Local Music

This Saturday – 26th Aug @ Belfast Underground

August 25, 2023

SO the record racks are well and truly stuffed ahead of tomorrow’s onslaught. I’ve added well over 300 House & Techno this week, over 100 trance / hard dance and 70+ Funk, Soul, Disco. All this alongside some lovely downtempo stuff and rock albums.

AND AND AND

The complimentary Underground refreshment shelf biscuit of choice this week is the incredible…

KitKat.

What more can you say about these glorious chocolate covered wafer fingers that hasn’t already been preached over kitchen tables across the land for decades.

These absolute weapons are the definition of an oldskool snack. Forget about all the arsey flavoured derivatives on the shelves, head straight for the classics every time.

When life gets tough you can rely on these, along with a good brew, to add a little bit of comfort and familiarity back into your life.

Winner.

Open from 12-5 tomorrow

Techno returns to Belfast in style.

August 15, 2023

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We are delighted to see that those lovely chaps at Coda_Belfast are gearing up for another night of fat ass loops that feature in some of the finest, proper techno known to man (and woman)

This time around they’ve drafted in the services of Italy’s brilliant Alarico, founder of Katana Records and artist for stacks of other top quality labels.

Belfast needs this night badly and I think that all proper techno enthusiasts should support these guys by popping down and jumping around for a while.

Fri 8th Sept / Ulster Sports Club

Bedrock Belfast at Shine sells out months ahead of event!

June 17, 2021

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Legendary Belfast clubbing institution Shine have been announcing a steady flow of forthcoming events as we slowly begin to creep back to normality again after our various lockdowns.

Bedrock, the brainchild of superstar DJ and technical master John Digweed is coming to Belfast on 19th November, and Shine have sold out their entire quota of tickets in days, and literally 5 months ahead of the event.

Maybe there is such a yearning inside our nations youth to get back into society and spread their rave wings once again after being couped up for so long? or maybe the sheer might and power that Bedrock and indeed Mr Digweed still hold in our scene is incredibly strong? Who knows what the driving force is - I just know that it’s such a heart warming thing to read one again for the local entertainment industry.

Spree Announce Forthcoming New Album – Mannish Water

January 9, 2021

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Northern Ireland based drum & bass act Spree have announced the imminent arrival of their new LP titled Mannish Water. The collection of unreleased and highly sought after tracks from the archives include some absolute gems from the past 20 years of their productions and many collaborations.

SPREE @ SUNFLOWERFEST 2021

The guys have also announced their reformation and appearance at the prestigious annual Sunflower Festival from 23-25 July 2021, this will be one of the most anticipated sets of the entire festival.

CHECK OUT SPREE'S LAST ALBUM 'The Swarm'

AVA Announce The Mother Of All Events For 2020

February 5, 2020

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AVA Belfast have announced their biggest line up to date and also revealed a new location for the ground breaking electronic music festival.

AVA is the pride of the Northern Irish clubbing army, and has very quickly developed into a major force to be reckoned with throughout European club culture. Music tourists from all over the world now descend on Belfast for the annual event.

Boucher Road Fields has been announced as the location for the massive 2020 event, the south Belfast space is also home to the huge Vital events and many more prestige shows.

Running between May 28th - 31st, this years AVA shall be providing a new design of site alongside some of the biggest names in the world of electronic music. As well as the usual music conferences, the line up of this years event is nothing short of breathtaking.

DJ god Laurent Garniermakes a headline appearance alongside some of the current ‘elite’ such as Denis Sulta, Max Cooper, Fatima Yamaha, Helena Hauff…and to top it off, absolute legends of the dance music world Orbitalshall make a rare appearance for the Belfast massive.

The guys have certainly raised the bar once again in local music and we support 100% as always.

Tickets are on sale now from all the usual outlets.

AVA Announce The Mother Of All Events For 2020

Lyndon Stephens

January 10, 2020

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We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of the finest men in the Northern Ireland music scene, Lyndon Stephens.

Lyndon was founder of Quiet Arch Records, Champion Sound Music and was a much loved and respected character in our local scene.

We wish to pass on our deepest sympathies to Lyndon's wife Lisa and their family circle.

Embezzlement Society To Launch Record Label.

January 8, 2020

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One of our favourite local music producers and regular Belfast Underground DJ Embezzlement Society launches his new label on 25th January at Belfast's rapidly growing night Korova.

After going through a pretty tough year personally, Steven has pushed through, got his head down and focused on his family and the music he loves so much, the results of this hard work will be there for all to see very soon via his label 2Walk Records.

We would like to wish Steven all the very best for the future with the label, we shall be expecting some pretty major things.

Big shouts go out to Adam & The Crew at Korova for giving this guy the platform he so deserves.

Full details of the launch event can be found via the Korova Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/2529308950724111

Cybernalia to rock Bangor once again.

November 9, 2019

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The Cybernalia guys return for another night of quality house & progressive grooves at Bangor's cool Hop House venue on Saturday 16th November 2019. This time the lads are joined by one of Northern Ireland's most respected DJs Phil Sloan.

Expect a night of twisted, dirty grooves and punchy, percussive monsters.

The lads shall be joining Phil Sloan on his monthly radio show at Belfast Underground for a promo guest mix on Saturday 9th Nov from 4pm - 6pm

Cybernalia are Arkis Elwood (41) and Bryan Corr (39) from Bangor, Northern Ireland .

Both Arkis and Bryan have been involved in the Northern Irish dance scene for over 25 years ,DJing in most of the province's club since the early 1990's.

The duo began producing their own music in 2010 which ranges from house/progressive/techno through to indie. They made their production debut in 2011 on Baroque records with their first ep 'Pictures / Blind faith'. Since then they have gone on to release over 100 original tracks and remixes on labels such as stellar fountain , suffused music , sounds of juan , Baroque and the mainstay of their material with the renowned Stripped Muzik Management brand where in 2018 stripped recordings released Cybernalia's first full 16 track studio album 'Little Heroes' which went top 10 across many genres on all major platforms. Earlier this year Cybernalia independently released their latest album , a massive 50 track offering 'poisoned April' containing a full spectrum of their musical genres from chillout through to techno which can be obtained through their soundcloud page www.soundcloud.com/arkis

Lately the pair have been focusing on creating their own local events under the mantle of 'Cybernalia Presents' , concentrating in their hometown of bangor with very succesful nights in 'the rabbit rooms' and a continual booking of dates currently with 'the Hop House' . They base their events on an intimate style club night focusing on a music policy of house & techno and have recently added northern Ireland legend Phil Sloan and young local talent dj Reece Rodgers to the team as interest from a dedicated following increases as each event takes place.

Worldwide booking - arkis77@gmail.com