Your guide to all the best music gigs from Northern Ireland. If you have a gig you would like us to list here please send the details to: gigs@chordblossom.com
Sat 2 January
- Ricky Warwick – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
Thurs 7 January
- Gifted: Wolf Like Me, Sullivan & Gold, No Oil Paintings, Palaces – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 8 January
- Pretty Cartel, Monkee Man, Parapa Palace, The Sun Shadows, DJ Johnny Red – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Molotov Jukebox – Black Box, Belfast
- Sea Pinks (album launch) – Lavery’s, Belfast
Sat 9 January
- Dana Masters – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
- Beardyman – Black Box, Belfast
- Ciaran Lavery & Emily Barker – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
Sun 10 January
- Ciaran Lavery & Emily Barker – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
Tues 12 January
- Sturgill Simpson – Limelight 2, Belfast
Wed 13 January
- The Deans – Voodoo, Belfast
Thurs 14 January
- Cup O’Joe – Black Box, Belfast (1pm)
Fri 15 January
- Magwere – Black Box, Belfast (1pm)
- The Defects (album launch, Stop Stop Start Again, No Matter, Shock Treatment 21 – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Homegrown 2016: Paul Casey, Ports, Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas, Eilidh Patterson, Eamon Friel & Prima String Quartet – Millennium Forum, Derry
Sat 16 January
- Lindi Ortega – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The 2 Bears – Black Box, Belfast
- The Late Twos, Echo Raptors, Salford Lads Club – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- Twitch: Shanti Celeste – QUBSU, Belfast
Sun 17 January
- Saint Sister, Prima String Quartet & Jealous of the Birds – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
Mon 18 January
- Patty Griffin – Black Box, Belfast
- Ron Pope & The Nighthawks – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 21 January
- Hazel O’Connor – Black Box, Belfast
Fri 22 January
- East India Youth – Black Box, Belfast
- Matthew E White – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Drink – McHugh’s Basement, Belfast
- Donal Scullion & The Spider Collective – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Seven Summits, Junk Drawer, I <3 Monster Hero, Shrug Life – TBWNN, Belfast
Sat 23 January
- The Mulligan Brothers – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
- Havana ‘Che – Black Box, Belfast
- Jamie Lawson – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Sun 24 January
- Martin Hayes & David Power – Black Box, Belfast (3pm)
- The Wood Burning Savages – Lavery’s, Belfast
Wed 27 January
- John Grant – Mandela Hall
- Jason Derulo – SSE Arena, Belfast
Thurs 28 January
- Aoife O’Donovan – Black Box, Belfast (1pm & 8pm)
Fri 29 January
- Thieves of Ennui, Cross Eyed Mary, Paper Dogs – The Goats Toe, Bangor
- The Strypes – Black Box, Belfast
- Girls Names – The Dockers Club (Pilot Street), Belfast
- The Corrs – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Lanterns on the Lake – Voodoo, Belfast
- Gascan Ruckus (album launch), Emerald Armada, BeeMickSee, Dani – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sat 30 January
- Dick Gaughan – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
- They Might Be Giants – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Discharge – Voodoo, Belfast
- Shine: Dusky, Ejeca, Detroit Swindle, Schmutz, Swoose, Chris Hanna – QUBSU, Belfast
- Ports, Robyn G Shiels, Strength, Dani – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Monkey Bath (EP launch), Sarah McCreedy – The Barge, Belfast
Sun 31 January
- JD & the Straight Shot – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Mon 1 February
- Augustana – Limelight 2, Belfast
Wed 3 February
- Soulfly – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 4 February
- Gifted: The Couth, Dutch Schultz, Duellists, The Bayonettes – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Vokxen, Jess Edlin, The Racks – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 5 February
- Transatlantic Sessions – Millennium Forum, Derry
- Johnny Fean Band – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Dom & Roland – Black Box, Belfast
Sat 6 February
- Blossoms, The Vryll Society – Limelight 2, Belfast
- The Cramps Tribute 7 – Black Box, Belfast
- Twitch: Max Graef – QUBSU, Belfast
- Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, Stephen Macartney – The Arcadia, Portrush
Sun 7 February
- Flook, Adam Holmes and The Embers – Black Box, Belfast
- Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, Stephen Macartney – Hilden Brewery, Lisburn
Mon 8 February
- Walking on Cars – QUBSU, Belfast
Tues 9 February
- Frank Carter & the Rattle Snakes – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ben Caplan – McHugh’s, Belfast
Wed 10 February
- Axis Of (album launch), Joshua Burnside, Little Neddy Goes to War – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Roisin Murphy – Limelight 1, Belfast
Thurs 11 February
- Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Waldorf & Cannon – Limelight 1, Belfast
- TPS, ZDR, Syndykat – Black Box, Belfast
- Petty Youth, Buffalos Bay, Rotten Royalty – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 12 February
- Runaway Go (album launch) – Redeemer Central, Belfast
- Autumns – Lavery’s, Belfast
- Richie Ramone, No Matter – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 13 February
