A lusty line-up for Music For Galway

Wed, Sep 05, 2018

WANDERLUST - STRICTLY speaking it means a great desire to travel, although in the popular imagination, it can be equivalent to the saucy and licentious adventures of lusty trousered youth in the early 19th century.

Blues-rock guitarist Eamonn McCormack returns to Galway

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed Irish blues-rock guitarist Eamonn McCormack will next month play his first Galway show in almost a decade, as part of his first Irish tour in more than five years.

Album review: Basement Revolver

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 30, 2018

THE SHOEGAZE revival has been continuing apace for most of this decade, but there is a key difference between its original late 80s/90s incarnation and its modern manifestation, namely the place of emotion.

ConTempo's European lunchtime concerts

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BREXIT HAS made Britain very unpopular. The EU's adherence to neo-liberal centrism has seen its reputation take a battering. The populist right is on the rise. Best take a break from our continent's awful politics, and concentrate on what it does best - culture.

Victory for Galway's Testostertones choir

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

NUI GALWAY'S Testostertones won the National Male Choir Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival - the first college based choir, and the first Galway choir, to take this title.

Dylan Murphy releases new EP

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, guitarist with Steven Sharpe & The Broke Straight Boys, makes a further step into solo territory with his new EP, Make Plans, his most confident and assured solo release to date.

Hugh Cornwell - former Stranglers man to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Aug 29, 2018

HUGH CORNWELL, former lead singer of The Stranglers, and voice of the band's finest songs - 'Golden Brown', 'Strange Little Girl,' 'Always The Sun', 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes', (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - is coming to Galway.

Villagers to play Galway in December

Tue, Aug 28, 2018

VILLAGERS HAVE announced a return to Galway in December to play the Black Box Theatre, while their fourth studio album, The Art Of Pretending To Swim, will be released next month.

Album review: The Fall

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 23, 2018

IF YOU told the late John Peel you were keen to get into The Fall - his favourite band - and asked him what was the best album to start with, he might have replied: "Their entire discography".

Dott to give Heart Swell official launch tonight

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

'GOOD THINGS come to those who wait' as the old saying goes, and that is certainly the case with Dott's second album Heart Swell, which gets it's official launch in the Róisín Dubh tonight.

The Voldemort Quartet are coming

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

HAS THE evil wizard Voldemort, arch enemy of Harry Potter, his own string quartet? It appears so, and these young musicians will be among the performers at the Galway Music Residency autumn/winter programme.

Eoin Dolan - new EP, Galway gig

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

THE EVER evolving music and vision of Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan, takes a further step forward with the release of his new EP, Superior Fiction.

The Prodigy tribute @ Monroe's

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

THE PROGIDY, a live tribute act to the British electro/dance legends The Prodigy, play Monroe's on Friday September 21 at 9pm.

Throwback Time this weekend at DNA

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

THE 1980S brought us the Cabbage Patch Kids, Paula Abdul, Teddy Ruxpin, shoulder pads, and perms. The 1990s delivered Tamagotchis, snap bracelets, Pokémon, Power Rangers, dial-up internet, scrunchies, and Bill Clinton jokes.

JFDR returns to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

FOR A small country with a tiny population, Iceland punches far above its weight when it comes to producing musicians of startling originality and creativity, and to the distinguished line of Björk, Sigur Ros, and, Ásgeir, we can add JFDR.

EP Review: The Clockworks

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 16, 2018

ADDICTION, DEBT, apathy, helplessness - life depicted by The Clockworks is grim, but they are one of the few indie bands to deal directly with the realites for those who do not fall comfortably within the Leo Varadkar's 'people who get up early in the morning' definition.

Frankie Cosmos - bitter-sweet New York indie

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

SHE IS of Irish descent, and is the daughter of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, but all that would count for nothing were she not an inspired indie-rock singer-songwriter with something to say.

Galway Jazz Festival 2018

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

WHO SAYS festival season is over in Galway? The Comedy Carnival is on the way, as is the Oyster Festival, and visual arts fest TULCA, while this week saw the line-up for the 2018 Galway Jazz Festival announced.

Club GASS Pride Spectacular

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

CLUB GASS, Galway's leading LGBT clubnight, will host its biggest party to date with an all day and going late into the night event during the Galway Pride Festival.

Thin Lizzy's Brian Downey to play Monroe's

Thu, Aug 16, 2018

BRIAN DOWNEY, a founder-member of Thin Lizzy, and the drummer with that peerless and influential Irish hard rock band, is coming to Galway to give a concert at Monroe's.

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