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
Wed 3 January
- Crywank, Ghost Office, Rosseau, Paper Boy – The Barracks, Belfast (all ages, early show)
- Crywank, Rosseau, Ghost Office, In Gloom – Voodoo, Belfast
Thurs 4 January
- Sharon Shannon – Market Place Theatre, Armagh
Fri 5 January
- Ibibio Sound Machine – Black Box, Belfast
- Drakonis, Rabid Bitch of the North, Nomadic Rituals, Cursed Sun – Voodoo, Belfast
- GIFTED: Robyn G Shiels, Reevah, Joel Harkin, Oisin O Scolai – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sat 6 January
- The 4 Of Us – Black Box, Belfast
- DJ Yoda – Black Box, Belfast
Mon 8 January
- Topia: Unyielding Love, No Great Loss, Nolan – The Menagerie, Belfast
Thurs 11 January
- Hunkpapa – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 12 January
- Geoff Tate – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Booka Brass Band – Black Box, Belfast
- Ports, Paddy Nash, Paul Casey – Millennium Forum, Derry
- Shine: Dax J, K-Hand, Schmutz – Limelight, Belfast
- Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses Heat 1 – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 13 January
- Wolfgang Flur – Black Box, Belfast
- The Irish Videogame Orchestra – Black Box, Belfast
Sun 14 January
- Nuala Kennedy – Black Box, Belfast
- Cosey Fanni Tutti (in conversation) – Black Box, Belfast
Mon 15 January
- Motionless in White, Ice Nine Kills – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Wed 17 January
- Saffyre – Black Box, Belfast
Thurs 18 January
- Bernadette Morris – Duke of York, Belfast
Fri 19 January
- Stranded: Usula Burns – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Steel Panther, Wayward Sons – Limelight, Belfast
- Three Trapped Tigers – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Escape The Fate, Set to Stun, Shields UK – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Shine: Solardo, Mason Maynard, Themm – Limelight, Belfast
- Brand New Friend – Duke of York, Belfast
- Amy McAllister – Black Box, Belfast
- GoGo Penguin – Black Box, Belfast
Sat 20 January
- The Adventures – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Dave Arcari – Black Box, Belfast
- Yola Carter – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 24 January
- Lau – Black Box, Belfast
Thurs 25 January
- Public Service Broadcasting – Limelight, Belfast
- Le Vent Du Nord – Black Box, Belfast
- Hayes Carll – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Fri 26 January
- Shirley Collins – Black Box, Belfast
- The Oh Hellos, Sound of the Sirens – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Malojian, Steph Cameron – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Lumen: DSNT’s 6th Birthday – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Dave McPherson, Aaron Shanley, Joel Harkin, Caimin O’Shea – Voodoo, Belfast
- Chicago Typewriter, SLT, Blackout Season, Public House – The Pavilion, Belfast
Sat 27 January
- The Spitfires – Voodoo, Belfast
- Hazel O’Connor, Cormac De Barra – Black Box, Belfast
- Moon Duo, Documenta – Black Box, Belfast
Sun 28 January
- Kaia Kater – Black Box, Belfast
- Willy Vlautin – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Mon 29 January
- The Menzingers, Pup, Cayetana – Limelight, Belfast
Wed 31 January
- Hayseed Dixie – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 1 February
- Big Wild: Beauty Sleep, Party Fears, HAWK – The Menagerie, Belfast
- GIFTED: Darren Doherty & The Heathen Choir, Sonja Sleator, Sit Tight, Velvet Alibi – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Versatile – Voodoo, Belfast
- Damien Dempsey – Limelight, Belfast
- Getting to know – Susie Blue – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Fri 2 February
- Sam Baker – Errigle Inn, Belfast
- The 4 of Us – Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
- Wonk Unit, Suckin’ Diesel, The Nilz, Madhouse – Voodoo, Belfast
- Josh Kelley, Frankie Davies – Limelight, Belfast
- Electric Octopus – The Menagerie, Belfast
Sat 3 February
- Owen Denvir – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Beth Orton – Limelight, Belfast
- BICEP, Daniel Avery, Moxie, Hammer, Cormac – The Telegraph Building, Belfast
- The Orphan Brigade – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- The Distortion Project: Erosion (album launch), Causticgod, Periapt – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ryan Vail, Jealous of the Birds, Gross Net, Cut in Blinks – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Tues 6 February
- The Mavericks – Limelight, Belfast
- The Script – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Fox Colony – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Wed 7 February
- British Sea Power – Limelight, Belfast
Feb 8 February
- Output Belfast
- Wasps, Black Chapels, Part Time Pilots, Willoware Jackson – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Fri 9 February
- Ulaid & Duke Special – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- RavenEye – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Shine: Sam Paganini, Zoe, Phil Kieran – Limelight, Belfast
- Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses Heat 2 – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 10 February
- Jaya The Cat, Tonic All-Stars, The Skallions – The Art Department, Belfast
- Saint Sapphire – The Pavilion, Belfast
Tues 13 February
- Anvil – Limelight, Belfast
Wed 14 February
- The Lost Brothers – Black Box, Belfast
- The Front Bottoms, The Smith Street Band, Brick & Mortar – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Thurs 15 February
- Paul Weller, Touts – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Alien Ant Farm, Soil, Local H – Limelight, Belfast
- Alestorm, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, Rumahoy – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Fri 16 February
- Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses Heat 3 – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 17 February
- Jake Bugg – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Susie Blue (album launch) – Sandinos, Derry
Sun 18 February
- Into The Ark – The MAC, Belfast
- Eddi Reader – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Thurs 22 February
- Fredo – Limelight, Belfast
- SONI: The Vicunas, Bear Skin, Lauren Bird, Modern Rome – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Zool Radar: Mosmo Strange, WASPS, Alpha Twin – The Menagerie, Belfast
Fri 23 February
- Electric Six – Limelight, Belfast
- Duke Special – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sat 24 February
- Paul Draper – Limelight, Belfast
- Rebekah Fitch (EP launch), Nathan O’Regan – The Barge, Belfast
Tues 27 February
- Nils Frahm – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Wed 28 February
- The Temperance Movement – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 1 March
- Wyvern Lingo – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Big Wild: Susie Blue, ROE – The Menagerie, Belfast
- GIFTED: Donum Dei (album launch), Death of a Salesman, Ketos, Dream Awake – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 2 March
- Mist – Limelight, Belfast
- Hue & Cry – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Lavengro, Jonny James, The Luna Kicks – Nerve Centre, Derry
- Gnarkats (charity show) – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Blue Whale, ARC – Black Box, Belfast
Sat 3 March
- Skid Row, Toseland – Limelight, Belfast
- Mick Flannery, LemonCello – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- The Stranglers, Therapy? – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- The Winter Passing, Woahnows, Fresh, January, Life Goals – The American Bar, Belfast
- CHERYM (single launch), Mosmo Strange, Black Chapels, Sleeping Outside – Bennigans, Derry
Tues 6 March
- QR Presents: Underground – QUBSU, Belfast
Wed 7 March
- Listener, Levi the Poet, Born Only Yesterday, Sleeping Outside, A Burial At Sea – Voodoo, Belfast
- Catherine McGrath – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Chris Difford – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 8 March
- Aleem – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Lauren Bird (single launch) – Clayton Hotel, Belfast
Fri 9 March
- Runabay – Bangor Castle, Bangor
Sat 10 March
- Alabama 3 – Limelight, Belfast
- Bob Log III – Voodoo, Belfast
- Moxie – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Lucy Bell, Ben Cutler, Sam Leeson, Aoife Mallon – Clayton Hotel, Belfast (early show)
- Paper/Boy (single launch), WASPS, Sleeping Outside, Happy Out – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sat 11 March
- Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, Empty Lungs – Limelight, Belfast
Tues 13 March
- The Wombats – Limelight, Belfast
Thurs 15 March
- Hunkpapa – Limelight, Belfast
- Stereophonics – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Hak Baker – Limelight, Belfast
- Saint Sapphire, Alpha Twin – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 16 March
- Stranded: Chapter & Verse(chorusverse) – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 17 March
- Emerald Armada, Brash Isaac, ROE – Limelight, Belfast
- Steven Wilson – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Orpheus Ball: DANI, Twisted Sisters, The Inappropriates – Accidental Theatre, Belfast
Sun 18 March
- Foyle Folk Festival – Victoria Market Marquee Tent, Derry
Mon 19 March
- Joan Baez – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Tues 20 March
- Dodie – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
- Oscillations and Modulations Festival – Derry
Wed 21 March
- All Tvvins – Limelight, Belfast
- Electric Octopus, Mosmo Strange, Black Chapels, Ember Trails – The Art Department, Belfast
- Oscillations and Modulations Festival – Derry
Thurs 22 March
- Feeder – Limelight, Belfast
- Kaz Hawkins, Sam York – Riverside Theatre, Coleraine
- Cannibal Corpse – Limelight, Belfast
- The Whileaways – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Getting To Know: The Wood Burning Savages – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Sarah Darling – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 23 March