- Pretty Cartel (single launch) – Voodoo, Belfast
- Aoife Scott (album launch) – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
Sun 14 February
- Eddi Reader – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
- Bap Kennedy’s Sunday Cure – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
Mon 15 February
- Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies – SSE Arena, Belfast
Wed 17 February
- An Evening with William McCarthy of Augustines – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 18 February
- Ozric Tentacles, Project RNL, Hexxed – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Foreign Affairs, Eighty Four, Hit The B Button, Ethan Hanna – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 19 February
- The Fionnbar Austin 10th Anniversary Memorial Concert – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Sous Le Monde, Ronan Kearney, Ciaran Stephenson – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
- Pleasure Beach – QUBSU, Belfast
- Gabrielle Aplin – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Folk Love – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 20 February
- A Northern Light, Go Swim, R51, Palaces – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 23 February
- Foxes – Limelight 1, Belfast
- City & Colour, Lucy Rose – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Wed 24 February
- Gareth Pearson, David Browne Murray – Sunflower, Belfast
Thurs 25 February
- Fat White Family – Limelight 2, Belfast
- No Oil Paintings, Orchid Collective, Paper Dogs, Bronagh Broderick – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 26 February
- The Altered Hours, Documenta, Autumns – Black Box, Belfast
Sat 27 February
- Shine: Hannah Wants – QUBSU, Belfast
- Screaming Eagles, Triggerman – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
- Heliopause, Pixie Saytar (joint album launch) – The MAC, Belfast
- Big Country – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Twitch: Move D – QUBSU, Belfast
- Interskalactic – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Thee Penny Dreadfuls, Gavin & Thee Icons, Bloom – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Mon 29 February
- Adele – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Thurs 3 March
- New Ancestors, Wolf Like Me, Jamie Neish – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Mongrel State, Mons Olympus – Voodoo, Belfast
- Annie Nightingale – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Sabatom, Alestorm, Bloodbound – Limelight 1, Belfast
Fri 4 March
- Wolf Alice – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Kaz Hawkins Band – Island Arts Centre, Belfast
- Making Monsters, Stonemasons, Symptoms of Silence – Sandinos, Derry
Sat 5 March
- Machine Head – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Duke Special – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
- Ciara O’Neill (album launch) – Clayton Hotel, Belfast
- Gallagher & Lyle – Clayton Hotel, Belfast
- The Savage Five, Sandrunners, Used – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Brian Houston – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- John Spillane, Anton Glackin – Clayton Hotel, Belfast
- Women’s Work: Kaz Hawkins Band, Susie Blue, Mandy Bingham, Gemma Bradley – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Sun 6 March
- The Cult – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Pre-Teenage Kicks: Runaway Go, Vokxen – Black Box, Belfast (3pm)
- Women’s Work: Where Do You Go To My Lovely? – Black Box, Belfast
- Women’s Work: Æ MAK, Rachael Boyd, Naoise Roo, Goldie Fawn – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Tues 8 March
- A Tribute to Ornette Coleman – Black Box, Belfast
- Women’s Work: Katharine Philippa, Saint Sister, Jealous of the Birds – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Wed 9 March
- The Wonder Stuff – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 10 March
- Chordblossom Presents Kickstart – The Eglantine Bar, Belfast
- Boyce Avenue – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Lucy Spraggan – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Heroes Before The Fall, Nasa Assassin, Salad Boyz, The Shout – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 11 March
- David C. Clements (album launch) – Limelight 1, Belfast
- OKO & Tim Berne – Black Box, Belfast
- The Quireboys, Screaming Eagles, Massive Wagons – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Women’s Work: Suzanne Savage, Vokxen, Jess Edlin, Wookalily, DJ Sage & MC Kat – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 12 March
- The Beat – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Oh Wonder – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock – Black Box, Belfast (2pm)
- Dinosaur, Alarmist – Black Box, Belfast (9.30pm)
Mon 14 March
- Cradle of Filth – Limelight 1, Belfast
Wed 16 March
- Twitch v Beat BBQ: Ben UFO, DJ Sprinkles – QUBSU, Belfast
Thurs 17 March
- Good Friend, No Matter, The Bayonettes, So Long Until The Seance – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 18 March
- Loris, Tuskany, The Wood Burning Savages, Conor Scott – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Emerald Armada, Joshua Burnside – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Susie Blue (video launch), For Foresters – Bennigans, Derry
Sat 19 March
- The Groundlings, Thee Dirt Byrds, Buffalos Bay, The Strange Museum – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Fri 8 April
