It’s a miserable, wet night in Belfast. Nonetheless a surprisingly large crowd has decided to face the elements and head for the Spring and Airbrake to see Somerset’s own psychedelic, prog rock, hippie guys Orzic Tentacles. Support is provided by local band, ‘The Cities We Captured’ – part of the growing local trend of long ...
Progressive rock is a dying breed of music. With the introduction of and recent worldwide obsession with “Post Rock”, prog rock has been pushed aside for the nerds and freaks to pick away at. The golden days of Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes and King Crimson are long gone and will never come back. A genre ...
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 ...
LED lights were scattered across a black canopy, swept through the marquee, high above the crowd that had gathered to witness the magical spectacle of Seasick Steve. Closing the Open House Festival, the bearded wonder was joined by folk-fused 3 piece ‘Peggy Sue’, who launched into first track ‘Lazarus’. They had a similar sound to ...
The first band to play of the night was ‘Kids For The Weekend’ and, to be frank, I didn’t like them… I’ll try to be professional here but I really didn’t enjoy myself. They started with an emo vibe that they maintained throughout. Apart from a remotely decent cover of the Thin Lizzy classic, “The ...
It’s a chilly Friday night in Banbridge and people from all around are heading to its prestigious Football Club for an intriguing night of metal… “Dwell in Sun”, a three piece band from Banbridge, take to the stage first and grace us with their dark, doom metal. With a reputation of having songs longer than ...
After six long but tremendous years of circulating the emerald isle, it is finally time for Mojo Fury to spread their wings and embark on a UK tour, backed up by a full album release in February. Chatting to the lads briefly before this Glasgow slot, it appeared there had been an incident at their ...
At a party in Glasgow last Thursday night, someone informs me Two Door Cinema Club are playing in the vicinity the following day. There’s just one problem – the tickets are sold out. Having never seen them before (which frankly makes me a little less credible as an Editor of a Northern Irish music publication), ...
To celebrate the launch of the ‘Contenders’ CD, the latest compilation of new music from our province (tracks recorded specially for the album no less!), the Oh Yeah Centre threw open it’s doors once more to showcase some of the acts hand picked by industry experts for the CD. The gig itself didn’t really feel ...
Why do sound checks always take longer than expected? I always assume it is a combination of a pedantic desire to get things right and taking more smoke breaks than are entirely necessary, but I could be wrong. Luckily, the Oh Yeah Centre, which appears to be a gig staging, music workshop, office and museum ...