Public Service Broadcasting with support from Ryan Vail at Belfast’s Limelight 1. Photos by Colm Laverty.
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Public Service Broadcasting have announced they will return two Irish dates at the start of next year. The London three-piece will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Thursday, January 31st and Belfast’s Limelight 1 on Friday. February 1st. Tickets are priced £25.00 and €31.50 respectively and go on sale at 10am, Thursday, September 6th. Check out PSB perform a special musical commission for BBC Music’s Biggest Weekend in Belfast earlier this year.
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The first signs of 6 Music’s leg of the Biggest Weekender have been appearing at venues all over Belfast this last week. Gigs, seminars, panels and outside broadcasts cropping up daily, heralding the 2 days at Titanic Slipways. For day 1 of festivities, the city, bathed in uncharacteristically glorious weather, conspires to show off just when everyone happens to be paying attention. As the flow of people moving through the city and over the Lagan grows, a Cup Final atmosphere begins to build, smiles and easy conversation with anyone willing to respond are the order of the day, and in…
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Belfast’s Mandela Hall has consistently been something of a mecca for artists, bands and gig-goers in Northern Ireland, so it’s always a delight heading down those stairs into the darkness for a night of live music and good times. Life’s little pleasures, eh? And pleasurable it most certainly would be (sort of), with our eager ears anticipating Public Service Broadcasting and their brand of indie/electronica meets samplers/instrumental sonic space adventures. We arrive sharpish with a few dozen others, making our way down into the Mandela Hall and are pleasantly surprised by a promising turnout so early in the night. It’s…