- Ryan Vail (album launch) – The MAC, Belfast
- The Bonnevilles – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
- Newton Faulkner – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Damien Dempsey – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Sat 9 April
- Overkill, Vader, One Machine – Limelight, Belfast
- Firebobbies (EP launch), Mosmo Strange, TV Joy, Emma O’Reilly – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Wed 13 April
- Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, The Guilty Ones – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 14 April
- Dana Masters – The MAC, Belfast
- Civil Simian, The Aos Si, The Films – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 15 April
- Hidden Machine Presents: Blue Whale, Via: Barvikha, Weathered Hands – TBWNN, Belfast
- The Toasters, The Vibes, Deany Darko, DJ Cushla – Eglantine Bar, Belfast
- Silences (EP launch), Son of the Hound, Brand New Friend – Bar Sub, QUB SU, Belfast
- Maverick, Safire – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
- Die Hexen, Ruth Bate – Black Box, Belfast
- Reef, Mundy – Limelight 1, Belfast
- The Statics – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
Sat 16 April
- Rews, Jess Edlin, The Groundlings – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- HamsandwicH, A Bad Cavalier, Franklyn, New Portals – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Max Cooper – Emergence – The MAC, Belfast
- Time to be Proud Records Presents: The Sabrejets, Stop Stop Start Again, Los Reyes (Album Launch) – The Pavillion Bar, Belfast
- Maverick, Safire – The Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
Wed 20 April
- King Khan and the BBQ Show – Voodoo, Belfast
- Scoops – Black Box, Belfast
- In Case of Fire, Gascan Ruckus, Duellists – Limelight 2, Belfast
Fri 22 April
- Red Alert, Takers and Users, United Bottles – Voodoo, Belfast
- Shakey Graves – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Bry (over 14s show) – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Sat 23 April
- Mary Black – Millennium Forum, Derry
- Ought, Autumns, Junk Drawer – Voodoo, Belfast
- Twitch: Zip – Bunatee, QUBSU, Belfast
- Nasa Assassin, St Hellfire – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
- Korpiklanni, Moonsorrow – Limelight, Belfast
Mon 25 April
- Mark Lanegan, Duke Garwood – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 28 April
- Richmond Fontaine – Voodoo, Belfast
- Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts – McHugh’s, Belfast
- PRS Presents: Jealous of the Birds, The Clameens, Katherine Philippa – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Fri 29 April
- Duke Special – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Ryley Walker – McHugh’s, Belfast
- September Girls – Lavery’s, Belfast
Sat 30 April
- Malinky – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Guadalupe Plata – Voodoo, Belfast
- Michael Bradley – My Life as an Undertone (6pm) – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Marc Almond – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
Sun 1 May
- Corrosion of Conformity – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Shonen Knife – Black Box, Belfast
- Stonemasons, Knuckle Dragger, Bosco Ramos – Voodoo, Belfast
- Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – The John Hewitt, Belfast
- Guy Garvey – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
Mon 2 May
- Making Monsters, Death of a Salesman, Heels of Achilles, Black Chapels – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 3 May
- John Cooper Clarke – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
- Amanda St John (album launch) – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 4 May
- Underhill Rose – John Hewitt, Belfast
- Ursula Burns (album launch) – Sunflower, Belfast
- Gavin James, Craig Gallagher – The MAC, Belfast
Thurs 5 May
- GIFTED: New Ancestors, Tuskany, Chrisy McCullagh, Hannaway – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Courtney Pine feat. Zoe Rahman – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
- Sam Lee and Friends – Black Box, Belfast
Fri 6 May
- Ciaran Lavery (album launch) – St George’s Church, Belfast
- Hannah McPhillimy (EP launch), Beulah Kim, The Rhythm Rascals – Redeemer Central, Belfast
- Ben Glover, Malojian, Matt McGinn – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Space, Late City Edition – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club with The Haggis Horns – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
- Hillbilly Moon Explosions – Black Box, Belfast
- Making Monsters – Dockers, Portrush
Sat 7 May
- Lo Mejor – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill
- Julia Biel – The MAC, Belfast
- No Oil Paintings – Market Place Theatre, Armagh
- Ben Glover, Malojian, Matt McGinn – Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena
- Making Monsters – Charlie’s, Enniskillen
- Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
Sun 8 May
- Ben Glover, Malojian, Matt McGinn (3pm) – Black Box, Belfast
- Grandmaster Flash – CQAF Marquee, Belfast
Thurs 12 May
- Hot Cops, Mons Olympus, Brand New Friend – Eglantine, Belfast
- The Mighty Stef, Thee Penny Dreadfuls, Petty Youth, Buffalos Bay – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sat 14 May
- The Bonnevilles, The Crossfire Hurricanes, Los Bloody Rackets, Waldorf and Cannon – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Making Monsters, The Geneva Experiment, Reevah – Sandinos, Derry
