• 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.

  • Belfast Film Festival: Dawn of the Dead

    January 16, 2014 - By 

    Following the sold out success of the Suspria live soundtrack in August, George Romero’s 1978 cult classic Dawn Of The Dead will undergo a live scoring by  Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin line-up on Saturday, April 5 as part of Belfast Film Festival 2014. According to the Waterfront’s official website, “The group produced a full score to the film and will treat Belfast audiences to thudding beats, wordless synthesized vocals, power chords and one of the most influential apocalyptic soundtracks ever produced.” A bona fide zombie classic, Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi) was selected as one of The 500 Greatest…

  • Gig of the Week: Le Galaxie @ Black Box

    January 6, 2014 - By 

    Not only one of our must-see highlights from this year’s Out To Lunch festival, our Gig of the Week is Dublin electronic four-piece Le Galaxie at Belfast’s Black Box on Friday, January 10. If you weren’t fortunate to have caught the guys practically destroy the likes of Forbidden Fruit and Electric Picnic last summer, this show in the relatively intimate surroundings of the Black Box is all but certain to be a hugely memorable consolation. Tickets for the show – priced at £10.00 – are available to purchase right here.

  • The Thin Air Presents: Solar Bears, Ryan Vail and Blue Whale @ Voodoo

    January 6, 2014 - By 

    Oh boy, are we excited for this one! Currently writing material for their third album, Dublin electronic duo Solar Bears will headline our next showcase at Belfast’s Voodoo Bar on Saturday, March 22. Having released the exquisite Supermigration last year and recently signed a published deal with Warp, the two-piece’s DJ set will follow sets from Derry electronic twosome Ryan Vail and Belfast-based jazz-punk quartet Blue Whale – two of the finest acts of their respective genres currently based in Northern Ireland. Doors at 8.30pm, door tax is £8.00 (pay at the door). Go here for the Facebook event page…

  • Gig of the week: Lisa O’Neill, The Salt Flats and Hannah McPhillimy @ Black Box

    December 29, 2013 - By 

    Taking place at Belfast’s Black Box on Sunday, January 5, our very first Gig of the Week of the new year is all but certain to be one of the highlights from this year’s Out To Lunch festival in Belfast. The first date of her first ever headline tour, Cavan folk singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill will top a three-act bill also featuring Belfast-based music collective The Salt Flats and fast-rising Northern Irish songstress Hannah McPhillimy. O’Neill, who has recently released her superb second album, Same Cloth Or Not, last performed in the city in support of Glen Hansard at Belfast’s The Mac in October.…

  • Gig of the week: Wooden Shjips, The Altered Hours @ The Menagerie

    December 9, 2013 - By 

    Our (sold out) gig of the week this week is the latest in a string of top-drawer shows by Strange Victory promotions. Supported by spectacular Cork psych-rock band The Altered Hours, U.S. space/psych rock four-piece Wooden Shjips will return to Belfast to play the Menagerie on Friday, December 13 following their show here at The Mac back in September. Go here for the show’s event page. Check out ‘Back To The Land’ by Wooden Shjips below and our interview with the Altered Hours here.