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THE FRIDAY FIVE – 2.2.2018

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1. Turin Brakes – Lifeforms
2. George Ezra – Paradise
3. Chvrches – Get Out
4. The Vaccines – Nightclub
5. The Wombats – Cheetah Tongue

So, what an interesting week of concert announcements. Where to start?

U2 at The Odyssey. Yes please, will be trying to get tickets for that.

Biggest Weekend, Manic Street Preachers and Beck playing Titanic Slipways in May. Yes plese, will be trying to get tickets for that.

Erasure in Dublin was cancelled this week, rearranged for March. Hoping they do a Shed Seven and sneak in a Belfast gig as well with their rearranged Dublin gig.

Not a concert, but I got a ticket for An Evening With Eric Cantona at Waterfront Hall in October.

Paloma Faith has announced an outdoor gig for Edinburgh in August. I might make that my week to go the Edinburgh Festival. I’m giving her Belfast concert in March a miss as it’s all seater, so hoping a Belsonic or CHSQ announcement is being embargoed until after that.

THE SOUND OF 2017 : 1-25

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So, here it is, the Top 25 Songs Of 2017

1. Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth
2. Rose Elinor Dougall – Closer
3. The Killers – Run For Cover
4. Paramore – Hard Times
5. Liam Gallagher – Bold
6. U2 – Get Out Of Your Own Way
7. Liam Gallagher – Wall Of Glass
8. The Killers – The Man
9. Rose Elinor Dougall – All At Once
10. Haim – Little Of Your Love
11. Arcade Fire – Everything Now
12. Liam Gallagher – Come Back To Me
13. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – She Taught Me to Fly
14. U2 – You’re The Best Thing About Me
15. Royal Blood – Lights Out
16. Biffy Clyro – Friends and Enemies
17. Tears For Fears – I Love You But I’m Lost
18. Kasabian – You’re In Love With A Psycho
19. Lorde – Green Light
20. Arcade Fire – Creature Comfort
21. Kasabian – Bless This Acid House
22. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – If Love Is The Law
23. Bastille – Basketcase
24. Paloma Faith – Crybaby
25. John Hassell and the April Rainers – Intercity 125

Congratulations to Liam Gallagher, emulating his brother in winning this prize in 2011. Get in touch and I’ll arrange some sort of presentation when you’re in Belfast for Belsonic.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this rundown and discovered some new songs you had never heard before.

If you haven’t heard the winning song yet, here it is.

We’ll end, with the list of previous winners.

2016 The Strumbelles – Spirits
2015 Blossoms – Charlemagne
2014 Jamie T – Zombie
2013 Haim – The Wire
2012 Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
2011 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – AKA …. What a Life
2010 Marina and the Diamonds – Shampain
2009 Little Boots – New In Town
2008 Sons and Daughters – Darling
2007 Feist – 1,2,3,4
2006 Kasabian – Empire

THE FRIDAY FIVE – 29.9.2017

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1. Depeche Mode – Heroes
2. Rhye – Summer Days
3. Soulwax – Is Always Binary?
4. Paloma Faith – Crybaby
5. Feeder – Veins

This week is a bumper bonanza of concert announcements of acts I like coming to Belfast in 2018. My bank account is going to take a beating ……. and then I have two family birthdays this week as well.

I’ve already got a Noel Gallagher ticket on presale, now i’m getting primed to get tickets for Stereophonics and Paloma Faith. Wish me luck.

Here’s some charts to get you in the mood.

FIVE SONGS BY NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS

1. AKA ….. What A Life.
2. You Know We Can’t Go Back
3. In The Heat Of The Moment
4. The Ballad Of The Mighty I
5. Everybody’s On The Run

FIVE SONGS BY STEREOPHONICS

1. Dakota
2. A Thousand Trees
3. Superman
4. Indian Summer
5. Just Looking

FIVE SONGS BY PALOMA FAITH

1. Thirty Minute Love Affair
2. Upside Down
3. Crybaby
4. New York
5. Picking Up The Pieces

Also, Monday is Phil Oakey’s birthday on Monday. I’m having a bit of a Human League thing at the moment, mainly due to the Top Of The Pops repeats on BBC Four. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how good a band is.

I’m really regretting not seeing The Human League when they’ve been to Belfast in recent years.

FIVE SONGS BY PHIL OAKEY

1. Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams
2. The Human League – Tell Me When
3. The Human League – Don’t You Want Me?
4. The Human League – One Man In My Heart
5. The Human League – Keep Feeling Fascination

THE FRIDAY FIVE – 1.9.2017

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1. U2 – The Blackout
2. Paloma Faith – Crybaby
3. Saint Etienne – Dive
4. Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth
5. Death From Above – Never Swim Alone

So, after the Kasabian concert was cancelled last week, a new date has been announced …… for 2018, with hysterical headlines about people being outrages, with three of whom dying.

If you’re dead, missing out on seeing Kasabian will be the least of your worries.