Tues 17 May
- The Thin Air Tuesday Throwdown with A Northern Light – Lavery’s, Belfast
- Chris Keys, Tony Villers, Gemma Bradley, Chris Molloy – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 18 May
- Brand New Friend (EP launch), The Late Twos, Fox Colony – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 19 May
- Anthony Toner – No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast
Fri 20 May
- Brand New Friend (EP launch), Little Arcadia, Sleeping Outside, Fionn Crossan – Atlantic Live Lounge, Portrush
- Beauty Sleep – Lavery’s, Belfast
- Anthony Toner – No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast
- Chris Woods Groove, Tony McHugh, Colm McIntyre, David Browne Murray, Gavin Ferris – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 26 May
- Apartments, No Great Loss, Little Arcadia – Eglantine, Belfast
- Ports (album tour), Plain Zebra – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
Fri 27 May
- Parapa Palace (single launch), Salad Boyz, Paper Dogs – McHugh’s, Belfast
- The Dandy Warhols, Happyness – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Magnum – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Ports (album tour) – Black Box, Belfast
- Tempest Fugitives (EP launch), Storm Tree, High Sundays – The Pavilion, Belfast
- Nathan O’Regan, No Oil Paintings – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Sat 28 May
- Kaz Hawkins Band – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Making Monsters – Dicey Rileys, Strabane
- Ports (album tour) – The Glassworks, Derry
Sun 29 May
- Power Trip, Hollow Truth, Scimitar, Kingpin, Hardships – Warzone Collective, Belfast
Wed 1 June
- Listener, Via: Barvikha, January, Weathered Hands – Eglantine Bar, Belfast
Thurs 2 June
- GIFTED: The Late Twos, In An Instant, Goldie Fawn , Salford Lads Club – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 3 June
- The Answer – Limelight 2, Belfast
- The Crossfire Hurricanes, Thieves of Ennui, Ozymandias, The Rival Movement – McHugh’s, Belfast
Sat 4 June
- Ava Festival – T13, Belfast
Sun 5 June
- Lisa Hannigan, Ye Vagabonds – Black Box, Belfast
Tues 7 June
- Neil Young and Promise of the Real, Laura Marling – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Mudhoney, Bob Log III – Black Box, Belfast
- The Amity Affliction, Symptoms of Silence – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Thurs 9 June
- Kaz Hawkins Band – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
- Belsonic: Tiesto, Oliver Heldens – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
- DANI (free, all ages) – Town Square, Belfast
Fri 10 June
- Daddy Long Legs – Voodoo, Belfast
- Belsonic: The Chemical Brothers, Erol Alkan, Phil Kieran, Schmutz – Titanic, Belfast
- Norma Jean, 7.5 Tonnes of Beard, Hornets, Last Wishes – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Amanda St John – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
- Orby Chase (EP launch), Dandelion Tea, All of your Ruins, Adam Liddell – Bar Sub, Belfast
Sat 11 June
- Belsonic: Faithless – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
- Bronagh Gallagher – Millennium Forum, Derry
- Murmur: Goldie Fawn, AE Mak, New Portals, Beauty Sleep – The MAC, Belfast
Sun 12 June
- Arborist, Hatchet Field, Dana Sipos – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Tues 14 June
- Tremonti, Man The Mighty – Limelight 2, Belfast
Wed 15 June
- De La Soul, Nik Muzka – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Brian Jonestown Massacre – Limelight 2, Belfast
Fri 17 June
- Belsonic: Bring Me The Horizon – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
Thurs 23 June
- Belsonic: Foals, Frightened Rabbit – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
- Lunasa – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Gnarkats, Salad Boyz, Brand New Friend, Dandelion Tea – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Bad Fit, Franklyn – McHugh’s, Belfast
Fri 24 June
- Robocobra Quartet – Lavery’s, Belfast
- Kid Congo Powers and The Pink Monkey Birds – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 25 June
- Belsonic: Biffy Clyro – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
- CW Stoneking – Black Box, Belfast
- Our Back Yard Festival – 67 Plantation Road, Craigavon
Sun 26 June
- Bad Manners – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Belsonic: David Guetta, Robin Schulz, Jonas Blue – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
Tues 28 June
- Belsonic: Ellie Goulding, The Coronas, Walking on Cars – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
Wed 29 June
- Belsonic: Stereophonics, The Vaccines – Titanic Belfast, Belfast
Thurs 30 June
- Dandelion Tea (EP launch), Orby Chase, Liam Floyd – Voodoo, Belfast
- Michael Mormecha (album launch), Strength – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Yonen, Rosen, Men of the Mountains, The Autocratic – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 1 July
- Bronagh Gallagher – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Mon 4 July
- Villagers, PORTS – The Glassworks, Derry
Wed 6 July
- Kodaline, Ivy Nations – Limelight 1, Belfast
Thurs 7 July
- Getting to Know…Foreign Affairs – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Girls Names, Strength – Culturlann, Derry
Fri 8 July
- SOAK, Saint Sister – Glassworks, Derry