- Gareth Dunlop – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- The Secret Sisters – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Ger Wolfe, Inni-K – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 24 March
- REWS, The Sea Close By – McHugh’s, Belfast
- David Kitt – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 31 March
- The Altered Hours, Documenta – The Menagerie, Belfast
- Alex Lahey – Black Box, Belfast
- Touts, Hand Models – Duke of York, Belfast
- Lost Avenue, Waldorf & Cannon, Fierce Pit Bosses – Bennigans, Derry
Wed 4 April
- Hudson Taylor – The Glassworks, Derry
- Bronagh Broderick, Cole-Marie – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Thurs 5 April
- GIFTED: Wynona Bleach, Black Chapels, Hand Models, Fox Colony – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Big Wild: Montauk Hotel, Cherym – Menagerie, Belfast
- Wyvern Lingo, Reevah, Rebekah Fitch – McHugh’s, Belfast
Fri 6 April
- Rebekah Fitch, ROE – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Sleeping Outside, Little Arcadia, Pipe Dream, Cherym – Atlantic, Portrush
- Chase the River, Brash Isaac, Wanderers – Black Box, Belfast
- No Hot Ashes – Limelight, Belfast
- The Stranglers, Therapy? – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Sat 7 April
- Toto – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
- Keywest – Limelight, Belfast
- Jack Lukeman – Black Box, Belfast
- Brash Isaac, Wanderers, Chase the River – Sandinos, Derry
- The Marra, Squak, Shoto, Kathleen & Kate – Nerve Centre, Derry
- Malojian – The Old Courthouse, Antrim
Sun 8 April
- Marilion – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tues 10 April
- Slow Place Like Home, Gaze is Ghost – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 12 April
- The Mad Dalton (single launch), The Doone Brothers – Love & Death Inc, Belfast
- Gnarkats, Rebekah Fitch – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Born Only Yesterday, Via: Barvikha, Versive, Arbuckle & McCormick – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Fri 13 April
- Ciaran Lavery (album launch), Ailbhe Reddy – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Marmozets, Rascalton – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Mick Hanly – The American Bar, Belfast
- Kaz Hawkins, Sam York – Alley Arts Centre, Strabane
- Suzanne Savage, Steve Amos, David McCann – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Sat 14 April
- Cherym, No Matter, J’aime Rachelle, Ghost Office – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Gaze is Ghost, Slow Place Like Home – Brickwork Lounge, Derry
- Average Swine, Three Reasons, Plague Artists, Flatliner – QUBSU, Belfast
- Ciaran Lavery (album launch), ROE – The Glassworks, Derry
- Aslan – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Malojian – Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena
- Grainne Duffy – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
Sun 15 April
- Lessons of War: Matt McGinn – Black Box, Belfast
Mon 16 April
- Mercury Rev, Lyla Foy – Wesley Centenary Church, Bangor
Wed 18 April
- Aston Merrygold – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Frank Turner & The Sleepless Souls, Arkells, The Homeless Gospel Choir – Limelight, Belfast
Thurs 19 April
- The Wonder Years – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Low Anthem – Queen’s Parade Church, Bangor
Fri 20 April
- Pandora Ills (album launch), Salad Boyz, Zeal, Brick Smyth – The Eglantine, Belfast
- Brand New Friend, ROE, Hand Models, Louise Moore – Top of the Town, Omagh
- Gascan Ruckus, Empty Lungs, Dugout – QUBSU, Belfast
- Showhawk Duo – Limelight, Belfast
- Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- John Spillane – The American Bar, Belfast
- Autumns, Group Zero, Steven Henry – Menagerie, Belfast
Sat 21 April
- The Wood Burning Savages (album launch), Waldorf & Cannon, Cherym – Nerve Centre, Derry (plus early under 18 show – 2pm)
- Lore – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Sun 22 April
- Nada Surf – Limelight, Belfast
- Black Doldrums, The Barbituates, Horse Tablet – Menagerie, Belfast
Fri 27 April
- Hit The B Button (EP launch), Romeo Indigo Romeo, Public House, All Of Your Ruins – The Pavilion, Belfast
- Stranded: Joshua Burnside – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Little Hours – Limelight, Belfast
- Lisa Canny, Larks, Reevah – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Malojian – Ranfurly House, Dungannon
- Mandy Bingham, Graham Bingham – The American Bar, Belfast
- William McCarthy – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Sat 28 April
- Saint Sister – Duncairn, Belfast
- Brand New Friend, Hunkpapa, Hot Cops – Black Box, Belfast
- Strength NIA, Locky Morris & John O’Neil – Nerve Centre, Derry
- Tethers (EP launch), Mosa, Search Party, Bed Manager – Foundry, Belfast
- The Alarm – Limelight, Belfast
- Malojian – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Bruno Major – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 3 May
