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: BaoBun
Every now and then something starts and before long becomes the next big thing. Only too often we hear about these things long after the event, but I need you ...
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: 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: Girls And Dolls
Frenetic, often hilarious, and ultimately gloomy, Lisa McGee's Girls And Dolls, brought back to the stage by Sodabread Theatre Company and Millennium Forum Productions, is a triumphant staging of the ...
REVIEW: Good Vibrations
Let's start by talking about songs – the two songs that effectively bookend the turbulent travails of Belfast punk legend Terri Hooley in the Lyric Theatre's production of Good Vibrations ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
