Galway Folk Festival 2022 took place at Monroe’s last week featuring live performances from John Francis Flynn, I Draw Slow, Ultan Conlon, Dani Larkin, Woven Kin and Sonny Casey. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain
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Squid live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway and Cyprus Avenue in Cork. Photos by Ian Davies and Celeste Burdon
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Silverbacks live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Skinner. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain
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Sorcha Richardson performing live at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick and the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Lucy Gaffney. Photos by Jamie Moore and Ciaran O Maolain
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Rusted Rail’s Gig Economy #1 took place in Carroll’s Caravan Club in Galway over the weekend to raise vital fund for the Red Cross in Ukraine. The gig featured live performances from Brain Kelly (So Cow), A Lilac Decline and Field Trip. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain
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Cíarán Ó Maoláin captures the triumphant return of Conor O’Brien’s Villagers to Galway on Friday night. Support by Conchúr White
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We’re pleased to offer a first look at the new video by Galway’s Loner Deluxe. Comprising Rusted Rail records main man Keith Wallace, A Lilac Decline aka Cecilia Danell and So Cow’s Brian Kelly, the trio’s recent LP, Field Recordings, is hands down one of our favourite Irish albums of the year thus far. A highlight, opener ‘Track 1 Side 1′ is a cyclical lo-fi feat, featuring scorched lead guitar in the vein of Pixies’ Joey Santiago. Have a first look at the track’s accompanying visuals, courtesy of tinyEPICS, below.
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Over the years, Galway’s Citóg Records has established and re-established itself as an institution emblematic of what makes Irish independent music and culture so vital. Recently, the collective have been focusing their attention on Amhráin, a new, short film created as part of Galway 2020’s Small Towns Big Ideas strand. Set to premiere at 9pm on Saturday, April 17th on Galway venue and creative hub The Black Gate’s social media channels, it will feature local artists including Eoin Dolan, Field Trip, Tracy Bruen and more performing new versions of beloved Galway songs by artists both past and present. Doubling as a tour…
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This week sees the return of the arts column, our round-up off Irish arts events and related news. We’ll be moving this from a weekly to a monthly column and expand our listings to cover as much as we can. In this edition, we’ve got details on Dublin Art Book Fair which launches this week with a number of talks and workshops, info on PhotoIreland’s HALFTONE and Tsundoku, an online art fair from West Cork Arts Centre, as well as details of online exhibitions and projects, podcasts, residencies and virtual tour. If you have got an event, talk, exhibition, etc., please…
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If there’s any band in Ireland who can lay claim to an Earworm Guarantee™, it may well be Galway’s harmony-laced dream-pop quartet Dott, and new single ‘Extra Introvert’ proves that once more in spades. As interactions return to relative normality in time for summer, the gradual reacquaintance with our old friend social anxiety proves much easier when masked in a seasonally-appropriate bop. Dott were in the midst of recording their third album when the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to things, but mercifully they’ve delivered us a homespun, all-too-relatable video, made for phone. Featuring lead singer Anna and her many attempts to overcome Lockdown Anxiety, it records the day-to-day of using…