• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gig of the week: Protex, Start Stop Start Again and more @ Black Box, Belfast

    December 2, 2013 - By 

    Presented by three Belfast independent record labels – Time To Be Proud, Punkerama and Scarred For Life Records – our gig of the week this is week is a special charity show at Black Box on Saturday, November December 7 headlined by legendary Belfast punk band Protex. With all proceeds going to children with cancer, the show will also feature sets from Stop Stop Start Again, Shock Treatment, 3D Shark and Mohican Jack. Ryan Fitzimmons from Sunglasses After Dark will also be performing a DJ set. at the show, which doubles up as the official release of the Punkerama Charity Single for…

  • Gig of the Week: Two Glass Eyes, Safe Ships, The Wood Burning Savages @ Radar

    November 25, 2013 - By 

    One of their final line-ups before Christmas, our gig of the week this week is the latest installment of Radar at Belfast’s QUBSU Speakeasy on Thursday, November 28. Headlined by alt-rock three-piece Two Glass Eyes, the bill will also feature performances from equally excellent Belfast-based punk band Safe Ships (above) and hugely promising Derry quartet The Wood Burning Savages. Check out the typically gleaming poster for the show: As you can see above, doors are at 9pm and admission is free. Stream ‘Fighting Fit’ and ‘Safest of Ships’ by Safe Ships below.

  • Gig of the week: Shellac @ Limelight 2, Belfast

    November 19, 2013 - By 

    Our gig of the week this week is a slight departure from our normal rule of thumb of featuring local artists. Fronted by  incomparably influential musician and legendary producer Steve Albini, Chicago, Illnois noise rock trio Shellac stop off at Belfast’s Limelight 2 on Thursday, November 21 ahead of the release of their forthcoming fifth studio album. The band will also play Dublin’s Whelan’s on Wednesday, November 20. Los Angeles-based cellist Alison Chesley AKA Helen Money will provide support on both dates. Tickets for the Belfast are £18.50 and are available to buy here. Go to the show’s Facebook event page…

  • Gig of the week: Enablers, Blue Whale and Selaah @ Voodoo

    November 5, 2013 - By 

    Just over five years on their resounding show at Laverys Bunker, Calfornian post-rock quartet Enablers’ show at Voodoo on Friday, November 8 is our gig of the week. Featuring the poetry and spoken word of frontman Pete Simonelli, the band are renown for their intense and altogether idiosyncratic live performances – think Slint meets Jack Kerouac. Better still, off the back of the release of 2011’s Blown Realms And Stalled Explosions, one of post-rock’s finest musicians, Doug Scharin – formerly of Codeine, HiM, June of 44, Rex and Mice Parade – is the band’s current drummer. Support on the night comes from…

  • Gig of the Week: Bouts, Hurdles, Go Swim

    October 29, 2013 - By 

    Off the back of the release of their stellar debut album – Nothing Good Gets Away – our gig of the week this week will see Dublin indie rock band Bouts return to Belfast for a special album launch party on Friday, November 1. Supported by two of the North’s finest indie bands, Hurdles and Go Swim, the four-piece will play the wonderfully tucked-away Menagerie in the heart of the Holylands –  their first show here since they supported Amateur Historians in the same venue early last year. Go here for the show’s event page, check out our interview with Bouts…