Search Results for 'Popular music'

IN THE late 1970s and early 1980s, punk and new wave were not the only choices for those who wanted music that was alternative to the mainstream - there was also British ska.

NORMAN JAY, the only DJ to have received an MBE for “deejaying and services to music” returns to Galway to play Kelly’s on Friday April 1 at 11pm.

REGGAE AND techno will collide when The Dub Doctors Soundsystem and Revelation Soundsystem play Kelly’s Bar this Sunday at 8pm.

IBRAHIM ELECTRIC, the exciting Danish jazz-funk trio, play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9.30pm as part of the Galway Jazz Festival 2010.

Disco Nouveau is Mullingar’s underground club night. Brainchild of Gavin MacDonagh, Disco Nouveau was conceived in January 2008. The main purpose of the night is to throw kick-ass parties once a month in an intimate venue while the objective is also to bring some of the best DJs in Ireland to Mullingar.

After the phenomenal response to their first house classics party earlier this year, Disconauts Padraic & Keith are going back to their roots again this Saturday 9 October in Deeper with a selection of house, disco, proto-house (and perhaps even pop) anthems from the vaults that have helped form the Disconauts' sound and indeed the sound of today's house music.

THIS YEAR’S Electric Picnic boasts an impressive and mouth-watering line up of acts such as Roxy Music, The National, and LCD Soundsystem, and now Galway band Lost Chord have joined the list.

Galway's newest clubnight has its second outing at Deeper in the Cellar this Saturday night.

Calling all Rude Boys and Soulies, sound clash by the sea on Saturday, July 17th. Time to don the Fred Perrys and shine those brogues for a night of the best black music in town. The very best in early reggae and original ska (none of your dancehall jabbering here my friends!) and nitty gritty, fast funky soul all spun by experts on pretty vinyl.

MANCHESTER’S SLEAZIEST disco duo, the Disco Outcasts, will be spinning the decks at Deeper in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, on Saturday at 11pm.