13:08:08
Photos of Monday Night
Go to the Gallery page to view photos of The Flaming Lips on Monday Night.
Dance with the Flaming Lips
If you're going to the gig and fancy dancing on stage dressed as an Alien Santa, or a Bunny Rabbit or whatever it happens to be this time round then you should enter our competition. Winners will be emailed at 2.30pm on Monday. This is unmissable for fans of Flaming Lips. Even if you don't win this one, we'll be choosing a few fans on the night. There's a few pics of our stage going up on the gallery page .
04:08:08
One Week to go!
We're on the final countdown to Belsonic 2008 now with our first show in just one week's time. This day week, the Flaming Lips will finally make their Belfast debut alongside Mogwai, Oppenheimer & Jape. Tickets are disappearing rapidly but nevertheless still available for all three shows now from all Ticketmaster outlets, The Stiff Kitten Bar and online at www.belsonic.com
Also worth noting, this Friday in the Daily Mirror there's a free special pull out Belsonic guide, complete with site plan, stage times, exclusive band interviews and other info to help you get the most from this year's Belsonic event.
Please note competitions are now closed on www.belsonic.com
01:08:08
Belsonic Stage Times!
Firstly just to let you know that the competitions on www.belsonic.com have now officiallly closed as we approach to the event. Winners should have already been notified by email (please check your spam folders just incase!). The big news today is that we can finally release the stage times for all three Belsonic events (which are just over a wee away!!!). If you have any queries about the events, please visit our website www.belsonic.com and leave a message on the forum. We try to answer as many questions as we can;
MONDAY 11 AUGUST
Gates: 5.45pm
6.15 Jape
7.05 Oppenheimer
8.10 Mogwai
9.45 The Flaming Lips
11.30 Close
THURSDAY 14 AUGUST
Gates: 5.45pm
6.15 General Fiasco
7.00 Future Of the Left
7.55 Fighting With Wire
8.55 Reverend and the Makers
10.15 The Enemy
11.30 Close
FRIDAY 15 AUGUST
Gates: 5.45pm
6.00 Skibunny DJs
7.00 Delorentos
7.45 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
8.30 Mystery Jets
9.45 The Go! Team
11.15 The Zutons
1am Close
28:07:08
Two Weeks To Go!!!
We're now on the final countdown to Belsonic, with only two weeks to go to our first show with Flaming Lips, Mogwai, Oppenheimer & Jape. We're promised a truly spectacular live show for Flaming Lips Northern Irish debut, complete with lazer show, state of the art light show and crazy visuals on a huge LED screen. Tickets are still available for this show and also our Thursday show with The Enemy, Reverend & The Makers, Fighting with Wire, Future of the Left & General Fiasco and also our Friday show with The Zutons, Go! Team, Mystery Jets, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, The Delorentos & Ski Bunny Djs.
Here are the opening times for the three shows so you can plan your transport for the shows:
Monday August 11th:
Gates open 5.45pm. Show starts 6pm. Curfew 11.30pm.
Thursday August 14th:
Gates open 5.45pm. Show starts 6pm. Curfew 11.30pm.
Friday August 15th:
Gates open 5.45pm. Show starts 6pm. Curfew 1am.
Please keep checking www.belsonic.com for set times and running orders, we'll be finalising these in the next few days and posting them on the website, along with details of drinks available at our bar and food concessions at the events. You can still win tickets to all three shows @ www.belsonic.com Winners will be chosen and notified via email this coming Friday, August 1st.
15:07:08
Details of Belsonic TV Coverage
Looks like ATL TV Belsonic coverage will consist of two thirty minute specials top go out on BBC2, tentatively scheduled for August 21st and 28th. There will also be substantial radio coverage for the duration of the event on ATL.
Meanwhile you can still win pairs of tickets for all three days at www.belsonic.com Also our new forum is up at www.belsonic.com/forum Tickets are still available for all three days at www.belsonic.com The Stiff Kitten bar and all Ticketmaster outlets (0870 243 4455).
