Digital, Playing the Music of Joy Division and New Order, at Monroe's Live

What to Expect

Digital take their name from an early Joy Division track, and the show covers both halves of one of British music’s more unusual stories, Joy Division’s stark, doom laden post punk under Ian Curtis, and New Order, the band the surviving members formed after Curtis’s death in 1980, who pivoted toward synthesizers and dance music and became one of the defining acts of that crossover. Expect a set that moves between the two eras, the icy guitar and drum machine of Joy Division tracks like “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and the “Digital” b-side itself, into New Order’s club leaning run of “Blue Monday” and “Bizarre Love Triangle”. It is a genre shift within a single show, from post punk gloom to danceable synth pop, that suits a band with the range to switch between guitar driven and electronic arrangements over the course of a set. Monroe’s Live’s sound system handles both ends of that spectrum well, and it is a booking likely to draw an audience with a strong interest in the Manchester scene the two bands came out of.

Good to Know

• Date and time: Saturday 12 September 2026, doors 7pm
• Venue: Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street Upper, Galway City
• Price: see monroes.ie for ticket price and availability
• Set moves between post punk and synth pop across the night
• Standing show, earlier doors than some of Monroe’s later weekend bookings

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. Monroe’s is on Dominick Street Upper in Galway’s West End, across the bridge from the Claddagh and about a 10 to 15 minute walk from Eyre Square and the train and bus station, with plenty of pubs and casual food nearby beforehand.