Tag: Galway music
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Galway’s Gig Guide: 13-19 November 2017
There might be a part of you that says “I’m going to stay in and listen to my favourite recording of the Queen’s Speech, from the year Deadmau5 tweeted “what the fuck is ‘up the ra?”. Don’t listen to it, otherwise you’ll miss out on some really special gigs this week. For the next seven…
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The DANI and Sive Tour comes to The Secret Garden
There is no need to look very far for musical talent in Ireland, because as you stroll form coastline, to city, and to coastline again, you’ll have inevitably gathered a varied collection of native music in your bucket of pebbles and sea shells. Tomorrow evening, DANI and Sive – two musicians, singers, and songwriters –…
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Munky, Dead Horse Jive and Wayne Wilder to play the Roisín Dubh
Do you remember that song Kiss sang, about Jesus turning wine into rock & roll? Something along those lines is happening this week in Galway, only without the religion, miracles, or glam metal hymns. Galway record label and artist collective, Citóg, presents a night with grunge funk band Munky, on Wednesday 8 November in the…
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Galway’s Gig Guide: 6-12 November 2017
Right, so we’ve come to that time of the year where you might start hearing a Christmas song on the radio, and everything becomes a bit festive. But don’t you worry, you won’t find any of that here! With over 70 non-festive related acts this week in Galway, you’ll beat the cheer and continue to…
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Systems of mass movement: The Irish SoundSystem Gathering 2017 (or the weekend that dismantled dance)
A piece of the Earth was subject to a seismic shift in vibrations last weekend. In the west of Ireland, county Galway, on the coast of Salthill, extreme bass frequencies caused the ground beneath a leisure complex to break away from the surrounding area and drift into the Atlantic Ocean. One of the most significant…
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Galway’s Gig Guide: 23-29 October 2017
This bank holiday weekend Galway hosts a huge amount of not-the-kind-of-craic-you’d-bring-home-to-your-parents – and the other kinds of craic that you’d bring back home in sacks if you could. In the lead up to the Macnas Parade on Sunday, there are at least 83 musical acts to immerse yourself in, across a very broad spectrum of…
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5 new(ish) records that you need to hear: Bag of homegrown sounds, Galway special (Issue #6)
In the news: Storm Ophelia receives more coverage than the truck bomb in Mogadishu which killed over 300. Britain is behaving like the party guest that wants to leave, but decides to wait until all of the joints are all gone before walking out the door. And Trump continues to be the president of the…
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SoundSystem Gathering 2017: Interrupting your regularly scheduled programming this weekend
Out in the west where the bass never sleeps, Ireland will host a unique musical gathering. The Irish SoundSystem Gathering 2017 will be taking place in Galway this weekend on the 20 and 21 of October, as a celebration of bass culture and the soundsystem traditions that originated in Jamaica and have since spread to…
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Galway’s Gig Guide: 16–22 October 2017
Seven days and seventy-three acts — Galway is the place where music comes to life. If you like club nights, electronic music, trad, rock n’ roll, acoustic, jazz, blues, choirs & vocalists, classical music, loud street bands, world music, high quality sound systems, and being in the thick of what is arguably (but not really arguably — definitely) the…