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Gig guide Friday May 8: Live music for the week

David Roy

Wilko Johnson is at CQAF Marquee on Saturday night
Wilko Johnson is at CQAF Marquee on Saturday night

Today

The Primitives, The Sabrejets – Buffs club, Belfast.

Laura Marling – The Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Thee Penny Dreadfuls – McHugh's, Belfast.

Silences, I Have A Tribe, Dandy's Loft etc – The Bar With No Name, Belfast.

Woody Woodmansey's Holy Holy, Stop Stop Start Again – CQAF Marquee, Belfast.

The New Donegal Tradition – The Sunflower, Belfast.

Ciaran Lavery – The Barge, Belfast.

Plain Zebra, Phoenix 23, Goodbye Nola etc – The Pavilion, Belfast.

Tom Paxton, Robin Bullock – Millennium Forum, Derry.

Saturday May 9

Wilko Johnson – CQAF Marquee, Belfast.

Gaz Coombes – The Black Box, Belfast.

Daddy Long Legs – The Menagerie, Belfast (midnight show).

The Other Half (Mark Billingham & My Darling Clementine) – The Black Box, Belfast, 2pm.

Monkeeman – The Bar With No Name, Belfast.

Field Music perform Drifters – Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast.

Orchid Collective – The Empire, Belfast.

Anthony Toner – Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.

The Sabrejets – Atlantic Bar, Portrush.

Sunday May 10

Negura Bunget, GrimeGod, Northern Plague etc – Voodoo, Belfast.

Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide) – The John Hewitt, Belfast.

Tom Paxton, Robin Bullock – The Ulster Hall, Belfast.

Julie Fowlis – Duncairn Cultual Centre, Belfast.

David Ford – The Empire, Belfast.

Mary Gauthier, Ben Glover – CQAF Marquee, Belfast, 2.30pm.

Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl): A Reading – The Black Box, Belfast.

Hackney Colliery Band – Aether & Echo, Belfast.

Monday May 11

Mary Gauthier, Ben Glover – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart.

Thursday May 14

The Titanics, Rocket Propelled Gorillas, Smoking Tongue – The Empire, Belfast.

Friday May 15

War Iron, Astralnaut, Cursed Sun etc – The Bar With No Name, Belfast.

Aggressors BC, BeeMickSee, Good Friend etc – The Empire, Belfast.

Duke Special, Lisa O'Neill, Robyn G Shiels – The Mandela Hall, QUBSU, Belfast.

Theatre of Hate, Stop Stop Start Again, No Matter etc – Voodoo, Belfast.

Saturday May 16

Rae Morris – The Limelight 2, Belfast.

David Browne Murray, Gavin Ferris – Green Room, The Black Box, Belfast.

Chris Smither – The Errigle, Belfast.

Sunday May 17

Enough Z Nuff, Estrella – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill.

Monday May 18

Hollie McNish – McHugh's, Belfast.