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Gig guide: Live music for the week ahead

The Defects play The Empire on January 15
The Defects play The Empire on January 15 The Defects play The Empire on January 15

Today

Jim 'The King' Brown – The Black Box, Belfast, 1pm

Sea Pinks – Lavery's, Belfast, 8pm.

Pretty Cartel, Monkee Man, Parapa Palace etc – The Empire, Belfast.

Molotov Jukebox – The Black Box, Belfast.

Saturday January 9

Dana Masters – The Black Box, Belfast, 2pm.

Beardyman – The Black Box, Belfast.

Emily Barker & Ciaran Lavery – Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady.

Sunday January 10

Ciaran Lavery & Emily Barker – The Black Box, Belfast.

Tuesday January 12

Sturgill Simpson – The Limelight 2, Belfast, 7pm.

Wednesday January 13

The Deans – Voodoo, Belfast.

Thursday January 14

Cup O'Joe – The Black Box, Belfast, 1pm.

James Yorkston, Withered Hand, The Pictish Trail – The Black Box, Belfast.

Friday January 15

Magwere – The Black Box, Belfast, 1pm.

Marc Collin presents Bristol – The Black Box, Belfast.

The Defects, Stop Stop Start Again, No Matter etc – The Empire, Belfast.

Motionless in White – The Mandela Hall, QUBSU, Belfast.

Paul Casey, Ports, Paddy Nash etc – Homegrown 2016, The Millennium Forum, Derry.

Saturday January 16

Rabid Bitch of The North, Astralnaut, Caustic God – Voodoo, Belfast.

The Late Twos, Echo Raptors, Salford Lads Club – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast.

Lindi Ortega – The Empire, Belfast.

Sunday January 17

Saint Sister, Prima Quartet, Jealous of The Birds – The Black Box, Belfast, 1.45pm.

Monday January 18

Ron Pope & The Nighthawks – The Empire, Belfast.

Patty Griffin – The Black Box, Belfast.

Thursday January 21

Hazel O'Connor – The Black Box, Belfast.

Friday January 22

Matthew E White – Voodoo, Belfast.

Mary Black – The Grand Opera House, Belfast.

Donal Scullion & The Spider Collective – The Empire, Belfast

The Drink – McHugh's, Belfast.

East India Youth – The Black Box, Belfast.

The Mulligan Brothers – Bronte Centre, Rathfriland.

Saturday January 23

Jamie Lawson – The Mandela Hall, QUBSU, Belfast.

Mary Black – Grand Opera House, Belfast.

The Mulligan Brothers (2pm) – The Black Box, Belfast.

Havana 'Che – The Black Box, Belfast.

Sunday January 24

Martin Hayes and David Power – The Black Box, Belfast, 3pm.