With Glasgowbury right around the corner, why not celebrate the countdown with an up close and personal free gig with LaFaro in HMV? LaFaro are potentially one of the biggest metal bands to hit our country since Therapy? – Giants in their field and rightfully so. They’ve towered over the Northern Irish music scene, touring ...
If there ever were a list of places compiled to host an ‘MTV Presents…’ gig, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast was one of the last places on my mind. But Our Wee City threw open its doors to the channel, with Mark Ronson and The Business Int in tow. And despite the fact that we ...
The Oh Yeah Music Centre was new territory for me, having never been I didn’t really know what to expect, and it had been a while since I’d attended an all ages gig. So it was safe to say it was odd being surrounded by people holding tins of Diet Coke as opposed to pints ...
The Safehouse Art Gallery is an unusual place to stage a single launch. The entrance is a discreet little red door in Belfast’s Cathedral quarter that has even the city’s taxi drivers scratching their heads trying to remember its location. But perhaps this obscurity was part of Silhouette’s fairy tale plan: the elusive red door ...
With the number of press accolades Rams has collected over the past two years, expectations for their latest single launch were incredibly high. Such taglines as AU’s “full of intriguing left turns, whipped up into a lather of emotion” or Hot Press declaring that “you’d be forgiven for thinking they’ve been on the live circuit ...
It’s safe to say that it was easy enough to decipher which crowd was there to awe at Tinie Tempah’s grimey beats, and the others who were lurking around, ready to bounce along to the Mystery Jets. Drunken teenagers in older siblings clothes spelt out Tinie. Thick rimmed glasses indicated the Jets. I followed the ...