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Noise Annoys: Reevah shares her views, Gama Bomb still shredding with Bats, NI Music Prize winners, General Fiasco return
HAVING released her excellent debut album Daylight Savings to rave reviews last month, Derry-bred artist Reevah, AKA Aoife Boyle, has been awarded funding from the PPL Momentum Music Fund to help take her career to the next stage.
Noise Annoys: Sister Ghost celebrate Day of The Dead, Atomic Drag and Peng Weng trade tunes
DID you have a happy Halloween? You did? Whoops.
Noise Annoys: Guiding light
EXCITING times here at Noise Annoys Towers: this is the first 'new look' column since the big Irish News redesign, the latest of several 'refreshes' for the physical paper (ask your dad) dating all the way back to the early days of Noise Annoys, when it had no grey hairs and everything was mostly still in black and white on these pages – which, of course, existed only in the newsprint-based realm.
Noise Annoys: Brand New Friend return with Grandstand
:: Brand New Friend – Grandstand (album, Virgin/Third Bar) WE KICK off this week with the new record by one of the most admirably irrepressible and relentlessly enthusiastic young bands around, Brand New Friend, who have weathered pandemics, label changes and puberty (just kidding) to bring you the loooooooong awaited follow-up to 2018's debut album Seatbelts for Aeroplanes.
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: Stiff Little Fingers' Jake Burns on their big Belfast show
HI JAKE, are you looking forward to coming back to play in Belfast? Absolutely, although it really is the most nerve-wracking show of the whole year, just simply because it's still the 'hometown' show, no matter where I live or move to.
Noise Annoys: Nick Lowe on touring with Elvis Costello and his Bangor solo show
Despite Nick Lowe's dapper appearance and illustrious musical CV featuring stints as a pub rocker, alternative pop star, songwriter and Stiff Records-trained producer extraordinaire, even he is not immune to the grottier aspects of life on the road as a touring musician – like having to wash your smalls.
Noise Annoys: Rory Nellis & Philip Watts d'Alton, Neil Brogan, Problem Patterns and Jim Bob
WE KICK off this week's Noise Annoys in fine style with a new anthemic duet from Belfast singer/songwriter extraordinaire Rory Nellis and his long-time collaborator, Phil d'Alton
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.