DerryLiveList.com Magazine [June Edition]

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WaLLed City musiC festivaL

Preview

artist Lisa KeLLy

Interview

CeLtroniC 2015

Photo by J Louis Lipari

Preview

y e s a C l u a P We talk to Paul about his new album and all things music

Plus

Danny Tenaglia Preview Exhibitions Listings Theatre... and much more

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June is yet another big month for live music in the city with two festivals taking place.

The Walled City Music Festival and Celtronic, both very different in the own right, will attract not only a great crowd to the city... but also some of the biggest international musicians.

For the kids, this month sees the Horrible Histories franchise bring their latest instalment to the Millennium Forum. They have the knack of keeping the kids entertained while also teaching them a few things along the way.

‘Cardboard Citizens’ will bring Forum Theatre to the Waterside theatre this month in the form of Benefit, a very gripping play by Sarah Woods.

Make sure to keep an eye on the website derrylivelist.com, for all the latest listings to keep you up-to-date wth what’s on throughout the city.

With a weekly what’s on schedule also available, you’ll have no excuse to miss a thing this month!

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Interview

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Contents

Preview

danny tenaglia

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page 20

Theatre

Benefit pages 22 & 23

4,5,6 & 7 Paul Casey exclusive interview 8,9,10 & 11 Celtronic Festival 2015 preview and schedule 12 & 13 Walled City Music Festival 2015 preview and schedule 14 & 15 Don McLean gig preview 16 Christy Moore gig preview 17 This month’s Pub and Club highlights 18 & 19 This month’live music listings 20 Danny Tenaglia preview 21 Horrible Histories play preview 22,23 Benefit play preview 24,25 This month’s theatre listings 26,27 & 28 Lisa Kelly Interview 29 Art submissions coming to a close 22,23 This month’s exhibition listings

Art Interview

lisa kelly pages 26,27 & 28

Festival

celtronic 2015 pages 8,9,10 & 11

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aving just released his ninth album, ‘After the Harvest’, we caught up with Derry’s very own Paul Casey to talk about all things music including touring with Chris Rea, the current state of the local scene and the influences for his new album.

How long have you been on the music scene now?

I’ve been writing and recording now for around 20 years, having played in a number of cover bands around the town.

And around then, I grew up listening to the music of Chris Rea and Clapton, but I actually ended up working with Chris Rea when I was quite young, and toured with him for about 13 years and that opened up a lot of doors for me.

How did you manage to get involved with Chris Rea? I was able to get a demo to Chris, and he loved it. This gave me the confidence to do more and more, and he encouraged me to do more too. We recorded an album together and it started from there.

I actually gave Gerry Anderson some of my music and he was a massive champion of what I was doing. He was one of the biggest influences that I had, and having someone like Gerry in your home town who was the biggest radio presenter in Northern Ireland, loving your stuff and encouraging you to do more… this opened so many doors for me.

To have the platform of Gerry’s show across Radio Ulster for me, for Bronagh

Gallagher, for Eoin O’Callaghan for all these people, we are in so much debt to Gerry Anderson, it’s incredible.

How have you seen the local music scene progress since you first started out?

There’s so much good music now around the town. Way back when I started out, I was using a great recording studio in Donegal but I was writing so much and had so many ideas that it was costing me a fortune to record them all.

I ended up getting myself some recording gear and started to record at home and it’s grown from there.

But I think that you can see that with bands in the town, everybody’s recording at home because the technology’s there, and I think that’s a factor why there is so much good music out there.

The facilities are great these days, I remember when I was in the college, I said to my music teacher “I want to play the guitar” and he told me I couldn’t.

It was either flute, piano or violin, so I ended up dropping out of music, which was a shame.

But that’s changed. I’ve done a few song writing workshops in schools, and they’ve got everything, drum kits, recording, logic, guitar amps. So it’s totally changed and brilliant to see.

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Paul casey So what about the Homegrown concert, will it be a yearly event?

Well we’re going to do it in January again and keep building it, maybe change a few wee things every year.

We started it during Culture year and it has now run for three years, and the fact that it was so supported within the town was incredible, we nearly had the Forum filled with people out to support their own, and I think that’s brilliant about Derry.

How did you manage to tap into the TV show market?

I look after a lot of marketing and I’ve worked out a way of getting my songs to music supervisors.

It’s a wee cottage industry and I do some work with a producer in America. But there was a show on ABC called ‘The Neighbors’, and the theme of the show was that the boy and girl had broke up, but they were still in love with each other and had got back together.

I sent her my song called ‘Still in love with you’ and she loved it and emailed me straight back saying, “I want this song for the show.” So it’s about timing too.

My dad was actually sitting there listening to me, in this big church in Belfast, and I went up and asked him “what was it like?” and he was sitting there nearly crying. It was amazing.

So between the rehearsal, the sound check and then the gig, it was over that fast, to just have those six songs with them was incredible. Each time was as good as the last.

So talk us through the new album?

There’s a lot more guitar in this album, the last album I tried to make it sound like a soundtrack, but JJ Cale is a big influence of mine and other American guitar players. So there’s a lot of that influence there.

Music is great but sometimes you can lose track of what you do.

The first song is called ‘Hold On’ and is about that. It’s about falling out of love for music and is split into three parts and progresses like a journey, starting in a minor key, into a gospel section and comes out the other end in a major key, upbeat tempo.

If you could go back in time and give some advice to the young Paul Casey starting out on his musical journey, what would it be?

The best bit of advice I ever got was from Liam Bradley who plays drums with me, and is one of the best drummers in Ireland, but his advice was ‘be a nice guy’… if you can be a nice guy and be able to work with people, you’ll always be busy.

