• Q+A: Nathan O’Regan of Songbook

    We catch up with Belfast-based musician and promoter Nathan O’Regan about the origins, success and upcoming – downright unmissable – festive installment of monthly invitational session Songbook on Tuesday, December 8th. Hi Nathan. First of all, for those not familiar with Songbook, briefly tell us about your original motivations for starting the night back in the summer of 2017. Songbook began with the intention of filling what I saw to be a massive hole in the Belfast music scene. Having started gigging here in 2013, I was lucky to have fallen in with an incredible group of players but was…

  • More Names Set For Stendhal Unlocked

    Several more names have been added to the bill for the forthcoming first installment of Stendhal Unlocked. Primed to be Northern Ireland’s first socially-distanced festival, subject to guidance on mass gatherings in August, the Limavady festival looks set to return to Ballymully Cottage as a socially-distanced affair. Doubling up as the first installment of a three-part series from the north’s best annual festival, weekend one takes place across August 21-22. Joining the likes of the already announced And So I Watch You From Afar, Ryan McMullan, Kíla, Ciaran Lavery, Roe, Amy Montgomery and Joshua Burnside are Rebekah Fitch (pictured), Gemma Bradley, David Keenan and others…