'Four Weeks, Four Guests' - Electric kicks off 2018
Thu, Jan 04, 2018
START AS you mean to go on they say, and 2018 is getting off to one hell of a start for Electric as the Abbeygate Street venue will this month host shows from Seth Troxler, Boots & Kats, Detroit Swindle, and Bicep & Hammer.
Read more ...Versatile @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 04, 2018
INDIVIDUALLY THEY go by the names of Eskimo Supreme and Casper Walsh. Together they are hip hop duo Versatile, described as "lavish-living, hoop-loving, Ringsend natives, painting a vivid picture of day-to-day inner city Dublin".
Read more ...Naomi Berrill - new album, Galway show
Thu, Jan 04, 2018
SHE LIVES and works in Florence, but she was born and reared in Headford. She is cellist and vocalist Naomi Berrill, and she coming back to Galway to launch hew new album, To The Sky.
Read more ...Beth Orton - where folk and rave meet
Wed, Jan 03, 2018
BETH ORTON, the British singer-songwriter, who has collaborated with such diverse artists as William Orbit, Bert Jansch, Johnny Marr and Nick Cave, and whose music ranges from electronica to folk, is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Hudson Taylor - Galway bound in March
Tue, Jan 02, 2018
AS THEY put the finishing touches to their second album, which has been produced by Ryan Hadlock, best known for his work with The Lumineers and Vance Joy, Hudson Taylor are also preparing for a major tour of Ireland.
Read more ...ASIWYFA - NYE @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 28, 2017
FOUR YEARS ago, And So I Watch You From Afar reinvented math-rock with All Hail Bright Futures. This year, they did it again with their fifth album, The Endless Shimmering - they remain the most exciting band in Ireland.
Read more ...Matt Keane's annual Christmas concerts
Thu, Dec 28, 2017
MATT KEANE will host his annual Christmas season concerts - now in their 10th year - in the Claregalway Hotel on the Saturday January 6 and Sunday 7.
Read more ...Galway electro-pop singer Laoise gets ‘Rich’
Thu, Dec 28, 2017
SHE HAS been called "the new electropop star of your dreams" by Wonderland magazine; "a gleaming gem" by Clash; while Notion has declared she is "not Ireland’s answer to anyone, but a new phenomenon in her own right”.
Read more ...Shtax returns to Cloughanover tonight
Thu, Dec 28, 2017
Well known performer Aindrias de Staic bring his latest show "Seven Shades of Shtax" home to the Campbells Tavern, Cloughanover tonight December 28 for a night of comedy story-telling followed by a session onstage with the local Latchikos. It promises to be a fantastic evening with a few special guests and local homecomming apperanaces.
Read more ...The Best Albums of 2017
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 14, 2017
1. The Stevens - Good (Chapter Music)
The second album from the Melbourne quartet has songs by turns haunting, atmospheric, mysterious, catchy, outrageously melodic, lo-fi and raw, and definitely off-kilter. This is Indie par excellence.
Galway Advertiser Galway musicians of 2017
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
Galway band of 2017
QUITE A number of bands have begun to hit their stride this year, meaning the future is looking very good for Galway music. Among the hardest working, but who, importantly, have the songs as well, are Rofi James.
ASIWYFA - NYE @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
FOUR YEARS ago, And So I Watch You From Afar reinvented math-rock with All Hail Bright Futures. This year, they did it again with their fifth album, The Endless Shimmering - they remain the most exciting band in Ireland.
Read more ...Wyvern Lingo's Caoimhe Barry to play Repeal Party: R8@8€8
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
COMEDY, FASHION, music, and politics - including a guest appearance from Wyvern Lingo's Caoimhe Barry - combine at the Repeal Party in the Róisín Dubh, with all proceeds going to the Abortion Rights Campaign.
Read more ...Music For Galway - love will be in the air
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
MUSIC FOR Galway will begin 2018 on a romantic note - no, not exclusively the romantic music era of c1780-1910 - but rather on music written by major composers when they were madly, and sometimes inapproiately, in love.
Read more ...Le Galaxie - a dance fest for the Róisín
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
Close your eyes. It’s midnight. The ground is shaking underfoot and your fingers are pulled upwards by some invisible but very audible force. This is Le Galaxie. Theri music demands to be danced to. It brooks no opposition.
Read more ...A massive weekender @ Electric
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
THIS WEEKEND promises to be a massive one at the Electric Garden & Theatre, especially with DJ sets from a world recognised Disco guru, as well as from one of the biggest names in techno.
Read more ...Stoner rock pioneers Yawning Man play Galway
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
"YAWNING MAN was the sickest desert band of all time. Oh, they’re the GREATEST band I’ve ever seen." So said Kyuss founder Brant Bjork, and as a key figure in the influential Palm Desert Scene, he knows what he is talking about.
Read more ...Kila to play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
FILM MAKER Neil Jordan has spoken in awe of their "wonderful, shamanistic energy"; The BBC World Review has called their concerts "beautifully euphoric live experiences"; while Bono said, "You get the feeling they lit the fuse for the big bang."
Read more ...Dott to host BYOB arts centre gig
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
FOUR OF Galway's most exciting bands - Dott, Oh Boland, Field Trip and Cranky Face - will gather in the Galway Arts Centre for a 'bring your own beer' Christas gig.
Read more ...A Pint With Steven Sharpe
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
GALWAY'S MOST flamboyant singer-songwriter, Steven Sharpe, will present another of his semi-regular 'A Pint With Steven Sharpe' shows, upstairs in the Róisín Dubh.
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