s upstairs bar.
Read more ...Driftwood Manor album launch @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
GALWAY AVANT-folk band The Driftwood Manor will launch their new album with a show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 15 at 9pm.
The album, The Same Figure (Leaving), is a joint release between independent Galway label Rusted Rail and independent Dublin label Slow Loris.
Read more ...Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
TRACK DOGS, the new band name for the Garrett Wall Band, are coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Sunday at 10.30pm.
Read more ...Pugwash @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
PUGWASH, the great Dublin power-pop band, centred around singer-songwriter Thomas Walsh, play Monroe’s Live tonight at 9.30pm.
Read more ...Phill Jupitus @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
PHILL JUPITUS made his name as a stand up comic, however in recent years he has become better known for his TV and radio work, but now he is returning to stand-up.
Read more ...Gráda @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
“GRÁDA IS to Irish music what Arcade Fire is to indie - informal, prodigious and full of spirit.” So said The Washington Post and Gráda play Monroe’s Live on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...The Chakras @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THE CHAKRAS are creating something of a stir at the moment. The Times compared them to Doves while Q said their “epic, swirling psychedelia recalls Richard Ashcroft’s gang at their peak”.
If you want to see what all the fuss is about then check them out when they play the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.
Read more ...Don Stiffe @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
DON STIFFE, the popular Galway folk singer-songwriter will play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9.30pm as part of the Galway Sessions Festival 2011.
Read more ...Sharon Shannon @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
SHARON SHANNON, along with a host of the finest Galway trad, folk, and singer-songwriter talent, will play Monroe’s Live on Wednesday at 8pm.
Read more ...Family fun and evening singalongs - The Wizard of Oz @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE MUSICAL version of The Wizard of Oz has given the world two of its most loved songs - ‘Follow The Yellowbrick Road’ and the magnificent ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.
Read more ...Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara born, Dublin based, folk/rock singer-songwriter, and his band, will play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Elaine Mai and Daithi O Dronaí @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
TWO OF the most talented and promising young solo musicians to emerge from the west of Ireland in the last couple of years, play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.
Singer-songwriter Elaine Mai and indie/post-rock/Irish trad fiddler Daithi Ó Dronaí will be playing a free show at the Dominick Street venue.
Read more ...The Paul King Band @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FUNK’N’SOUL group The Paul King Band play The Backstage Bar at Monroe’s this Sunday at 11.30pm.
Read more ...Intinn @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
TOMORROW NIGHT from 9pm Monroe’s Live will be pulsing to the reggae, dub, drum’n’bass, and Celtic trad, when Intinn take to the stage.
Read more ...Testify! @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
THE NEXT Testify! night of poetry, spoken word, and song upstairs at the Róisín Dubh on Monday June 6 at 9pm.
Read more ...Gold Panda @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 26, 2011
GOLD PANDA is, according to The Guardian, “armed with an ear for a skilful beat and an array of weird samples”.
Pitchfork described his music as “top-shelf pieces of spliced together beat science” while MOJO praised his “wonky beats and shimmering twisted tech melodies”.
Read more ...Bipolar Empire @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 26, 2011
BIPOLAR EMPIRE’S debut album Feel That You Own It came out late last month and has enjoyed a warm response from the critics; now they are taking it on the road.
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