The Undertones headline a concert at QUBSU’s Mandela Hall, Belfast on Friday, April 25 to mark the 30th anniversary of influential Belfast punk label Good Vibrations: tickets cost £20 from www.gotobelfast.com. Named after the Brian Wilson’s exhuberent polyphonic spree, Good Vibrations was founded by “self-confesssed anarchist” Terri Hooley in 1978 and based in his then [...]
March 18, 2008
Belfast singer Seaneen Kane [MySpace] has signed to the Bristol based Jedbrah Music label and is now working on a new album of material. The teenager’s latest single Hey You (Doing It Again) is available to download from iTunes and other on-line stores. Jedbrah is currently looking for another act for its roster of UK [...]
March 18, 2008
Mary Black is the title of the March 14 released CD album compilation of digitally remastered tracks picked from the successful 25-year recording career of one Mary Black. [to hype the launch, the label is running a prize quiz - ed]. Black’s first eponymous 1983 solo album reached no.4 in the Ireland album charts and [...]
March 18, 2008
EXCLUSIVE: A new Co. Armagh based Christian record company, Pillar Records [http://www.pillarrecords.com] has been formed through the merger of two existing digital recording studios – Wild Goose Productions and Word Salad Productions. Co-founders Greg Haire and Leo “Mack” McMullan say that their new joint-venture start-up label will be used to promote the two studios’ existing [...]
March 18, 2008
Co. Down singer-songwriter Paula McAleese [MySpace] began performing around Belfast back in 2003, playing her first gig in at the Pavillion Bar “Saturday Night Live Line-up”. She then joined a band called Amoruza [MySpace] as lead vocalist and songwriter, performing across Ulster. Amoruza released its first EP entitled Discover in late 2004.
March 12, 2008
Ken Haddock, purveyor of fine cover versions at his long-running Sunday night “Ken Haddock’s Supper Club” at The Belfast Empire Music Hall (basement, free, from 9.30pm), has added another weekly gig to his busy schedule. Crowd-pleaser Ken now plays The Four Winds “gastro-pub” [Google map] on Friday nights between 10.30pm – 1.00am.
March 12, 2008
The IPFI – the body representing the international recording industry [www.ifpi.org] – recently reported that total income from legal on-line music downloads in China amounted to only £40-million: that’s about half the value of Robbie William’s deal with EMI. The implications are not good for music-makers seeking revenue from Asian markets. Writing exclusively for ulstermusic.com, [...]
March 12, 2008
Rena Maguire writes: The acoustic guitar phenomenon and widely aclaimed musicians’ musician Robin James Hurt plays the The Rotterdam Bar again on March 27. This will be the first chance to get a sneak preview of the new tracks on his next (as yet unnamed) album due late March 2008. Born in Belfast, raised in [...]
March 12, 2008
Rena Maguire writes: We all know the moment in all US teen series: the sob-story ending, the moment when the wistful hero/heroine is leaving, against the raindrops on the window of the Greyhound bus which takes them to who-knows-where, and the music used is always something soft, lyrical and eminently chart-worthy, though usually by some [...]
March 12, 2008
FormingBands.co.uk does exactly what the URL suggests: a UK website that helps bands form by enabling users to search for other musicians by influence, genre, location and instrument [but not haircut - ed].
March 12, 2008
Belfast-based saxophonist Dan Forshaw was hailed as “one of the finest young tenor players in the north west” at the 2004 Southport International Jazz festival. A highly accomplished and versatile player, Dan does a lot of session work – and lectures in jazz and music technology. But Dan’s reputation as a player has been established [...]
March 12, 2008
Prince, the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, plays Dublin’s Paisley Croke Park on June 16, 2008. Tickets €66.50 (inc. fees) go on sale Wednesday, March 5 at 8am. Gig bus baron John Quigley is providing a funky coach service to this and other concerts from Belfast, Lisburn, Banbridge and Newry. [...]
March 3, 2008
The exuberant fiddle-maestro Liz Doherty – www.lizdoherty.ie – and traditional musicians Fiddlesticks present a weekend of workshops, masterclasses and performances in the Tullyarvan Mill, Buncrana, Inishowen, Co. Donegal from Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 9.
March 2, 2008
Lurgan-born keyboards player Ivan Dennison holds a CD launch night at The Anglers Rest public house near Banbridge [on the Castlewellan Road - map] on Wednesday, March 5. A longtime organist, accordianist and pianist – and the former accompanist for John Greer, the late singer-songwriter and radio presenter – Ivan has already self-produced six album [...]
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