Finbar Hoban Presents

29/05/2026

SEAMUS FOGARTY brings his “SHIPS” tour to the Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar this November

29/05/2026

A Double Denim Event

Tribute to Irish Legends
📅 Sat July 25th 2026 | 09:00pm
📍 The Garbo's Venue Castlebar

Join us for a night celebrating Ireland’s iconic rock heroes!
Feel the blues-rock fire of Deuce - A Tribute to Rory Gallagher paying tribute to Rory Gallagher, and the classic twin-guitar magic of Shades of Lizzy bringing Thin Lizzy’s biggest anthems to life.

🎟️ €20 (plus booking fee)

| 18+ event
Grab your tickets and get ready for a powerful night of Irish rock nostalgia!

Tickets available here

Two of Ireland’s finest Rock Tribute acts bring the music of Rory Gallagher and Thin Lizzy to life at The Garbos Venue in Castlebar

21/05/2026

A Double Denim Event

Tribute to Irish Legends
📅 Sat July 25th 2026 | 09:00pm
📍 The Garbo's Venue Castlebar

Join us for a night celebrating Ireland’s iconic rock heroes!
Feel the blues-rock fire of Deuce - A Tribute to Rory Gallagher paying tribute to Rory Gallagher, and the classic twin-guitar magic of Shades of Lizzy bringing Thin Lizzy’s biggest anthems to life.

🎟️ €20 (plus booking fee)

| 18+ event
Grab your tickets and get ready for a powerful night of Irish rock nostalgia!

Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1989339950343?aff=oddtdtcreator

20/05/2026

ON THE MAKING OF HIS NEW ALBUM SHIPS, CHILDHOOD GUITAR HEROICS AND KEEPING ON KEEPING ON


Q. HELLO SEAMUS FOGARTY, REMIND US PLEASE, WHO THE HELL IS SEAMUS FOGARTY?

A famous songwriter from the West of Ireland, hoping to become the first artist from County Mayo to have four consecutive number one albums. I released my first album on Fence Records back in 2012 followed by two albums for Domino Records in 2017 and 2020. In that time, I also released a couple of EPs on Lost Map Records and my song ‘Van Gogh’s Ear’ was voted 90th best song of 2017 by The Guardian.

Q. GIVE US A SHORT HISTORY OF YOUR JOURNEY IN MUSIC TO DATE.

I began playing the tin whistle when I was four (months), took up the guitar when I was ten (years), learning all of the album Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N’ Roses off by heart. From there I moved on to Smog, Palace Brothers and John Fahey before leaning back into the Irish folk music of my youth and devouring my parent’s collection of early Autechre records. I feel like I reached my musical peak at about 20 and have been writing songs about my slow decline ever since.

Q. TELL US ALL ABOUT THE MAKING OF YOUR INCREDIBLE BRAND-NEW ALBUM SHIPS.

I started working on some of the tracks before my last album A Bag Of Eyes came out back in 2020. That album was released during Covid and ended up being my final album for Domino. I didn’t really know what to do, some people bailed and some people stuck by me more than ever. My friend Lisa O’Neill brought me along on a couple of amazing tours around the UK and Ireland and people were loving these new songs of mine so I figured I should at least try and record them.

Part 2 coming soon

Seamus Fogarty’s brand new album “Ships” is out now

Seamus Fogarty comes to The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on November 12th

Tickets https://www.thelinenhall.com/whats-on/events/seamus-fogarty

13/05/2026

brings his “SHIPS” tour to the Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar in November

13/05/2026

A Double Denim Event

Tribute to Irish Legends
📅 Sat July 25th 2026 | 09:00pm
📍 The Garbos Venue Castlebar

Join us for a night celebrating Ireland’s iconic rock heroes!
Feel the blues-rock fire of Deuce - A Tribute to Rory Gallagher paying tribute to Rory Gallagher, and the classic twin-guitar magic of Shades of Lizzy bringing Thin Lizzy’s biggest anthems to life.

🎟️ €20 (plus booking fee)

| 18+ event
Grab your tickets and get ready for a powerful night of Irish rock nostalgia!

Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/1989339950343?aff=oddtdtcreator

13/05/2026

Seamus Fogarty hails from County Mayo in the west of Ireland, and was raised on Irish folk music and experimental electronica. His songs are a strange and hearty stew, taking traditional structures and compositions and amping up, warping, distorting, and misshaping them with layers of electronic dissonance and interference, found-sound spoken-word samples and other assorted rogue audio curio. “I began playing the tin whistle when I was four ,” says Seamus, “took up the guitar when I was ten, learning all of the album Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N’ Roses off by heart. From there I moved on to Smog, Palace Brothers and John Fahey before leaning back into the Irish folk music of my youth and devouring my parent’s collection of early Autechre records.”

Seamus’s new album Ships begins with ‘Come Down To The Square’, an urbanite distant cousin of his earliest pastoral songs, rooted not in found sounds from the Irish countryside, but the babble and buzz of central Walthamstow, complete with God-fearing street preachers and impassioned stall holders, all set to a backdrop of droning synth and chiming banjo. Motorik-folk fusion ‘Fire’ revisits a clutch of old verses found buried in a phone and dismissed in the moment for being “too simple and honest” before being reignited by an unlikely combination of instruments from Moog synthesiser to tin whistle, masterfully turning something that “started out a bit introspective,” says Seamus, “into something quietly inspirational”. The album’s title track and emotional centrepiece ‘Ships’ takes its unabashedly romantic chorus from a Tracy Emin neon artwork on Margate harbour, and sails on a breeze of sweeping, delicately detailed progressive pop worthy of prime Brian Wilson.


We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting Seamus Fogarty at The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on November 12th 2026

Tickets are on sale now via the Linenhall Arts Centre’s website

https://www.thelinenhall.com/whats-on/events/seamus-fogarty

10/05/2026

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Hello Folks, on Saturday night whilst tidying up after our show with Rugged Little Pill (Alanis Morrissette Experience) I discovered these two rings on the stairs of The Garbo's Venue in Castlebar, I’d really like to reunite them with there owner as they more than likely mean a lot to the person that lost them, Could you please share and let’s get them home. A ticketed email from Eventbrite and evidence of attendance must be shown as proof of ownership.

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