Review: The Sunflower Public House
In Northern Ireland we have what is known as the 'surrender system', where there have been no new licences granted for bars in many, many moons. That's why publicans need to ...
The Woodworkers
It’s hard to believe that less than ten years ago Lavery’s was struggling. And when a small bar struggles it’s bad enough, but somewhere three stories high, on prime city centre rates struggles...
AVA Put Belfast At The Centre Of The World's Electronic Music Map
Five week countdown to AVA Festival and Conference with Larry Heard (Live), BICEP, DVS1, KiNK (Live), Rødhåd, Helena Hauff, Denis Sulta, Mall Grab, Saoirse, Or:la, Boiler Room and more ...
The Network Reunion meets Lush! Classics
Two of Ireland's most iconic clubs past and present join together for one huge night of House Classics over 2 rooms. Belfast's iconic Network Club opened its doors in August 1994 ...
REVIEW: Joshua Burnside
Bathed in blue light and supremely air-conditioned to directly counter the relative sauna of a very hot and humid Belfast summer, the Empire Music Hall is perfectly set up ...
REVIEW: Mary Coughlan
Unlike Elvis, Mary Coughlan hasn't left the building when the time comes for her Millennium Forum show at Derry-Londonderry's annual jazz and big band festival. Instead, she’s causing havoc upstairs ...
REVIEW: Villa Vinci
I love Italian cuisine so much and yet I still have so much of it to experience. That's why, on a recent road trip to Newcastle, I had to try Villa Vinci, top of the town ...
REVIEW: Eight South
It's surprising how much of an appetite can be worked up while walking along the beach, at least that's how I feel. So, by the time we arrived in Carryduff ...
REVIEW: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
‘Fallen’ is the word alright. We are a long way from the expertly choreographed, memorably human spectacles that launched a thousand lunchboxes back in ’93 ...
Review: Kissing Candice
One of the highlights of last month's Belfast Film Festival was Kissing Candice, from Omagh-born film-maker Aoife McArdle. It was McArdle's feature debut but she's a director and screenwriter with plenty of experience ...
REVIEW: The World Goes 'Round
The harmonic dexterity and verbal wit of John Kander and Fred Ebb is given an innovative, ingenuous makeover by Blunt Fringe Theatre's production of The World Goes 'Round ...
REVIEW: East Belfast Granny
Playwright Fintan Brady follows up his electric and unsettling East Belfast Boy by writing and directing the equally electric and unsettling East Belfast Granny, a relentless, expressionistic one-woman rant ...
An all-too-literal contemplation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular Evita, brought to Belfast's Grand Opera House as part of a UK Tour, is ill-advised ...
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Paperboy is less about being a paperboy, as such, than it is about papering over the cracks that always exist beneath the surface of our lives, however much we attempt to ignore or gloss over them ...
Boxing hero Carl Frampton rolled into Belfast city centre in Harp's 'Wee Wheels' Tuk Tuk to help celebrate the launch of the lager's 'class new look'. Fresh from his recent victory at Windsor Park ...
Northern Irish three-piece ASH are pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at The Limelight 1 on Thursday 20 December 2018. The band released their seventh studio album ...
The sun was resplendent that evening with just the wisp of a fresh summer breeze. We had arrived early so I got a few drinks and we sat in their gardens enjoying …
I have been here a few times ... but a friend had told me they had started a new lunch menu with sandwiches and subs and that they were great value for money...
