Exmagician to play Seven
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
EXMAGICIAN, THE Belfast duo of Danny Todd and James Smith, formerly members of Cashier No9, are touring Ireland, playing songs from their acclaimed debut album, Scan The Blue.
Read more ...One Man Town @ Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
SINCE THE release of their eponymous debut EP, and the single 'Cutthroat Desire', Donegal/Derry blues-rockers One Man Town have been causing something of a stir - and Galway can see why this weekend.
Read more ...Lunchtime concert with ConTempo at St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 02, 2017
THE CONTEMPO Quartet begin a new season of their popular lunchtime concerts at St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, starting on Tuesday February 7, and focusing on the late string quartets of Joseph Haydn.
Read more ...Galway bands get set to Rock For The Hospice
Wed, Feb 01, 2017
SOME OF Galway's best cover bands will take to the stage of Seven Bar, Bridge Street, this weekend for Rock For The Hospice, a night of live music to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Countdown to Frightened Rabbit
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
BLOOD, TOIL, tears, and sweat, ravaged emotions, heartbreak, and cathartic confessional honesty, these are the things the words and music of Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit are built on.
Read more ...Album review: Rose Elinor Dougall
Music Reviews Thu, Jan 26, 2017
IT DOESN'T matter if you remember the Pipettes or not, as there is no trace of their doo-wop revival style in former member Rose Elinor Dougall's second album, which instead brims with high end pop and sumptuous indie.
Read more ...A FEAST of psych, prog, indie, and punk
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
"IRISH-LANGUAGE psych-rock noise from outer space" is how Donegal band Tuath describe themselves, and Galway will see and hear why when they play the next FEAST gig at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Rollin’ Empire - hard rock @ Seven
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
IMAGINE A band who were the child of The Black Keys and Queens Of The Stone Age, one that draws from blues and rock, but modern in its outlook and approach, and you have Rollin’ Empire.
Read more ...The loves of Brahms and the Schumanns
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
HE HAS played roles in National Treasure, Game Of Thrones, Blackadder, and Notting Hill, and now British actor Tim McInnerny is coming to Galway to take part in a show about the complex relationship of Brahms with Clara and Robert Schumann.
Read more ...A classical concert for charity
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will play New Beginnings, a charity concert for heart and stroke charity Croí and the Galway Music Residency, in Croí House, Moyola Lane, Newcastle, on Thursday February 2 at 7pm.
Read more ...Weekend gigs @ The Quays
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, with the venue also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.
Read more ...Dott - new EP and Galway gig
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
DOTT, THE brilliant Irish indie-pop/garage rock band, mark two milestones at their gig in the Galway Arts Centre this weekend - the fifth anniversary of their first show and their first Galway show since returning from a year living in Toronto.
Read more ...Kris Drever and Julie Fowlis to play Clifden
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
TWO GIANTS of modern folk music, Kris Driver, called "a serious talent" by MOJO, and award winning Scots-Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, play Clifden to kick-starting a programme of events to mark 40 years of the Clifden Arts Festival.
Read more ...Jazz, avant garde, and improvisation
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
THE PIANIST Izumi Kimura will be joined by the percussionist Gerry Hemingway for a concert of jazz, avant garde, and improvisational music entitled 'Thought Bubbles'.
Read more ...Catch Baile an Salsa ahead of their US tour
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
BAILE AN Salsa, the Irish based international band who fuse Irish trad with the musics of Latin America, are about to embark on a tour of the USA which means their upcoming Galway show is the last chance to catch them for a while.
Read more ...Sing with the St Nicholas Singers for Candlemas
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
DESPITE WHAT many think, January 6 is not the end of the Christmas season, its official close is February 2 and the often overlooked event of Candlemas - the Feast of the Purification, or Feast of the Presentation.
Read more ...Something to Sing About Choir concert
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
GALWAY'S SOMETHING To Sing About Choir will host a concert this Saturday in the Salthill Hotel, with special guests Marc Roberts, Emma Langford, Richie Byrne, and Maria and Kenny Fahy.
Read more ...Weekend gigs @ The Quays
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
THE QUAYS is hosting gigs by some of Galway and Ireland's most popular covers bands this weekend, and the venue is also running an offer of free entry to gigs on Fridays and Sundays.
Read more ...Therapy? - Live and...mellowed out?
Tue, Jan 17, 2017
THERAPY? THE Antrim trio who blazed a trail across the Irish and British music scenes with their loud, lively, and frantic punk/metal, often with a tasty dollop of melody, tour Ireland this year - but fans are going to see and hear the band in a very different context.
Read more ...Album review: The Flaming Lips
Music Reviews Thu, Jan 12, 2017
NEVER DID I think I would see the day that the show stealing track on a Flaming Lips album would be the one chiefly sung by Miley Cirus, but then Miley long stopped being predictable.
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