- GIFTED: Mosmo Strange, Munky, Part Time Pilots, Ferals – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Rosborough – Duke of York, Belfast
Sat 5 May
- Ciara O’Neill (album launch) – The Barge, Belfast
- Myles Manley, Civil Simian, Jess Edlin – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Thurs 10 May
- Anto & The Echoes, Gnarkats, Sit Tight, Conor Phillips – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Fri 11 May
- Stranded: Rebekah Fitch – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 12 May
- Chordblossom Kickstart Live Final – Gemma Bradley, Pale Lanterns, SX-70, Paper/Boy – Foundry, Belfast
Thurs 17 May
- Tunes for Choice: Ghost Office, Whale Talk, Sister Ghost – The Menagerie, Belfast
- Fox Colony, CHERYM, Bui – McHugh’s, Belfast
Sat 19 May
- The Late Twos, Vokxen, Hand Models, Oisin O Scolai – Foundry, Belfast
- Scratch My Progress: Cut In Blinks, Hand Models, Strange New Places, Reevah – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Tues 22 May
- Nathan O’Regan (single launch), Larks – Black Box Green Room, Belfast
Wed 23 May
- Jealous of the Birds, Owen Lamont, Susie Blue – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Travis is a Tourist, Rebekah Fitch – Babel, Belfast
- Damo Suzuki with Electric Octopus, Blumehaus, Unbelievable Lake – Menagerie, Belfast
Thurs 24 May
- Sister Ghost, Alpha Twin, Surf Green, Romeo Indigo Romeo – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- Emerald Armada, Orchid Collective – Voodoo, Belfast
- Hot Cops, Just Mustard, Junk Drawer – The Art Department, Belfast
- Northlane – Limelight, Belfast
- Monkey Bath, MOSA, Average Swine, Kid Trench – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 25 May
- BBC Biggest Weekend – Titanic Slipways, Belfast
- Emer Maguire – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Moscoman – Menagerie, Belfast
Sat 26 May
- BBC Biggest Weekend – Titanic Slipways, Belfast
- Ronnie Greer’s Almost Big Band – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Volbeat – Telegraph Building, Belfast
- 5th Element Fundraiser – Foundry, Belfast
Sun 27 May
- Wood Burning Savages (album launch), Wynona Bleach, Molly Sterling, Waldorf & Cannon – Limelight, Belfast
- Andy Votel – Menagerie, Belfast
Mon 28 May
- Blue Rose Code – Black Box, Belfast
Tues 29 May
- Cora Kelly, Black North, Eilis Mulholland – Sunflower, Belfast
Wed 30 May
- Ichos – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 1 June
- Reef, Toploader, Rews – Rugby Club, Holywood
- Unyielding Love, Nomadic Rituals, No Great Loss, On Parole – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ben Glover, Anthony Toner, Malojian, Matt McGinn, John McCullough – Black Box, Belfast
- Gerry Cinnamon – Limelight, Belfast
- Joshua Burnside – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- The Sound of Revolution: Our Krypton Son, Reevah – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sat 2 June
- The Boomtown Rats, Wood Burning Savages – Rugby Club, Holywood
- Reevah (EP launch), Brash Isaac, Rebecca Mulhern – Bennigans, Derry
- Meta Meta – Black Box, Belfast
- Hunkpapa – Market Place Theatre, Armagh
- Monster Magnet – Limelight, Belfast
- The Sound of Revolution: Rosborough, Foreign Owl, Cherym – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sun 3 June
- Ryan McMullan, Joshua Burnside, Michael Kerr, Rebekah Fitch – Rugby Club, Holywood
- Lindi Ortega – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Robb Murphy & The Ulster String Quartet, Randall Stephen Hall, Brigid O’Neill – 101 Donegall Street, Belfast
Tues 5 June
- Black Moon: Girls to the Front – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 6 June
- Siobhan Day, Lucy Bell, Eilis Mulholland – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
- Wookalily – The Spaniard, Belfast
- The Rooftop Sessions: Brigid Mae Power – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Thurs 7 June
- Black Stone Cherry, New Valley Wolves – Telegraph Building, Belfast
- The Magic Numbers – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 8 June
- Belfest – Bar Sub, QUBSU, Belfast
- Soley – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Brigid O’Neill – Eastside Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 9 June
- Sound of the Shore Festival – Ballyronan
- Women’s Work Showcase – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Sun 10 June
- Bird & Bramble: Joni’s Story – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Rolo Tomassi – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Bar Stool Preachers, The Vibes, Anto Depresants, Madhouse, No Matter, Belwood – Foundry, Belfast
Tues 12 June
- Lisa Hannigan, ROE – Guildhall, Derry
Thurs 14 June
- The Mad Dalton (album launch), Lauren Bird, Giraffe Stairs – Black Box, Belfast
Fri 15 June
- Girls Names (album launch) – Black Box, Belfast
- Wynona Bleach, ROE, Ember Trails, Dirty Faces – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Bonnevilles, Amy Montgomery – Mandela Hall, Belfast
- Lunasa – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 16 June
- Kaz Hawkins & Sam York – Market Place Theatre, Armagh
