A COLLECTION of 23 Irish artworks owned by the late Brian Friel and his wife Anne will be going under the hammer in Dublin next week, with an estimated €100,000 expected to be raised for charity.
STAND-UP comedy with real food, cooked live using power tools, and then the audience eats it at the end? It sounds like the perfect recipe for a good time.
THE MAC will debut a new stage dramatisation of Irish childrens' favourite Under The Hawthorn Tree during tomorrow evening's Culture Night Belfast programme.
CULTURE Night Belfast returns for its 10th year tomorrow, once again bringing a packed programme of free family-friendly arts and culture events to streets, public spaces and venues throughout the city centre.
A SINGLE mother and food blogger turns amateur sleuth to unravel the mystery of her best friend's disappearance in the sinfully entertaining comedy thriller, A Simple Favour.
SPECTRES of the past lash out with horrifying consequences in The Little Stranger, an ambiguous thriller of simmering desires set inside a crumbling mansion in the aftermath of the Second World War.
THE bromance of director Peter Berg and muscular leading man Mark Wahlberg has been going strong since 2013, when the two men ventured into war-torn Afghanistan for the explosive true story of Lone Survivor.
MANKIND unknowingly teeters on the brink of destruction and a 10-year-old boy holds the key to our salvation in the family-friendly adventure The House With A Clock In Its Walls.
IT'S probably the most anticipated work of the year, thanks to the comedy genius of Derry Girls, and because it was from the pen of that hit series' writer, Lisa McGee, Girls and Dolls was always going to be something special.
1. When did you think about a career in music and what were your first steps into it?I was four years old at my grandfather’s house and I told the family I wanted to sing for them.
THEY make it look so easy on the telly – but, as Belfast ballroom maestro, Alan Clarke, will tell you, every armchair Anton (du Beke) needs to believe they too can chasse with the best of them.
Today Ex-Isles – Voodoo, Belfast Keith James – The Songs of Nick Drake, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Saturday September 15 Michael Cunningham, Kevin Young – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast Landless, Eilís Lavelle – The MAC, Belfast Helter Skelter, Ian Currie & Dee McIlroy, Folkadelic etc – Musicians Against Homelessness, McHugh's, Belfast The Fish Police – The Black Box, Belfast Donal Clancy – The American Bar, Belfast Sunday September 16 Biffy Clyro – The Waterfront Hall, Belfast Catherine Hatt, Kris D Marsden, Jim McClean – Green Room, The Black Box, Belfast Monday September 17 Wooden Shjips, Cian Nugent – The Empire, Belfast Home Free – Elmwood Hall, Belfast Wednesday September 19 Nick Mulvey – The Empire, Belfast Thursday October 20 Halestorm, Jet Fuel Chemistry – Telegraph Building, Belfast Beoga – The Empire, Belfast Dan Masters – Elmwood Hall, Belfast Her Name is Calla, VerseChorusVerse, Rebekah Fitch etc – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters, Elder Druid – Voodoo, Belfast Red House, Kid Trench, Patriot Ghosts etc – 39 Gordon Street, Belfast Kyle Falconer, The Late Twos, The Couth – Foundry, Belfast Friday October 21 Electric Octopus – Bank Square, Belfast Girls Names, Hive Oa – Voodoo, Belfast Saturday October 22 Molarbear, So Much For The Sun, Duellists – The Limelight 2, Belfast The LaFontaines – McHugh's, Belfast Nathan O'Regan, Peter J McCauley – The Black Box, Belfast The Donal Scullion Experience – Astral Weeks 50, The MAC, Belfast Brooke Candy – The Empire, Belfast Mosmo Strange, Wasps, Charity Shop Vinyl – Nerve Centre, Derry Aslan – Skylite Room, Warrenpoint Ethan Hanna, Sonja Sleator – Fealtys, Bangor Grainne Duffy – Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen The Defects, Part Time Pilots – Bogans, Omagh Sunday September 23 Pilgrim St – The Black Box, Belfast Lost Horizons, Penelope Isles – The Limelight 2, Belfast Healthy Junkies, Wynona Bleach, Cherym etc – Voodoo, Belfast Liam Ó Maonlaí – The Playhouse, Derry Jun Tzu – Goat's Toe, Bangor Ethan Hanna, Sonja Sleator – Dicey’s, Strabane Tuesday September 25 Crown The Empire, Volumes, Coldrain – Oh Yeah, Belfast Thursday September 27 Anna Calvi – The Empire, Belfast Anna's Anchor etc – McHugh's, Belfast .
WHILE he's become well used to appearing on the radio during his lengthy musical career, Def Leppard guitarist Viv Campbell admits that making the move from performer to presenter for his new BBC Radio Ulster show has proved trickier than anticipated.
