Band Name: Apartments
Genre: Punk//Emo//Hardcore
For Fans Of: Hotel Books, Parkway Drive
Location: Belfast
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Though we are not known for our coverage of the darker end of Belfast's musical spectrum, the rapid rise of power-trio 'Apartments' proves a curious read indeed. Fast-tracked from stray post-punk wannabees to supporting A Plastic Rose, the young city band seem to h...
Band Name: Alphabetika
Genre: Acoustic
For Fans Of: New Ancestors, The Civil Wars, Sullivan & Gold
Location: Belfast
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Alphabetika are a bit of an enigma. A quick google search of the group will produce a string of promising reviews and early airplay, while any real details appear scarce. For one thing, they describe themselves as 'a new band' with 'many influences, from many genres', wh...
Local alt-rock mentalists A Plastic Rose are shooting a video tomorrow night at the LOFT space on North Street, and they have an innovative approach planned with Bandwidth films. They are asking fans to become video makers at the one-off small capacity special event, sharing footage through a specially created site and creating their own 'directors' cut' of the evenings shenanigans.
Singer Ia...
Band Name: The Racks
Genre: Garage-Rock
For Fans Of: The Undertones, The Strokes, The Libertines
Location: Lisburn
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A Libertines styled melody, wrapped in an Undertones package. Amazingly The Racks have taken the fairly straightforward original (Rudi, Ramones etc...) pop-punk sequence and managed to make it very interesting indeed. The beauty within this groove laden piece is in it's s...
Our good friends over at Chordblossom have announced details of this years 'Kickstart' competition and as usual, the stakes are very high indeed! A competition with great pedigree, past winners include the now huge SOAK, the brilliant Those Ghosts and future pop-pioneers In An Instant..
Aimed at giving Northern Irish artists the chance to Kickstart their year, the prizes include a single reco...
Name: R51
Genre: Alt-Rock
For Fans Of: Runaway [GO], Yes Cadets, Arcade Fire
Location: Belfast
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A captivating first line can make or break a songs relationship with it's listener. It must be compelling, engaging and, if possible, mean something to them. With ambient dream-weavers R51's latest single they not only tick all of the above boxes, they do so in a manner that illust...
Name: Fat White Family
Genre: ShoeGaze
For Fans Of: The War On Drugs, Thee Oh Sees, The Cramps
Location: South London
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Fat White Family are a hark back to a simpler time, when bands survived, sometimes for months at a time, on nothing but their instruments and whatever gigs they can string together in order to feed themselves. If there's a certain romanticism attached to that, you're...
Name: Rebekah Wilson
Genre: Acoustic//Indie
For Fans Of: Aaron Shanley, Ben Howard, SOAK
Location: Belfast
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If you're involved in the Northern Irish music scene, chances are you know Rebekah Wilson. Almost certainly the scene's biggest supporter, Rebekah has contributed more to the growth of this countries local talent than most, whether shining light upon upcoming artists, pr...
The internet can be a strange and wonderful place. It's made our world more accessible and allowed us to keep in contact with each other all around the world. More importantly, it's opened our ears to some awesome new bands, and tonight Encore NI wants to celebrate some of that emerging talent.
Though we always prefer to focus on local acts, tonight will see us branching out to lands beyond th...
Alt-rock band A Plastic Rose have announced they will launch their second album 'Flickering Light Of An Inner War' in the huge surroundings of The Mandela Hall, in Belfast.
Having already released no less than four singles from the record (which comes in a stylish red & blue vinyl), the band have also allowed fans the opportunity to hear the record on Spotify before they commit to buying it. T...
Imagine gently lulling Sigur Ros into an electronic daze and you're someway to understanding the tranquil brilliance of '2', the new single from Belfast producer Oaks.
Though not quite avant-garde enough to warrant it's own new genre, '2' feels like the natural progression between Explosions In The Sky's mesmerising post-rock and Tycho's brooding sound.
Uplifting, yet perfectly entrancing, O...
Swimming in ambiance, the latest effort from Derry/Londonderry's peculiarly named Catmando is at worst background noise, and at best a song of rippling intensity. Despite running ever so slightly out of steam toward the end, 'Recluse' is in no way a bad effort. The sonic backdrop laid down from the tracks opening is promising, while it's central riff's versatility means it could have been a cut...
For years, indie music has been the bedrock of the weirder kids' existence. For all those who found comfort in verse and chorus, who read their lyrics like scriptures and gazed upon bands and the celestial light which followed them with hope in their eyes.
Here, Encore NI will focus on British indie and its eternal search to give these weird kids, well, something to believe in. Though for ...
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