Making their long-awaited return to the city, Placebo played to a sold-out crowd at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast last night. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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All but coinciding coinciding with this year’s Brilliant Corners jazz festival, Belfast-based visual artist Stephen Millar chose an opportune time to hold his latest exhibition, ‘The Jazz of Shapes To Come’, at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. With its wonderfully-contorted nod to Ornette Coleman’s groundbreaking 1959 album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, the exhibition features twenty-six A-Z paintings, each based around a particular jazz piece. An ambitious project and no mistake – but one that very palpably paid off for the painter and illustrator. With Joe Laverty having stopped by to take some photos of the artist and his exhibition, we spoke to Millar about…
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Two special screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film Psycho will be scored by the world-renown Ulster Orchestra as part of Psycho Live on November 22 and 23. Taking place at The Venue in Derry/Londonderry on Friday (8pm), November 22 and Belfast’s Waterfront Hall (7.45pm) the following evening, the performance will see the orchestra perform Bernard Hermann’s landmark score live. A truly unmissable opportunity to witness one of the greatest horror movies come to life, the Belfast concert will be preceeded by one of the orchestra’s much-love pre-concert talks at 6.45pm, essentially a free fifteen minute discussion featuring radio presenter,…