• Preview: Brilliant Corners 2018

    February 5, 2018 - By 

    Returning for its sixth year, the country’s finest jazz festival, Brilliant Corners will take over various venues in Belfast across March 3-10. Programmed by the ever tasteful team at Moving On Music, this year’s bill is a wonderfully diverse patchwork of jazz and first-rate sonic digression. As well as films including Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker being screened in association with Belfast Film Festival at the Bean Bag Cinema, this year’s programme boasts Belfast’s experimental rock masters Blue Whale, the singular guitar explorations of Jim Mullen alongside the Ronnie Greer Organ Band and a homegrown showcase featuring Joseph Leighton Trio, Sue Rynhart…

  • Other Voices Belfast

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Across October 26-28, Other Voices will team up with the 174 Trust, Digital DNA and the Duncairn to host a three-day showcase of one-off events, workshops, talks and a live performance featuring some fast-rising Irish talent in the heart of Belfast. With Ryan Vail, Picture This, Touts, Beoga (pictured), Jealous of the Birds and Rosie Carney playing the Other Voices Stage at the Duncairn on Saturday night, on Thursday and Friday, various schools, youth and community organisations from across the city will come together to take part in four events as part of the Digital DNA Creative Quarter, showcasing the power…

  • RHA’s Hennessy Lost Friday

    October 18, 2017 - By 

    Marking its final outing for 2017, RHA’S Hennessy Lost Friday returns on this Friday (October 20) with another first-rate bill. As well as a performance from Columbia Mills and a set from DJ Alex Donald, indie-pop maestros Come On Live Long will also make an appearance on the night. The latter’s second studio, In The Still, was released earlier this year to a wave of critical acclaim (something we will touch upon when we chat with the band ahead of this frankly unmissable show.) Besides the carefully-curated music bill, this Hennessy Lost Friday will also feature walking tours of the…

  • The Thing @ S13, Belfast

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    Released 25 years ago this year, The Thing remains a bona fide sci-fi horror classic. Commemorating the fact in style, Belfast’s new-fangled South 13 will be converted into a snowbound landscape for a unique Halloween screening of the John Carpenter classic on Monday, October 30. Presented by S13, Newcastle Community Cinema and Belfast Film Festival, the event will also feature full bar and food stalls. Exploding heads are also available. Tickets are priced £10 and can be bought here.

  • Indie Label Day 2017

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    Presented by two of the country’s leading independent imprints, Art for Blind and Penske, the inaugural Indie Label Day will take place at Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, October 14. The first event of its kind in Ireland to focus purely on record label culture, the day-long fair will celebrate DIY music on the island of Ireland. A marketplace, DJ sets and live bands will take place across two rooms. The afternoon (which is free and runs from 2-6pm) will feature pop-up stalls bringing together a range of independent record labels and distributors operating around the country as well as…

  • David Holmes’ God’s Waiting Room – Marie Curie Fundraiser

    September 28, 2017 - By 

    A night that always delivers something special, David Holmes‘ God’s Waiting Room will return to wonderfully inimitable environs of Belfast’s Maple Leaf Club on Saturday, September 30 for a special fundraiser for Marie Curie Hospice. Compèred by Joe Lindsay, joining David Holmes on the night will be Raphael Doyle and Gerry Diver, who will perform the sublime ‘I Come From Ireland’. The night will also see the return of Barry Woolnough and Alain McClean, who will perform ‘Great Spirit Father in the Sky’ and ‘Judgement day Blues’ as heard on Holme’s recent – and downright essential – Late Night Tales…

  • The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse @ NCC

    September 26, 2017 - By 

    Following events at The MAC in Belfast and Whelan’s in Dublin earlier in the year, Newcastle Community Cinema in Co. Down will play host to an event celebrating the life and music of the sadly-missed Mark Linkous AKA Sparklehorse on Saturday, September 30. Following a screening of Alex Crowton and Bobby Dass’ remarkably well-crafted documentary The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse, artists including Tom McShane, The Mad Dalton, Heliopause, Pixie Saytar and more will perform a one-hour, career-spanning set of music from the Sparklehorse songbook. This event launches Newcastle Community Cinema’s fourth annual Full Moon Film Festival programme. Tickets are £10.00…

  • Fugue: Radio On @ Black Box, Belfast

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    Taking place as part of its Fugue Festival, Glass Eye Cine Club will present a screening of Christopher Petit’s seminal 1979 British road movie, Radio On, at Belfast’s Black Box on September 17. Bolstered by an exceptional soundtrack featuring the likes of Bowie, Devo and Kraftwerk, the film – shot in black and white by Wim Wenders’ assistant cameraman Martin Schäfer – is a trip through the late 70s by way of a road trip from London to Bristol, with Robert a DJ (played by David Beames) attempting to investigate the suicide of his brother. Following the screening, DJ Jon…

  • I Heart Elliott Smith @ Whelan’s, Dublin

    September 13, 2017 - By 

    With organisers having hosted the likes of I Heart Prince and I Heart Bowie in the Dublin venue before, the frankly essential I Heart Elliott Smith will take place at Whelan’s on Wednesday, October 25. Taking place 20 years on from the release of his seminal third album, Either/Or (and a just over a week removed from the fourteenth anniversary of his passing in 2003) the event will be a celebration of the Nebraskan indie rock artist’s life and music, with various Irish artists performing the aforementioned 1997 album in its entirety and other songs with a house band comprised of Mark…

  • Dear Constant Reader: Stephen King Season @ Light House Cinema, Dublin

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    From Kubrick and Lynch to Tarantino and Bill Murray, Dublin’s Light House Cinema aren’t exactly known for skiving on special seasons. Their latest, Dear Constant Reader will celebrate the stories of horror fiction master Stephen King with a range of one-off screenings of Misery, The Mist, Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary, Christine, Carrie, The Shining, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me across October 13-November 18. Charlene Lydon, programmed of Light House said, “For five decades, Stephen King has been the untouchable master of horror fiction and his books have been revered by millions all around the world. The…