Where did the title for the new album come from?

I had no idea what I was calling the new album, but my cousin is a great photographer who has done the art work for the last couple of albums, so I told him what I was doing and he sent me some photographs.

He had a photo of a tree down by Redcastle and it was called ‘After the Harvest’ and I thought “that’s it” and it tied the album together.

You played with the Ulster Orchestra in the Guildhall last year, what was that like?

It was incredible. The day before the gig there was a rehearsal where I ran through my two songs with them. I landed, got up, “you ready?” “yeah, I’m ready,” so they went through the first song… incredible “happy with that?...okay, next song” bang.

You can catch Paul Casey at the Playhouse on Saturday, 06 June for an evening of acoustic music featuring songs old and new with Karen Porter on Cello and Martin Barr on guitar.

Tickets priced at £10 and available via the Playhouse website or Box Office.

Picture by J Louis Lipari

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Irelands best electronic music festival is back...

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eltronic is back again for it’s latest instalment of electronic dance later this month, and will draw thousands of music fans to the city.

Now in its fifteenth year, Celtronic is notorious for attracting the biggest names in electronic music playing alongside the best local DJs in venues throughout the city, and is considered to be Ireland’s premier electronic music festival.

Still a nonprofit making festival, the organisers have maintained the same ethos since they founded in 2000, that of keeping ticket prices as low as possible whilst still managing to attract dance’s greatest stars.

Day one, Wednesday 24th, sees a Maeve Records showcase in the form of ‘Mano Le Tough’ and ‘The Drifter’ in the stunning surrounds of the Guildhall.

Mano Le Tough has been considered to be a the next big thing, so much so that Kristian Beyer of Âme stated “thanks to Mano Le Tough, I have no fears for the future of House”.

The Dubliner has become a regular in some of the best clubs in the world. “I guess I try and make music that has an emotional resonance without being overly sentimental or schmalzy.

It means a lot to me to try and connect with the listener on a deeper level and add something to their lives that’s more than a hands in the air 5am moment in a club” says Mano.

Also on the bill is The Drifter, aka Mark Flynn, who had a very diverse musical background growing up, from playing in bands to performing in choirs.

Now a DJ and singer, The Drifter has played in the biggest clubs

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mano le tough throughout Europe and runs the Maeve record alongside Mano Le Tough and Baikal.

Day Two, in yet another one of Derry’s stunning buildings, The Glassworks, sees Resident Advisor’s no.1 live act of 2014, RECONDITE brings his show to the festival.

The German techno producer is known to do major events such as Melt!, Amsterdam Dance Event and Time Warp but enjoys the smaller intimate venues just as much, so he’ll be at home in The Glassworks.

Joining Recondite will be Fort Romeau. The London based producer has a patient approach to his music “I want to allow things to breathe and develop gradu-

ally over longer track lengths, rather than cram everything into four or five minutes.”

Day Three sees Celtronic move across the city and set up in the Nerve Centre in the form of Henrik Schwarz and Ripperton. Voted in the top 5 live acts in the world by Resident Advisor, Schwatz is now considered to be one electronic music’s most requested live acts. He likes to maintain a balance between electronic music, classical and jazz, and his highly charged dance sets which have gone down a storm everywhere he plays.

His production c.v is a who’s who of the music industry, with huge household names such as

DAY ONE Wednesday, 24 June The Guildhall

Mano Le Tough (Maeve)

The Drifter (Maeve) Support TBA

9pm, Advance Tickets £10

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DAY two Thursday, 25 June

The Glassworks

RECONDITE (DYSTOPIAN – LIVE)

FORT ROMEAU (GHOSTLY) NYT BLOOMER (LIVE) JOHN MORRISON & RYAN MONAGHAN JAY HEALEY & GRRD

9pm, Advance Tickets £10

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DAY three Friday, 26 June

The Nerve Centre

HENRIK SCHWARZ (INNERVISIONS-LIVE)

RIPPERTON (TAMED MUSIQ – CLONE – INNERVISIONS)

CONFUTE, DARREN ALLEN CONOR GRAY THOMAS FAULKNER ETHAN MCKINNEY & JAY QUIGLEY 9pm, Advance Tickets £12

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St.Columbs Hall

DERRICK MAY (Transmat-Detroit)

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CLARK (WARP – LIVE)

FRANCESCO TRISTANO (Get Physical – Live)

OBJEKT (PAN – Hessle Audio)

THE CYCLIST (All City – Stones Throw – Live)

JONNY BOY OR:LA PLUS MORE TBA ETHAN MCKINNEY & JAY QUIGLEY Picture by Joe Dilworth

8pm, Advance Tickets £15/18

objekt Cold Play and Mary J Bliege calling on his expertise.

Ripperton is a House and Techno producer and is considered to be one of Switzerland’s busiest DJ’s since bursting onto the international scene as part of the Border Community label.

Day Four is based out of St. Columbs Hall has an action packed last line-up consisting of Derrick May, Clark, Francesco Tristano, Objekt and The Cyclist.

Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music which became known as techno.

Francesco Tristano meanwhile

is fast establishing himself as one of the most original and eclectic musicians of his generation. He is a classical and experimental pianist as well as a composer, composing both classical and electronic music.

As a producer, it’s thought that there are few others making similar music to Objekt. Taking influence from IDM and electro, the Berlin-based tech producer welcomes experimentation “My working style is one of revision after revision” he says.

Five days of a jam packed schedule is what Celtronic is all about and attracting the best DJ’s in dance… this year is no different.

