Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Ten Gallon Hat

Ten Gallon Hat & The Big Salute (to give them their full title) have been kicking around the Belfast Scene for a couple of years now and have developed a huge following in that short time having played the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Open House Festival, UTV Countryfest and a whole host of other gigs [...]

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Video-Gaga!

I’m heading off to Glasgow for the weekend and leaving you in the capable hands of my autopublishing system. Here’s a great video I first saw the other day and have watched every day since. For a music fan and an old school geek there is probably nothing else quite so sublime on the internet. [...]

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Silhouette

Tonight Lisburn based Silhouette will play McHugh’s Basement supporting the lovely Hannah Peel who’s travelled over from Manchester for a one-off Northern Irish show.
Silhouette feature the multi-instrumentalist songwriter Shauna Tohill with accompaniment from Peter McAuley, Zarah Mascara and Orla Rice. Their debut single ‘Volume Destroyed’ is released on 24th May this year and is one [...]

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David Ford

Headlining the deadonmusic OUTLAW:Live show as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in McHugh’s, Belfast tonight is Brighton based songwriter David Ford who’ll be bringing ballads, breakups and political commentary to life on stage with pianos, loop stations, guitars and one of those voices that will tug on even the coldest of heartstrings. Here’s [...]

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Basia Bulat

Last night in my other role as promoter with deadonmusic we played host to the lovely Basia Bulat who’s miles away from her native Ontario on a European tour which takes in Belfast for the first time in three or four years. There were many highlights, not least “Before I Knew” and a cute rendition [...]

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Divine Comedy

It’s almost all systems go for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast once again. The programme over on www.cqaf.com is jam-packed full of great music, comedy, theatre and I’ll be doing my DJ thing after the shows by Basia Bulat and David Ford. I’m very excited about having Basia back in Belfast but apart [...]

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Captain Kennedy

I’ve just been listening to the latest single by Captain Kennedy featuring the tracks “Sweetest Friend” and “Stretch That Penny”. It’s a Double A-Side which is a gloriously rare thing in these days of digital downloads. Captain Kennedy are a 7 piece folk rock outfit from Lurgan in County Armagh and will be rockin’ out [...]

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Laura Marling

If you get down to OUTLAW early tonight you may notice that Andy’ll be DJing for the first hour or so as I’ll be down the front at the Laura Marling show in the Spring & Airbrake. I’ve been looking forward to seeing Laura and Alessi’s Ark for quite a while now and have had [...]

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Bob Dylan

It’s that time of year when everyone’s grabbing festival tickets and while friends and work colleagues may be heading off for Glastonbury, Oxegen or Electric Picnic I’ll be spending a day in July at the Hop Farm Festival bathing in the soft English sunlight to the sounds of Bob Dylan, Laura Marling, Mumford and Sons [...]

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Adelaide’s Cape

Next week deadonmusic will play host to the London/Norwich based talent of Adelaide’s Cape. They’ve recently been on tour with Alessi’s Ark and are promoting their EP “Last Sleep In Albion”. Last time Adelaide’s Cape founder member Sam Taylor was in Ireland he called into Dublin’s Balcony TV for this acoustic session.

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