Another loss to music; the Cutaways played their last show on Thursday night. Their tracks will live on… Bandcamp, Spotify. Here are a few photographs from the great send-off. Support from The Jane Bradfords: Cutaways:

Baskery; the lovely Swedish sister punk-rock-country band in Belfast as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival at the weekend.

It was all go yesterday, as Belfast did a fantastic job of raising a hell of a lot of money for Haiti. The campaign which started less than 3 weeks ago, and on Twitter if I remember correctly, by Aaron and Anto, massively surpassed the original £20,000 target. A 5km fun run took place yesterday [...]

One of my two favourite songs at the minute. Thanks to Charles for this one. Link to video – embedding disabled ‘cos some record companies are cunts. Nneka – Heartbeat The video isn’t embedable, though I urge you to watch it. You said you’d be there for me In times of trouble when I need [...]

In search of a regular music theme for the blog I’ll posting the lyrics from my favourite song of the moment each Wednesday. This is ‘Another World’ by Antony & The Johnsons. It’s a sombre and sad album, but Antony’s voice is just beautiful; so full of emotion. I need another place Will there be [...]

It wouldn’t right if I didn’t have just one list before the end of the year… I hope to watch more movies in 2010 so next year there’ll be another list. Royksöpp – Junior Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More Ratatat – LP3 Antony & the Johnsons – The Crying Light Calvin Harris – [...]

So “we” won. As of early this evening Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’ out-sold Simon Cowell’s latest “protégé”, Joe McElderry, to the number one spot in the UK singles chart. In an era when single sales continue to dwindle, it’s certainly been a while since the race for the number one meant [...]

Geoff Gatt released his long awaited album last week. Named ‘Ten Year Road’, and covering, through song the past ten years, the album spans a number of emotions and events in Geoff’s life from the death of his brother to being in love. Known for his ukulele and such hilarity as ‘Hippos in the Shower’ [...]

Mumford & Sons – Dust Bowl Dance The young man stands on the edge of his porch The days were short and the father was gone There was no one in the town and no one in the field This dusty barren land had given all it could yield I’ve been kicked off my land [...]

Belfast electronic duo Oppenheimer have sadly decided to call it a day after 5 years on the go, achieving some success in the form of a dedicated local following, a number of headline shows, songs appearing in ‘Ugly Better’ and ‘How I Met Your Mother’ as well as touring with They Might Be Giants in [...]