- SONI: The Left Backs, Orby Chase, Hit The B Button, Mugged By A Ghost – The Pavilion, Belfast
Sat 9 July
- So Cow, Hot Cops, Junk Drawer, Shrug Life – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Willis Clan – The Glassworks, Derry
- The Strypes, exmagician, The Wood Burning Savages, The Bonnevilles – Guildhall, Derry
- Born Only Yesterday, Johnny Marvel, Life Goals – The Dockers, Portrush
Sun 10 July
- Ruth McGinley, Niall O’Sullivan – Playhouse, Derry
Fri 15 July
- Mosmo Strange, Foreign Owl, What About Bobby – Sandinos, Derry
Sat 16 July
- Gama Bomb – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sun 18 July
- Chordblossom presents: Owen Denvir single launch, Jess Edlin, Stephen Macartney – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Tues 19 July
- Elvis Costello – SSE Arena, Belfast
Thurs 21 July
- Eric Bell – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Dead Daisies, Inglorious – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Candy’s Eyes, Plasticine Porters, Siobhan Day, Matt O’Reilly, Joel Harkin – The Eglantine, Belfast
Sat 23 July
- Blues on the Hill Festival – Dungannon
Wed 27 July
- Jessarae – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Thurs 28 July
- Via: Barvikha, Hannaway, James Downey – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 29 July
- Coasts – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Mirador: The Wood Burning Savages, Brash Isaac, Brand New Friend – Bar Sub, Belfast
Sat 30 July
- Idlewild – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Headless Kross, Wild Rocket, Slomatics – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 5 August
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- 3for3: Lazy Flies, Emer M, Ria Maguire & Pepe the King – The Pavillion, Belfast
Sat 6 August
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- The Kooks – Feile Big Top, Belfast
Sun 7 August
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- All Saints – Feile Big Top, Belfast
Wed 10 August
- The Slackers, Aggressors BC, Boss Sound Manifesto, Colm MacIntyre, Donal Scullion – The Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 11 August
- Sister Ghost, Mosmo Strange, The Left Backs – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Tom Robinson, Best Boy Grip – Smalltown America, Derry
- Holly Johnson, Roland Gift – Feile Big Top, Belfast
Fri 12 August
- Stendhal Festival of Art – Limavady
- Dick Valentine – Katy Daly’s, Belfast
- Matty Rea – The Errigle Inn, Belfast
- Dream Awake, Heel of Achilles – Top of the Town, Omagh
Sat 13 August
- Stendhal Festival of Art – Limavady
- Open House Festival present Spirit Family Reunion & Mark Hamilton – Goats Toe, Bangor
- Susie Blue, Rebekah Wilson – McHughs, Belfast (5.30pm)
- Dream Awake – Alexander’s Bar, Lisburn
- Hot Cops & Oh Boland – Belfast
Sun 14 August
- Dick Valentine – Lulu’s, Dungannon
- Mastodon, The Raven Age – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Dream Awake, Heel of Achilles – The Dockers, Portrush
- PORTS, Prima Quartet, Open House Festival Choir – Marine Court Hotel, Bangor
Mon 15 August
- Dream Awake, Heel of Achilles – Voodoo, Belfast
Tues 16 August
- Dream Awake, Heel of Achilles – Goats Toe, Bangor
- Battles – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 17 August
- White Denim, Wyvern Lingo – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 18 August
- Belsonic: The Corrs, KT Tunstall, Declan O’Rourke – Titanic, Belfast
- Brash Isaac (EP launch), Foldinglights, Brown Dog Black Rake – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Monkey Bath, The Left Backs, Orby Chase & Lauren Bird – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Films (EP launch), Civil Simian, Uncouth Youth, False Solution, Alpha Twin – McHugh’s, Belfast
Fri 19 August
- The Twisted Sisters (album launch) – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
- Civil Simian, Dandelion Tea, Lo Fi Fun Factory, Hunkpapa – The Pavilion, Belfast
Sat 20 August
- Belsonic: Madness – Titanic, Belfast
- Andrew Weatherall – The Glassworks, Derry
- Keep The Faith Festival – Voodoo, Belfast
- R51, Elder Druid, Maw – The Underground, Draperstown
- Gascan Ruckus Summer BBQ – QUBSU, Belfast
Tues 23 August
- Belsonic: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Pleasure Beach – Titanic, Belfast
Wed 24 August
- Airbourne, Trucker Diablo – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Belsonic: Disclosure, Kano, SG Lewis – Titanic, Belfast
Thurs 25 August
- Vital: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fallout Boy, Cage The Elephant, Labrinth, Otherkin – Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast
- The Darkling Air (album launch) – Queen’s Parade Church, Bangor
- Rebekah Fitch (single launch), Owen Denvir – The Pavilion, Belfast
- Ghost Office, Electric Octopus, Newt – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 26 August
- Vital: Avicii, Jess Glynne, Galantis, Duke Dumont, Zak Abel, Seeb – Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast
- The Pipes – Black Box, Belfast
- Charlie Parr – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 27 August
- The Damned – Marine Court Hotel, Bangor
- Belsonic: Fat Boy Slim, Flight Facilities – Titanic, Belfast
- Cara Dillon – Queen’s Parade Church, Bangor
- Extreme Noise Terror, Desecration, Unyielding Love – Voodoo, Belfast
- Block Party 2016 – Bennigans, Derry
- Open House Festival present a tribute to Bon Scott: AC?DC
Sun 28 August
