Belfast
Countdown to Rebellion – Day 20: Introducing Problem Patterns
A late addition to the festival line up, Problem Patterns is a four-piece feminist queer punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, comprising of Beverley Boal, Bethany Crooks, Ciara King and Alanah Smith. Formed in 2018, the band does not have a singular front person, opting instead to switch roles and instruments, to ensure each member in …
Track/Video: Elaine Howley announces debut album ‘The Distance Between Heart And Mouth’ with the underground dream-pop honesty of ‘Silent Talk’.
Cork based musician Elaine Howley has been a significant contributor to the Irish indie underground scene for a while now. She brought her distinct experimental sensibilities to The Altered Hours’ psych-rock as well as the song based electronica of Howlbux and Crevice. Now comes news that this summer she is stepping out from the shadows …
See: Belfast’s The John Andrews Band bring the skiffly punk of the jailtime stomper, ‘On The Run’
JOHN ANDREWS, the Belfast singer-songwriter who fronts the band which takes his name, isn’t someone who’s taken a trip to the wild side just for edgelord slumming kicks in order to inform his breezy, skiffly punk-blues – as evidenced by the lawmen-evading single the band have just released, “On The Run”. Take a dive for …
MEET: Irish queerpunks Strange New Places
BUILDING on the solid foundations of the Northern Irish rock of Stiff Little Fingers and their 70s’ contemporaries, the Belfast punk scene has gone from strength to strength in recent years with bold new artists popping up like an anti-establishment game of whack-a-mole. Strange New Places is one of these groups and just like their …
Say Psych: News: Girls Names announce new album and share track ’25’
Belfast’s Girls Names have confirmed details of their new album and shared the opening track, along with accompanying live dates. Stains on Silence’ the band’s fourth LP, will be released on 15th June on Tough Love Records and to accompany the news the band have shared the track ‘25’. Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, …
Track: Sea Pinks – Yr Horoscope
Taken from their second full lengther, Soft Days, which is out at the end of the week, Yr Horoscope is the latest single from Belfast three piece Sea Pinks. Although it might be a new name to you (well, it was to us) its members have form between so them – Neil Brogan is ex …
Track: Pleasure Beach – Go
Go is the debut single from Belfast five piece Pleasure Beach, and far from being something cheap and tacky, and a little passed its best like the name suggests (at least if you’ve been to Blackpool’s said venue) it’s actually a little slab of pulsating, twinkling dream pop. Go trips along, like The a killers …