I thought they would have just slotted an Odyssey gig into their Winter tour, but I can see the logistical problems involved, so it made more sense to have it at the same venue. That meant it would have to be August 2018.

I can survive waiting a year to see Kasabian, seeing that Bananarama fans had to wait 28 years to see the band return to Belfast after a cancelled concert in 1989.

If you bought a Kangol bucket hat and a Stone Island parka for Kasabian, it won’t be going to waste, as Liam Gallagher comes to Ulster Hall in October. I’m hoping to get a ticket for this because I am neither a Potato or a Beige Boy.

Talking of Ulster Hall, anyone fancy sorting me out for a Ryan Adams ticket for next week?

2015 IN PICTURES – AUGUST

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August is usually a busy month, but it was a bit slow to get going. My first event came on the 8th of the month, when I went to see Linfield start the new Irish League season, against Ballymena United.

Four days later, I was visiting Taylor’s Avenue for the first time, as Linfield travelled to newly promoted Carrick Rangers.

Three days later, I was back at Windsor Park to see Linfield take on Dungannon Swifts.

The next day, I headed to the Peace Wall in Belfast to get some snaps.

Belsonic then began in Belfast, and I attended two of these concerts, Paloma Faith and Stereophonics.

The day after that Stereophonics gig, I was Edinburgh bound for my annual trip to the Edinburgh Festival.

While there, I went to see some football, as Hearts took on Partick Thistle at Tynecastle.

It wasn’t all football, as I managed to get some photos of Street Art in Edinburgh.

A couple of football trips within Scotland, first to Glasgow to see Rangers take on Hibs, and then Dunfermline to see Dunfermline take on Dundee.

There was also some music to fit in while in Scotland, as I headed to Princes Street Gardens to see James in concert.

Upon my return from Scotland, it was back to Windsor Park to see Linfield beat Portadown and pull clear at the top of the league.

Linfield v Ballymena United

Carrick Rangers v Linfield

Linfield v Dungannon Swifts

Belfast Peace Wall Art

Belfast Peace Wall Art Photo Album

Paloma Faith Live At Custom House Square

Paloma Faith Live At Custom House Square Photo Album

Stereophonics Live At Custom House Square

Stereophonics Live At Custom House Square Photo Album

Heart Of Midlothian v Partick Thistle

Heart Of Midlothian v Partick Thistle Photo Album

Edinburgh Street Art

Edinburgh Street Art Photo Album

Rangers v Hibernian

Rangers v Hibernian Photo Album

Dunfermline Athletic v Dundee

Dunfermline Athletic v Dundee Photo Album

James Live At Princes Street Gardens

James Live At Princes Street Gardens Photo Album

Linfield v Portadown

PALOMA FAITH – LIVE AT CUSTOM HOUSE SQUARE 20.8.2015 (BELSONIC)

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The first glimpse that Belfast fans had of Paloma Faith was when she watched her support acts from the balcony of an apartment facing the stage at Custom House Square. No grand entrance, she just appeared unnoticed. It was very un Paloma like.

Of those support acts, Tom Prior was very good, similar to another Tom, Odell.

Faith is no ordinary pop star, her Roadies set up the stage wearing tuxedos.

Eventually, she appeared on stage, thirty minutes after the advertised time (Stereophonics did as well, so it must have been miscommunication by the organisers)

Thankfully for the crowd, it wasn’t raining, so the wait wasn’t that much of a problem for the crowd. They had been waiting two and a half years since her last headline show in Belfast, although she did perform as part of Cool FM’s Jingle Bell Ball.

She appeared, singing Take Me, dancing with her backing singers, before then going for a dance with her brass section. The chemistry she has with her band was clear for all to see.

Paloma Faith is now at the stage, three albums in, where she has had quite a lot of hits.,

Inbetween songs, Faith mentioned that she was currently working on her fourth album, before performing a cover of Purple Haze.

When introducing Purple Haze, she indicated that this will be the musical direction she will be taking. That should be something to look forward to.

Earlier that week, Faith was confirmed as a judge on The Voice, which she spoke about, stating that she will be a coach rather than a judge, and that her singers won’t be “getting involved in battle or any other war like analogy”

Joking that her albums were now available for 99p, Faith didn’t perform many of the singles from her debut album. It wasn’t that much of a surprise, she didn’t perform any of her early singles when I saw her in Bray last year.

Amongst the hits performed were Picking Up The Pieces and Stone Cold Sober, though not my own personal favourite, Thirty Minute Love Affair.

After a brief exit from the stage, she returned for an encore, performing Can’t Rely On You, Only Love Can Hurt Like This and Changes.

It turned out Belfast can rely on Paloma Faith for a good time. Now, about that fourth album …….

Photo Album

See also

Paloma Faith Live At Ulster Hall 2013

Paloma Faith Live At Ulster Hall 2013 Photo Album

Paloma Faith Live At Killriddery 2014

Paloma Faith Live At Killruddery 2014 Photo Album