The Three Tenors to play Town Hall

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE THREE Tenors return to Galway in the New Year to play the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday January 24 at 8pm.

Honningbarna - Norwegian punks return to Galway

Mon, Jan 12, 2015

“IF YOU were there and you didn’t like it, you might as well stay home on concert nights. There exists no better live injection of musical bliss than the one Honningbarna supplies.”

Lord Of The Rings musician @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

ALAN DOHERTY, the Irish trad musician who performed on the Lord Of The Rings soundtrack, will lead his new band in concert at Monroe’s Live on Thursday January 29.

Matt Molloy to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THE CHIEFTAINS’ Matt Molloy and London-Irish fiddle great John Carty - both recipients of the TG4 Musician of the Year Award - share the stage at Monroe’s Live on Tuesday January 27.

The High Kings in concert in Salthill

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THE HIGH KINGS are coming back to Galway to play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Saturday January 17 at 8pm.

Pearl Jam tribute @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THE MUSIC of Seattle’s Pearl Jam will be celebrated in Monroe’s Live with a gig from tribute band Pearl Jem on Friday January 30 at 10pm.

Enter the jungle, hear the bass

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

JUNGLE, BASS, and dub will be the order of the night when DJs Welfare, Badmandeego, Seriaz, and Man-G play Puzzle at The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

Whole lotta classic rock @ Monroe’s Live

Tue, Jan 06, 2015

IF YOU have tickets to AC/DC in the Aviva in July but need to whet your appetite for some live acca dacca sounds before then, or if you love Led Zeppelin and know that the 2007 reunion is unlikely to happen again, then help is at hand.

She must be magic - Julie Feeney's new one woman show

Tue, Jan 06, 2015

JULIE FEENEY, the Athenry born composer, singer, producer, and orchestrator, is to perform shows in New York and Amsterdam, while her new one woman show is set for a 10 night run in Dublin.

Monroe’s Live to host Galway's Remembrance for Phil Lynott

Mon, Jan 05, 2015

TWENTY-NINE YEARS ago this week Ireland lost its most iconic rock musician and still greatest rock star, Phil Lynott. The Dublin singer-songwriter died on January 4 1986, but his extraordinary legacy continues and will be celebrated in Galway this week.

Galway Advertiser’s Galway Musicians of the Year 2014

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

GALWAY BAND OF THE YEAR: So Cow
So Cow, the indie-rock/pop-punk trio led by Tuam vocalist and songwriter Brian Kelly are one of the great success stories in Galway music. Though resolutely underground and alternative, they have achieved the kind of peaks most bands never see - playing Barcelona’s prestigious Primavera Sound festival; having their albums favourably reviewed on Pitchfork; working with Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier; touring internationally.

2014 - THE MUSICAL YEAR IN REVIEW

Music Reviews Thu, Dec 18, 2014

BEST ALBUMS OF 2014:
1 Lucius - Wildewoman (Play It Again Sam)

Kíla - new album and Monroe’s Live show

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

KÍLA, THE mighty Irish trad meets world music fusion group, have just released their first album in four years and are in concert at Monroe’s Live on Monday December 29.

Music for Galway’s midwinter festival

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

SOUNDTRACKS FOR Superpowers, a celebration of the music of Haydn and Shostakovich, the Music for Galway 2015 midwinter festival, is at the Town Hall Theatre from Friday January 16 to Sunday 18.

Galway indie band’s BYOB Christmas bash

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

BRING YOUR own beer/mulled wine, wear something Christmassy, and dance your woolly socks off to the absolute cream of the Galway indie-music scene at the Galway Bands BYOB Xmas Gig.

The West Cork Ukulele Orchestra @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

THEY SPAN the decades of music, they cross its genres, they pay no heed to what is ‘cool’ or ‘un-hip’, they just play great music, and they do it all on ukuleles.