LaFaro, Fighting With Wire Cellar Bar, Draperstown 5th November, 2011 While we’re all buzzing around the big smoke with Music Week and MTV rolling into town, there’s still life outside the city limits, and the 1-2 combination of LaFaro and Fighting With Wire is just too tempting to pass up. So leaving behind rumours of [...]

Loads of bands? A ridiculously small space? Loads of good music? And it’s for charity? We’re there! First off, Kasper Rosa are coming along nicely, a more focussed and better band than before, and still delightfully disrespectful of that whole ‘stage-audience boundary’ convention. The Rupture Dogs are also developing – experimenting a bit and still [...]

Normally a team of huskies isn’t an essential when attending a gig unless you’re going to see Snow Patrol or Skibunny or the Reindeer Section (ok that’s enough winter jokes).  As it was I was forced to hitch up the sled and set out for Draperstown with only the lure of the line-up to fuel [...]

Skruff Coda Junior Johnson Sat. 12th May 2007 Another G Session and another perfect blend of styles and influences from Skruff, Coda and Junior Johnson. The sessions are fast becoming a hot ticket for bands right across the province and tonight’s performers are a varying mix of eclectic uplifting sounds a la Skruff and the [...]

Sporting new ‘Cellar Live’ t-shirts, music aficionados Paddy and Ryan who enticed tonight’s performer to our humble corner of the world, were clearly enthusiastic about Bap Kennedy’s appearance at The Cellar Bar as were the many new faces lighting up the back room. Mr Glasgow, inventor of these wonderful musical extravaganzas beams a smile that [...]

Sat. 7th April 2007 Currently riding on the crest of a wave (apologies), The Tides kicked off this year’s G Sessions in some style as the young three piece (minus new guitarist Leaky) thrilled an appreciative crowd. Playing a gig which saw them back on familiar territory as opposed to their recent gigs across the [...]

Sat. 10th March 2007 A strong crowd of mixed denominations and genders filled the Cellar Bar in Draperstown for this solo acoustic gig to see the Derry bluesy singer/songwriter strut his stuff. Up first however, Ruairi O’Doherty, formerly of Little Hooks fame treated the appreciative audience to the first hearing of what is sure to [...]

Sat 3rd February 2007 “Everybody just smile and keep clapping,” said an animated Paddy Glasgow as he introduced last week’s Mid-Ulster Mail gig of the week – Jack L at the Cellar Bar. Oh how I had been looking forward to this night after the first show was cancelled due to illness and I suspect [...]