DAY five closing party

Sunday, 28 June

The Glassworks

move d (workshopsmallville)

space dimension controller (R&S)

THE QUEEN & DISCO DOLL FACE KEV GALLAGHER

3.30pm-7.30pm Craft Village 8pm, The Glassworks Tickets £10

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WALLED CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL

2015

Anne Akiko Myers

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ormed in 2008 by Artistic Directors Dr Cathal Breslin and his wife Dr Sabrina Hu, the Walled City Music Festival was tasked with bringing outstanding classical music to the heart of Derry.

The idea behind the festival was to create access and opportunities, and provide a much needed boost for the new generation of Classical Musicians in Northern Ireland With the aim to create a brighter future for the young people all over the country, through inspiration, education, and exposure to the highest level in the arts, the Walled City Music Festival does just that with the many concerts and workshops it holds to inspire and excite through classical music.

Year on year, some of the finest classical musicians have taken part in the festival, and this year is no different. A packed schedule lasting four days, the festival features

international guest artists including Kathryn Stott and Martin Roscoe, Sylvain Blassel, Anne Akiko Meyers, Quercus as well as the festival artistic directors themselves.

DAY ONE: Thursday June 4th, 7.30pm, Great Hall, Ulster University, Magee Campus Kathryn Stott & Martin Roscoe (pianos) Both Kathryn and Martin are considered to be two of Britain’s most versatile pianists and will perform at the opening night of the festival in the University of Ulster’s Great Hall at Magee.

From 2009 – 2014, Kathryn had been Artistic Director of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society and was Guest Artistic Director of Incontri in Terra di Siena in 2010 and 2011, and has been a regular visitor to international festivals both as soloist and chamber musician. This

year, Kathryn also celebrates a 30 year partnership with Yo-Yo Ma, and together they have regularly toured Europe, the USA, South America and the Far East.

Martin has succeeded Kathryn as Artistic Director of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society, and has regularly worked with many of the UK’s leading orchestras while also being a Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Tickets: £10 / £5 conc DAY TWO: Friday June 5th, 5.00pm & 7.30pm, Christ Church Northland Road/ Culturlann This year’s University of Ulster end-of-year student showcase appears within the Walled City Music Festival’s programme for the first time, with the 2014 event considered to be a very successful event for the University.

The concert will feature final performances from University students

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Kathryn Stott

Thursday, 04 June - Sunday, 07 June and will span all genres of music, from classical and jazz to pop.

Tickets: admission free DAY THREE: Saturday June 6th, 7.00pm & 9.00pm: Great Hall, Ulster University, Magee Campus Sylvain Blassel (harp) with Sabrina Hu (flute) / Quercus Having graduated in 1998 from the Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse (Lyon CNSMD) under the guidance of Fabrice Pierre, Sylvain has played with numerous orchestras and conductors such as Michel Plasson, Emmanuel Krivine, Alain Lombard, Iván Fischer and Marek Janowski.

He also has a love of restoring old harps, and teaches the harp at Lyon CNSMD and musical analysis at the Rennes Conservatoire. He is joined by the Walled City Musical Festival’s Co-Artistic Director Sabrina Hu. Sabrina has performed at in many of the world’s most prestigious ven-

ues, most recently Carnegie Hall in New York City, the National Concert Hall in Ireland, Beijing University, the Central Conservatory of Music in China, and recitals in Seoul, Korea.

Sabrina is currently flute faculty at Rhodes College, Memphis Tennessee and has a genuine love for teaching.

Tickets: £10 / £5 conc 9.00pm: Quercus Quercus Ensemble bring together some of the finest musicians in Ireland and encourage active participation through the initiation of various projects and events.

Tickets: £5 / £3 conc – free to ticket holders from the 7pm concert.

Also on the 6th of June is this year’s annual Composers Workshop, led by the Walled City Music Festival’s resident ensemble, Quercus, and 2015 Composer in Residence, Philip Cashian who is Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

DAY FOUR: Sunday, June 7th, 3.00pm, Recital Room, Magee Campus, UU Quercus: In Pursuit of Love Tickets: £5 / £3 conc 7.30pm, Great Hall, Ulster University, Magee Campus Anne Akiko Myers (violin), Cathal Breslin (piano).

Anne Akiko Myers teams up with the Walled City Music Festival’s very own Cathal Breslin for what will sure be a great ending to the festival.

Anne has collaborated with a diverse array of musical artists from jazz icons such as Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis to pop opera’s Il Divo.

Anne regularly performs with many of the world’s top orchestras, and has released 30 albums. She was also Billboard's top-selling traditional classical instrumental soloist of 2014.

Tickets: £10 / £5 conc

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on McLean is back in Derry for a second year in a row after his sell out tour last year.

The Grammy Award winner has amassed more than 40 gold and platinum records worldwide during a career which spans over 45 years.

Having at long last just recently divulged the meaning of his classic hit ‘American Pie’ when it’s manuscript sold for $1.2m at auction this year, it will now be possible to listen to Don singing the hit number live and finally know it’s true meaning.

Named as ‘Song of the Century’ by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001, it has always been known that the start of the song, “the day the music died” was a reference to when he heard the news that Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959.

In an interview which was

published in the online auction catalogue he said, “basically in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction,” and went on “it is becoming less idyllic. I don’t know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense.”

The online catalogue states that it is safe to conclude that references to the king mean Elvis Presley, Helter Skelter refers to the Charles Manson murders, and “the jester on the sidelines in a cast” is Bob Dylan.

“I wanted to capture, probably before it was ever formulated, a rock and roll American dream” said Don. Don Mclean is one of America’s living legends and has always been a major concert attraction in the U.S. and throughout Europe, with the 2015 ‘The American Troubadour’ tour being his 20th nationwide tour of the UK and Ireland.