Sun 17 June
- CW Stoneking – Black Box, Belfast
Fri 22 June
- No Oil Paintings, Buffalo Bay – Voodoo, Belfast
- Malojian – The American Bar, Belfast
Sat 23 June
- Peter McVeigh – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
- WASPS (single launch) – Foundry, Belfast
- Riley Pearce – The American Bar, Belfast
- Paper/Boy, Oh Boland – Nerve Centre, Derry
Tues 26 June
- Beauty Sleep, Nineteen 80 Something, Young Floyd, Dirty Faces – Top of the Town, Omagh
- Tuesday Sound Session – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Thurs 28 June
- American Guinea Pig (EP launch), The Fake Flirtations, Search Party, Cherym – Love & Death, Belfast
- Deap Vally, Hand Models – Limelight 2, Belfast
Fri 29 June
- Joshua Burnside (EP launch), Brash Isaac, Lambing Season – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Volume Control: Ferals, Valium – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Sat 30 June
- Our Back Yard festival – Plantation Road, Craigavon
- Bailer, Death of a Salesman, Donum Dei, Axecatcher – Foundry, Belfast
- Orpheus: Wookalily, Dan Leith – Accidental Theatre, Belfast
Sun 1 July
- Colm McIntyre & The Slipstream Band, Lonesome George, Dove, Paddy Collins – Foundry, Belfast
Tues 3 July
- Alice Signal Fires, James Downey, Darren Doherty & The Heathen Choir – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
Wed 4 July
- Ruth Bate, SX-70, TVEI, Psychic Eyes – Voodoo, Belfast
Thurs 5 July
- Hello Casanova, Cherym, Willoware Jackson – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 6 July
- Stu Daly (Chewing on Tinfoil), Guihelm, Fox Colony, Tragical History Tour – Sunflower Bar, Belfast
- Surf Green (EP launch), Sit Tight, Hit The B Button, Romeo Indigo Romeo – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 12 July
- Curfew Fest – Black Box/Voodoo, Belfast
Thurs 19 July
- A Litany of Failures (vinyl compilation launch) – The Art Department, Belfast
- Kid Trench, Whale Talk, Ember Trails, SX-70 – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Fri 20 July
- Coaster – Atlantic Bar/Babushka, Portrush
Sat 21 July
- New Pagans, Catalan, Sister Ghost – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Sun 22 July
- Brightr, H_ngm_n, Hand Models – Press29, Belfast
Thurs 26 July
- Soundwaves: Fury, Rebekah Fitch, Alice La – Goat’s Toe, Bangor
Fri 27 July
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- Soundwaves: General Fiasco, The Late Twos, Pale Lanterns – Goat’s Toe, Bangor
- Goodbye Mandela – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Sat 28 July
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- Hot Cops, Ferals, Gnarkats, The Sea Close By – Foundry, Belfast
- Soundwaves: Amanda Agnew, Full House Disco – Goat’s Toe, Bangor
Sun 29 July
- Sunflowerfest – Hillsborough
- Soundwaves: Brash Isaac, Nathan O’Regan, Larks – Goat’s Toe (rooftop), Bangor
- Soundwaves: Emerald Armada, Reevah – Goat’s Toe, Bangor
- Rebekah Fitch – The Dirty Onion, Belfast
Thurs 2 August
- Women In Music Northern Ireland Membership Mixer – Black Box, Belfast
- Blue Americans, Travis is a Tourist – Menagerie, Belfast
Fri 3 August
- John Andrews (EP launch), Three Chords Max – Eastside Visitors Centre, Belfast
- Cool For Cats: Wynona Bleach, Cherym, The Couth, Joel Harkin – Foundry, Belfast
- Elixir #5: Live Hip Hop Showcase – Voodoo, Belfast
Sun 5 August
- The Winter Passing, Dugout, January, Fox Colony – Foundry, Belfast
Tues 7 August
- Hannah McPhillimy, Peter J McCauley – St Martin’s Church, Belfast
Thurs 9 August
- Owen Lamont, Rossa, Lauren Bird, Conor McCann – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- Stendhal Festival – Limavady
- Eastside Arts Festivals presents More Volume! – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
Fri 10 August
- Stendhal Festival – Limavady
Sat 11 August
- Stendhal Festival – Limavady
Wed 15 August
- 20:20: Patrick Gardiner, Rory Lavelle, Stef Campbell – Accidental Theatre, Belfast
Thurs 16 August
- Saint Sapphire, Valium, Romeo Indigo Romeo, The Fake Flirtations – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 21 August
- Frankie Cosmos, Squarehead – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 24 August
- Hilden Beer & Music Festival – Hilden Brewery, Lisburn
Sat 25 August
- Hilden Beer & Music Festival – Hilden Brewery, Lisburn
Sun 26 August
- Hilden Beer & Music Festival – Hilden Brewery, Lisburn
Tues 28 August
- OneLung, Shh…Diam!, False Friends, Squak – Top of the Town, Omagh
Wed 29 August
- A Night for Owl John (A Tribute to Scott Hutchinson) – Love & Death, Belfast
- The Darkling Air – Space Theatre, Bangor
Thurs 30 August
- Focal Festival – Lower Crescent Gardens, Belfast
- Lisa Hannigan – Wesley Centenary Church, Bangor
- Susie-Blue, Young Brides, OneLung, Jude McCandless – BarZu, Derry
- Gareth Dunlop, Dean Maywood, Ben Cutler – Accidental Theatre, Belfast
- Wood Burning Savages, Hand Models, Hot Cops, Beauty Sleep, Wynona Bleach, Mob Wife – Limelight, Belfast
Fri 31 August
- Focal Festival – Lower Crescent Gardens, Belfast
