In support to Maria Somerville on her album launch.
Gallery from Dublin 01/12/2018
Last shows for 2018 – Belfast/Dublin
Hilary Woods/Sugar Club/14.09.18
First show in Dublin since 2016///////////
Glasgow show announced
After Derry on the 24th March is Nice ‘N’ Sleazy in Glasgow on the 8th April.
Going Beyond: The Forward-Moving Sounds of Modern Belfast
We’ve been included on a list of Belfast artists over at Bandcamp: From his days fronting “un-pop” threesome Charles Hurts, to playing guitar in Girls Names, Philip Quinn has brazenly shape-shifted as a musician over the last 10 years. Originally begun as a guitar, bass, and drum machine collaboration with Derry’s Christian Donaghey (aka Autumns), Quinn’s solo project Gross Net arrived with the release of his debut album, Quantitative Easing, in late 2016. A 10-track effort tussling with depression, identity, and the interminable burden of financial struggle, it’s a bleak—yet, at times, brilliantly satirical—release that finds Quinn melding murky post-punk with industrial-soaked electronic vignettes, including the wonderful, wretched swagger of “Still Life.”
We’re in very good company, so read the full list here.
First shows of 2018
Return to the Menagerie 18/11/2017
Next show in Belfast in the spiritual home, The Menagerie on 18th November.
Quantitative Easing nomimated for the Northern Irish Music Prize 2017.
The shortlist for this year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize has been revealed.
Set to take place at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Saturday, November 11, the following twelve albums will vie for the annual prize, as voted for by more than 70 people from the Irish music industry and media:
Arborist – Home Burial
Arvo Party – Arvo Party
Bap Kennedy – Reckless Heart
The Divine Comedy – Foreverland
Gross Net – Quantitative Easing
Hannah Peel – Awake But Always Dreaming
Invaderband – Invaderband
Joshua Burnside – Ephrata
Malojian – This Is Nowhere
Our Krypton Son – Fleas & Diamonds
Robocobra Quartet – Music For All Occasions
Sea Pinks – Watercourse
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