Album review: PINS

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 11, 2015

PINS' DEBUT Girls Like Us made many friends for the Manchester quartet, but the album was more a demonstration of their latent potential rather than a full realisation of it. Two years later and it's a different story.

Cream of Galway indie-rock and folk to play An Áit Eile

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

OH BOLAND!, Boyfights, and Steven Sharpe will be among those playing An Áit Eile, a one day arts, crafts, and music festival in the Nun's Island Theatre, which takes place this Saturday from 11am to 11pm.

The Deans - new single and The Loft show

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

THE DEANS, the Galway roots-rock band with "an unmistakable sound" who are also "one of the most dynamic independent bands to look out for", according to music website GroundSounds, play the city this weekend.

Hermitage Green to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

HERMITAGE GREEN, the Irish folk-rock band who have won over audiences across the globe for their incendiary live performances, return to Galway this Saturday to play the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.

Argentinean guitarist to give concert in the city

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

ARGENTINEAN GUITARIST and composer Carlos Pavan will give a free concert in the Galway City Museum on Wednesday June 17 at 1pm.

Electric @ Body & Soul festival

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

ELECTRIC WILL be prominently involved in this year's Body & Soul festival, which runs from June 19 to 21 in County Westmeath, and to celebrate, the Abbeygate Street venue is hosting a party for those heading up to it.

Tee Cardaci to DJ in Galway

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

AMERICAN DJ Tee Cardaci, whose musical philosophy is "funk is a universal language", will be spinning the decks in Arus na nGael, Dominick Street tomorrow from 9pm.

Eddie Moloney Memorial Concert

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

EDDIE MOLONEY a traditional Irish musician extraordinaire, considered to be the best traditional flute player of his time and a formidable violinist, will be celebrated at this year's Galway Sessions Festival.

House music night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 11, 2015

A NIGHT of nothing but the best original and influential house music from across the decades will be heard at Back To Basics with DJs Baker and Grifter in The Loft @ Seven, tomorrow from 11pm.

We Banjo 3 - new album and Galway concert

Wed, Jun 10, 2015

WE BANJO 3, the Galway roots/trad/bluegrass phenomenon have just released their new album Live In Galway and later this month they play a show at the Town Hall Theatre.

Venus Sleeps - psychedelic doom metal @ The Cellar

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

VENUS SLEEPS, the Dublin psychedelic doom metal band will launch their new album Dead Sun Worship with a show in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Saturday from 8.30pm.

SOAK - Derry songwriter to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SOAK, THE Derry singer-songwriter whose music has been called "a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking," by The Guardian, and as having "snippets of Cat Power and the delicacy of Lykke Li" by the Noisey blog, is coming to Galway.

A feast of classical music at the arts festival

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ ConTempo Quartet will join forces at the 2015 Galway International Arts Festival for what promises to be a first class series of classical music concerts.

Mary Coughlan in concert at the Town Hall

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

MARY COUGHLAN, one of Ireland's greatest jazz vocalists has just released her new album, Scars On The Calendar, with guitarist Erik Visser, and will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday June 13 at 8pm.

Two chances to see John Statz

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JOHN STATZ, the Americana singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play two shows - Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 18 at 11pm and the Róisín Dubh's upstairs baron Friday 19 at 8pm.

The Yeti Suite - singer/songwriter night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THREE SINGER-songwriters - Felix Sonnyboy, Shaunna McEvilly, and Eoin Dolan - take to the stage of The Loft @ Seven tonight at 9pm for The Yeti Suite.

Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara folk-rock/indie singer-songwriter has seen his second album Redemption reach No 11 in the Irish indie charts, and he will play songs from that record in Monroe's Live on Saturday June 20 at 9pm.

Cantar! - The Marine Institute Singers in concert

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MARINE Institute Singers, winners of the inaugural 2013 ChoirFactor competition will host Cantar!, a night of choral music on Saturday June 13 at 8pm in St Nicholas's Collegiate Church.

Charity concert for Jigsaw this evening

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THIS EVENING at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, a visiting choir of 42 singers from Evansville, Indiana, will perform a charity concert in aid of Jigsaw.

Jazz, folk, and maybe metal - The Underscore Orkestra

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

HE SOUND of New Orleans, Eastern European folk, jazz, and Jewish music will collide in a rambunctious and exciting fashion when Portland, Oregon's The Underscore Orkestra plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday June 7 at 9pm.

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