strange victory

Today Odd Morris, Mob Wife, Problem Patterns – The Speakeasy, Belfast Eerie Wigs, Acoustic Dan, Dandelion Tea – Pavilion, Belfast Lemoncello, Anna Mieke – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast Jessica James, 24th Fret, Neon Apathy etc – Volume Control, Oh Yeah, Belfast TBL8 Brass Band – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast Recovery, Villa In France, Fast Thursday, Vale – The Atlantic, Portrush Saturday November 9 Imperial Wax (ex-The Fall) – The Speakeasy, Belfast Robyn G Shiels, Hatchet Field, Andy McGibbon (The Bonnevilles) – Black Tragick Records at Strange Victory Records, Belfast, 1pm Aaron Shanley, Runabay, Burning Codes etc – When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up, Oh Yeah, Belfast Declan O’Rourke – The MAC, Belfast Mall Grab, Nite Fleit, Skin on Skin – Telegraph Building, Belfast Lemoncello, Sam Amidon – Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast Oracle, Drakonis, Grey Stag – Voodoo, Belfast Odd Morris – Bennigans, Derry Aslan – Skylite Room, Warrenpoint Sunday November 10 Lucy Spraggan –The Empire, Belfast Monday November 11 Snarky Puppy – The Ulster Hall, Belfast Tuesday November 12 De Staat, New Valley Wolves – Voodoo, Belfast Wednesday November 13 She Drew The Gun, Peaness – Voodoo, Belfast Thursday November 14 Agnostic Front, The Take, Barrick Buster etc – The Palm House, Belfast CeeV, Dystopia, Ezekiel Boom etc – The Pavilion, Belfast Amanda St John – Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart Friday November 15 Quaker City Night Hawks – The Limelight 2, Belfast Tom Russell – The Errigle, Belfast The Wood Burning Savages – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast Silent Running – Voodoo, Belfast King Kong Company – The Palm House, Belfast The Rapparees – The Empire, Belfast New Pagans, Problem Patterns – Atlantic Bar, Portrush Matt McGinn feat Wilfie Gilbert – Portrush Town Hall, Portrush Alice La – Anchor Complex, Portstewart, 7.

THERE are gigs, and then there are gigs.

WELCOME back to Noise Annoys, your bi-weekly dose of musings on new alternative sounds from this neck of the woods and beyond.

LET'S get down to it, boppers: it's high time we checked in with atmospheric alt-rockers Ferals, not least because the Belfast-based band have their debut EP coming out very shortly and have booked a launch gig to prove it.

Voodoo's Fifth Birthday Bash, tonight, Voodoo, Belfast CAN it really be five years already since Copperfield's was reborn as Voodoo, possibly Belfast's best rock, punk and alternative music-friendly independent bar? Apparently so, because the Fountain Street saloon and live venue is having a special fifth birthday bash this evening to celebrate.

IT CANNOT have escaped your attention that Belfast's annual Culture Night is returning this evening, bringing with it a smorgasbord of on and off street entertainment to enliven the dead zone that is our post-5pm city centre.

Taste, Fridays, Voodoo, Belfast, 6pm IT'S new, it's free in and you'll probably hear records that won't get played out anywhere else in Belfast.