Best Album & Single Shortlists for NI Music Prize Revealed
September 30th, 2021 | by Brian Coney
The Best Album and Best Single shortlists for this year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize have been revealed. Supported by PPL, …
September 30th, 2021 | by Brian Coney
The Best Album and Best Single shortlists for this year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize have been revealed. Supported by PPL, …
March 5th, 2021 | by Brian Coney
It’s been yet another banner week for Irish music. Dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days …
November 2nd, 2020 | by Brian Coney
The solo vehicle of Belfast-based, North Coast musician Ewen Friers, CATALAN! is also a project that is wonderfully collaborative at its …
August 28th, 2020 | by Stevie Lennox
From the sledgehammer riffing of Shifting, electronics of Son Zept and Marcus Woods, indie-pop returns by Æ MAK, Catalan and We Cut Corners, to arguably Ireland’s …
July 10th, 2020 | by Brian Coney
From The Bonk, Wyvern Lingo, Jehnova and Elaine Mai, to CATALAN!, luthorist, Brién and Gemma Bradley, here’s the very best …
July 6th, 2020 | by The Thin Air
In the latest installment of Monday Mixtape, Belfast-based musician Ewen Friers aka CATALAN! waxes lyrical about some of his all-time favourite …
March 2nd, 2020 | by Brian Coney
North Coast instrumental rock trailblazers And So I Watch You From Afar have announced details of a new music and …
July 16th, 2018 | by Brian Coney
Despite having played only a handful of dates since emerging in July last year, Ewen Friers’ self-coined insurgency rock project …
May 28th, 2018 | by Brian Coney
Hosted by Ewen Friers’ CATALAN!, New Pagans (pictured), fast-rising experimental alt-folk artist Joshua Burnside and Belfast dream-pop trio Beauty Sleep are …
May 11th, 2018 | by Stevie Lennox
Making its return for the first time in many years, Belfast’s alternative, inclusive Twelfth of July proceeding Curfew, takes place across two of …