Larne rock band Shotgun pose with Patricia Lewsley, Commissioner for Children and Young People, at a special under-18 gig at Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast to help launch the strangely named NICCY campaign “Here we are… Nowhere”. The online campaign aims to encourage young people to interact with the NICCY website about “what is good and [...]
A new vocal school has opened in East Belfast. The Vox Rox Vocal Academy offers singing lessons and voice training to students of all ages and abilities, and covers aspects of live performance including presentation, confidence and voice maintenance. The new school specialises in singing lessons for rock, pop and musical theatre, performance coaching and [...]
Alwyn Walker is a music producer with a studio skill-set and word-of-mouth reputation that keeps him busy these days. Walker is presently working with an unnamed local act at his Komodo Recordings base, a modern studio situated just outside Hillsborough, near Belfast. Other up-and-coming Ulster groups Walker has worked with recently include Furlo (Derry), Overoth [...]
The late Michael Jackson’s triumph and tragedy is charted in these re-published interviews on rock’sbackpages by Phil Symes (1972), Mick Brown (1984), Ian Penman (1993), Barney Hoskyns (1998), and Charles Shaar Murray (2003) . To record your condolences visit GoneTooSoon.org
Chanteuse Mel Wiggins plays a series of summer shows to promote her new EP “My Brothers Keeper” kicking off at Blick Studios on Belfast’s Malone Road on Friday, June 5. Reporting exclusively for UlsterMusic.com, Iain Todd enjoys a private audience with Mrs. Wiggins: There is a hidden gem right in the centre of Belfast. It’s [...]
Dark progressive rock duo Revivor release their second self-produced CD/DD album on their own Revivor Records label on June 22, 2009. [the CD is also available via CD Baby - ed]. The live band launch their new album with a hometown party upstairs in the Dungloe Bar, Derry on Thursday, June 18. Recorded at the band’s [...]
June 30, 2009
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