- Lisa Hannigan, Sullivan & Gold – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
- Bullitt City Sounds: Blue Americans, Hot Cops, Cut in Blinks, 1000 Beasts – Bullitt, Belfast
Sat 1 September
- Focal Festival – Lower Crescent Gardens, Belfast
- Eamonn McCormick – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Part Time Pilots, Heidi Heist, Moonmen – Grand Central Bar, Derry
- Gareth Dunlop, Paul Hughes – Ranfurly House Arts & Visitor Centre, Dungannon
Sun 2 September
- Passenger – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Mon 3 September
- The Kooks – Limelight 1, Belfast
Tues 4 September
- Ugly Kid Joe, Haggard Cat, Yellowcake – Limelight 1, Belfast
- The Beat, The Skallions – Limelight 2, Belfast
Wed 5 September
- Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Donnie Willow, A Burial at Sea, Punch Face Champions – The Art Department, Belfast
Thurs 6 September
- Gifted: The Mannerly Hoods, Buffalo Bay, Psyphony, Matt McCrum – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Molto Vivo (single launch) – Atypical Gallery, Belfast
- The Also Rans’ Party: Son of the Hound, Brash Isaac – Voodoo, Belfast
- Getting to Know…Malojian – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Fri 7 September
- Moira Calling Festival – Moira
- Rose Tattoo, Girlschool – Limelight, Belfast
- Terry, Cruising – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 8 September
- Moira Calling Festival – Moira
- Foreign Owl, Cherym, Fierce Pit Bosses – The Glassworks, Derry
- Musicians Againts Homelessness – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Mon 10 September
- Incubus – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tues 11 September
- Europe, King King – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Fox Colony (EP launch), Roe, Cherym, Sweater Cult – Voodoo, Belfast
Wed 12 September
- Deerstalker, Ferals, Jonny Fitch – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 14 September
- Ex-Isles (album launch) – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 15 September
- Donal Clancy – The American Bar, Belfast
Sun 16 September
- Biffy Clyro – Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Mon 17 September
- Wooden Shjips – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Wed 19 September
- Nick Mulvey – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Thurs 20 September
- Beoga – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Dana Masters – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- Her Name Is Calla, VerseChorusVerse, Rebekah Fitch, Matt O’Reilly – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters, Elder Druid – Voodoo, Belfast
- Kyle Falconer, The Late Twos, The Couth – Foundry, Belfast
Fri 21 September
- Culture Night Belfast
Sat 22 September
- Brooke Candy – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Astral Weeks: 50 Year Anniversary – The MAC, Belfast
- The LaFontaines – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Mosmo Strange, Wasps, Charity Shop Vinyl- Nerve Centre, Derry
Sun 23 September
- Lost Horizons, Penelope Isles – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Healthy Junkies, Wynona Bleach, Cherym, Belwood – Voodoo, Belfast
- Pilgrim St – Black Box, Belfast
Tues 25 September
- Crown The Empire, Volumes, Coldrain – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
Thurs 27 September
- Anna Calvi – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Anna’s Anchor, Fox Colony, Brash Isaac – McHugh’s, Belfast
Fri 28 September
- Sea Pinks (album launch), Music City – Black Box, Belfast
- Volume Control: Bairie, Little Poca, Dena – Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast
- Gin Palace (single launch), In Gloom, Chicago Typewriter – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Elixir: Jam Baxter, Sammy B-Side – Palm House, Belfast
Sat 29 September
- Three Trapped Tigers, Arvo Party, Wasps – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Tom Baxter – Black Box, Belfast
- Dream Awake, Munro, Victim Royal, Hello Casanova – The Speakeasy, Belfast
Mon 1 October
- Alpha Twin, Bell Diver Spiders, Fox Colony, Imaginary Towns – SU Bar, Coleraine
Thurs 4 October
- Getting to Know: Kitt Philippa – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Gifted: Hot Cops, Mob Wife, Ghost Office, Ferals – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Triona, Orlaith & Mollie – The Duke of York, Belfast
Sat 6 October
- Ethan Hanna (album launch), Sonja Sleator, John Andrews – The Pavilion, Belfast
Mon 8 October
- GRSNI Ladies Rock Showcase – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Wed 10 October
- Nexus NI: Heliopause, Charlie Gibson, GIRL, Rebekah Fitch, Bui – Laverys, Belfast
Thurs 11 October
- The Mad Dalton, Molto Vivo, Bed Manager, John Andrews – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- The Fugues – Voodoo, Belfast
- Lite, Chancer, Tethers – The Palm House, Belfast
Fri 12 October
- Slow Readers Club – Limelight, Belfast
- Malojian – Riverside Theatre, Coleraine
- Marc O’Reilly, Owen Lamont – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Sat 13 October