We are pleased to be offering coach incentives for large groups. Please email corporate@belsonic.com for details.
07:07:08
Belsonic Forum Now Online!
The forum at Belsonic is now online - click the link on the bottom left. This forum will be moderated so if you have any Belsonic related queries, we'll do our best to answer them here.
30:06:08
TV advert and Ticket news
The Belsonic promotional campaign steps up a gear this week, most notably with our lovely new telly ad which will be going out on ITV and C4 over the coming weeks. However it's already up on www.belsonic.com if you'd like to view it now.
In other news the first wave of tickets purchased at www.belsonic.com will be posted out from the beginning of the week. Don't be alarmed if you don't get yours until the end of the week though because we've already sold thousands of tickets and it will take us a while to process all the pending orders.
You can also still win tickets for all three days on www.belsonic.com and don't worry the competitions are free and have stupidly easy questions.
27:06:08
Belfast's Biggest Outdoor Festival
We are delighted to announce that Belsonic will now be taking place in partnership with the BBC, who will be covering the event for broadcast on BBC2, as well as broadcasting live on BBC Radio Ulster's Across The Line. This will be ATL's only outside broadcast for any musical event in Belfast this summer, so needless to say w e're very pleased at this turn of events, especially in this, our first year.
We are told to expect footage from the events to make up at least two thirty minute specials on ATL TV on BBC2 to be broadcast shortly after the event as part of the excellent ATL TV summer festival season, as well as substantial live and recorded radio coverage on BBC Radio Ulster. For more news keep an eye on www.belsonic.com and www.bbc.co.uk/atl
Also please note that 3 Day Belsonic Tickets are now available from the Stiff Kitten Bar, www.belsonic.com and all Ticketmaster outlets priced £75 including booking fee.
20:06:08
Three Day Tickets
Three day tickets are now available at a price of £75 inc booking fee. You can purchase these at all the usual outlets and ofcourse from this website.
If you have bought tickets for either one or two days already and would like to upgrade to a three ticket you can do so at point of purchase.
15:06:08
New Website Launched
Sign up for the text service to keep up to date with the lastest Belsonic news. Also win tickets for the three shows. Lots more info to be added over the next few days.
11:06:08
The Enemy to play Belsonic
The Enemy plus full supporting acts have been added to the list of Belsonic events. This gig will take place on Thursday 14th August. To find out more click here
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Friday 15th August 2008 Custom House Square, Belfast The Zutons The Go Team Mystery Jets Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Ski Bunny Djs Click here to tickets purchase Three day tickets also available at a cost of £75.00 (inc booking fee) Tickets for The Zutons and full supporting bill on 11 August are £30.00 (inc booking fee) from www.belsonic.com or from The Stiff Kitten, 1 Bankmore Square, off Dublin Road, Belfast +44 (0) 28 9023 8700Tickets from all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.ie , and on their 24 hour booking line on 0870 243 4455. Ticket sales may be subject to service and/or postage charges. Tickets purchased at the Stiff Kitten will be at face value. *BELSONIC is subject to license |
Liverpool's first great band of the 21st century, The Zutons top the bill at Custom House Square on Friday 15th August. Their boisterous, hook-laden music has scored them a string of hit singles, and should provide a perfect summer evening party soundtrack at BELSONIC, Belfast newest and freshest live music event.. The Zutons emerged in 2004 with a sound that was compulsively odder than that of their peers, Their infectious songs making an instant connection.Their best known song Valerie, is not only a massive hit single in its own right, but later re-worked by Mark Ronson with Amy Winehouse it went on to spend100 weeks in the Radio Airplay Charts. New album You Can Do Anything smashed intop the top 5 of ther UK album chart on release. .
