• Watch: Runaway Go – Lover to Lover

    Belfast indie-pop duo Fiona O’Kane and David Jackson AKA Runaway Go have long earned their stripes as one of the country’s finest purveyors of the genre. With their boundlessly compatible vocal styles, the pair’s music has always burst forth with a vitality and joie de vivre that’s never wanting in the realms of pathos and perspective. With their debut album, Alive, set for release in November, the duo have went down the PledgeMusic route with the aim to secure its release. In the meantime, they’ve given us a taste of what to expect from the record in the form of ‘Lover to Lover’, a wonderfully…

  • Transmit: Runaway GO, Amidships, Hologram

    Transmit really does show the depth of the Northern Irish Music scene right now. The groups that play cover an enormous range of different styles yet compliment each other brilliantly each week, making Wednesday night at Limelight 2 a diverse evening of full-blooded entertainment. Tonight the Limelight 2 fills up pretty early, with the venue bustling. The crowd is restless for the first act, with an expectant atmosphere griping the room. Hologram sate the crowd’s appetite, introducing themselves to the room with an instrumental number laced with slow and resonating melancholia, before roaring into life to become insatiably intense. With…

  • Watch: RunawayGO – ‘I Would Go’

    Belfast-based indie pop five-piece RunawayGO have unveiled the video to their new single, ‘I Would Go’. Set for release on June 3, the video – filmed on location in Belfast and Lisburn – was shot, directed and edited by Darren Lee and features a couple of familiar faces throughout. RunawayGO are set to embark on a nine-date Irish tour, kicking off in Dundalk this Wednesday: May 22: The Spirit Store, Dundalk May 23: Chapter 1, Cavan May 24: Whelans (Upstairs), Dublin May 25: Roisin Dubh (Upstairs), Galway May 27: Crane Lane Theatre, Cork May 28: The Library, Limerick May 29:…