- Open House Festival present The Swimming Tapes & In an Instant – Goats Toe, Bangor
- JamJar: Gnamam Samuel, Laura Sheeran – Black Box Belfast
- Duke Special, The Darkling Air – Spirit Store, Dundalk
- Rockstock – Battery Bar, Cookstown
Mon 29 August
- Sam Beam & Jessica Hoop – Marine Court Hotel, Bangor
- Lloyd Cole – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Dana Masters – Walled Garden, Bangor
Tues 30 August
- Niamh Perry – Marine Court Hotel, Bangor
Thurs 1 September
- Drew Holcombe – Black Box, Belfast
- Wood Burning Savages, Petty Youth, Buffalos Bay – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 2 September
- In An Instant, Lost Avenue, The Flims, Chris & Tom, Gemma Bradley – The Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Sun 4 September
- Modern Baseball, The Winter Passing, Vicky Speedboat – Voodoo, Belfast
- Squeeze – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
- Emerald Armada, Jamie Martin, Hannah Lynn – Goats Toe, Bangor
Thurs 8 September
- Social Sounds Festival: Keywest, Matt Rea – Cotton Court, Belfast
Fri 9 September
- Plaid, Boxcutter – Black Box, Belfast
- Social Sounds Festival: Duke Special, The Bonnevilles – Cotton Court, Belfast
- Beat Root: Chris Wood – The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Joel Harkin, Rebekah Wilson, Megan McKinney – McHugh’s, Belfast
Sat 10 September
- Beat Root: Josephine Foster, Trembling Bells – The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Moira Calling – Moira
Tues 13 September
- The Thin Air Tuesday Throwdown: Brand New Friend – Lavery’s, Belfast
Wed 14 September
- Brett Newski – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Thurs 15 September
- The Left Backs, Search Party, Fox Colony – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 16 September
- Culture Night Belfast
- Roots & Toots Weekender with The Dogg Ruff String band – Goats Toe, Bangor
Sat 17 September
- Roots & Toots Weekender with Amanda Agnew & Friends – Goats Toe, Bangor (5pm)
- Roots & Toots Weekender with The Hard Chargers & The Groundlings – Goats Toe, Bangor (10.30pm)
Sun 18 September
- Roots & Toots Weekender with Kippysmuse – Goats Toe, Bangor (5pm)
Tues 20 September
- The Thin Air Tuesday Throwdown: Bloody Gold – Lavery’s, Belfast
Thurs 22 September
- Born Only Yesterday (EP launch), Gone All Year, Newt – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 23 September
- Diamond Head – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ruth McGinley – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Bad Fit – Laverys, Belfast
Sat 24 September
- Brigid O’Neill, Mandy Bingham, Ciara O’Neill – Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen
- Selene, Ghost Origin, Moth – Masons Bar, Derry
Wed 28 September
- An evening of acoustic rock guitar with Jacques Stotzem – The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Thurs 29 September
- Making Monsters, No Great Loss, Those Ghosts – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 30 September
- Michael Mormecha – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Moving on Music: Ruth McGinley – The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 1 October
- Shine: Alan Fitzpatrick, B Traits, Jimmy Edgar, Happa – QUBSU, Belfast]
- Time to be Proud: 5th Birthday – The Sabrejets, Stop Stop Start Again, Thee Dirt Byrds, Carpenter Joe, The Holsteins – Black Box, Belfast
Sun 2 October
- The Mission – Limelight 2, Belfast
Tues 4 October
- Chris Wise and the Hidden Revolution – Voodoo, Belfast
Wed 5 October
- Pinegrove – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 6 October
- The Rising (single launch), Lauren Bird – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Kevin Montgomery – Errigle Inn, Belfast
- MYLK, Brand New Friend, Born Only Yesterday – McHugh’s, Belfast
Sat 8 October
- Twitch: The 10th Birthday – QUBSU, Belfast
- Malojian, John Blek – No Alibis, Belfast
Sun 9 October
- Jeremy Loops – Limelight 2, Belfast
- You Me At Six, Vant – Limelight 1, Belfast
Tues 11 October
- Pentagram, The Atomic Bitchwax – Limelight 2, Belfast
Wed 12 October
- Death Grips – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Buckcherry – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 13 October
- Mosmo Strange, Part Time Pilots, Alpha Twin – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Ciaran Lavery – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
- Martin Simpson & Martin Carthy – Black Box, Belfast
- LD Beghtol, The Rockets – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Fri 14 October
- Michael Kiwanuka, Isaac Gracie – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Skinny Living – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ben Glover, John McCullough – No Alibis, Belfast
- Zoe Conway, Donal Lunny & Mairtin O’Connor – Black Box, Belfast
- Wookalily – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Matua Trap, Small Hawk Orchestral, January, NEWT – Bar Sub, Belfast
Sat 15 October
- David Holmes (album launch), Barry Woolnough, Alain MacLean, BP Fallon, Documenta – The Maple Leaf Club, Belfast
- Ciaran Lavery – Braid Arts Centre, Belfast
- Slomatics, Hornets, Bosco Ramos – Voodoo, Belfast
Mon 17 October
- Feeder – Limelight 1, Belfast
Wed 19 October
- Cate Le Bon – Black Box, Belfast
Thurs 20 October
- Black Chapels, Mons Olympus, Gnarkats – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Le Butcherettes – Black Box, Belfast
- In Their Thousands – Sandinos, Derry
