HousePlants and Jape - live in Galway

Tue, Aug 17, 2021

HOUSEPLANTS, the exciting duo of Bell X1’s Paul Noonan and electro artist Daithí, and Jape, the solo project of The Redneck Manifesto’s Richie Egan, play The Grand Auld Stretch at Nimmo’s Pier this week.

Darragh O'Dea - new album and County Galway shows

Mon, Aug 16, 2021

FOLLOWING THE release of the single, 'Guerrilla Warfare In Your Back Garden', Tuam singer-songwriter Darragh O'Dea, has announced a debut album and two Galway gigs this winter.

Niamh Regan gets ‘Happy Again’ on new single

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

‘HAPPY AGAIN’, the new single from County Galway singer-songwriter Niamh Regan, is released tomorrow, Friday August 13, on all digital platforms.

3 Kinds of Music digital Pop-up weekender

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

3 KINDS Of Music, the Galway Music Residency’s multi-genre concert series returns with an online weekender of classical, jazz, folk and trad.

‘Ditch Drinking’ - Galway Street Club man releases new single

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

FOLLOWING HIS debut single ‘Radio Caroline’, Galway indiepop artist, James Dillon - better known as one of the lead singers in Galway Street Club - returns with new single, ‘Ditch Drinking’.

Free outdoor concerts in Galway in August and September

Wed, Aug 11, 2021

CEOL AN tSamhraidh, a series of live music events taking place across County Galway, begins this weekend, with shows in Ballyglunin and Corr na Móna for audiences of 200 people.

Declan O'Rourke to play Nimmo’s Pier next week

Tue, Aug 10, 2021

“HE WRITES the sort of classic songs people don’t write anymore, songs that sound like they’ve been around forever. Listen to 'Galileo', possibly the greatest song written in the last 30 years.”

New single released

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Chris Haze has released his new single entitled 'WDGAF'.

‘After the Movie’ - Partland releases new single

Music Reviews Wed, Aug 04, 2021

‘AFTER THE Movie’, the new single from Galway singer-songwriter Partland, is released today, Wednesday August 4, and is accompanied by a wonderful animated video.

Album review: LUMP

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 29, 2021

THE SECOND album from LUMP - singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and Mike Lindsay of folktronica band Tunng - is, as Marling says, about “desires running wild”.

Galway singer-songwriter to perform live in Paris

Wed, Jul 28, 2021

A LILAC Decline - the musical alter-ego of visual artist Cecilia Danell - will play a live gig, outdoors at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, as part of Culture Night.

JG Ballard meets Ballinasloe

Mon, Jul 26, 2021

THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.

‘Floating’ - Uisce Jones to release new single

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

‘FLOATING’, THE new single by Galway/Spanish indie singer-songwriter, Uisce Jones, will be released on Friday July 23.

Cosmic Leaf release new album today

Thu, Jul 15, 2021

COSMIC LEAF, the experimental, indie/alternative duo of Aaron Coyne and Aaron Hurley, today released their new album, Are Androids Stung By Electric Bees?.

Album review: David Kitt

Music Reviews Mon, Jul 12, 2021

NECESSITY IS the mother of invention, as the old saying goes, and it certainly applies to 20, what might be called a ‘new/old’ album from singer-songwriter David Kitt.

Album review: The Goon Sax

Music Reviews Thu, Jul 08, 2021

THE THIRD album from the Aussie indie-pop trio is like the child in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem: "When she was good, she was very good indeed, but when she was bad she was horrid.”

Paul Weller to play Galway in November

Tue, Jul 06, 2021

PAUL WELLER is set to return to Galway for the first time in almost 40 years and his days as leader of The Jam, when he plays Salthill this winter.

Iarla Ó Lionáird and Steve Cooney to play Galway pilot concert on July 10

Mon, Jul 05, 2021

IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD and Steve Cooney will play the first indoor gig in Galway since the end of the last year, when they appear at the Róisín Dubh this Saturday, July 10.

Luminosa String Orchestra to give world premiere of new music

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

THE WORLD premiere of a new composition by Sam Perkin, Visualization, will be performed by Galway’s Luminosa String Orchestra next week.

Album review: Dani Larkin

Music Reviews Tue, Jun 29, 2021

THE LATE, great, Mary McPartlan once noted that Irish folk music must not continually rest on a handful of standards, instead new material must be added to keep the form alive.

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