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Congratulations to Urban Angel Music signing Lila who made the Irish Top 50 Singles chart with her debut single Hold On. The same Belfast based music company is also seeking submissions from artists/songwriters for its fast-growing record label and publishing division, and plans to exhibit at the MIDEM 2008 music conference and festival in France.

Angela Huntington (soprano) and Ann Carr (contralto) are guest artistes with the Robert Wilson conducted King’s Corale [the Polyphonic Spree backed out - ed] on Saturday, December 1 from 7.30pm at Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Malone Road, Belfast. The suggested donation on the door is £7 . Part of that goes to support a children’s hospice.

FATE magazine has launched the promotional website with on-line voting for the FATE Awards 2008, to be held at the Waterfront on February 22, 2008. The awards celebrate the best in the local entertainments industry and recognise those people in the business that have gone that extra kilometer. The organisers say that bars, restaurants, venues, [...]

NIMIC are hosting a high-profile Music: It’s the Business event on Monday, December 3 that looks specifically at the business of music for film, TV and multimedia. The potential incomes for writers, composers and recording artists from the use of their work in film, television, advertisements and multimedia are substantial. These ‘secondary’ incomes from recorded [...]

According to a report in The Register, 45% of the UK population listen to an mp3 player more than four times a week. Market research company Frukt polled over 900 UK inhabitants and discovered that it isn’t just the youth taking their tunes with them: 19% of over-40’s are equally attached to their mp3 players, [...]

Described as “The Irish Bette Midler”, Rose-Marie took the UK charts by storm back in the day with her first hit single When I leave the World Behind. That song broke into the charts on three occasions. And she has 19 albums to her credit. So where is she now? [she ain't on MySpace - [...]

So the rumours are true. UlsterMusic.com is officially “carbon neutral”. [but don't ask me what that actually means - ed]. Let the people and the plants of planet Earth rejoice. Read more: http://www.green.tv

Metal-heads, check this out: US magazine Decibel covers the entire spectrum of extreme metal, from platinum acts to genre pioneers to the best of the underground. Decibel’s monthly Hall of Fame articles tell the authoritative stories behind the genre’s most classic albums. On-line, the award-winning decibelmagazine.com offers up news, exclusive content, magazine archives, a dynamic [...]

The world premiere of Ossa, a new work by Belfast-born composer Neil Martin, takes place on November 25, 2007 in the Whitla Hall. Specially composed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, the performance of the work by the Belfast Philharmonic Choir will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster at [...]

If you were a doctor/physician/GP you’d almost certainly be a member of the most powerful “closed shop” union in the UK – the British Medical Association. The BMA enjoys mighty lobbying power and has recently secured a salary package for its hardworking GP members in excess of £100k PA. If you are a grafting musician, [...]

Queen’s Radio – www.queensradio.org – is a student-run radio station based at Queen’s University Students Union [QUBSU - www.qubsu.org] and has been “broadcasting” on FM for over 4 years – and AM for a year. As well as a daytime playlist-driven music schedule, and chart-driven and specialist music shows in the evening, QR [...]

Tom McShane – an accomplished musician from Northern Ireland – is presently on tour on the west coast of the USA. Tom’s first releases, the lo-fi, home-recorded Songs Are Sad and the follow-up single, Scene at the Citadel have attracted critical acclaim and earned Tom a strong fan base. Tom is signed to Penny Distribution [...]

cdcleisurelimited – the owners of Belfast’s happening music venues The Limelight, Spring & Airbrake, Katy Dalys, and Auntie Annies – have launched an on-line ticket purchase service at www.geturticket.com and refreshed the look-and-feel of websites for their cluster of rock, indie, metal, pop orientated venues [Read more]. If one registers before year-end one could win [...]

Former Dead Kennedy punk-band frontman singer and songwriter, now political philosopher, Jello Biafra speaks his mind at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast’s Cathedral Quater on Nov 22, 2007 from 8pm. Tickets £11 from www.wegottickets.com