http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/?service=Rss http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/belfast-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-14730918.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/belfast-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-14730918.html?r=RSS <p> Various venues, Belfast, Tuesday, March 23 to Sunday, March 28 </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:11:15 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19310-14730916.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19310-14730916.html?r=RSS <p> James vincent mcmorrow, Auntie Annie&rsquo;s, Belfast, Tonight, 9pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:08:33 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19310-14730909.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19310-14730909.html?r=RSS <p> The high kings, Market Square, Armagh, Saturday, March 20, 6pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:05:28 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730903.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730903.html?r=RSS <p> Chamber of music, Great Hall, University Of Ulster Magee Campus, Londonderry, Sunday, March 21, 8pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:02:56 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730897.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730897.html?r=RSS <p> Rain falling up, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Saturday, March 20, 7pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:01:32 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-white-stripes-under-great-white-northern-lights-third-manxl-14730893.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-white-stripes-under-great-white-northern-lights-third-manxl-14730893.html?r=RSS <p> As the notion of concert performance retreats ever further into the pre-programmed bowels of a computer, the great live album is virtually a thing of the past. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:57:40 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-19310-14730891.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-19310-14730891.html?r=RSS <p> The stone roses experience, Spring &amp; Airbrake, Belfast, Saturday, March 20, 9pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:55:42 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-goldfrapp-head-first-mute-14730890.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-goldfrapp-head-first-mute-14730890.html?r=RSS <p> Having leapt feet-first on 2008's Seventh Tree into the spooky wyrd-folk world then being opened up by the likes of Bat For Lashes, Goldfrapp now suddenly effect a complete volte-face on Head First, heading back to the electronic pop of their three previous releases. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:55:07 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730889.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19310-14730889.html?r=RSS <p> West ocean string ,quartet, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Tonight, 8pm </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:51:45 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-laura-marling-i-speak-because-i-can-virgin-14730888.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-laura-marling-i-speak-because-i-can-virgin-14730888.html?r=RSS <p> On I Speak Because I Can, Laura Marling continues to demonstrate why she's such an exciting singer-songwriter. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:50:47 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-mose-allison-the-way-of-the-world-anti-14730884.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-mose-allison-the-way-of-the-world-anti-14730884.html?r=RSS <p> Despite having repeatedly said he would never make another album, Mose Allison has been tempted out of retirement at the age of 82 to bring us The Way Of The World, a collection of typically trenchant observations delivered in his trademark laconic drawl. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:39 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/jedward-land-new-record-deal-and-steal-belfast-x-factor-show-14726266.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/jedward-land-new-record-deal-and-steal-belfast-x-factor-show-14726266.html?r=RSS <p> It must have been with some smug satisfaction that Jedward took to the stage in Belfast on St Patrick&rsquo;s night. </p> Reviews Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:35:20 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/a-balancing-act-in-the-black-box-14720937.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/a-balancing-act-in-the-black-box-14720937.html?r=RSS <p> Any years ago, before the advent of pretty boy pop and bootylicious R&rsquo;n&rsquo;B divas, the British music scene made room for a more homely brand of pop star, among whom could be included the late Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, and one Eric Goulden, aka Wreckless Eric. </p> Reviews Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:58:25 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-12310-14718617.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-12310-14718617.html?r=RSS <p> Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Hall, Belfast, Tonight, 7.45pm </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:09:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-12310-14718612.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-12310-14718612.html?r=RSS <p> Luka bloom, Black Box, Belfast, Tonight, 8pm </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:02 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-12310-14718609.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-12310-14718609.html?r=RSS <p> Stainer&rsquo;s crucifixion in belfast, St Mark&rsquo;s Church, Dundela, Thursday, March 18, 8pm </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:02:09 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-12310-14718608.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-12310-14718608.html?r=RSS <p> The japanese popstars, Stiff Kitten Club, Belfast, Saturday, March 13, 10pm, </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-paul-brady-hooba-dooba-proper-14718587.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-paul-brady-hooba-dooba-proper-14718587.html?r=RSS <p> Paul Brady is the singer-songwriter's singer-songwriter, arguably held in higher esteem by peers such as Dylan, Carole King and Van Morrison than by the general public. </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:08 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-various-artists-i-smell-a-rat-early-black-rocknroll-2-19491959-trikont-14718584.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-various-artists-i-smell-a-rat-early-black-rocknroll-2-19491959-trikont-14718584.html?r=RSS <p> Jonathan Fischer, the esteemed archivist responsible for Trikont's exemplary compilations of &quot;black radical music&quot;, may be stretching a point by describing the 26 choice cuts of 1950s R&amp;B collected here as &quot;early black rock'n'roll&quot; </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:43:50 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-sojourners-the-sojourners-black-hen-14718583.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-sojourners-the-sojourners-black-hen-14718583.html?r=RSS <p> For the most part, gospel music remains a sealed world unto itself, only occasionally showing on the radar of popular music when a group draws on secular material by such as Tom Waits, or collaborates with practitioners of other strains of Americana roots-music. </p> Reviews Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:30 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/back-on-the-scene-for-new-album-14709750.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/back-on-the-scene-for-new-album-14709750.html?r=RSS <p> Mandela Hall, Sunday, March 7, 7pm </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:37:33 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-5310-14709747.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-5310-14709747.html?r=RSS <p> Bentley Rhythm Ace, Lavery's Ballroom &amp; Bunker, Belfast </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:34:07 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-5310-14709743.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-5310-14709743.html?r=RSS <p> Ulster Orchestra,Ulster Hall, Belfast </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:31:23 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-5310-14709738.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-5310-14709738.html?r=RSS <p> Fionn Regan,The Nerve Centre, Londonderry </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:09 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-gorillaz-plastic-beach-parlophone-14709277.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-gorillaz-plastic-beach-parlophone-14709277.html?r=RSS <p> As is now well-known, a vast new continent of non-biodegradable plastic waste is being created just beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean; in Gorillaz's Plastic Beach, it's breached the surface to form an island which serves as the cartoon group's headquarters &ndash; a Tracy Island of the imagination, created by consumerism. </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:42:25 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-sonyexperience-hendrix-14709276.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-jimi-hendrix-valleys-of-neptune-sonyexperience-hendrix-14709276.html?r=RSS <p> Valleys Of Neptune is the opening salvo of what we're promised is a &quot;monumental&quot; 2010 Hendrix Catalogue Project, involving various CD/DVD reissues of the original studio albums and, doubtless, several more ransackings of the tape vaults like this. </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:19 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-sugababes-sweet-7-island-14709275.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-sugababes-sweet-7-island-14709275.html?r=RSS <p> With the departure last year of final founder member Keisha Buchanan, Sugababes finally slipped from being a band to a brand. </p> Reviews Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:35:35 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/crowd-all-shook-up-as-elvis-plays-in-belfast-14705333.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/crowd-all-shook-up-as-elvis-plays-in-belfast-14705333.html?r=RSS <p> Elvis Presley never played outside of the United States during his lifetime, but thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the legend lives again. </p> Reviews Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:56:40 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/newton-faulknerrsquos-voice-takes-centre-stage-14703057.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/newton-faulknerrsquos-voice-takes-centre-stage-14703057.html?r=RSS <p> Newton Faulkner is known for his mellow acoustic guitar stylings with extra percussion provided by the hard case of his guitar. </p> Reviews Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:05:06 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-archie-bronson-outfit-coconut-domino-14700886.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-archie-bronson-outfit-coconut-domino-14700886.html?r=RSS <p> If this week's releases were to be plotted on a graph, Coconut would come somewhere between the electro-industrial grooves of Black Light and the berserker impulse of Amsterdam Showdown, King Street Throwdown! </p> Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:34:01 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-ellie-goulding-lights-polydor-14700883.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-ellie-goulding-lights-polydor-14700883.html?r=RSS <p> As the latest winner of both the Brits Critics Choice Award and the BBC Sound Of 2010 poll, singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding is following in the footsteps of such as Adele and Florence Welch. </p> Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:43 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-groove-armada-black-light-ministry-of-piescooking-vinyl-14700882.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-groove-armada-black-light-ministry-of-piescooking-vinyl-14700882.html?r=RSS <p> Explaining the essential difference between Black Light and 2007's Soundboy Rock, Groove Armada's Andy Cato cites the likes of Friendly Fires, Klaxons and MGMT as having given them a fresh challenge which sent them back to the influences of Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and Roxy. </p> Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:29:44 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-galactic-yakamay-anti-14700881.