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: Havana Bank Sq
Why have I not been told about Havana Bank Sq before now? Why have I never heard people talk about Havana Bank Sq? This place is exceptional, the venue, the staff ...
REVIEW: Sleepy Hollow
Under the Patronage of Chef Paul Dalrymple, Sleepy Hollow steps out of the hedgerows to take centre stage among the elite restaurants our province has to offer ...
REVIEW: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
“I’ll figure it out.” Ethan Hunt’s reassurance, repeated through Mission: Impossible — Fallout, is the mantra of the eternal optimist, one embodied perfectly by Tom Cruise, contemporary blockbuster cinema’s most industrious ...
REVIEW: The Predator
The main action of the predator, the unconvincing, shane black-helmed attempt to return the thirty year-old franchise to box office credibility, takes place on the night of 31 October ...
OPERA REVIEW: If You Can Find Me
If You Can Find Me is a bold and passionate work, merging four fine singing and acting talents with twelve random Stephen Sondheim songs to tell a tale of performance ...
REVIEW: Winter Circus 2018
The big news with Ken Fanning and Tina Segner's Winter Circus this year is - they've gone topical. As with the best Christmas entertainment in Belfast, they have added a dab ...
If The Elves And The Shoemaker was a reservedly beautiful cautionary tale for the present day, then Paul Boyd's Alice: The Musical is a full-on unleashing of the fury beneath the surface ...
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On seeing Paul Bosco McEneaney’s production of The Elves and The Shoemaker at Belfast’s MAC Theatre, one gets, as is only to be expected from Cahoots NI, something magical, mysterious and musical ...
One thing to remember when you enter the Waterfront Studio for their annual panto is not to expect anything reverent or respectful in terms of a traditional fairy tale storyline …
Just off the Upper Newtownards Road Belfast, right at the heart of the C.S. Lewis Square is frait, a restaurant transformed from industrial containers, it is the doorway to a fresh new world ...
Conor Grimes & Alan Mckee are Christmas’s ultimate know-what-you’ll-get pair at Belfast’s lyric theatre. That is to say, famous seasonal literature, iconography or music (or perhaps all three) given a contemporary slant ...
Unassuming from the outside, this hidden gem may sit in the shadow of Slieve Donard, but inside you are transported to the main streets of Naples or Rome. Smells of roasted peppers, vine tomatoes ...
