• Breadcrumb Trail screening w/ Lance Bangs @ The Garrick

    March 11, 2014 - By 

    In association with Bunch of Cults, we will present the Northern Irish premiere of Breadcrumb Trail, the eagerly-anticipated forthcoming documentary on enigmatic Louisville post-rock pioneers, Slint, at Belfast’s The Garrick Bar on Thursday, March 27 As well as screening the documentary in full, we will also have a very special Q+A with its director, Lance Bangs, on the night. The event will also be followed with a full vinyl playback of Spiderland and various Slint-related tracks until late. Doors are at 8pm and admission is £8. As the back room is relativelysmall, capacity is limited to around 100 people, so we’ll be working on…

  • Gig of the week: Mojo Fury, Emerald Armada, Two Glass Eyes

    March 4, 2014 - By 

    Our Gig of the Week sees a special tenth anniversary headline set from Northern Irish alt-rock trailblazers Mojo Fury at Belfast’s Limelight 2 on Thursday, March 6. Two stellar full-length albums in – the landmark Visiting Hours of a Travelling Circus and last year’s The Difference Between – the show will also double up as a homecoming show for the Mike Mormecha-fronted band, who have spent the last few weeks touring around Europe. Supporting Mojo Fury on the night are two hotly-tipped Northern Irish acts: alt-rock three-piece Two Glass Eyes and fast-rising folk band Emerald Armada. Go here to win tickets…

  • Gig of the Week: Ed Zealous album launch w/ Go Wolf and Affleck – Limelight 2

    February 17, 2014 - By 

    Belfast-based electro/indie-pop four-piece Ed Zealous will finally unleash their highly-anticipated debut album, Wired, at Belfast’s Limelight on Thursday, February 20 – our Gig of the Week. Support on the night will come from fast-rising Belfast indie-pop band Go Wolf and the latest act to grace us with a Thin Air live session, electronic three-piece Affleck. Mixed by Eliot James – who has worked with the likes of Noah and the Whale and Bloc Party – check our exclusive track-by-track review of the album here. You can also stream it here. While you’re at it, have a go at winning a pair…

  • Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival

    February 13, 2014 - By 

    After its successful first outing last year, Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival will return to Belfast for a four-day programme from Wednesday, March 26 to Saturday, March 29. Presented by the thoroughly forward-thinking Moving On Music team, the showcase will feature performances from the likes of the Jeremy Lyons Dectet, BDK (Bourne/Davis/Kane trio, pictured) and David Lyttle featuring Soweto Kinch and Duke Special amongst others. Tickets for each show, which vary in price, can be purchased from all participating venues including The Mac, Black Box and Crescent Arts Centre. Go here for more info.

  • Gig of the Week: Young Aviators, Hurdles, Foreign Affairs @ Voodoo

    February 11, 2014 - By 

    Our Gig of the Week will see Warrenpoint-derived, Glasgow-based new-wave surf three-piece Young Aviators head a bill featuring the jointly promising Hurdles and Foreign Affairs at Belfast’s Voodoo on Saturday, February 15. With choruses recently compared to fellow Irish émigrés Snow Patrol by The Skinny, the show will be Young Aviators first performance in Belfast since the release of their debut album, Self Help. Go here for the show’s Facebook event page. Watch the video for ‘Forward Thinking’ by Young Aviators below.

  • Gig of the Week: The Sabrejets, The Groundlings & More @ The Black Box

    February 4, 2014 - By 

    On Saturday, February 8 at Belfast’s Black Box, Northern Irish rockabilly legends The Sabrejets (pictured) will headline our Gig of the Week – Last of the Voodoo Idols, the Brian Young-fronted quartet’s fifth annual tribute night to seminal U.S. punk rock band The Cramps. Culminating in a special Cramps tribute set from Sunglasses After Dark DJ Ryan Fitzsimmons, Belfast-based rock n’roll band The Groundlings, Los Reyez and special guests Thee Flash Guns will also perform on the night. A free EP will be available to the first 200 people through the door, featuring specially-recorded Cramps tribute tracks by the four performing bands. Doors are at 8.30pm, admission…

  • Other Voices: Derry Music Trail

    January 31, 2014 - By 

    Returning after the success of last year’s proceedings, the Other Voices Music Trail will take pace in Derry/Londonderry again this February 7 to 9. Having had over 450 entries from acts from across the country wishing to perform at the four-day showcase, the panel hand-selected 60 acts to perform right across the city’s innumerable venues, bars, cars and cultural landmarks. Featuring the likes of Bell X1, East India Youth, Public Service Broadcasing and dozens of Irish artists, check out the poster and full line-up for the trail below. Thursday, February 7 Annie Mac w/ Ryan Vail, Dollface Devereaux, Deep Fried…

  • Gig of the Week: Little Bear, Go Wolf, The Couth @ The Oh Yeah Centre

    January 28, 2014 - By 

    The sole Northern Irish event taking place as part of Independent Music Week 2014, fast-rising Derry quartet Little Bear, Belfast indie-pop band Go Wolf and Lisburn garage-rock band The Couth will play our Gig of the Week at Belfast’s Oh Yeah Centre on Thursday, January 30. Running from January 28 to February 2, eighteen venues from across the UK will take part in the inaugural celebration of independent gig venues. “The struggle to compete with large, sponsor-backed venues makes it a tough and challenging time for independents,” said the project’s organiser Sybil Bell. “Combine this with bands finding it harder…

  • Kara Walker @ The Mac

    January 23, 2014 - By 

    Critically and unapologetically interrogating underlying racial and gender tensions in today’s society, the works of artist Kara Walker will see its first major Irish exhibition at Belfast’s The Mac from January 24 to April 27. Esteemed for renouncing the sensitivity that tends to shroud the subject, the American artist delves into the myths underyling certain cultural archetypes and the more malevolent underside of how humans act via characters drawn from American popular culture, history and literature. The exhibition will take place across all three of the Mac’s main galleries. For more information go to the Mac’s official website here. Watch an…

  • Gig of the Week: Daniel Avery, Replete & Chris Hanna @ Aether & Echo

    January 20, 2014 - By 

    Set to take place at the new-fangled Aether and Echo in Belfast, our Gig of the Week this week is a bill topped by electronic artist Daniel Avery, a man responsible for one of the genre’s finest albums of last year, Drone Logic. Supporting Avery on the night is Champion Sound-signed, Kilkenny artist Peter Lawlor AKA Replete and Belfast-based producer and DJ Chris Hanna. Tickets cost £10 and are available at the door. Go here for the show’s Facebook event page.