Tag: Michael Barbour

Existential anxiety punctuates Living Isn’t Easy like rain punctuates a Northern Irish summer; it’s not always present but it’s never ...

It seems strange to say that this is one of a very few album releases by Dunlop, although he has ...

Time Well Spent may well be Matt McGinn’s lockdown baby, but he has brought this collection of ten original songs ...

On Thursday 20th October 2022 the Old Court House on Bangor’s seafront comes back to life, reborn as a music ...

The latest single from up-and-coming Derry indie pop masters Lavengro is a pure slice of unbridled joy. Get Out has ...

Burning Codes is the long-running solo project by Belfast’s own Paul Archer and the new single Art serves up exactly ...

It’s been a long wait for some substantial new material from mercurial singer-songwriter Sam Wickens after the critically acclaimed release ...

It’s always an interesting experience to hear the debut output from a local band that you’ve seen play live; these ...

Not quite an album, but more than an EP, Carousel marks Beoga’s first release since 2016’s Before We Change Our ...

There’s a lot of people within the local music scene who will know Matt McIvor, if not by name then ...

Stuck in the house with no end in sight, spending days on endless work video conferences and e-mails, losing track ...

Commeth the hour, commeth the man. What a time for a new Malojian album to drop. Long in the gestation, ...

It was in the Black Box in April 2018 that Matt McGinn debuted some of the music and ideas that ...

It’s no small enterprise to self-fund an album, let alone record said album in the venerable FAME studios in Muscle ...

"Photos from Ronan McSorley's EP launch as part of Belfast Nashville, alongside Kelsey Abbott and Connor Singleton. Photos by Michael ...