Don McLean will be performing for one night only at the Millennium Forum on Tuesday, 2nd June at 8pm, with tickets from £22.50.

Picture by Keith Perry

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Preview:

with the Mairtin O’Connor Band

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hristy Moore needs no introduction. Having been a household name for many years, and known for his passionate vocals and stage presence, Christy Moore is undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest folk icons.

Having been no stranger to our city over the years, Moore returns once more, this time accompanied by the Mairtin O’Connor Band.

O’Connor himself is one of the most respected and best loved musicians ever to emerge from Ireland, he is known to be one of the main musical forces behind the legendary Riverdance, through his work with De Dannan, Midnight Well and Skylark.

The passion Moore shows, whether it be performing on his own in the centre of a stage accompanied only with a bodhrán, or surrounded by a band, still remains undiminished and spine tingling.

Christy Moore will be performing with the Mairtin O’Connor Band at the Millennium Forum on Friday, 19th June to Saturday, 20th June at 8pm with tickets priced at £36.

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HigHligHts: club nites tHis montH

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ballYmac oldskool reuNioN

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(the Gallery-Studio 54-New york) Friday, 05 June - 9pm £9.90 Nicky Siano was dancing in Manhattan clubs at 15, and by the age of 17 was resident and co-owner of the hottest club in New York: ‘The Gallery’. He mentored Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan, worked in the studio with Arthur Russell, and is one of a handful of DJ’s who started the dance music scene in New York.

Friday, 05 June - 9pm £5 As part of the fundraising for this years summer festival we will be holding a Ballymac Oldskool Reunion upstairs in rafters Fri 5th June, doors open at 9pm adm £5. all money raised will provide events for the kids in the area over the summer

jika jika!

daNNY teNaglia

@ VeNue 2.0 Saturday, 13 June - 10pm Tickets: £3/5/7

@ the buNker

Saturday, 20 June - 8pm £30 Grammy nominated DJ/Record Producer Danny Tenaglia DJ makes the trip across the Atlantic to join us for a 3 hour set alongside The Warehouse Project’s Krysko. Danny Tenaglia is without doubt one of the world’s most influential, respected and talented DJ’s and

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will be right at home playing in our new home ‘The Bunker’.

Tickets have been flying out since this gig was announced online and it will certainly sell out in advance. A limited amount of physical tickets will be available instore at Chocolate Clothing.

(diXoN aVeNue baSeMeNt jaMS)

Denis Sulta has quietly announced himself as one of the most exciting new prospects to emerge from the ever fertile Glasgow scene. His unique sound has been carefully crafted, earning his stripes and musical education through working at the world renowned Rub A Dub record store and holding down regular sets at Scottish musical mecca Sub Club.

in tHe pubs & clubs: beNtleY

Monday Jamie Noonan Tuesday Audrey Wednesday Conka’s Quiz and Disco Thursday DJ Conka Friday DJ Joe saTurday DJ John Henderson Main bar & Ricky Nixon- Linen Room sunday DJ Joe

metro bar

Mondays - The Mindbenders Tuesdays - Hard to Handle Wednesday - The Real Thing Thursday - With DJ Smitty. New cocktail menu and drink promos Friday - DJ Jim Healy @ The Metro sunday - Jim Healy @ The Metro

eNVY Nightclub

Tuesday - Skint Student Night Drink Promotions. 9pm-2am Free entry Wednesday - Karaoke Live Thursday - All Inclusive Thirsty Thursday Doors 10pm-2am £12 admission (includes drinks) Friday - Play Your Cards Right With Drink Promotions, £1 drink promos until 11pm, music until 2.30am. Free admission saTurday - Just Dance Playing all the best in high energy, Top 40, Dance and Classic hits. Drink promos untill 11pm. Admission:Free Doors:9pm

beNNigaNs bar

Monday - Open Mic Night Tuesday - Bennigans Introducing: Night of local musicians.

Admission:Free Time:10pm Friday - Original Fridays Admission:Free Time:10.30pm saTurday - Jazz legend Gay McIntyre every saturday afternoon, 5-7pm.

Free entry. Saturday night Live Music: Admission:Free Time:10.30pm sunday - Jazz at Bennigans, includes complimentary food. Admission:£5 Time:9pm >> For a full weekly schedule o whats on in our pubs and clubs, check out our website www.derrylivelist.com

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Katherine Scott & Martin Roscoe

Walled City Music Festival Great Hall, Magee Thursday, 04 June

Don McLean

Big Band Jam Nite

Dungloe Bar

Every Thurs Night Time: 10.30pm Admission:Free

Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £11

The American Troubadour Millennium Forum Tuesday, 02 June

Time: 8pm Tickets:from £22.50

American Pie singer and songwriter Don McLean brings his American Troubadour tour to the Millennium Forum for one night only on Tuesday 2nd June 2015. His special guest on the night will be Moneymore singer, Chelsey Chambers. Photo credit: Keith Perry.

Two of the UK’s finest pianists give an opening night concert full of sumptuous music, from the classical grandeur of Mozart’s 2 Piano Sonata to the dramatic lyricism of Rachmaninov’s masterful Suite No.2, to the shifting sonorities of Debussy and show stopping tunes from Gershwin’s iconic opera, Porgy and Bess.

Celtronic

Various Locations

Wed, 24 June – Sun, 28 June Time:Various Tickets:£Various Among the headliners are some of the world’s biggest DJs including legendary Detroit techno innovator, DERRICK MAY and one of the shooting stars of the international dance music scene, MANO LE TOUGH who will host an opening night event with THE DRIFTER.

Every Thursday night at the Dungloe Bar will be “Big Band Jam Nite”.

Portabello Band, Soulseekers & The Mindbenders will be hosting the nights.

The evening is open to all musicians from Derry and beyond, to show what you can do on stage. This promises to be a fantastic night with lots of drink promos on the night.

MOVE D, returns to Celtronic following his unforgettable set at last year’s festival. RIPPERTON, famed for his immersive techno and refined house music will make his Derry debut as will FORT ROMEAU. Also DJing at the festival will be OBJEKT, a hugely talented producer and one of the most striking techno producers to emerge in the last-half decade with skills that seep way beyond the dancefloor and into the farthest recesses of contemporary electronic music’s most inventive hinterlands.

Paul Casey

The Salvation Army Londonderry 135 Year Anniversary Concert

The Playhouse Saturday, 06 June

Time: 8pm Tickets: £10

Waterside Theatre Saturday, 06 June

Time: 7pm Tickets from £5

Celebrate over a century of The Salvation Army being in Londonderry, with an evening of uplifting and inspiring music for all the family to enjoy.

The 135 Year Anniversary Concert will feature music from Belfast Temple of The Salvation Army, which has thrilled audiences across the UK and Ireland under the leadership of Bandmaster Jack Burch.

Also appearing will be Lisnagelvin Primary School Choir and singer/songwriter Toni-Lee Moore whose different styles of music will bring an added flavour to the evening.

Roll With It

Oasis Tribute Band Masons

Saturday, 06 June Time: 11pm Admission:Free A full 2 hour set of all the classic Oasis hits, with Christopher Kavanagh supporting.

This is a great opportunity to hear Derry’s own Paul Casey perform tracks from his new album ‘After the Harvest’ in a very intimate setting at the Playhouse Theatre.

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Sylvain Blassel with Sabrina Hu

Great Hall, Magee

Great Hall, Magee

Time: 5pm/7.30pm Tickets: £Free

Time: 5pm/7.30pm Tickets: £Free The virtuoso French harpist Sylvain Blassel makes a rare UK appearance at WCMF with a stunning programme featuring his own arrangement of Bach’s keyboard masterpiece Goldberg Variations.

He is joined by WCMF Co-Artistic Director Sabrina Hu for music by the sitar master Ravi Shankar, alongside romantic classics from Wagner and Liszt. A rare chance to hear one of music’s most glamorous, alluring and intricate instruments as you will never have heard it played before.

Walled City Music Festival Walled City Music Festival Friday, 05 June

An outstandingly successful event for the University in 2014, this year’s end-of-year student showcase appears for the first time within the Walled City Music Festival programme, celebrating the ongoing partnership between UU and WCMF. Featuring final concerts by student performers across the full musical range from classical to jazz and pop, together with special appearances from guest artists, high-quality music making and an end-of-term party atmosphere are guaranteed.

Saturday, 06 June

Anne Akiko Meyers & Cathal Breslin

American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is celebrated around the world for her artistry and ability to connect with audiences from the concert stage.

She regularly performs in recital and as guest soloist with many of the world’s top orchestras, and is a best-selling recording artist who has released 30

A Wile Big Gig Delacroix

Friday, 12 June Time: 9pm

A night of live music from a host of bands and muscians incluing: The Leroy Brown Band, Lana Campbell, The Real Thing, The Mindbenders, Dougie Breslin, Gerry MacGowen and Monica Coyle.

The Great Hall, Magee Sunday, 07 June

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albums. She was Billboard’s top-selling traditional classical instrumental soloist of 2014.

Anne will perform with WCMF Coartistic Director Cathal Breslin for a programme that mixes the profound (Mozart, Pärt and Ravel) with entertainment in equal measure.

Fundraiser Night The Playhouse

Wed, 24 June - Thurs, 25 June Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £10

Christy Moore

Rocket Propelled Gorillas

with the Mairtin O’Connor Band

Millennium Forum

Sandinos

Fri, 19 June - Sat, 20 June

Saturday, 27 June

Time: 8pm Tickets: £36

Christy Moore has joined forces with the Mairtin O’Connor Band.

Many fine musicians have played in Máirtín’s bands. For the past 9 years, the group has included multi-all Ireland winner Cathal Hayden, former Dervish member Séamie O’Dowd and percussionist Jim Higgins

Time: 8pm Tickets from £12.50

An evening of music, stand up and performance in aid of the establishment of a people-led detox centre for the North West.

Featuring Francis Campbell, Michael Doherty, Tony Cassidy, Dan McLaughlin, and more to be announced.

Formed in September 2012, RPG has seen a few lineup changes, but have honed their aggressively groove ridden tunes and have released 2 EPs and a single.

The will play Sandinos for what will surely by a rockin gig.

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jika jika! T @ THE BUNKER >> Saturday, 20 June

he Bunker, Part II takes place later this month with Grammy nominated DJ/ Record Producer Danny Tenaglia DJ the headline act.

The New Yorker will play a 3 hour set alongside The Warehouse Project’s Krysko for what will surely be another night to remember from JikaJika in a sold out Bunker at Ebrington.

Jika Jika are continuously striving to bring the best DJ’s to the city, “we began as an outlet for underground house & techno music in Derry, breaking new sounds and giving quality DJ’s and producers the opportunity to let people hear what they are about, as a collective we aim to bring music lovers and likeminded individuals together without the restraints of commercial clubbing.”

