Creative Belfast Presents Output

Belfast City Council has announced eleven free showcases will take place in venues throughout the city centre and Cathedral Quarter, following Northern Ireland’s largest ever one day music conference, being hosted by on Thursday October 16.

‘Creative Belfast presents Output’ – which takes place in the MAC and the Oh Yeah Music Centre – will be attended by around 350 artists, businesses and creative students during the day and will address the challenges and opportunities that the music industry presents, highlighting the key role that music and performance plays within Northern Ireland’s buoyant creative industries sector. At night the focus will be on music, with a host of venues showcasing our brightest talent.

The line up is:

Venue / time	8pm	8.30pm	9pm	9.30pm	10pm	10.30pm	11pm	11.30pm
Black Box Café Green Room	Slow Place Like Home		Ciaran Lavery		Ryan Vail		Ports
Black Box		Autumns		Ships		Contour		Altered Hours
White’s Tavern	tbc		Lipstik Lizards		White Male Actors		Team RKT
Duke of York		In An Instant		Callum Stewart		Hurdles		More Than Conquerors
The Harp Bar	Amanda St John		Bernadette Morris		Owen McGarry		Triona Carville
Oh Yeah Centre		Go Swim		Goldie Fawn		Travis is a Tourist		Oh Volcano
The Spaniard	Jessica Doherty		Best Boy Grip		Rosie Carney		Janet Devlin
McHugh’s		Jess Edlin		Katharine Philippa		Robocobra Quartet		Silences
Aether & Echo	Viola Dust		The Clameens		Go Wolf		David C Clements
Voodoo		Exit Pursued by Bear		Joshua Burnside		Michael Mormecha		Emerald Armada
The Sunflower	Farriers		Meb Jon Sol		Robyn G Shiels		Arborist

Speakers at the ‘Creative Belfast presents Output’ conference will include Tom Robinson from BBC 6 Music; artist, performer and motivational speaker Andrew WK; ‘The X Factor’ finalist Janet Devlin; Andrea Madden, music supervisor on ‘Made in Chelsea’; Marsha Shandur, music supervisor for The Inbetweeners and Channel 4; Joe Parry of top London music PR company Division; Hugh Platt, deputy editor of Thrash Hits magazine; BBC Young Folk Musician Of The Year Aidan O’Rourke; composer and cellist Peter Gregson and Niall Byrne of leading music blog Nialler 9. Organisations and companies taking part in the conference programme include Facebook, Sky TV, PRS, Polar Patrol Publishing, 1983 Management, Sentric Music, PPL, MCPS, IMRO, Liverpool Sound City, Belsonic, The Great Escape, MCD Promotions, Body and Soul, Norwich Sound and Vision, Go North, SESAC, Raygun, The Thin Air and Wicksteed Works, Indiependence Festival and Facebook.

To register for the conference, and for more details on both the conference programme and the free showcases, visit www.belfastcity.gov.uk/music.