Dead Calm at Roisin Dubh

What to Expect

Dead Calm is built around a musician whose own account of their playing traces back to fiddle lessons before switching over to guitar during the pandemic years, a background that shows up in melodic instincts that lean more toward folk phrasing than standard rock guitar playing even when the songs themselves sit closer to indie or alternative territory. It is a mid week booking on Roisin Dubh’s guitar and songwriter heavy autumn programme, the kind of slot the venue regularly gives over to acts building an audience one show at a time rather than established headline names, which tends to make for a more direct, less polished set than a bigger booking. Expect original songs, guitar led arrangements, and a set that plays to the intimacy of Roisin Dubh’s room rather than trying to fill a bigger space. Shows like this are also where Roisin Dubh’s reputation for backing emerging acts alongside its bigger touring bookings comes from.

Good to Know

• Date and time: Wednesday 23 September 2026, doors 8pm
• Venue: Roisin Dubh, Upper Dominick Street, Galway City
• Price: see roisindubh.net for ticket price and availability
• Mid week show, standing room, doors open at 8pm
• Part of Roisin Dubh’s regular programme of emerging singer songwriter and band bookings
• A good option if you want to catch a rising act in a small room before a bigger venue comes calling

Getting There

Galway city is well connected from around the country, with Irish Rail running direct services from Dublin Heuston in around two hours fifteen minutes and Bus Eireann and Citylink both running frequent coaches from Dublin, Limerick and Cork. Roisin Dubh is on Upper Dominick Street in Galway’s West End, about a 10 to 15 minute walk from Eyre Square and the train and bus station on Station Road, with a good choice of bars nearby either side of the venue.