- Neil Foster (album launch) – Framewerk, Belfast
- Tom Odell – The Telegraph Building, Belfast
- NEWT, Fox Colony, Heidi Heist, Joanna Fegan – The Glassworks, Derry
- Last Call – The American Bar, Belfast
Sun 14 October
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Limelight, Belfast
Mon 15 October
- Editors, Talos – Ulster Hall, Belfast
Tues 16 October
- Warwick Johnson – Limelight, Belfast
Wed 17 October
- Superorganism – Limelight, Belfast
- Chapter & Verse – The MAC, Belfast
- The Sherlocks, Martin Rafferty & The Northern City Lights, The Fugues – McHugh’s, Belfast
Thurs 18 October
- Eilidh Patterson – Black Box, Belfast
Fri 19 October
- Glass Wings (album launch), Molly Sterling, Owen Lamont – Black Box, Belfast
- Subhumans, Takers & Users, Belwood, Confrontation Time – Voodoo, Belfast
Sat 20 October
- Saint Sister – Black Box, Belfast
- Emily Barker, Rory Nellis – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
Sun 21 October
- Saint Sister – The Glassworks, Derry
- Woes, Hello Casanova, Sleeping Outside – Voodoo, Belfast
Mon 22 October
- First Aid Kit, The Staves – The Telegraph Building, Belfast
- Mutual Benefit – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 23 October
- Randall Stephen Hall – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 24 October
- Sea Girls, Strange New Places – Limelight, Belfast
- Nerina Pallot – Black Box, Belfast
Thurs 25 October
- Nerina Pallot – Black Box, Belfast
- Stick in the Wheel – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
- Wanderers (final show), Rebekah Fitch, Johnny James – McHugh’s, Belfast
Fri 26 October
- Eric Martin – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Dreads, Documenta – The Menagerie, Belfast
- Unbelievable Lake, The Barbiturates – Bennigans, Derry
- Darren Doherty & The Heathen Choir, Fierce Pit Bosses, Heidi Heist, Alder – Bowery Bar, Derry
- Shizznigh 8th Birthday Show – The Palm House, Belfast
- Saint Sapphire, Don Maple, Lonely Astronauts, Twelve Step Program – Pavilion, Belfast
- SOAK – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Sun 28 October
- Lisa Hannigan, Kitt Philippa – Guildhall, Derry
- The Slackers, The Skallions – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Mon 29 October
- David Kitt, Joshua Burnside, Malojian – Guildhall, Derry
- Joan Armatrading – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Mac DeMarco, Jackie Cohen – Limelight, Belfast
Tues 30 October
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Elma Orkestra – Guildhall, Derry
Wed 31 October
- Strange New Places, Sister Ghost, Gender Chores – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Pockets Billiards (single launch), Kid Trench, Pandora Ills – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Mosmo Strange, Alpha Twin, Part Time Pilots, Ferals – Voodoo, Belfast
Fri 2 November
- Rory Nellis, Our Krypton Son, Sonja Sleator – Accidental Theatre, Belfast
- Slomatics, Strangle Wire, MAW – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Bar Stool Preachers, United Bottles, Anti-Depressants, Belwood – The Palm House, Belfast
- Joel Harkin (EP launch), Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly, Neptune M. – The American Bar, Belfast
Sat 3 November
- La Galaxie, Beauty Sleep – Voodoo, Belfast
- Malojian – Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
- Joel Harkin – Cool Discs, Derry
Wed 7 November
- Cormac Neeson, Owen Lamont – The Duke of York, Belfast
- Rebekah Fitch – Kiwi’s Brew Bar, Portrush
Thurs 8 November
- Cormac Neeson, Amy Montgomery – The Duke of York, Belfast
- Orchid Collective, ROE, Pearl Natasha, Sonja Sleator – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- The Oh Yeah Legend Award: A Jam for Jackie – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Fri 9 November
- Blue Whale (album launch), GIRL, Steve Davis, Herr Fingerling – The Menagerie, Belfast
- Ian Prowse, Nasher Nash – The American Bar, Belfast
- Above & Beyond – The Telegraph Building, Belfast
- A Love From Outer Space: Andrew Weatherall, Sean Johnston – Vodoo, Belfast
- Blue Whale (album launch), GIRL, Steve Davis, Herr Fingerling – Menagerie, Belfast
- Stranded: Aaron Shanley, Edelle McMahon – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Volume Control: Clash of the New Breeds
Sat 10 November
- Native Music Mart – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- A Tribute to Scott Hutchinson, Frightened Rabbit – Amidships, Jealous of the Birds, Brash Isaac, Kitt Philippa – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
Sun 11 November
- Rude Health – Limelight 2, Belfast
Thurs 15 November
- NI Music Prize 2018 – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- Vokxen, Reevah, Ingloom, Oisin O Scolai – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
- The Crawling (album launch), Conjuring Fate, Disconnect, Neamhni – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Fri 16 November
- Slacker: All Tvvins, Brand New Friend, Son of the Hound, Susie Blue – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
Sat 17 November
