Zinc to launch debut album at Galway Jazz Festival

Tue, Oct 04, 2016

GALWAY POST-rock trio Zinc, whose music is "capable of knocking an audience clean off their feet" according to The Thin Air, launch their eponymously titled debut album on Thursday October 6 at 8pm in Biteclub, Abbeygate Street, as part of the Galway Jazz Festival 2016.

Spats Colombo set to release new EP Caught In A Bind

Tue, Oct 04, 2016

SKA, RETRO-rock, songs in Irish and English, all recorded in a former pub by a group whose members hail from several Irish counties and one of the English home counties, who take their name from the gangster played by George Raft in Some Like It Hot - it can only be Spats Colombo.

Ciaran Lavery - songs of innocence and experiecne

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

OKKERVIL RIVER is the title of a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. It is also the name of the American indie-rock band led by Will Sheff, and more recently the name of a single by Ciaran Lavery.

Declan O'Rourke and orchestra to play Salthill

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

DECLAN O'ROUKE will re-imagine and re-interpret many of his finest songs on his forthcoming album In Full Colour, and perform those re-imaginings in concert in Salthill in November.

PolyMath - a FEAST of densely layered math-rock

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

POLYMATH, THE Brighton based math-rockers, known for densely layered, off kilter instrumentals, drawing from the heavier elements of early Battles, The Mars Volta, and ASIWYFA, play Galway tonight.

Vladimir and Anton - in concert at the Black Box

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

VLADIMIR & ANTON, the Slovakian violin virtuosos, who have been touring Britain with Katherine Jenkins, played the BBC Proms In The Park in Belfast, and released a new album this month, come to Galway in October.

The Riptide Movement play Monroe's Live in November

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

"IT'S BEEN an amazing two years since we released Getting Through, with so many highs to recall - from our first No 1 gold selling album, to touring the UK, Europe and Australia, to our first main stage appearance at Electric Picnic - it has been an incredible journey."

Galway to hear The Goldberg Variations

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

"I DON'T know much about classic music," Sandy Bates, Woody Allen's character in Stardust Memories noted. "For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr and Mrs Goldberg tried on their wedding night."

The sound of Amsterdam comes to Electric

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

BORIS WERNER, a major figure in the Dutch dance music scene, is coming to Galway as part of the Heineken Sound Atlas event which takes place in the Electric Garden on Abbeygate Street.

Indie-pop band Penrose to play Seven

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

IRISH INDIE-pop band Penrose mix the harmonies of The Beatles and ELO with 1990s Britrock sensibilities of Richard Ashcroft and Oasis, as Galway will hear when they play The Loft at Seven this Saturday at 9.30pm.

Jungle Boogie/Get Boogie fifth birthday bash

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

GALWAY CLUBNIGHTS Jungle Boogie! and Get Boogie! will celebrate their fifth birthdays with a special night in The Commercial Boatclub, Woodquay, this Saturday from 9pm.

Pop Gods and Cafolla & Engel @ HALO

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

POP GODS and Cafolla & Engel will play HALO this weekend, with Pop Gods playing tomorrow night, while DJ and saxophone duo Cafolla & Engel hit the stage on Saturday.

Award winning jazz singer to perform at Electric

Wed, Sep 28, 2016

LAUREN KINSELLA, the London based, Irish, vocalist, and winner of the UK Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 JazzFM Awards, is in Galway next month to perform at the upcoming Galway Jazz Festival.

Album review: David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? boxset

Music Reviews Tue, Sep 27, 2016

THE KEY artefact in this lavish new Bowie boxset, charting the artist's journey from post-Ziggy to 'Plastic Soul', to Thin White Duke, is one of the great missing pieces of the Bowie discography - The Gouster.

The Blossoms announce 2017 Galway show

Mon, Sep 26, 2016

“WE WANT to be as mainstream as Will Smith, as great as The Smiths, and as uplifting as Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” So said The Blossoms who have just announced a Galway concert for 2017.

Coronas announce two shows for Salthill

Mon, Sep 26, 2016

THE CORONAS, one of Ireland's best loved bands, and no strangers to Galway, were ulikley to let the year pass withouyt heading west and today they announced two shows for the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, in November.

James Vincent McMorrow - Black Box concert in October

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

JAMES VINCENT McMorrow follows the release of his critically acclaimed new album, We Move, with an Irish tour taking in the Black Box Theatre on Wednesday October 5 at 8pm.

Album review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 22, 2016

NO PARENT wants to outlive their child, to do so seems wrong, unnatural. When that child is wrenched from his mother and father so suddenly, in circumstances both extreme and tragic, coming to terms with it must be near impossible.

A season of Brahms begins next week

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

SOME OF Johannes Brahms' most iconic pieces of chamber music will be performed by six outstanding musicians as part of the opening concert of a season of music where Brahms is centrestage.

Aimee Banks to give debut concert in Galway Cathedral

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

AIMEE BANKS, the 14-year-old soprano who burst on to the international scene last year after representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, will give her debut Irish concert in Galway.

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