James Hendicott meets Fred MacPherson - a man keen to cling to the present

Outgoing yet well-spoken, Fred MacPherson doesn’t come across as your typical indie-rock star. His band Spector have only recently released
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25th May 2012 Additional Belsonic support acts announced

Several more support acts have been announced to play this year’s Belsonic festival. With support for ska legends Madness still
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23rd May 2012 Stream: A Plastic Rose – ‘Boy Racer’

A few months on from supporting Snow Patrol in London’s 02 and Belfast’s Odyssey, Belfast-based alt-rock quartet A Plastic Rose
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23rd May 2012 Ash come out on top in the Great Northern Songbook

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21st May 2012 Sunflowerfest day-to-day line-up announced

With some acts still left to be announced, the current full day-to-day line-up for this year’s Sunflowerfest at Tubby’s Farm,
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21st May 2012 Download: Kowalski – ‘While We Drive’

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AU Issue 81

Featuring the Last Orders: Calling time on Northern Ireland’s licensing laws, Napalm Death, Rory Gallagher, Jackie Fullerton, Sleigh Bells, Grimes,
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Mumford & Sons, The Vaccines, Willy Mason, and more in Galway

Mumford & Sons have curated their own, one-day festival, called The Gentlemen Of The Road Stopover, and they have included
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Radar Present Silhouette, City of Stars and Allie Bradley
Thursday May 31, 2012
QUBSU, Belfast

So it’s the last Radar of this academic year, sniff sniff, and what a year it’s been. Fittingly, they have
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Ginger Wildheart with Lafaro
Friday June 1, 2012
Mandela Hall, Belfast
The Damned
Saturday May 26, 2012
Mandela Hall, Belfast
Bop Yestrum and Belfast Music Club present Innergaze and Steve Summers
Tuesday June 12, 2012
The Menagerie, Belfast

Innergaze features Jason Letkiewicz, who also goes by the alias of Steve Summers, alongside video artist Aurora Halal. Using mostly
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SertOne, Laurent Fintoni, Deviant, Monto and more
Saturday June 2, 2012
Bierhaus, Galway
Kenny Larkin / Gerd
Monday June 4, 2012
Mynt, Belfast
Art
fifteenovereight
May 25 - June 7, 2012
Catalyst Arts, Belfast

fifteenovereight is a collection of works from a group of thirteen emerging artists in Belfast. These artists work in various
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WARNING! This is Contemporary Art
May 25 - June 15, 2012
Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Loss
May 31 - July 28, 2012
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
The Civilisation Game
April 29 - May 26, 2012
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast

The Civilisation Game is a comedy-thriller that bites back. Have you ever fancied a go at the wee sh*te who
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Murlough Nature Reserve
Murlough Nature Reserve, Dundrum, County Down

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Cue-Up @ Lavery’s
Lavery's Ballroom, Belfast
The Jungle
The Jungle, Magherafelt
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August 17-21, 2012
Tubby's Farm, Hillsborough, Co. Down

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Killinchy, Co. Down
Body & Soul Festival
June 22-24, 2012
Ballinlough Castle, Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath