As part of this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, SOAK and Lisa O’Neill played Belfast’s Black Box on Thurdsay, May 1. Photographer Alan Maguire was down shooting for the Thin Air.
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Alan Maguire captures English electronic duo Fuck Buttons deliver a stellar performance at the opening marquee show of this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.
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Just over a year since their founding member – and central songwriting force – Daniel Blumberg jumped ship to focus on his own music, English indie rock darlings Yuck make their highly-anticipated return to Belfast tonight something of a wounded but defiant soldier. Indeed, with a new EP, Southern Skies, getting a mixed reaction from critics and aficionados alike, there is an unspoken feeling in the air that the band have both reputation to uphold and repertoire to deliver. One wonders: whether they care to confront the question or not, are they able and set to confound the likely ill-founded theories of the detractors? With the Black Box…