Open House Festival

Annual festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Martha Wainwright. Picture: Gaëlle_Leroyer

Martha Wainwright on musical icons: ‘Leonard Cohen really changed the way I looked at music’

In her new album Love Will Be Reborn, Martha Wainwright, daughter of folk royalty, the late Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, adheres to family tradition by using the personal sphere as a source of inspiration.

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Singer Camille O’Sullivan on roller skating, reviewing her life and making a funny film with partner Aidan Gillen

A conversation with Camille O’Sullivan is not quite what you might expect. A delightfully chatty and open interviewee, she immediately contradicts any preconceived idea I may hold of artists being oh so serious and self-conscious.

Alison Gordon and Kieran Gilmore of Open House Festival think the North Down seaside town could become like Brighton

Open to opportunity

Thirty years ago, almost to the day, Alison Gordon met Kieran Gilmore in a tower block in Kennington, south London. She was from Bangor and he was a blow-in from Belfast.

NI author Colin Bateman to re-publish hit children's novel Titanic 2020

Bangor author Colin Bateman has teamed up with Open House Festival to re-publish his children’s book Titanic 2020 - a story which has a particular relevance not only to the year, but to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Changed man: Shaun Ryder has mellowed with age

Shaun Ryder: I intend to keep on playing music until I'm older than the Rolling Stones

Shaun Ryder, the Happy Mondays' party-starting singer, is a changed man. Gone are the drug-fuelled concerts inside Manchester's hallowed Hacienda club, the endless parties and debauched recording sessions in Barbados. These days you are more likely to find the lyricist at home asleep in front of the 10 o'clock news - following a sold-out gig at your local arena, of course.

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