Their first full-length album, Making Dens, was released in 2006, making the band instant media darlings. Maverick remixer / DJ Erol Alkan came on board for his debut full band production, to record their latest LP, 'Twenty One'. Having last played Belfast as part of the NME Shockwaves tour in The Ulster Hall, alongside Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park and We Are Scientists, their return is eagerly anticipated.
www.thezutons.com
www.myspace.com/thezutons
Back once again it’s The Go! Team, with another treble-heavy adventure in audio, their second album Proof of Youth due for release on 10 September 2007.
2004’s Mercury Music Prize nominated and 250k selling debut album Thunder Lightning Strike came from
nowhere to win plaudits and fans alike worldwide with its hybrid of old school hip hop, noise band work outs, TV action show theme tunes and Motown horn blasts. The live show, all electro hand claps, dueling drumkits and garage band guitar thrashings saw the band headline stages at Glastonbury and Reading/Leeds, tour the UK and the US with The Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth and steal the show at Coachella and Lollapalooza.
Bombing melodies into the stone-age with its needle-in-the-red, anti-production approach, Proof of Youth lurches from bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. This time the band bring a gang of glorious misfits to the party - including Public Enemy legend Chuck D, the original Double Dutch Divas, Maryland’s pint sized Rapper’s Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role, Amsterdam based Solex and Washington DC’s Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team.
First single Grip Like A Vice sees b-girls slaying the fellas with brass blasts, a clap machine, a pound shop keyboard and a ton of feedback. Doing it Right sounds like a marching band fully cranked through a marshall stack. Keys to the City is epic widescreen Ennio Morricone transplanted to 70’s Brooklyn. Titanic Vandalism slams blaxploitation boogie against guitar crunch with some heavyweight vocal sparring from the ladyeez. Patricia’s Moving Picture is a sun soaked bus journey through a musical instrument shop. The only let up on Proof of Youth comes in the shape of Vince Guaraldi/Mo Tucker tinged duet I Never Needed it Now So Much and cover version of long forgotten sound track to ITV schools programme My World.
www.thegoteam.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thegoteam
The Syd Barrett-worshiping indie outfit Mystery Jets formed in the early '90s when the group's shock-headed frontman, Blaine Harrison, was only 12. Their first full-length album, Making Dens, was released in 2006, making the band instant media darlings. Maverick remixer / DJ Erol Alkan came on board for his debut full band production, to record their latest LP, 'Twenty One'. Having last played Belfast as part of the NME Shockwaves tour in The Ulster Hall, alongside Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park and We Are Scientists, their return is eagerly anticipated.
www.mysteryjets.com
www.myspace.com/mysteryjets
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip quickly shot to fame in 2007 with single of the year contender 'Thou Shall Always Kill'. A collaboration between charismatic poet / lyricist Scroobius Pip, and producer Dan Le Sac, their groundbreaking variety of Electro / Spoken Word / Hip Hop has seen them become a huge feature in this summer's festival schedule, with appearances at Cochella and Bestival among many others.
www.myspace.com/lesacvspip
2007 got off to a great start for Dublin 4 piece Delorentos, with the release of LP Basis Of Everything in February, coinciding with dates in the U.S. taking in New York and a series of shows at South By South West. The Album was Released in April, and quickly reached number 7 in the Irish charts. In December the Album went Gold and the band celebrated with their biggest headline gig to date, in Dublin's Ambassador Theatre. So far this year, the band have done three Italian tours, been nominated for two Meteor Awards (Best band and Best album), and nominated for the Choice music Prize
www.myspace.com/delorentos
www.delorentos.net
Skibunny Djs are Mark and Tanya. With four Peel Sessions and a Melody Maker single of the week under their belts, they came together as a DJ duo in 1998 to create Skibunny, a weekly saturday night alternative club which soon prompted words like 'groundbreaking' from Radio 1. As the reputation grew, the accolades kept coming with both a club of the week appearance in the pages of the NME, and a gong for best alternative club at the Oh Yeah awards.
www.myspace.com/skibunnyclub