Unquiet Nights - live at King's Head Belfast
- Belfast Nashville Songwriter's Festival @ King's Head (24-02-'12)
BIOGRAPHY
Unquiet Nights are a band with big ideas, big songs, and a big sound. With roots in Belfast and flavoured in London and Rome, the songs are ambitious and direct, whether you hear them live @ 10,000dB or on record. The music takes you back to a time when song-writing was king and Rock & Roll meant something.
Rising from the ashes of a previous Irish radio fixture, Unquiet Nights are centered on the songs of singer/guitarist Luke Mathers, the drum-work of Rodger Firmin, and the precision bass of John Rossi. It had always been about the songs, since long before anyone started taking notice. And since they started taking notice, the thing being noticed is still the songs.
21st Century Redemption Songs is the band's maiden release, and is the result of 18 months of intensive recording and self-production. Songs from the album have gotten the band radio play in a long list of countries including UK national stations (Absolute, Amazing Radio, BBC Radio 1), as well as major music press (Under The Radar, G3, Music Now), sound track appearances on many broadcasts (ESPN, Allisports, SurflineTV), as well as support slots at venues like The Kasbah, Scala London (w/ Bloc Party), and headlines in their native Belfast (Auntie Annies, Pavilion). The band have also made appearances on Balcony TV Dublin, Guitar Shop TV, done numerous live radio sessions (Radio Galileo, Feile FM, Blast106, Citybeat 96.7) and won five or six national competitions -- all since September 2010, without having had an official release, and in the independent spirit the band identify with.
The songwriting on 21st Century Redemption Songs is forceful and ambitious, with about half of the album having featured on national radio, and stylistically it draws on the band's love of Americana, British Invasion, Motown Soul, Outlaw Country, Delta Blues and everything else Rock & Roll was designed to embody. Journalists and DJs have compared it to REM at their drive time best, the lustful exhuberance of The Rolling Stones and most pleasingly of all -- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
UK: Police clash with unionist march in Belfast
At least four police officers and a Member of Parliament were injured Friday in clashes in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast, when an annual unionist march devolved into violence. MP Nigel Dodds was taken to a hospital after being hit on the head by a projectile, while three of the four injured police were knocked out.
Violence broke out in north Belfast following the return leg of an Orange Order parade which had tried to be diverted by the Parade Comission. Bricks and bottles were thrown as officers attempted to hold back crowds of protesters. Police then deployed water cannons.
In Northern Ireland, which in the past was known for its religious violence between Protestants and Catholics, parade routes are routinely changed to avoid confrontation at points of the march that cross through Catholic nationalist areas. The commemorations are seen by many in the Catholic community as a show of Protestant supremacy and, during a period of increased violence known as the 'Troubles,' were usually marred by paramilitary violence leading to British Army involvement in policing the parades. However, following the Good Friday Agreement peace deal in 1998, the Parades Commission was set up to tackle contentious marches. Thousands of police officers were deployed across Northern Ireland this year ahead of the parades.
The annual Orange Order parade, known as The Twelfth, takes place every July 12 to commemorate the day the Protestant forces of King William of Orange defeated the Catholic armies of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. For over two centuries, the Orange Order and Ulster Loyalist marching bands have paraded in towns across Northern Ireland.
6 NATO Minesweeper Ships Sail into Belfast for R n R
I'm down at the River Lagan at Queen's Quay just alongside the SSE Arena or Odyssey complex.
We have 6 Nato ships arrived fresh from a joint exercise in the North Sea. Lots of curious local folk are down to have a look. Many are taking selfies. It isn't very often that we see such a large number of naval vessels arrive in port. The 6 minesweepers will stay for some R n R until Monday when they will move off to continue minesweeping work off the coast of France.
Belfast Telegraph October 13 2017
A group of NATO ships with a mission to trawl the ocean and deal with potentially lethal sea mines have docked in Belfast.
The NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 fleet arrived on Friday morning as part of their 2017 deployment, and berthed in the River Lagan alongside Queen's Quay peer near to the SSE.
NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 undertake a wide variety of tasks, but a key part of their role involves dealing with undetonated sea mines.
During the past two weeks the vessels have been taking part in the UK-based exercise Joint Warrior, which happened in waters off the north-east of Scotland.
The port visit in Belfast is the second to the United Kingdom for the fleet this year, and gives the crews a chance to rest and resupply the ships before moving onto the French coast.
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The fleet consists of six ships:
The Latvian coastal minelayer and command ship LVNS Virsaitis
The Estonian minehunter ENS Sakala
The German minehunter FGS Sulzbach-Rosenberg
The Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Rauma
The Belgian minehunter BNS Primula
The Dutch minehunter HNLMS Makkum
N.IRELAND: BRITISH TROOPS BACK ON THE STREETS OF WEST BELFAST
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Dangerous divisions grew within Northern Ireland's two major pro-British paramilitary groups as Britain's senior minister in the province tried to reinvigorate the shaky Belfast peace talks.
Representatives of the Ulster Volunteer Force argued internally at a meeting on Monday over whether to meet Mo Mowlam, the British minister responsible for governing Northern Ireland.
Mowlam is meeting eight other party leaders on Monday, following a week of violence that led to deployment of extra police and troops.
Troops were back on the streets of West Belfast on Monday.
The extra troop deployment follows a week of violence in the province.
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) said most of its approximately 130 members inside the top-security Maze prison, near Belfast, voted against continued participation in the multi-party negotiations on Northern Ireland's future.
The peace talks are supposed to resume on January 12th and finish by May.
At stake is the outlawed groups' joint October 1994 ceasefire, which was to have ended their reign of terror against Northern Ireland's Catholic minority.
At Stormont, Gary McMichael, leader of the Ulster Defence Association's legal political party, met for talks with Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam.
He insisted that the U-D-A prisoners had cast a vote of no faith in the peace process, but not a vote against a ceasefire.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We had a comprehensive meeting. You know, and I think one which dealt with the reality of the current situation we're in. I'm not sure whether anything is going to come out of it or not. You know, we've made it very clear that we think we're at a very, very dangerous stage of this process. That if confidence within Unionism and Loyalism erodes much further, then the whole process is going to get away from us.
SUPER CAPTION: Gary McMichael, leader of the Ulster Defence Party
David Ervine, of the Progressive Unionist Party, was also due to meet Mowlam for talks at Stormont.
Before entering the meeting, Ervine said he was waiting to hear what the Northern Ireland Secretary had to say.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
She's perfectly aware of the difficulties we have with the process, and I suppose we wait with interest, given her comments yesterday on television, whether or not they will be satisfactory for us.
SUPER CAPTION: David Ervine, Progressive Unionist Party
The Loyalist Volunteer Force, a dissident gang that thinks the talks will result in an end to British rule, opened fire in a Catholic-run hotel on December 27th and a Catholic north Belfast pub on New Year's Eve, killing two men and wounding eight.
The man fatally shot in the north Belfast pub, 31-year-old Eddie Treanor, was buried on Monday.
The attacks came after an I-R-A splinter gang assassinated their commander, Billy King Rat Wright, inside the Maze prison southwest of Belfast.
Both the U-D-A and U-V-F say the British government needs to offer early releases to some of their imprisoned members to reward their side's 3-year-old truce.
The Irish government, which co-sponsors the peace talks with Britain, has already freed a majority of its prisoners from the Irish Republican
Army, now into the sixth month of its own truce.
Northern Ireland's main Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, planned on Monday to press British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London to release some Protestant militants soon.
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???? The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) backstage at the Kings Hall in Belfast Northern Ireland 2nd November 1964. Before the show The Beatles handed over the first toys for a christmas collection in aid of the local orphanage.
This was The Beatles' second and final visit to Northern Ireland. They had performed at the city's Ritz Cinema on 8 November 1963.
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The British government maintains 14,000 troops in
Northern Ireland to keep the peace between Protestants
and Catholics, loyalists to the United Kingdom and those
who want to sever Ulster's constitutional links with
mainland Britain. The job of the soldiers is a
dangerous one - already this year three have died
and in 1972 some 130 were killed by terrorists'
bombs, booby-traps and gunmen. This item looks at
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at Crossmaglen, the front line.
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Ardglass to Belfast. Kings Cruiser 29.
A really nice sail! Kings Cruiser 29.
Calm sea`s, gentle breeze. June 10th. 2019.
Kings Head Owner interview
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Arenacross Belfast 2020: Jonathan Rea and Graeme Irwin help launch event
Arenacross Belfast 2020: Jonathan Rea and Graeme Irwin help launch event in the SSE Arena Belfast.
Daytime Christmas Motorbike Run through East Belfast
Hi All, I decided to attach the head cam and take you on a wee spin round Christmas Belfast starting and returning from our house at Gilnahirk. ( N B This video is 50 + mins long! )
We are heading down from Gilnahirk through Cherryvalley on to the Kings Road and then on to the Upper Newtownards Road.
From there we head past Holywood Arches, past CS Lewis Square and then on to and over the Alberbridge. Stay with me as we turn along May street and then into Wellington Place and out along Chichester Street past the decorated City Hall and the Winter Continental Market. We pass Victoria Square and the historic Albert Clock and then circuit round past the Big Fish and Lagan Lookout to come to the SSE Arena ( better known as the Odyssey Pavilion ). We follow the Sydenham Road right up to Dee Street where we turn left on to Mersey Street. We cross over the recently restored Connwater bridge and fabulous river walks and head up to the Art Deco Strand Cinema at the top of Pims Avenue. Once across the junction we are into the Belmont Road. At the top of this road we take a sharp right on to Dundela Avenue and meet up with North Road. We turn left on to the Upper Newtownards Road and bike up to Ballyhackamore with its many eateries. We are almost home. We hit the King's Road once again and after crossing the very busy Knock Dual Carriageway we finally turn right along the filter on to Gilnahirk road and home.
I hope you enjoyed my Belfast Christmas bike run. The roads were unfortunately very very busy and greasy. The route took arond 50 minutes and approximately 14 miles was covered.
I am going to follow this daylight run with a nightime run over the same route. This is to let you see all the Christmas lights.
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pull pints in Belfast
Prince William and Kate attended a youth event at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast. The Duke and Duchess met with those in attendance and turned their hand at pulling pints behind the bar. . Report by April Brown.
Jim The king Brown Whole Lotta Rosie [Live 'in-store' performance @ Head Music, Belfast]
Recorded for an 'in-store' appearance @ Head Music, CastleCourt, Belfast Saturday 3rd May 2014
Man stabbed '18 times in 25 seconds' on train
A security camera shows the moment Lee Pomeroy was stabbed 18 times in 25 seconds, on a train from Guildford to London in January.
The Old Bailey sat in silence during the graphic clip of the quick and frenzied attack on a train from Guildford to Waterloo.
The 51-year-old was stabbed by fellow passenger Darren Pencille on 4 January.
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Sunday buffet lunch at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast
Exquisite food to suit all tastes at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast.
Sunday is a day for the family with the Sunday Buffet Lunch in the Grand Ballroom at the Stormont Hotel just a few miles outside Newtownards.
The Grand Buffet Lunch brings a real taste of home to the hotel with traditional hearty favourites, along with some fun activities to keep the kids amused. Sourcing the freshest, local, seasonal ingredients, the team of Chefs has created an array of unique dishes, succulent roasts and decadent desserts that will appeal to all taste buds.
The extremely welcoming and friendly staff are especially attentive, and add to the beautiful layout and atmosphere.
The centre table has over 30 starters laid out, including fresh melon, prawns, salmon, mackerel, pastas, chicken, avocado with tuna, potato salad, and more.
Enjoy the make your own omelette station where a chef cooks your omelette to the way you wish with the selection of fillings.
And it goes without saying that there is a selection of Beef, Lamb, Gammon and Turkey with stuffing, mash and roast potatoes, veg, gravy and cranberry sauce.
Dessert selection is best sampled on the video, as words can’t describe adequately the 40 different desserts, from pavlova, chocolate cake, cheese cakes, chocolate fountain, a selection of Glastry ice creams, and the list goes on.
Guests at the Stormont Hotel can be assured of the warmest welcome and an unforgettable Sunday
Lunch experience which means you will want to come back to the hotel time and time again.
For reservations and further information on our Grand Buffet Lunch please call +44 (0) 28 9065 1066
NORTHERN IRELAND: BELFAST PREPARES FOR MORE VIOLENCE
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Belfast is bracing itself for more violence tomorrow (Friday).
British troops and R-U-C officers have already started securing the mainly Catholic Lower Ormeau Road, which lies along the route of the bitterly disputed Loyalist Orangemen's proposed march.
The R-U-C is expected to announce on Friday whether the procession will be permitted to go through the nationalist neighbourhood.
Tomorrow's march is the most important in the Protestant Orange Order's calendar, celebrating a Protestant victory at the Battle of the Boyne over three hundred years ago.
British troops are returning to Northern Ireland.
Around fifty troops landed in the province on Thursday from R-A-F Lyneham in Britain.
Another 350 are reported to be en route, bringing the total number of extra British troops on the ground to around one-thousand.
The troops will reinforce Royal Ulster Constabulary (R-U-C) officers who today (Thursday) gave in to Protestant Orange Order demands to march through a Catholic neighbourhood of Portadown, after a tense five-day stand-off.
On Thursday evening, security forces were beginning to barricade the Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast -- a mainly Catholic road that lies along tomorrow's proposed 12 July march through the Northern Ireland capital.
The exact route has yet to be resolved.
The R-U-C is expected to announce on Friday morning whether the
procession will be permitted to go through the nationalist neighbourhood.
But on Thursday night, the Belfast High Court rejected a legal application for a rerouting of the parade from residents of the area -- although this does not preclude a possible police ban.
As in Portadown, the security forces will be relying not on negotiations but on riot gear and armoured vehicles to keep the two sides apart.
As the troops moved in to construct a wall of metal, angry Catholic residents shouted their frustration at not being able to move from their homes.
SOUNDBITE:
This road is 99.9 percent Catholic. No residents wants them yet they still maintain that they are entitled to walk down this road. Why go somewhere where you're not wanted?
SUPER CAPTION: Patrick McGuiness, local resident -- vox pop
There is deep resentment at what many of the province's Catholics regard as an R-U-C sellout to mob rule.
The R-U-C had originally said that it would prevent the Orange Order, Ireland's main Protestant organisation, from marching through Portadown's mainly Catholic neighbourhoods.
But backed down after a four-day stand-off at which thousands of Orangemen confronted R-U-C officers across a barbed wire divide, and thousands of Protestants engaged in some of the worst rioting in the province in the last decade.
SOUNDBITE:
What can we do? Somebody please tell a Catholic living in this state what rights they have? What feelings they're allowed to have? Or what they can do to oppose anything? Peaceful protest isn't working.
SUPER CAPTION: Gerard Rice, local resident -- vox pop
Tomorrow's (Friday's) march is the climax of the Protestant Orange Order's marching season. It commemorates the Protestant victory against the Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and, as such, is rife with emotionally-charged symbolism.
At Stormont, the seat of government in the British-ruled province, the Northern Ireland secretary said the R-U-C's decision had been taken unilaterally.
SOUNDBITE:
It is much more important to look to see what the chief constable has said and the deputy chief constable, Mr Flannigan, today. Each has said there was no political influence of any kind whatsoever either on the first decision or on the second.
SUPER CAPTION: Sir Patrick Mayhew, Northern Ireland Secretary
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