And this month’s event will be no different, especially at

the new and unique venue that is ‘The Bunker’. Named as the ‘DJ’s DJ’, Danny Tenaglia is one of the world’s most influential and respected DJ’s and has played many of the most famous hotspots world-wide. Not only an influential DJ, Tenaglia has also remixed and produced over 200 songs for many of music’s most influential artist such as Madonna, Blondie, Cher and the Pet Shop Boys.

Joined on the night by Krysko, himself a well-respected DJ who has held three of the UK’s most revered residencies, The Redlight and Tribal Sessions at Sankeys Soap, Tribal Gathering and most recently The Warehouse Project.

Tickets for the event are selling fast, and on course to be another sell out. The final release tickets are now on sale and priced at £30 and available at Chocolate Clothing.

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ver twenty years ago, Terry Deary, the world’s best selling non-fiction writer for children, and the Cartoonist Martin Brown produced the first Horrible Histories books.

Now in 2015 it is a very successful educational entertainment franchise covering many media outlets such as books, magazines, audio books, stage shows and TV shows.

The first books were produced in a series in 1993

aiming to describe British history, as well as exploring significant worldwide cultures. In 2003, however ‘Gory Stories’ which were fiction based were also added to the series. With over 100 titles, selling over 20million copies to 31 countries, no wonder Scholastic Corporation, their UK publisher, described Horrible Histories as one of the company’s “crown jewels”.

And now, the stage show comes to the Millennium

theatre

Forum. Using actors and stunning 3D special effects, Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders make their way to our shores bringing Historical figures and events to life on stage.

Educational and fun… and also yucky in some parts, the Horrible Histories stage shows have been a huge success and has proved to be a fantastically fun educational tool to keep the kids entertained while they learn a few facts along the way.

Horrible Histories will run at the Millennium Forum from Tuesday, 09 June to Saturday, 13 June 2015. Shows and Times: GROOVY GREEKS: Tues & Thurs 7pm, Fri 10:30am, Sat 7pm. INCREDIBLE INVADERS: Wed 7pm, Thurs 10:30am Fri 7pm, Sat 2:30pm.

Tickets: £13.50 / Schools rate £8.50 Concessions available.

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enefit is an interactive play where audience members participate, debate, and even have the opportunity to change the outcome in this ‘Forum Theatre’ production.

Produced by Cardboard Citizens who are considered to be one of

the world’s leading practitioners of forum theatre and are very different from most touring companies.

For over twenty years, Cardboard Citizens have been making productions with homeless and marginalised people, and most of the company’s actors have had some

experience of homelessness, whether temporary or long-term.

Speaking about the pressures of touring professionally, Artistic Director Adrian Jackson said “very few have sufficient acting ability from the start to do the job that is required at the professional

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level we demand. For many it is a long journey, during which we get them involved in community projects and slowly raise the bar until we feel they are ready to do a big, professional tour, like Benefit.

The demands are intense. The last thing I want is to put pressure on people who can’t take it. We need to be sure they are in a good place because acting is a surprisingly hard game. You have to be realistic about where people are in their lives.”

Benefit follows three intertwining stories bringing to the forefront true stories of those who have been affected by the failing

welfare system. ‘Sanctioned’ the story of Rosa and her troubles of claiming Job Seekers Allowance, ‘Zero’ follows Craig and his wife who are on zero hour contracts, and finally we hear Patrick’s story as his incapacity benefit is being constantly scrutinised. In the second act, the audience are encouraged to participate and share their own views, through debate and discussion. >> Benefit by Sarah Woods, produced by Cardboard Citizens is at the Waterside Theatre on the 4th & 5th of June at 7.30pm, with tickets priced at £10 and £7 for concession.

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Stage Beyond Theatre Company presents:

Foyle Disability Resource Centre Players presents:

The Playhouse

Foyle Arts Centre

Thurs, 04 June to Sat, 05 June

Tickets:£6 Time:8pm

Admission:Free Time:1.30pm

Tickets:from £7 Time:7.30pm Three interwoven stories unlock the frustrations and passions of characters struggling with their bank balances, their histories and their own sense of self.

A coup in a foreign country half a century ago, a disability that leaves a woman speechless, and a sex addiction that’s destroying a relationship link three characters in a carefully crafted story about lives and loves and the social systems they have come to depend upon. What is left to lose? What is left to gain? And when will equality and justice truly be served?

Devised through a series of workshops by acclaimed writer Ronan Carr and directed by emerging director Gary Crossan, this is a hard hitting piece of theatre dealing with online safety, vulnerability and relationships.

Stage Beyond is a theatre company for young adults with learning difficulties based in the Millennium Forum in Derry.

The come to The Playhouse to present a dark play, which ends with a desire that there is some hope and justice in the world.

Life is but a meme Waterside Theatre

Friday 5th June

The Big Thud

Saturday, 07 March

‘The Big Thud’ is the latest theatrical showcase from The Foyle Disability Resource Centre Players.

This production promises wry humour and belly laughs on everyday flatfoot encounters with femme fatales and private eyes.

The Players, who came together as Foyle Disability Resource Centre users through a common love of drama, have formed their own theatre company. All of the Players are people with physical and sensory disabilities or acquired brain injuries.

O-BON a Japanese Festival of Taiko & Light The Playtrail Saturday, 06 June

Time: 6.30pm Tickets from £3 A host of local and international talent will display the wealth of Japanese art forms that we already have on our doorstep.

There will be taiko drumming performances, taiko taster sessions, dance and theatre performances and

Book Launch: Launch of Golddigger

Body Wisdom Performance Evening

Friday, 05 June

Echo Echo Theatre

The Playhouse

Admission:Free Time:6pm

Come and celebrate the release of Golddigger, a story of love, loss and hope spanning the California goldrush and the Irish Famine.

