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Neil Young
The lightning storms that had ripped through Northern Irish skies this week may have been a portent of the musical thunder that Neil Young brings to shows, and Belfast, at last, is no exception.The...
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An Homage to Henry McCullough
I recently released an album in which two rock icons are the subjects of songs – Elvis Presley and Portstewart’s Henry McCullough. I first saw Henry perform at the Whitla Hall, Belfast in 1968, where...
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Help Musicians NI Pitches in for Mental Health
The tortured artist channels their despair into the birthing of creativity. Like a rose, the creator's mind is beautiful in bloom, but the inescapable pain of the thorns still lurks. Help Musicians is...
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Music Acts Announced for Output Showcase
Ireland's largest music conference returns to Belfast on February 16 with some of the industry's top names lined up to lead a day of seminars, panels and keynotes at the MAC.Over 400 people are...
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Our Krypton Son
Photo by Wrapped In Plastic PhotographyOur Krypton Son aka Chris McConaghy returns with his beautiful second album Fleas & Diamonds. McConaghy is a songwriter with uncanny ability to capture...
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Get Excited About Output
Output returns to Belfast for the third time on Thursday February 16, once more uniting industry professionals with those hungry for enlightenment and knowledge under an umbrella of creativity and know...
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Eight Enlightening Insights from Output Belfast
As I approach the third installation of Output Belfast, the mumble of excited chatter and the smell of freshly ground coffee hang in the air. Those within the music industry converse in the lobby with...
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Pound Music Club
Veterans of the Pound Music Club, Belfast’s hippest club of the '70s, share a strange but unmistakeable bond. Perhaps that’s because their friendships were forged in frightening and blood-soaked times...
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Complete Guide to Brilliant Corners
Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.The multi-talented and artistically gifted Frank Zappa wasn’t wrong. Brilliant Corners, a festival of jazz for Belfast, returns this month for its fifth...
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Hidden in the Harmonies
The balm of music, in these troubled times, has never been sweeter. For lovers of soothing, uplifting music, two concerts by Sestina, Northern Ireland’s only dedicated Early Music Ensemble, are...
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Second Women's Work Programme Announced
The Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast has announced the programme of events for this year’s Women’s Work festival.Returning for its second year from May 24 to 29, Women's Work is a unique festival for...
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Everything's Coming Up Roses for Velvet Alibi
With roots in jazz, Motown and gospel, Velvet Alibi is a 12-piece musical ensemble based in Derry~Londonderry. Their first single, 'Into The Light', was released on March 20 and the band will bring the...
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Meilana Gillard's Reawakening
When saxophonist Meilana Gillard moved to Belfast in 2012 the impact she made was colossal. Here, after all, was a musician who had been a highly rated up-and-comer on the brutally competitive New York...
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You Call it Art, We Call Her ROE
If at some point in the past few months you've been encouraged to discover Northern Ireland's only Walled City by way of a TV ad, or had one of Harp's 'Pure Here' clips pop up in your Facebook feed,...
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Midsummer Sessions Will Have Portstewart in Full Swing for the Irish Open
With golf mania currently gripping Portstewart ahead of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, over 30 of Northern Ireland's finest musicians will soon be joining the party as the town hosts Midsummer...
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Tim Wheeler: Headlining Glastonbury 'by accident' was our best festival...
Aside from Jeremy Corbyn's news feed-dominating appearance on the Pyramid Stage, much of the musical focus at this year's Glastonbury Festival justiably centred around Radiohead's mesmerising headline...
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Going Berserk for BASORK
For fans of heady brass riffs, odd-metre rhythms and fiery fusions of pan-European folk, then the MAC is the place to be on September 7, when BASORK rocks up with its intoxicating, Balkans-inspired...
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Causeway Coast to be awash with music for Atlantic Sessions
Following the sell-out success of Atlantic Sessions in 2016 and its 2017 NI Tourism Award, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council will be bringing the event back to the Causeway Coast for its ninth...
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Singer Sarah McGuinness releases first album: 'You get to a certain age and...
This week sees the release of Unbroken, a daring debut album by the Derry-born artist Sarah McGuinness. Allowing for the false starts, the doubts and fears that attend the writing of deeply personal...
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Van Morrison to headline City of Derry Jazz Festival
One of music's true legends has been announced as the headline act at this year's City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival. Van Morrison returns to the Millennium Forum to close the event on Sunday,...
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