Plan 9 Film Club, as part of the Belfast Film Festival, host a night at the Black Box on April 22 dedicated to cult UK sitcom Spaced. Running for two seasons from 1999-2001 on Channel 4, it was the big breakthrough for creative minds Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson & Edgar Wright, who, as we all know, have went on to write, direct and star in some of the finest comedies in recent years. It also gave early exposure to the likes of sitcom favourites Mark Heap, Nick Frost, Julia Deakin and NI comedian & actor Michael Smiley. Tickets are available from the Film Festival for £5. Doors open at 7pm, with…
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“Cities are living. Cities breathe.” Videographers and visual artists Peter Martin, Albert Hooi with Al Kennington and Kevin A Freeney of CLU Music, were commissioned to visually explore contemporary Dublin, collecting beautiful, moving imagery of our unique capital. Musical artists CLU Music, New Jackson and I Am The Cosmos, have composed an eclectic array of scores to accompany the three short films. In the impressive O Reilly Theatre on Monday, March 16, the two creative strands will come together for a one-off, live, audio visual vignette of Dublin city today, created, curated and produced by Dylan Higgins and Al Kennington…
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The next installment of Friday Salons at Belfast’s Black Box on Friday, March 20 will see Helen Keen present It’s Rocket Science!, a low budget, highly original look at the history and future of space travel. Featuring Space Nazis, Satanists and Aeronautical Engineers, the factually accurate and funny show – “featuring all the enormity of the universe, without any of the boring bits” – will take you on a whistlestop tour around the Great Brains who put monkeys, ladies, dogs and gentlemen into orbit. This live show has so far launched three award-winning, critically acclaimed series for BBC Radio 4. The…
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As part of the Oh Yeah Centre’s International Women’s Day on Saturday March 7, five female and female-fronted acts will come together to perform a selection of Björk’s back catalogue. This comes following her new archives book, an exhibition of her career and latest album, Vulnicure, and her emphasis on often-overlooked contributions to women in the art community – a problem she successfully fights through leading by example. Each set will consist of 2 covers of songs by the iconic, innovative, Icelandic artist, and interpreting her music as well as performing their own material on the night are piano-playing songstress Katharine…
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Having featured in the first issue of our physical magazine, Belfast’s finest independent dispenser of wax,Sick Records celebrate their grand first birthday from 2pm on Saturday, March 7. Having steadily established itself as the city’s most comprehensively tasteful record store, psych-inflected rockers Thee Penny Dreadfuls, acoustic doom master Robyn G Shiels, new-fangled Derry duo Fabric and Bloomer White will all perform on the day, with DJ sets coming from Chris Hanna (Oneknown) and Jamie Nelson. Check out a video interview with Sick Records’ owner Kenny Murdock by The Thread below.
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On Wednesday, February 25, we will host a celebration of iconic U.S. post-rock pioneers Slint at Belfast’s Pavilion. As well as screening Breadcrumb Trail, Lance Bangs’ wonderful, downright unmissable documentary on the band, we will also be playing the band’s landmark 1991 album Spiderland in full, as well as encouraging local musicians to talk about the impact of Slint on their lives and music. Admission is only £3, doors are at 8pm.
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Ask any man and his dog, “What are Le Galaxie?” and they (ok, just the man) will invariably respond with a giddy spiel about a neon-soaked, party-starting machine, with the utmost collective ability to make even the most shy and retiring maladroit splay and flail like Techno Viking having a series of seizure-induced fits. And he would be right. Yes, with their profound, cosmically-inclined fondness for hip and happening one-off happenings, Le Galaxie are very much at it again, with the announcement that they’re bringing Le Club to Dublin’s Academy on April 24 and 25. Set to coincide with the…
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Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will host its first ever gaming festival, Playspace, over the weekend of Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1. Set to feature a whole array of film screenings, creative sessions, demo stations and a big screen Halo tournament, the weekend will peak on two of the very best cinema and video game mash-up films ever: Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World (above) and the endlessly iconic Tron. Creative Sessions on game design and more will take place across the two days and nights. Check out the full schedule for and buy tickets to Playspace here.
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Monthly Dublin pop culture event Culture Vultures celebrates its birthday at the Odessa Club on Wednesday, March 18 in the company of none other than the living, breathing manifestation of charming itself, the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. Over the last twelve months, Culture Vultures – which combines music, spoken word and public interview – has welcomed stellar line-ups to the intimate surrounds of the Dublin venue. The likes of Glenn Patterson, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Carolan, Lenny Abrahamson, and Panti have taken to sitting under the spotlight to chat with with Tony Clayton-Lea. Tickets for the birthday celebration – priced at €15…
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Dwayne Woods, host of online alternative Irish radio show The Co-Present on Radiomade.ie – check their podcasts out here – has combined forces with show Niamh Farrell of Ham Sandwich to bring a monthly show at Dublin’s Workman’s Club, with the official launch taking place on Friday, February 27. Headlining the night are neo-psych quartet This Other Kingdom, who release their debut album Telescopic on April 11. Check their sonic concoction out on Bandcamp – they’re sure to be one of the acts to keep an eye on throughout 2015, with new material being teased for their set. Following their set, singer & multi-instrumentalist electronica artist Patrick Kelleher (above) will be spinning…