• Output Announces 2024 Return

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Full Daytime Schedule Announced for Output 2019

    The full daytime schedule for Output Belfast 2019 has been announced. Returning for its fifth outing on February 21, the conference will featuring various panel discussions, music sessions, workshops and speed networking events at Metropolitan Arts Centre and Oh Yeah Centre from over 75 artists, managers and industry figures. The conference will close with a Q+A entitled ‘The boat that rocked – Public Service Broadcasting and the White Star Liner EP’. First performed as a part of BBC 6Music’s Titanic slipway concert, it will “unpack the full story of Public Service Broadcasting’s extraordinary suite of music on The Titanic – the White Star Liner…

  • Output Belfast To Return in February

    The country’s largest annual music conference, Output Belfast will return to the city for its fifth outing on Thursday, February 21st 2019. Organised by Belfast City Council, as ever, the conference will include various panel discussions, music sessions, workshops and speed networkinge events from various artists, managers and industry figures. In the evening, there will once more be various free, collaboratively-curated showcases in venues right across the heart of the city. The line-ups for each – including a bill co-promoted by yours truly – will be revealed in the coming weeks. Go here to sign up and be the first to hear about…

  • Line-Up Announced For Output Showcase

    Returning to Belfast on February 8, the Output music conference and showcase will host a day of seminars, panels and keynote speeches at Belfast’s MAC featuring some of the national music industry’s most highly-noted speakers and practitioners. In the evening, several of the city’s venues will host another series of free showcases featuring a selection of Irish bands and solo artists, curated by the likes of The Thin Air, PRS For Music, Help Musicians NI, The Live Room, Nialler9 and more. We’ll be teaming up with Rally for a show at Babel, located at the Rooftop of Bullitt. Performing will be New…