ABBA Sing Along Social

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

THERE ARE ABBA songs you know by heart and ABBA songs you know the chorus of. There are many out and proud ABBA fans, and plenty of others for whom ABBA is the ultimate guilty pleasure.

A Paris avec Christine Bovill

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

PARIS, the French capital, one of the world's greatest cities, has been the subject of songs throughout the decade, many of which will be performed by Christine Bovill in her new show - Paris.

Margo to headline annual Michael Commins Galway Sessions

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

MARGO, ONE of the most popular and enduring presences in County and Irish music, will headline the annual Michael Commins Galway Sessions, which take place in the Clayton Hotel.

Club GASS to celebrate third birthday

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

CLUB GASS - the Great and Secret Show, Galway's main LGBT clubnight is celebrating its third birthday in the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 9 at 11.30pm.

Vinyl Night at The Skeff

Thu, Nov 01, 2018

THE SKEFF Bar will hold the first event of a new series entitled Vinyl Nights, when two classic albums - Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction and Amy Winehouse Back In Black - will be played in their entirety on vinyl.

Album review: Value Void

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 25, 2018

THERE HAVE been many terms coined over the ages to describe falling in, and being in, love, so it is some achievement for London based trio Value Void to have come up with a new one.

Delorentos to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

2018 HAS been a very good year for Delorentos, with their latest album, True Surrender, winning critical acclaim, and throughout this month and next they tour Ireland, taking in a show in Galway.

The Murder Capital - Strange Brew bound

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

THERE IS a lot of excitement about Dublin punk/garage/shoegaze band The Murder Capital right now, and Galway will get a chance to see why when the quintet play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh.

A lunchtime date with Debussy

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

CLAUDE DEBUSSY is the starting point of modern music. As music critic Roger Nichols wrote: "If one omits Schoenberg...a list of 20th-century composers influenced by Debussy is practically a list of 20th-century composers tout court."

The Tuam man and the president

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

TOMORROW IS not only the day on which the presidential election takes place - or, as looks virtually certain, the presidential re-election - it is also the day a new EP comes out, named after a former Irish president.

Sos #4 - all ages music night

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, the Galway based blues-rock singer-songwriter and 60 Watt Girl will play Sos #4 - a celebration of Galway city and county's diverse original music community - at the Nuns' Island Theatre.

Emma Lohan - debut album out today

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

EMMA LOHAN, the Galway singer-songwriter, releases her debut album, Black Atlantic, today, in association with Citóg Records. The album features the singles 'Three Sparrows', 'Wander Free', 'Serekunda'.

A night of Mongolian music in the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

QUGE ULAN Muqir, from Inner Mongolia, in the People's Republic of China, will perform a night of traditional Mongolian music in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday November 4 at 8pm.

Bell X1's Paul Noonan @ Spiegeltent Sessions

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

PAUL NOONAN, lead singer with Bell X1 is taking time off from the band to pursue solo work and collaborations, with this month seeing the release of the solo single 'Moth To Your Flame', and his concert at the Galway Spiegeltent Sessions.

Emma Johnson and Finghin Collins in concert

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

EMMA JOHNSON, one of the few clarinettists to have established herself as a major solo artist, and who has since become of the biggest selling classical artists in Britain, is coming to Galway.

Epoch x Gash Collective weekender

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THE WEEKEND sees a slew of Irish and international DJ talent grace the turntables of Factory at Electric, with a collaboration between the Epoch clubnight and the Gash Collective.

Niall Teague - new album, Galway show

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

NIALL TEAGUE, one of Galway's leading folk/roots musicians and songwriters, releases his new album, Big Red Bridge, this month and launches it with a gig in Galway city.

John Grant to play Galway in 2019

Tue, Oct 16, 2018

JOHN GRANT, who delivered one of the most memorable Galway International Arts Festival Big Top gigs in 2015, is coming back to Galway next year, to play Lesiureland, Salthill.

Album review: The Fall's Kurious Oranj re-release

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGINS with two of the greatest songs in The Fall's vast catalogue - one definitive, the other highly uncharacteristic - and the genesis of the album itself is possibly the oddest in the band's career.

Dream Wife - 2018's best band in Galway next week

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

IT BEGAN as an art project in a Brighton art college, with three students performing as a ‘fake girl band’ as part of an exhibition. What the trio did not expect was for that impromptu band to go down so well.

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