ANNA CALVI: The Empire, Belfast, Thursday, £20; Tivoli, Dublin, Friday week, €25 Anna Calvi, Hunter missed the deadline for the 2018 Mercury Prize, but she’s a cert for her third album to get a third […]
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Lookin’ good today for BBC Biggest Weekend
When the Biggest Weekend was announced, Beeb bosses claimed it would be “the biggest single music event ever attempted by the BBC”. No pressure then. With Glastonbury taking one of its occasional years off to […]
Irish gigs of the week
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY: The Limelight 2 Belfast, tonight, Friday 17th (£22.50) & Whelan’s, Dublin, Sunday (€25). Jamaican legend Lee Scratch Perry is 81 in a few days, but he’s still got the mischievous glint of a teenager and a head […]
Irish gigs of the week: October 7-13
DEATH GRIPS, The Limelight, Belfast, Wednesday; The Academy, Dublin, Thursday. When Death Grips first headbutted their way out of your laptop in 2011 with the Guillotine video you just knew they’d be one of the bands of the decade. […]
David Holmes interview: ‘I’m too old to make a load of 20-year-olds dance’
DAVID Holmes is working on the soundtrack to a film called I Am Belfast — a lofty title for sure, but it’s one that could’ve summed him up in his hometown’s music circles over the […]