Find out more about the book and the lives of lesbians and gay men in the 1840s, meet the author and have the chance to buy a signed copy.

Fri, 05 - Sat, 06 June

bon odori dancing for all.

There will be a manga exhibition and a manga draw-along for those interested in this Japanese comic art form. There will be Arts and Crafts, face painting, traditional Japanese dance and games.

A dedicated group of volunteers will add to the whole spirit of the event with costumes, swords and a lot of enthusiasm. Watch out though, there might even be a ninja or two on the loose…

Horrible Histories

Time: 8pm

Millennium Forum

New devised work by the Body Wisdom ensemble

Time:Varied Tickets:from £8.50

Friday, 13 March

We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead!

So it’s time to prepare yourselves for HORRIBLE HISTORIES live on stage!

Using actors and stunning 3D special effects, these two World Premieres - GROOVY GREEKS and INCREDIBLE INVADERS – are guaranteed to thrill you and your children. Historical figures and events will come alive on stage and hover at your fingertips!

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ILICO Presents Culture Dance

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Waterside Theatre

Masons Bar

Mon, 22 June - Tues, 23 June Time:7pm Tickets:£8/£5

Echo Echo Theatre

Billy Kirkwood Thursday, 04 June Admission:£5 Time:9pm

Scottish comic Billy Kirkwood is back in Derry and ready to blow the roof again!

Sat 13th to Sun 21st June

Abandoman & Micky Bartlett

Time: Varied Tickets:£5

A dance theatre performance for all the family directed by Ayesha Mailey, Ludo Lusi Lusum is an original new work for young audiences and is performed by an ensemble of five dancers.

In a wacky world of a runaway bride owl, a supermodel leopard and posse of preying mantis, the performers’ fascination with the animal kingdom is brought to life through dance, theatre, music and song.

A Multi-Cultural youth event showcasing Dance in our city. Chaotic, irreverent and downright funny, ME DA’S SUIT is the everyday story of the McLaughlin family, struggling to make ends meet in the middle of the troubles. Featuring a cast that includes a wellknown Ballybofey actor Jack Quinn.

Candy Royalle Sandinos

Monday, 08 June Admission:£5 Time:9.30pm

Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic storytelling, poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart thumping content. She tackles topics ranging from sexual obsession to social injustice, illuminating the darker areas of the human psyche for her audiences.

Adrian Knight Theatre Comedy Hypnotist

Millennium Forum

Masons Bar

Thursday, 18 June Admission:£7 Time:9pm

Abandoman are currently on tour, presenting their innovative mixtape mashups and futuristic jams live on stage, using the history of hip-hop as their blueprint and you as their inspiration.

Next month...

Kevin Bridges A Whole Different StoryCrowd Tickler in concert

Next month...

Home

Waterside Theeatree Wed, 01 July - Sat, 04 July Tickets:Preview £5, £10/£5conc

Wed, 24 June to Sat, 27 June Tickets:from £10 Time:8pm In the last twenty years, Adrian Knight has firmly established himself as one of the top elite stage hypnotists around today and arguably the most talented in his profession.

He is trulya unique force in the world of hypnosis and one of the most sought after global entertainers around today

Millennium Forum

Fri, 17 July 2015 to Tues, 21 July A funny and furious tale of Irish migration, Home includes the voices of migrants and refugees from around the world. AnNua have gathered sounds and images in Ireland, Liverpool and Australia creating an exciting audio/ visual design moving through these and many imaginary landscapes while considering the fate of those forced to leave home and to seek another.

Time: 8pm Tickets:£26 Kevin Bridges returns to the road with a brand new show A Whole Different Story…

Scotland’s biggest export, Kevin Bridges, dubbed as “brilliant” by one of his comedy idols, Billy Connolly has had an astonishing rise to success. His 2012 tour, Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues… smashed box office records selling a staggering 45,000 tickets on the first day.

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reating Contradictions is the first Solo Exhibition from Lisa Kelly.

Since graduating from Liverpool Hope University in 2014 with a BA Hons in Fine Art, Lisa moved back home to Derry where she set up her own studio and began working on a whole new body of work.

In ‘Creating Contradictions’ Lisa’s explores the nature of human nature and our tendencies to create contradictions. With themes of time, lust and absence becoming recurring features throughout the exhibition, her portrait paintings offer a counter-weight to the ‘selfie-culture’, describing the depth of personality and contradicting the shelter provided by the filtered selfie.

We talked to Lisa about her fine art background and inspirations for her upcoming solo exhibition this month.

So tell us about your art background?

When I was young, I grew up around artists and I always knew that I wanted to go to University and study fine art. I went to Liverpool, Hope University to their Creative Campus where there was a great creative community, and it was brilliant. Liverpool now has the biggest collection of Art outside of London, so it was great, I really loved it.

Have you always specialised in painting?

It was mostly painting at University, and mostly portraits, but I starting to get into photos and the use of text during my course. I literally painted during my whole time in the course, but when it came to my degree show I started to work with old family photographs and set up a polaroid series. The project was about routine, based on the 52

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weeks of the year comparing the important things we do and the absolute random things we do.

What would be your main influences in your paintings?

I suppose I would say social realism comes out from my paintings, the economy and things like that.

Although ’Creative Contradictions’ starts quite dark, I think it has positive undertones with the freedom of the paint, which is helped by the use of oil paints. I usually base my paintings on my own experiences.

Have you had much interest in your work so far?

I sell some of my paintings on EBay, and most recently I sold 6 paintings to a guy from Norway which was a surprise and great.

