Waze & Odyssey @ Electric

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

WAZE AND Odessey are at the forefront of the contemporary house music scene, and Galway can expect an energetic, explosive, set from the pair at their Electric Garden show.

Naoise Roo kicks off new tour in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

NAOISE ROO, the Dublin singer-songwriter whose music Horslips drummer Eamon Carr called "atmospheric grunge cabaret", launches her multi-date '#WHORETOUR in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday September 24.

Chicago bands @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

CHICAGO BANDS Dowsing and Ratboys come to Galway next week as part of a European tour, playing the Róisín Dubh, where the bill also includes Irish trio Shrug Life.

A piano played with nuts, bolts, and erasers

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

A PIANO treated with bolts, but also plastic, rubber and a pencil eraser will be played in Druid's Mick Lally Theatre for one of the most 'out there' and experimental shows of the Galway Jazz Festival.

Ex-Portishead member to DJ in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

ANDY SMITH, the former DJ and sample supplier for Portishead, who has also worked with The Prodigy will be DJing in Galway this evening with Galway's Dave Barry at Shuffle! in The Blue Note from 9pm.

Killer Joe’s Jazz Club @ Monroe's

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

FROM BE-BOP, to laid back instrumentals, to standards by Miles Davis, Art Blakley, Benny Golson, and Grant Green, all will be played at Killer Joe's Jazz Club in Monroe's The Side Bar this Sunday from 8pm.

Eoin Dolan - new song, debut solo album out this week

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

TO SAY The Beachboys Brian Wilson is influential is an understatement, and one of the many who have fallen under the composer's spell is Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan.

Loner Deluxe - lunar folk and sci-fi sounds

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 19, 2016

"THERE IS abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilisations have been visiting us for a very long time. Their appearance is bizarre from any materialist Western point of view..."

Salthill's Burren Mount Hotel inspires epic electronica album

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

THE BURREN MOUNT Hotel in Salthill has long exercised fascination on, and prompted speculation within, the public mind, but also on artists, having been portrayed by painter Jennifer Cunningham, and more recently through a musical interpretation by The Cube Of Unknowing.

Lisa O'Neill - live at Nocturne

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

"AT A time when sameness threatens to drain the world of charm and surprise, Lisa O’Neill stands tall for difference, as an outlier with a mission to frame the world as she sees it and to perform it accordingly. Her voice is her own."

Get the Shivers for Maurice Fulton

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

“SIT DOWN, smoke, get the keyboards, maybe hire a drummer or programme it myself, smoke, mix it down, put it on CD, smoke, listen to it.” This is how Maurice Fulton, one of house music’s true originals, describes his working methods.

Moother Mooch - psychedelic doom grunge

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

MOTHER MOOCH deliver "a full spectrum of heavy music", according to Doomed & Stoned, with "Alice In Chains style vocals, up-beat Venom-esque tempos and groovy psychedelic solos".

Silent Disco Street Party returns this weekend

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

BEAT ON the street! Bop ‘till you drop! Sing ‘till you’re hoarse to the ripest musical fromage imaginable! It can only be, what is now referred to as, the "world famous" Silent Disco Street Party, and it is back this Sunday from 8pm.

Two chances to see classsical pianist Michael McHale

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

MICHAEL MCHALE, the Irish classical pianist, who playing has been described as "delicately graded and infallibly clear" by The Irish Times and filled with "lucidity and elegance" by The Daily Telegraph, will play two shows in County Galway.

99 Souls - funky house duo for Seven

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

99 SOULS, the duo behind the massive funky house hit 'The Girl Is Mine', which everyone from Beyoncé to Pete Tong has been raving about, and who want their debut album to be "classic, timeless", are coming to Galway.

Neon Atlas @ Seven

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

CORK INDIE/alternative band Neon Atlas, who have won critical and commercial acclaim for their music, play The Loft @ Seven, Bridge Street, on Friday September 23 at 10pm.

Nirvana tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

IT IS 25 years this month since Nirvana released the game changing, and now classic, album Nevermind, and equally epochal single, 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', so if you are in the mood to commemorate check out this upcoming show.

Ralph McTell announces Galway show for October

Wed, Sep 14, 2016

IT TOOK an Englishman to write one of the finest, and most poignant songs, about Irish emigration. That man is Ralph McTell, and that song is 'From Clare To Here', and next month he will mark his special relationship with the country.

Cathy Davey - new album and Galway show

Tue, Sep 13, 2016

GALWAY WAS the location for Cathy Davey to explore new sounds and styles and in which to create her new album, appropriately entitled New Forest, being recorded near forests in Woodford, south Galway, and in Connemara.

Ramones drummer to play Galway in December

Tue, Sep 13, 2016

"RICHIE SAVED the band as far as I’m concerned. He’s the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the spirit back in the band." So said Joey Ramone about Richie, who was drummer with the legendary punk band from 1983 to 1987.

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