• Therapy? announce full details of Gemil boxset

    October 23, 2013 - By 

    Northern Irish alt-rock heroes Therapy? have announced  full details of their forthcoming Gemil boxset. The £125, Limited Edition box set is comprised of 2013 remasters of Nurse, Troublegum, Infernal Love and Semi-Detached, two CDs of completely unheard and unreleased material (30+ songs) spanning 1989-2011, one CD of unreleased reworks and demos (20 songs), a DVD and two official bootlegs. A 12″ vinvyl of all previously unreleased official songs (16 songs), a cassette recording of a performance at the White Horse in Dublin in 1990 and a 24 page 12″x12″ deluxe art book with unreleased photos, images and notes from the…

  • EP Stream: A Bad Cavalier – Ex Libris

    October 23, 2013 - By 

    Ex-Panama Kings frontman and current And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Niall Kennedy has unveiled his wonderful debut solo EP under the music-making moniker A Bad Cavalier. Having been recording songs for the project the last 14 years, the four-track Ex Libris is the first A Bad Cavalier release, recorded in Belfast and largely mixed and mastered on the road in Europe and America. Stream or pay a minimum of £3 for the EP below.

  • EP Stream: Paper Man – After Effects

    October 10, 2013 - By 

    Showing huge potential, young Ballyclare-based alt-rock four-piece Paper Man have unveiled their debut EP, After Effects. Produced by Michael McCluskey, the five-track release (including a live track, ‘Hieroglyphics’) the EP “demonstrates,” in the band’s own words, “the roots from which the band have been influenced to write and play their alternative style of indie rock music.” Paper Man count the likes of local band A Plastic Rose, The Beatles and Smashing Pumpkins as three of their main influences. Stream After Effects via Bandcamp below.

  • Exclusive stream: Levity Breaks – Maudlin EP

    September 30, 2013 - By 

    Ahead of its launch at Belfast’s Limelight 2 later this week, we have an exclusive first listen to Maudlin, the extremely accomplished debut EP by Belfast-based indie rock four-piece Levity Breaks. Recorded in Spring in their own studio facility in Portadown, the band described the recorded the recording process as having “carefully crafted a collection of songs, spending much time in the production stage as we endeavoured to recreate the energy, verve and tension of their our performance. The launch of Maudlin will be held at Limelight 2 on Thursday, October 2 with very special guests David C Clements and…

  • Breed: Katie and the Carnival, Myles Manley & Hannah McPhillimy

    September 30, 2013 - By 

    Belfast-based photographer Diarmuid Kennedy was in attendance at the latest installment of Breed at Belfast’s The Pavilion on Friday, September 28. The line-up featured fast-rising songstress Hannah McPhillimy, Dublin alt-folk master Myles Manley (above) and headliners, the ever-enchanting Katie and the Carnival. Check out Diarmuid’s photos from the night below!

  • LAD.I.Y: Investigating gender imbalance in Northern Irish rock music

    September 2, 2013 - By 

    “Recently I had a sound engineer explain to me how to use a microphone. He told me he didn’t know how the girls on TV did it, but it wasn’t ‘the way they do it in the real world.’” Katie Richardson, Katie and the Carnival. I’ve been aware of a quiet phenomenon in the Belfast music scene for years, but it wasn’t until recently that the full picture was revealed to me. In my day job, I do PR and artist development for several local musicians. We were building a band around one of the artists and required a new…