• 10 Acts to Catch at Output Belfast

    November 5, 2024 - By 

    Over the past few years, we’ve been right in the thick of Output Belfast, Ireland’s largest one-day music conference and showcase. Hosting and featuring on various panels has been fun – and often revelatory – but it’s felt especially meaningful to co-host some truly memorable evening showcases since 2015. Zig-zagging across the Cathedral Quarter, hyper-caffeinated from the afternoon conference scramble, to catch some of the island’s very best acts in rooms where you can be sure sounders abound? Year in, year out, that’s what it’s all about. But being able to host some of our favourite artists as part of…

  • Output Belfast Announced 2024 Panel Line-Up

    October 16, 2024 - By 

    The full panel line-up for Output Belfast 2024 has been revealed, set to be a major part of this year’s Sound of Belfast, which runs from 7th to 17th November. Over the last few years, Output has underscored its status as Ireland’s largest one-day music conference and showcase, presented by Belfast City Council/Belfast City of Music and curated by Score Draw Music. The conference will feature over 30 workshops, panels, masterclasses, and talks, offering a comprehensive view of today’s industry. Spanning everything from creative skills like songwriting, production, and performance to essential business topics such as management, marketing, and industry…

  • Output Announces 2024 Return

    March 1, 2024 - By 

    The first details of Output Belfast’s 2024 return have been announced. Having teamed up with AVA for last year’s outing, Ireland’s biggest one-day music conference is back to its usual format for this year – all while celebrating Sound of Belfast’s 10th birthday. On the morning and afternoon of Thursday, November 12, music industry leaders from across the globe will descend upon the MAC and the Oh Yeah Music Centre to speak on an array of panels. As with previous years, it’s set to be an unmissable programme full of networking opportunities for the local music community to meet industry…

  • Output Belfast x AVA 2023

    April 28, 2023 - By 

    Ireland’s leading music conference Output is teaming up with AVA for its 2023 return. Once again taking over the MAC and the Oh Yeah Centre on Thursday, 1st June, this year’s outing will see organisers join forces with the world-beating Belfast electronic music festival AVA. With more than 800 delegates expected to attend over 30 sessions, workshops, masterclasses, panels, keynotes and state of the nation addresses across all aspects of the music industry, it’s set to be the most diverse music industry education and networking programme the city has ever seen. As well as opening keynotes by CMU founder and…

  • Output Belfast Set For Return

    March 22, 2022 - By 

    Details of the return of Output Belfast have been announced. After a two-year break due to you-know-what, Ireland’s largest one-day music conference and showcasing event will return to various venues across Belfast on Thursday, April 21st. As ever, as well as various talks and panels in the MAC and Oh Yeah Centre throughout the morning and afternoon, this year’s outing will also feature a music trail-like evening of free gigs across the city’s Cathedral Quarter. Line-ups and schedules for those will be announced soon. This year’s Keynote speakers and topics are: ‘Catch 22 – What the music industry needs to do, do better…

  • Output Belfast Announces 50 Conversations About Music

    October 19, 2020 - By 

    Having established itself as the island’s largest music conference and showcasing event over the last six years, Output Belfast will return early next year in the form of a unique networking and mentoring scheme. With the physical conference for 2021 set aside as a result of the continuing threat posed to the industry by Covid-19, organisers have announced 50 Conversations about Music, an scheme they say will offer a “new way of communicating, connecting and talking about music created that will serve to create networks and relationships between emerging creative and business talent in Northern Ireland and their national and international counterparts.”…

  • Output Belfast Reveal 2020 Line-Up

    January 27, 2020 - By 

    More than 40 Irish acts have been announced to play this year’s Output Belfast. Returning to various venues across the city on Thursday, February 13th, the county’s leading music conference will team up with the likes of The Thin Air, Nialler9, Music Venues Alliance, Pizza Pizza Records, PRS for Music and IMRO for its annual evening showcase. Running from 8pm-midnight, venues including Bullitt, the Black Box, Ulster Sports Club and the Oh Yeah Centre will host the likes of Silverbacks, Porphyry, Arvo Party, Sister Ghost, Tebi Rex and Cherym. This year, we’re teaming up with Sentric to host Son Zept, Junk Drawer, Fears and…

  • Output Belfast Set For 2020 Return

    October 22, 2019 - By 

    Details of the return of Output Belfast next year have been announced. Ireland’s largest one-day music conference and showcasing event five years running will return to various venues across Belfast on Thursday, February 13th. As ever, as well as various talks and panels in the morning and afternoon, this year’s outing will also feature a music trail-like evening of concerts around the city’s Cathedral Quarter. Line-ups and schedule will be announced in due course. A new addition to next year’s outing is a brand new showcase stage, which is “devoted to new emerging talent that otherwise might be overlooked by…

  • Premiere: Maya Goldblum – Light Me Up

    February 15, 2019 - By 

    Content Note: Depression & suicide One of the growing number of Derry-based acts currently blurring genre lines and eschewing conventions, Idaho-born singer & guitarist Maya Goldblum – or Queen Bonobo in a full band setting – is set to release her debut album, Light Shadow Boom Boom, in May. Ahead of that, we’re premiering lead single ‘Light Me Up’, a buoyant slice of soulful jazz whose winsome face belies a diaristic portrayal of depression, as Goldblum brings gravitas and candour to a style of music currently underrepresented – at least in an artistic sense – in Northern Ireland. Maya had a chat with us about its subject matter: “Light Me Up stemmed from feeling constrained in…