• One Leg One Eye at the Black Box, Belfast

    October 24, 2024 - By 

    The Thin Air and the Black Box are proud to present Ian Lynch of Lankum, bringing his solo project One Leg One Eye to the Black Box for his highly anticipated Belfast debut on Monday, 16th December. A founding member of Lankum – a band you may have noticed we have sung the praises of for over a decade – Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while being deeply rooted in a sense of history and myth. His solo project One Leg One Eye sees him taking…

  • Irish Tour: Adrianne Lenker

    April 23, 2024 - By 

    Adrianne Lenker live at Vicar Street in Dublin and the Black Box in Galway with support from Ellie O’Neill. Photos by Monika Ruman and Ciaran O Maolain Black Box in Galway by Ciaran O Maolain Vicar Street in Dublin by Monika Ruman

  • Irish Tour: Boris

    May 8, 2023 - By 

    Boris set out on their Irish tour last week performing live at Cyprus Avenue in Cork, The Button Factory in Dublin and The Black Box in Belfast with support from Pupil Slicer. Photos by Celeste Burdon, Monika Ruman and Aislinn McGinn Cyprus Avenue in Cork by Celeste Burdon The Button Factory in Dublin by Monika Ruman The Black Box in Belfast by Aislinn McGinn

  • Brilliant Corners 2023: A Festival of Jazz in Belfast

    February 8, 2023 - By 

    Belfast’s finest annual jazz event is back this March for its eleventh outing, courtesy of the perennially-reliable Moving On Music. This year’s Brilliant Corners festival features thirteen concerts – and two free events – across nine days from March 2nd-11th set predominately in the Black Box and Accidental Theatre. As ever, the programming will appeal to all manner of audiences, from the pure experimentalism of Belfast’s monthly Handmade Music, to the futuristic, urgent eclecticism of Run Logan Run and Sarathy Korwar, to rising masters of pure jazz like Binker Golding and Fergus McCreadie. The full schedule for Brilliant Corners is as follows – with each concert set to begin within 20 minutes of door times: Thursday 2 March…

  • Moving On Music Set To Hold Online Concert Event ‘All The Noels’

    October 20, 2020 - By 

    Belfast-based tastemakers par excellence Moving on Music are set to hold unique online live music experience held throughout the Black Box, Belfast, titled All The Noels. The 30-odd-minute single shot, walk-through experience is set to showcase different music taking place across the various spaces of the venue. The video – recorded across one day by a team of audio-visual professionals – attempts to capture the feeling of being in possibly our favourite Belfast venue for live music. Performances come from some of TTA faves, experimental rock quartet Blue Whale, traditional Irish vocal quartet Landless, Irish jazz pianist Scott Flanigan‘s Trio, jazz drummer Steve Davis, folk duo Laytha and traditional flute & whistle player Martha Guiney with Shane McCartan. Speaking of the project, Mick Bonner of Moving on Music said “it was…

  • Music Venue Trust Announces New Save Our Venues T-Shirt Campaign

    June 18, 2020 - By 

    The Music Venue Trust has been a force of immeasurable value within the arts sector in the last few months, saving a great number of  venues UK-wide with their #SaveOurVenues campaign, which continues to guarantee the presence places in which to gather, once gathering is an option. Their latest initiative will offer the official Save Our Venues T-shirt for sale on the Crowdfunder page of each artist – with each costing £20 posted. From this, each £20 will go directly towards the individual venue’s campaign, with production & distribution costs being covered by the Trust itself. The six MVT venues under threat in Northern Ireland are Belfast’s Black Box, Voodoo, Oh Yeah…

  • Preview: Robocobra Quartet & Meltybrains? @ Black Box, Belfast

    May 6, 2019 - By 

    Two of the island’s most unclassifiable and artistically uncompromising – not to mention finest live acts – are set to play a double-headliner at Belfast’s Black Box on Friday, May 17 in what looks to be a contender for Irish Gig Of The Year. Proudly co-presented by Moving On Music and yours truly, it’s the first hometown headline show of the year for Robocobra Quartet, and the first Northern show in years for experimental  Meltybrains?. Perpetually a band of contradictions, we’ve long been one of Robocobra Quartet’s most ardent voices of praise. Their string of EPs and NI Music Prize-nominated pair of LPs – 2016 debut Music For All Occasions and Plays…

  • Win tickets to Kathryn Joseph @ Black Box

    January 17, 2019 - By 

    We have a pair of tickets to give away to acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph at Belfast’s Black Box – taking place as part of this year’s Out to Lunch Festival – on Sunday, January 20th. To enter, simply send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net What is the title of Joseph’s debut album? Please note: doors for the show are at 3pm.