Fri 21 October
- Alien Ant Farm, (Hed) P.E., Sumo Cycle – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Sleaford Mods – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Anto & The Echoes, Kamaro, WASPS, The Haze – Bar Sub, Belfast
- Dandelion Tea, MOSA, Chicago Typewriters, John Andrews – The Pavilion, Belfast
Sat 22 October
- Sister Ghost (EP launch), Jealous of the Birds, Blumehaus, Mosmo Strange – The Pavillion, Belfast
- Simone Felice – 101 Donegall Street, Belfast
- Wookalily – The Tap Room, Newcastle
- Anna’s Anchor, Brash Isaac – Mason’s, Derry
Sun 23 October
- We Are Scientists – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Brian Houston, Mike Ferris – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Anna’s Anchor, Brash Isaac, Search Party – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 27 October
- Past Victories, No Matter, Joel Harkin – The Eglantine, Belfast
- JD & The Straight Shot – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 28 October
- Augustines – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- James Blake, Mark Pritchard – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Junk Drawer (EP launch), Gross Net, Ghost Office – Voodoo, Belfast
- Arborist (album launch) – Lavery’s, Belfast
- Making Monsters, Ghost Origin, Newt, Wasps – Sandinos, Derry
Sat 29 October
- Day of the Dead Festival – Deany Darko, Beauty Sleep, Vokxen, The Sabrejets, Stop Stop Start Again, Thee Dirt Byrds, Thuh HideBehinds, The Groundlings – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- Dia de Los Muertos Halloween Party – Goat’s Toe, Bangor
- The Logues – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Shine 21st Birthday – QUBSU, Belfast
- Hilden’s Hoppy Halloween Ball – Hilden Brewery, Lisburn
- M(H)AOL, Catholic Skins – Framewerk, Belfast
Sun 30 October
- Saxon, Fastway, Girlschool – Limelight 1, Belfast
- All Tvvins – Limelight 2, Belfast
- KT Tunstall, Braids – Belfast
- Cathy Davey – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Mon 31 October
- Killing Joke – Limelight 1, Belfast
Wed 2 November
- Loudon Wainwright III, Chaim Tannenbaum – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Tom Odell, Brian Deady – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Judith Owen – Black Box, Belfast
- JACK Quartet – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Thurs 3 November
- Kadavar, Erosion – Voodoo, Belfast
- Andy Irvine – Black Box, Belfast
- Sara Watkins – Errigle Inn, Belfast
- Bronagh Gallagher – Market Place Theatre, Armagh
- Hard Rain – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Fri 4 November
- The Bonnevilles, The Couth, Los Reyes, Strange Museum, Buffalos Bay – The Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Buzzcocks – Limelight 1, Belfast
- The Undertones – Millennium Forum, Derry
- Ward Thomas – Limelight 2, Belfast
- The Velvet Gentleman – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 5 November
- Malojian (album launch) – The MAC, Belfast
- Wookalily – Alley Theatre, Strabane
- The 4 of Us – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
- Bell x1, Pleasure Beach – St Columb’s Hall, Derry
- Teleman – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Thomas Strønen – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Rory Nellis, Peter J. McCauley – Indigo Coffee & Gelato, Belfast
- Volume Control: Clash of the New Breeds Final – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Mon 7 November
- Saint Sister – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Wed 9 November
- Robyn G Sheils (single launch), Waldorf & Cannon, Junk Drawer, Hatchet Field – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Bastille – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Thomas Rhett – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- NEWT, Wasps, Ariel – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 10th November
- Gifted: Tuskany, Strength, Civil Simian, Jess Edlin – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Scratch My Progress (EP launch): Vokxen, Bosco Ramos, Petty Youth, Search Party & Emer Maguire – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Fri 11th November
- NI Music Prize – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Moving on Music Presents: Phronesis – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Orby Chase (single launch), Blumehaus, Hit the B Button, Kevin Downey – McHugh’s, Belfast
Sat 12th November
- Spectrum Festival – Mojo Fury, Gascan Ruckus, Hot Cops, Bad Fit, Life Goals, Gnarkats, Rachael Boyd, Brash Isaac, Joel Harkin – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- The Ducasse Trio – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Tues 15th November
- Fallen Lights, The New Social, Tadgh – QUBSU, Belfast
Fri 18th November
- The Altered Hours – Lavery’s, Belfast
- The Eskies – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Jack O’Rourke – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Moving on Music Presents: Robocobra Quartet (album launch) – 101 Donegall Street, Belfast
Thurs 24th November
- Heliopause, Tethers, Allez Bartolli – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Born Only Yesterday, Car Chase City – Cuckoo, Belfast
- Dance for Dizzy – Sandinos, Derry
- Joe O’Sullivan & Band – Empire Music Hall, Belfast – in aid of Friends of the Cancer Centre
Fri 25th November
- Marc O’Reilly – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Runabay (single launch), Pine the Pilcrow – The Barge, Belfast
