Live Reviews

SOAK and Pillow Queens finish their European tour with a date in the headliner’s hometown. The culmination of the tour...

Belfast has no shortage of collectives these days. From the underground DIYness of ZOOL Records, to the forward thinking boundary...

Oddly, I was glad for the rain. ‘Chasing Cars’ wouldn’t have sounded right in the baking sunlight. Ward Park 3,...

There are very few albums as unique and special as Jeff Buckley’s Grace.  Since his untimely death in 1997, this...

The good people of Ireland were out in force to welcome the return of Omagh native Phil Taggart to Belfast....

A Berlin based band with plenty of links to Belfast, HAVVK decided our own Oh Yeah Music Centre would be...

Roughly a year ago in a dusty and peculiar smelling university accommodation, I went to my mate Alex’s room and...

Ask anyone living around the North Coast what their first trip to Kellys was like, and you’ll get a list...

Most nights, the old Belfast Met building sits alone and silent. Dominating Tower Street, many of its windows are boarded...

“Are you being serious.” “Mate, I actually swear we’ve no fivers.” Business as usual then for the McHughs basement. A...

Since the 26th of January, the preliminary heats of Róisín’s Battle of the Bands has been taking place, where local...

The word ‘dive’ doesn’t seem to do it justice. More ‘secretive’ or ‘where-Micheal-Corleone-would-hide-the-bodies” Tucked away at the bottom of University...

According to the popular smartphone navigation application ‘Google Maps,’ it takes exactly 11 minutes to make your way from the...

The sheer ambition of the night deserves a moment of note in itself. Eight acts. One stage. Four hours. Few...

If you ever wanted your finger on the pulse of where the current Northern Ireland music scene is headed, look...