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‘Returning to Ireland feels like closure’ - This Is The Kit leader Kate Stables on Irish gigs, Glastonbury and why she’s in the mood to make a bit of a racket
David Roy catches up with Paris-based This Is The Kit leader Kate Stables ahead of their show at Bangor’s Open House Festival
Noise Annoys: Oisin Leech announces debut solo album, Conchúr White goes On The Record, Astralnaut return
Noise Annoys: Louder Than You Think director Jed I Rosenberg on documenting legendary Pavement drummer Gary Young’s extraordinary life story
Noise Annoys: New music from Gender Chores, Heliopause, Slomatics, Cherym and Neil Brogan...
:: Heliopause – Runaway (single, self-released) IT'S been an absolute age since Noise Annoys (or anyone else, for that matter) last heard any new music from Heliopause, aka Belfast's own maestro of gentle, electronically-enhanced indiepop magic, Richard Davis.
Noise Annoys: Boo Radleys back with new album and Giant Steps 30th tour
IT'S now 30 years since The Boo Radleys released their cult classic Creation LP Giant Steps, and while the Wirral-bred indie rockers are about to hit the road to perform this wilfully experimental double album "nearly in full" for the first time ever, they also have one foot firmly in the present with a brand new record, Eight.
Channel 4 and NI Screen offer boost to north's independent production sector
CHANNEL 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have partnered to give independent production companies here more commissioning opportunities.
Teenage Fanclub man Raymond McGinley on why their future has endless possibilities
"I DON'T know – it just kinda came out of my head," explains guitar man Raymond McGinley of how he came up with Endless Arcade as the title for the latest Teenage Fanclub album.
Charlatans man Tim Burgess on Irish dates and hit Twitter Listening Parties
CHARLATANS leader Tim Burgess had a busy 2020, but not quite in the way he expected.
Fontaines DC leader Grian Chatten on live return to Belfast and their recent Covid scare
"I'VE just had my third negative PCR test so I'm a free man now," explains Fontaines DC leader Grian Chatten of emerging from self-isolation in the wake of one of his fellow band members testing Covid-positive.