Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell It is just over a year since Hibernacle’s flagship event, Meet Me at the Castle, graced Claregalway Castle for the first...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell Formed in 2015, Rua Sound is one of Galway’s longest running electronic music labels; to date spawning nineteen records of exploratory...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell There will be more than a transatlantic touch to singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon’s latest return to familiar ground – after a prolific...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell The third weekend of September marked the second edition of Strange Brew’s Fall Right into Place at Claregalway Castle – but...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell An early frontrunner for this year’s Choice Music Prize Album of the Year is soon to arrive in the form of...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell In one of the outstanding dates on this year’s gig calendar, Montreal-based seven-piece Japanese psych-rock act TEKE::TEKE are set to make...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell The pop-up festivals that emerged from Claregalway Castle played host to some of Galway’s standout gigs from last summer. One such...
Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell Galway-based singer/songwriter Thomas McPartland has been tinkering with his sophomore album, The Empty Atlantic, for the guts of four years –...