- Third Bar: David C Clements, Rosborough, Strange New Places – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
Sun 18 November
- Sunday Brunch with Kitt Philippa, Aborist, Ciara O’Neill & Matt McGinn – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
- Mumford & Sons, Maggie Rogers – SSE Arena, Belfast
Wed 21 November
- Kid Trench, The Mannerly Hoods, Matt McCrum, Blxxd – Voodoo, Belfast
- The Coral, MMODE – Limelight, Belfast
Thurs 22 November
- TAYNE, Gross Net, NIHIL: NIMIS – The Art Department, Belfast
- Hermitage Green – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Electric Six – Limelight, Belfast
Fri 23 November
- Malojian – Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick
- David C Clements – CS Lewis Square, Belfast
Sat 24 November
- Lore – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady
- Malojian – Ranfurly House, Dungannon
- Blackwater Conspiracy – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
- Matt McGinn, Zahria – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast
Mon 26 November
- SOAK, Kitt Philippa – Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
- Nothing But Thieves – Limelight, Belfast
- Alpha Twin (EP launch), Willoware Jackson, Don Maple – McHugh’s, Belfast
Wed 28 November
- Blossoms, Touts – Limelight, Belfast
Thurs 29 November
- Zool: Jealous of the Birds, Mosmo Strange – Secret show, Belfast
- Vistas – Voodoo, Belfast
- Rebekah Fitch, Gemma Bradley – American Madness, Belfast
- Robyn G Shiels (EP launch), Oisin O’Scolai & The Virginia Slims – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
Fri 30 November
- Joshua Burnside, Once There Was A King – The Duncairn, Belfast
- Chewing on Tinfoil, Mob Wife, Fox Colony – The Speakeasy, Belfast
- Will Varley – The Palm House, Belfast
- The Barbiturates, Conor Hutcheon – Bennigans, Derry
Sat 1 December
- Malojian (album launch), Nathan O’Regan – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
- Adam Grant & The Open Doors, Surf Green – Atlantic Bar, Portrush
- The Bonnevilles, Waldorf & Cannon – Bogans, Omagh
Tues 4 December
- The Fratellis, The Couth – Limelight, Belfast
Thurs 6 December
- Gifted: Owen Lamont, Glass Wings, Rory Nellis, Sonja Sleator – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Hunkpapa – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- Vokxen, FVRY, Blxxd – Menagerie, Belfast
Fri 7 December
- Snow Patrol, Ryan McMullan, Sam Fender, ROE – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Surf Green, Romeo Indigo Romeo, In Gloom, Willoware Jackson – Mullans, Downpatrick
- The Bonnevilles, Mosmo Strange, Micky Bartlett, Conor Keys – The Palm House, Belfast
- Villiers & The Villains – Black Box, Belfast
Sat 8 December
- Snow Patrol, Ryan McMullan, Sam Fender, ROE – SSE Arena, Belfast
- Lost Avenue, Mosmo Strange, Fierce Pit Bosses – Bennigans, Derry
- Duke Special – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- The Crescent Moon Club: Take Back The Gym – Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Mon 10 December
- Villagers, Kitt Philippa – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
Tues 11 December
- Runabay, Ethan Hanna, Matt Helders, Adam Grant – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast
Wed 12 December
- Wynona Bleach (EP launch) – Duke of York, Belfast
- Maria Doyle Kennedy – Black Box, Belfast
Thurs 13 December
- Saint Sapphire, MOSA, The Fake Flirtations, Modern Rome – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Murder Capital, Just Mustard – Sandinos, Derry
Fri 14 December
- Anthony Toner – Strand Arts Centre, Belfast
- Benjamin Smith Whittington – Abbey Lane Theatre, Armagh
Sat 15 December
- Gin Palace, The Fake Flirtations, Red House – Voodoo, Belfast
- In Memory of Robert Holmes – Menagerie, Belfast
- Invaderband, Gatefolds, Dirty Faces – Bennigans, Derry
Tues 18 December
- Ryan McMullan – Black Box, Belfast
Wed 19 December
- Jealous of the Birds, Cherym – McHugh’s, Belfast
- Sugarwolf – Speakeasy, Belfast
Thurs 20 December
- Ryan McMullan – Guildhall, Derry
- General Fiasco – Voodoo, Belfast
- Ash, Brand New Friend – Limelight, Belfast
Fri 21 December
- Quiet Arch 4th Birthday: Joshua Burnside, Ryan Vail & Arco String Quartet, Maljoian, Beauty Sleep, Stephen James Smith – Elmwood Hall, Belfast
- Ryan McMullan – Ulster Hall, Belfast
- General Fiasco – Voodoo, Belfast
- Sugarwolf – Bennigans, Derry
- Ross From Friends – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- Sheerbuzz – Nerve Centre, Derry
Sat 22 December
- The Outcasts – Black Box, Belfast
- Bui – The American Bar, Belfast
- Freaks’s, Hand Models – Diceys, Strabane
Sun 23 December
- Documenta, Sea Pinks – Menagerie, Belfast
Wed 26 December
- George Fitzgerald, Saoirse – The Bunker, Derry
Fri 28 December
- The Emerald Armada, Travis is a Tourist, Peter J McCauley – Limelight 2, Belfast
- Parapa Palace, The Strange Museum, Horse Tablet – The Pavilion, Belfast
Mon 31 December
- Suited & Booted – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
- The Skallions, Sister Kush, Swall Monkey – Voodoo, Belfast