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-galactic-yakamay-anti-14700881.html?r=RSS <p> &quot;Not your father's New Orleans record!&quot; proclaims the cover sticker on Galactic's Ya-Ka-May, though methinks they protest too much: with guest appearances from Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and Rebirth Brass Band, there's more than a hint of the Crescent City's old-school R&amp;B here. </p> Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:27:57 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-solex-vs-cristina-martinez-amp-jon-spencer-amsterdam-showdown-king-street-throwdown-bronzerat-14700876.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-solex-vs-cristina-martinez-amp-jon-spencer-amsterdam-showdown-king-street-throwdown-bronzerat-14700876.html?r=RSS <p> What I particularly like about Amsterdam Showdown, King Street Throwdown! is the way it defies simple categorisation, shifting shape and direction with virtually every track, and constructing weird, contradictory combinations of sounds which balance, as the poet once said, like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine. </p> Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:25:46 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympic-dream-over-as-jenna-mccorkell-stumbles-out-14696076.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympic-dream-over-as-jenna-mccorkell-stumbles-out-14696076.html?r=RSS <p> The massive disappointment was etched on the face of Coleraine girl Jenna McCorkell as she held her head in her hands at the end of an Olympics debut she had dreamed about since she was seven years old but one that had failed to go the way she wanted. </p> Olympics Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:06:54 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album--diamonds-the-family-jewels--reader-review-14695674.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album--diamonds-the-family-jewels--reader-review-14695674.html?r=RSS <p> Debut Album &lsquo;The Family Jewels&rsquo; opens with the brilliantly inviting track &lsquo;Are you satisfied?&rsquo; In the song, Marina, armed with attitude, holds up a mighty finger to the conventions of a normal lifestyle. </p> Reviews Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:45:32 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/flamboyant-lady-gaga-has-belfasts-odyssey-rocking-14694003.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/flamboyant-lady-gaga-has-belfasts-odyssey-rocking-14694003.html?r=RSS <p> Lady Gaga's Monster Ball concert at Belfast's Odyssey Arena was every bit as weird and wacky as fans could have hoped. </p> Reviews Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:48:46 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/informal-start-to-allday-music-treat-14693011.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/informal-start-to-allday-music-treat-14693011.html?r=RSS <p> Saturday at the BMS Chamber Music Festival in Belfast began with comfortable informality. </p> Reviews Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:50:39 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/james-bond-fans-shaken-and-stirred-musically-14693008.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/james-bond-fans-shaken-and-stirred-musically-14693008.html?r=RSS <p> It was a tribute to the enduring legacy of agent 007 that the Ulster Orchestra could stage a full James Bond Film Night from the hero&rsquo;s daredevil exploits. </p> Reviews Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:49:04 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-johnny-cash-american-vi-aint-no-grave-american-14690772.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-johnny-cash-american-vi-aint-no-grave-american-14690772.html?r=RSS <p> It would be hard, if not impossible, for this sixth volume of Johnny Cash's American series to equal the pinnacular standard of its predecessor A Hundred Highways, which at the time was believed to be the final batch of songs stockpiled by the producer Rick Rubin before Cash's death. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:41:48 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-various-artists-glee-the-music-volume-1-columbia-14690771.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-various-artists-glee-the-music-volume-1-columbia-14690771.html?r=RSS <p> As apparently the only person in the western hemisphere not to have seen an episode of Glee, it's hardly surprising I found myself neither angered nor elated by the karaoke-pop repossessions of rock history that comprise this soundtrack album. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:39:04 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-owl-city-ocean-eyes-universal-republic-14690767.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/album-owl-city-ocean-eyes-universal-republic-14690767.html?r=RSS <p> It's a commonplace assumption that the vocoder autotune effect so liberally splashed across modern pop vocals is mainly used to disguise the shortcomings of pitch-challenged singers. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:37:56 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19210-14690734.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/classical-music-19210-14690734.html?r=RSS <p> The Belfast Music Society presents its annual festival this weekend. Centred around &lsquo;Folk Inspirations&rsquo; in classical chamber music, the concerts bring to the Great Hall of Queen&rsquo;s University a colourful array of accessible and attractive music. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:09:18 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-19210-14690731.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/popdance-music-19210-14690731.html?r=RSS <p> DJ Darren Styles (pictured) will feel right at home playing a set at Traks in Portrush tomorrow night. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:06:09 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19210-14690726.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/reviews/rootsfolk-music-19210-14690726.html?r=RSS <p> The highlight of the local Roots calendar, the 6th Guinness Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, kicks off on Wednesday. </p> Reviews Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:02:34 +0000