The Frank and Walters live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Eoin Dolan. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Dowsing, Ratboys and Shrug Life live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Orchid Collective live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Star Parks. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Patrick Freeman, Strange Pavement and Adam Murphy performing live at Citog in the Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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A self-proclaimed constantly evolving, conceptual punk band based in Orange County, California, The Garden at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Race the Flux’s farewell show at the Cellar in Galway, with support from Punch Face Champions. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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There’s been plenty said over the past couple of years about the over-reliance on particular tropes and techniques in Post-Rock, Math-Rock and, from other camps, in movie and TV soundtracks. There are always, of course, exceptions to this who manage to keep these realms of music interesting and exciting, from Battles to Adebisi Shank, from This Will Destroy You to Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (the men behind the marvellous soundtrack for Netflix’s Stranger Things). The ways in which artists or composers avoid the traps and pitfalls of complacency and the rehashing of the same sounds and tricks over and…
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Oh Boland, our August cover stars SlowPlaceLikeHome, Sunset Kings, Search Party Animal, Bob Skeleton, Field Trip, Bitch Film and New Pope at Strange Brew’s 12th Summer Shindig at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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The second of two downright unforgettable nights from Dan Deacon (with support from Keith Mannion’s SlowPlaceLikeHome) at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Sean McCormack.
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My first gig in the Róisín Dubh was late November 2005. Back when the Róisín Dubh was still a ground floor only musical abode, not the imposing three and half storey stacked westend behemoth that Eoghan MacNamara AKA Gugai, Kevin Healy, Simon Heaslip & co. present it as today. That gig was Giveamanakick with Redneck Manifesto. I had seen Redneck Manifesto in The Chapel at IADT a few weeks earlier and was blown away by what I’d witnessed. So when my quirky friend Shaw mentioned their upcoming gig in Galway, I jumped at the chance to catch the show again. It’s…