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Blues aficionados, lovers of good live music, and those who remember The Maritime, Club Rado, The Marquee, and the Astor Ballroom should set some time aside for the upcoming 12 Bar blues Festival @ the Spring and Airbrake (May 9-10). The festival is the brainchild of Rab Braniff, president of The Belfast Blues Society and [...]

The new Unsigned Guide is an 872-page music industry contacts directory researched and compiled specifically for unsigned bands and artists. Now in its 6th edition, the guide contains over 11,500 UK music industry contacts: phone numbers, e-mail addresses, websites and postal addresses. Each entry explains exactly how they can help you as an unsigned band [...]

Following a break from music and a year living in Australia, Claire Sproule is about to release her brand new album Shades Of Night, on her own independent label. Sproule’s debut album was released on Parlophone Records and sold over 10k units in Ireland. She has supported artists Dr John and Al Green at venues [...]

Daniel O’Donnell has new single on the launch-pad: Mother’s Birthday Song was written by prolific songwriter John Farry. Farry, who hails from Garrison, Co. Fermanagh – and a recording artist in his own right – says the song was inspired by his own mother [not O'Donnell's own "mammy" - ed]. Farry is best known for writing [...]

Irish language television channel TG4’s new talent show Nollaig No. 1 is searching for a new “singing sensation”. The winner of the serialised talent contest will launch a single and music video and vie for the top slot in Ireland’s singles chart this coming Christmas.

The Northern Ireland Country Music Awards 2008 takes place on Wednesday, April 30 in the Tullyglass Hotel, Ballymena.The event will highlight the achievements and recognize the talents of Ulster’s top country music performers. There are a eleven award categories and on the night there will be TV personalities hosting the event, a full live band, [...]

Derry alt-rock band Fighting With Wire has confirmed summer tour dates in Germany (Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt), Belgium and England: see http://www.myspace.com/fightingwithwire. The brainchild of guitarist Cahir O’Doherty and drummer Craig McKean, Fighting With Wire emerged in 2003 and released a number of limited-edition singles. After a hiatus at the end of 2006 the band started [...]

Epic Records – now a subsidiary of global music company Sony BMG – has signed a trio of singing priests from Ulster. To be known simply as The Priests, Father Martin O’Hagan, aged 45, his older brother Eugene, and school friend David Delargy, 44, have together signed a £1M deal with Sony in London. All [...]

School bands from across Ulster face off in the Northern Ireland final of the Coca-Cola Blastbeat competition at the Limelight, Belfast this Saturday, April 26 from 1pm until 6pm. The participants include: Frau Sandy (Columb’s College); Seven Story Weather (Campbell College); 6 Days Later (St Malachy’s College); Illict (De La Salle); Atlas (St. Colmcilles College); [...]

Ulster musicians can now access the ground-breaking range of new capo designs for six-string electric and acoustic guitars, as made by G7th Ltd. Designed to be the “best capo in the world”, the design allows adjusting without pesky re-tuning, a one-touch mechanism and a unique [...]

Rena Maguire writes for UlsterMusic.com: For a band who say they formed on the 16th of March to play the next day in a St. Patrick’s Day drinking session, the self-confessed “six w*****s from Tyrone” who make up the Logues (pictured) are starting to sound very, very commercial and professional indeed. Folk [...]

Andrew Thompson interviews Co. Monaghan’s Gráinne Duffy for UlsterMusic.com; photographs by Robin Cordiner: Gráinne Louica Duffy may not be a name you are too familiar with, but – believe me – watch this space. I first heard the name late last year on a local radio station, and thought, mmm, sounds interesting. They played a [...]

Coleraine based “melodic rock” trio Swurve – messrs. Cozy McAuley, Steve Legear, and Tim Torrens [not Tim Collins - ed] – plan to release a new EP, single and future LP with an (unnamed) American label later in 2008. Swurve say that the Los Angeles based label is owned by one of the biggest [...]

Invitation is the title of the 6th in a series of self-produced CD albums from prolific singer-songwriter Fra Donaghy. Available via free digital download, all 10 tracks are performed by 28-year-old Fra, and written by him, except “Torture Again“, which was co-written with longterm collaborator Deane Morrone, and two cover versions.