- Electric Six – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Will Varley, Molly’s Lips – Sunflower, Belfast
- Len Faki, Schmutz – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Murderburgers, No Matter, Lost Avenue – Sandinos, Derry
Sat 26 November
- The Wedding Present, September Girls – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Above & Beyond – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Murderburgers, No Matter – The Barge, Belfast
Sun 27 November
- Biffy Clyro, Brand New – SSE Arena, Belfast
- The Sweethearts of Swing – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Wed 30 November
- Super Furry Animals – Limelight 1, Belfast
Thurs 1 December
- Primal Scream, Bo Ningen – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Gifted: Orchid Collective, Brand New Friend, Son of the Hound, Touts – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Rossborough, Rebecca Mulhearn – Nerve Centre, Derry
Fri 2 December
- Elton John – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Declan O’Rourke – Black Box, Belfast
- The Blizzards – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Wood Burning Savages, Scenery, Daveit Ferris, ROE – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sat 3 December
- Atlas, Tonnta – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Last in Line – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Beardyman feat MC Leen & Rob Lewis – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Lost Avenue, Little Arcadia, Shoot The Messenger – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sun 4 December
- Passenger, Gregory Alan Isakov – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
- Pierce The Veil, LetLive, Creeper – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Ocean Colour Scene – Limelight 1, Belfast
Mon 5 December
- Foy Vance, Dana Masters – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tues 6 December
- The Coronas – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Wed 7 December
- Dead Men Walking – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 8 December
- Amnesty International QUB Fundraiser: Amy Montgomery, Leo Mansell, Pâro, Hunkpapa, The Fugues – Bar Sub, Belfast
- Lisa Hannigan – The Glassworks, Derry
- The Courteeners – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Scream Blue Murder, Jess Edlin, Hilda’s Beard – The Eglantine, Belfast
Sat 10 December
- Foy Vance, Ryan McMullan – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Cast – Limelight 1, Belfast
- Jane Cassidy, Maurice Leyden – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Shine Classics – QUBSU, Belfast
- Skymas, Thrash Hat, Dave Livense – Voodoo, Belfast
Sun 11 December
- Richie Ramone, Klammer – Voodoo, Belfast
- Twin Atlantic – Limelight 1, Belfast
- The Crossfire Hurricanes (EP launch), Alpha Twin, Mosmo Strange – Aether & Echo, Belfast
Mon 12 December
- Low – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 13 December
- Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus – Voodoo, Belfast
- Dan Owen, Eve Belle – McHugh’s, Belfast
Wed 14 December
- Janet Devlin – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Brash Isaac & Beulah Kim’s Merry Merry Christmas Gig – Sunflower, Belfast
- Wood Burning Savages, Anto & The Echoes, Vokxen, Ravens – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Matua Trap, Newt, Bosco Ramos – The Eglantine, Belfast
Fri 16 December
- The Outcasts, A.R.S.E., Jai Sian, Terri Hooley – Black Box, Belfast
- Duke Special – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Sat 17 December
- Chas & Dave – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Belfast Mod/Ska Festival – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Beartooth, Trashboat- Limelight 2, Belfast
- Malojian, Arborist, The Holy Innocents, The Mad Dalton – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Our Krypton Son, Conor Mason – Sandinos, Derry
Sun 18 December
- Van Morrison – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
- Ports, Silences, Jealous of the Birds, Joshua Burnside – Limelight 2, Belfast
Mon 19 December
- Lisa Hannigan – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Wed 21 December
- Brian Kennedy – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Glass Raised Christmas Show: Emerald Armada, Brand New Friend, Brash Isaac, Life Goals – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 22 December
- R51, January, Fox Colony – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Exmagician, Touts, Brand New Friend – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 23 December
- Ardú Vocal Ensemble – St George’s Church, Belfast – in aid of The Simon Communities of Ireland
- Festivus: Parapa Palace, Saint Sapphire & Viper Wine – The Pavilion, Belfast
- Gods Waiting Room Xmas Party: Andrew Weatherall, David Holmes – Maple Leaf Club, Belfast
- The Docs – The Glassworks, Derry
Thurs 29 December
- Stay Human: A Benefit For Refugee Rescue – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 30 December
- Bry – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Hudson Taylor – The Glassworks, Derry
Sat 31 December
- Heroes vs. Villains NYE: Goldie Fawn, Owen McGarry – Black Box, Belfast
- NI Soul Troop, Pocket Billiards, Aggressors BC – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- AVA x NYE x Shine: Dave Clarke, Sunil Sharpe – QUBSU, Belfast
