Name: Tour Alaska
Genre: Indie//Folk
For Fans Of: Bright Eyes, Elliot Smith, Iain Archer
Location: Belfast
"This city is bleak and it's getting bleaker, only the straight get cake...everyday the children are learning a different way to hate"
Every so often a song comes along to really capture the times and feeling of a city, and in 'Love Love Love', the brand new demo from Tour Alaska, ...
This Friday we will be teaming up with Belfast's Oh Yeah Centre, in support of Belfast Pride 2015!
As the date fast approaches for one of the most exciting gigs you'll see this year, we've compiled a few reasons why you really can't miss it.
1. Tour Alaska's echo-chamber bliss.
An incredibly new project, Tour Alaska is the softer side of A Plastic Rose's dynamic frontman Gerry Norman. Cal...
Name: Oppenheimer
Genre: Noisy-Pop
For Fans Of: They Might Be Giants, The GO! Team, Broken Bells
Location: Belfast
When you consider how small a city like Belfast is, it's quite incredible how regularly we seem to punch above our weight in terms of producing great bands. Since Encore NI's inception back in 2013 (wow) we've seen the difficult nature of the music business at first hand. We've s...
Name: Pale Waves
Genre: Glitter-Pop
For Fans Of: Wolf Alice, Swim Deep, The 1975
Location: Manchester
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A tidal wave of pristine-pop, the colour spectrum of Manchester's newest indie kids 'Pale Waves' is anything but pale. The female fronted four-piece take the tuneful synthy-melodies of the late 1980's and kick out the synth, leaving a guitar sound caught halfway between M...
Name: Halfmoon Bay
Genre: Low-Fi // Acoustic
For Fans Of: Bright Eyes, Aaron Shanley, The Front Bottoms
Location: Belfast
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Halfmoon Bay is a wonderfully unlikely affair.
The side project of The Bayonette's charismatic frontman Danny McClelland, it see's the vocalist swap his Jaguar for an acoustic and his angular riffs, for delicate chord changes; with startling ...
Name: Junk Drawer
Genre: Indie
For Fans Of: Yuck, Fleece, Teenage Fanclub, Sparklehorse
Location: Belfast
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The superbly named 'Junk Drawer' is a strange amalgamation of worlds. Taking a dash of Graham Coxon's disjointed melodies and the riffing splendor of former Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg, Junk Drawer have created a noisy debut to rival most UK releases this year.
Never remai...
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