How do you see your work developing?

It’s just spontaneous at the moment.

Personal experience, and even just wee things like conversations with people, things that happen in the world, and I suppose that’s what will direct it.

This year I set up my studio with the intention of making my work technically stronger, and hopefully I’ve done that, but I don’t try to be too contrived about what I will come up.

Lisa’s exhibition ‘Creating Contradictions’ will run in the Craft Village from the 19th June - 3rd July. The opening night takes place from 7pm, and is open to everyone, with free admission and complimentary drink available. You can check out Lisa’s work via her Facebook page: facebook.com/lisakellyart and also Twitter: twitter.com/LKellyArt

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The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers are now calling for submissions for their National Original Print Exhibition which is due to take place from Tuesday 15 – Sunday 27 September this year.

The exhibition was established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, with the aim of promoting the best of printmaking to a wider audience, with a call for all forms of printmaking to be entered.

The exhibition will be housed in the Bankside Gallery in London, a

well-respected gallery and is situated in a great location next to the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.

There are many reputable names on the judging panel also, such as Michael Barratt, the President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Ciara Philips, a 2014 Turner Prize Finalist, to name but a few. The are many prizes up for grabs some of which are; Arts Club Charitable Trust Award - £1000, Printmaking Today Award – receives an Editorial

Feature, Galleries Magazine Prize Full page colour advert, so it truly is a wonderful opportunity for all local printmakers.

Selection will be made from digital submissions with an entry fee of £12.00 per entry (£8.00 for students). Selected works will then be exhibited at Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH (next to Tate Modern) from Tue 15 – Sun 27 September 2015. The deadline for submissions is the 30th of June.

The 134th Annual Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition This year’s Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition Annual exhibition are now calling for entries for the 134th edition of the highly respected exhibition.

Taking place at the Ulster Museum later this year, the exhibition showcases works by Academy members and through open submission and invitation.

The exhibition aims to celebrate, enrich and expand contemporary approaches to the visual arts.

With over 80,000 visitors to the event, it is a great opportunity for the successful artists to showcase their work to a vast audience.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 30th June.

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urrently on display at the CCA Derry-Londonderry is Common Patterns.

An exhibition by Swedish artist Anna Adahl, Common Patters examines the conditions of the ‘mass ornament’, a concept by Siegfried Kracauer in which he created theoretical methods of analysing circuses, photography, films, advertising, tourism, city layout, and dance.

Anna explores the Mass Ornament in her own work where she looks at how urban patterns and the choreography of our own bodies within the city shape our behaviour and status.

Using video, sculpture and ready-

made objects which may be associated with control, order, decoration and display, the exhibition also acknowledges the gallery space and incorporates the relationship with the viewer making them interact with the exhibit.

Common Patterns opens on 6th June, and will also incorporate a walking tour and conversation in which Anna will speak to Declan Hill of the Forum for Alternative Belfast. >> Common Patterns by Anna Ådahl opens at the CCA Derry-Londonderry on 6th June from 7pm to 9pm, with the walking tour taking place at 6pm. The exhibition will then run until 25th July.

31 art exhibitions & projects condming design up in june 2015NWRC: End of year Art & Design 2015 Exhibition Lawrence Building,

students.

The exhibition will display works by students from Foundation Diploma Art and Design, Btec Extended Dip, HND Fine Art and also students from HND Fashion and Textiles with a wide range of work on show from fashion, jewellery, graphics, animation, film,painting, ceramics to name a few. Also exhibition will be the City and Guilds Photography night class.

The 2015 exhibition will be opened by the Chief Executive for the new Derry Thurs, 4th June - Thurs, 11 June City and Strabane District Council, Time: 9am-3pm £:Free Entry John Kelpie at 7pm on Thursday 4th The North West Regional College’s annual June, and will run for one week in the Lawrence Building in the Strand Road Art and Design Exhibition is the highcampus. The exhibition itself will be light of the year and a great end of term open for public view each day. celebration for the NWRC Art & Design

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‘Out of Truth’: Art Installation by artist Sue Morris

Second Skin The Playhouse

Mon, 08 June - Thur, 16 July £:Free Entry

The Craft Village

Verbal Arts Centre

Sun, 19 June - Fri, 03 July

Mon, 01 June - Wed, 01 July

£:Free Entry

£:Free Entry

‘Out of Truth’, an installation by artist Sue Morris.

The exhibition comprises approximately 30-40 A5 text pieces hung in a grid format and typeset in English, Estonian and Russian; a series of photographs of the museum’s extraordinary interior, much of which remains untouched since its former days as a factory; The East-West border is always wandering and To write more, reproduced by kind permission of Jaan Kaplinski; and a reconstruction of The Lost Project.

Lisa Kelly: ‘Creating Contradictions’

‘Second Skin’ is one of the core touring exhibitions developed for the Year of Irish Design 2015 by the Design and Craft Council of Ireland.

To date the exhibition has toured to the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny and to City Hall in London.

Second Skin posed a challenge to four Irish fashion labels - Jennifer Rothwell, Joanne Hynes, Natalie Coleman and Lennon Courtney - to design, source and produce a garment or range of clothing on the island of Ireland and to document the opportunities and challenges in doing so.

‘Creating Contradictions’ is the first Solo Exhibition from Lisa Kelly.

Since graduating from Liverpool Hope University in 2014 with a BA Hons in Fine Art, Lisa moved back home to Derry to setup her own studio and begin working on a whole new body of work.

This exhibition explores the nature of human nature and our tendencies to create contradictions. With themes of time, lust and absence becoming recurring features.