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LAVERYS.FM • Billy Nomates - Metalhorse
2025-05-16 17:00 - 21:00 UTC
Defiant, minimal, and electric. Billy Nomates gallops forward with post-punk attitude and fiercely independent spirit.

LAVERYS.FM • Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head
2025-05-16 17:00 - 21:00
Ezra brings catharsis, chaos, and queer joy in equal measure. A noisy, emotional farewell full of vulnerability and punch.

LAVERYS.FM • Lucius - Lucius
2025-05-02 17:00 - 21:00
Dreamy harmonies and lush pop arrangements take centre stage in this shimmering self-titled statement from indie pop’s finest duo.

LAVERYS.FM • Låpsley - I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE
2025-05-02 17:00 - 21:00
A storm of emotion delivered through icy synths and aching vocals. Låpsley returns with a deeply personal and atmospheric album.

LAVERYS.FM • Self Esteem - A Complicated Woman
2025-04-25 17:00 - 21:00
Pop with power, vulnerability, and swagger. Self Esteem returns with anthems for anyone navigating womanhood with grit and grace.

LAVERYS.FM • Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
2025-04-25 17:00 - 21:00
Sweaty, sarcastic, and wonderfully gross. Viagra Boys bring sleaze, swagger, and synths to your Friday night meltdown.

LAVERYS.FM • Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
2025-03-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom

LAVERYS.FM • Darkside - Nothing
2025-02-28 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflects a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. No band but DARKSIDE could have made Nothing, and in no moment but now.

LAVERYS.FM • The Murder Capital - Blindness
2025-02-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Following the universal acclaim for their two first records, The Murder Capital are back with ‘Blindness’, the vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album. A record that’s momentous and charged with momentum, it’s full of geography – of the mind, and of a Dublin-formed band whose members are now scattered around Ireland, London and Europe – yet bristles with an intense energy.
There’s a wider, richer perspective animating The Murder Capital’s new set of songs, brought on from the diverse insights the five members were bringing to the creative process, differing worldviews arising from their literal new positions in the world. Drummer Diarmuid Brennan was living in Berlin, bass player Gabriel “G” Paschal Blake was in Letterkenny, guitarist Cathal “Pump“ Roper was in Donegal, and guitarist Damien “Irv” Tuit and McGovern were in London. The album prioritizes urgency, energy, freshness – all baked into the songs from their earliest incarnations, recorded in LA with the help of Grammy-winning producer John Congleton.

LAVERYS.FM • Squid - Courage
2025-02-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom

LAVERYS.FM • Wood Burning Savages - Hand to Mouth
2025-02-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Derry quartet The Wood Burning Savages have announced the release of their upcoming studio album ‘Hand to Mouth’, set to come out on Friday 7 February 2025.

LAVERYS.FM • Biig Piig - 11:11
2025-02-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Biig Piig is London-based songwriter Jess Smyth, who, since 2017, has made smoldering hip-hop and neo-soul jams with homespun production

LAVERYS.FM • Maribou State - Hallucinating Love
2025-01-31 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
When Maribou State consider the new music they’ve made over the past few years, one word jumps out: togetherness. Chris Davids and Liam Ivory were propelled onto the world’s stage with their 2015 debut album Portraits, followed by 2019’s equally acclaimed Kingdom In Colour, both redefining soulful, downtempo electronica for a new generation. There’d been world tours, dates at majestic venues like Sydney Opera House and a roadblock set at Glastonbury, as well as Artist of the Year accolades and a hugely successful single with Khruangbin (‘Feel Good’). But nothing could have prepared the duo for what happened when they made their third album – the biggest test of their careers yet.
The year 2020 was supposed to be a reset, with time set aside to work on new material. But they soon started spiralling. Chris was facing chronic insomnia and getting to grips with a recent ADHD diagnosis; Liam developed crippling anxiety – and that’s not to mention everything that was going on globally at the time. “There was a massive fallout from us touring the world and then as soon as we finished, being locked down,” says Liam. “Our mental health plummeted.”
They were feeling the pressure in more ways than one, and ended up scrapping their first draft. Writing trips were booked in to help jumpstart a new creative flow. Then, in late 2021, Chris started experiencing chronic headaches. After one such trip the following spring – where the duo wrote some of their best music yet – he finally received the diagnosis: a rare condition called chiari malformation that causes pressure on the brain. “It was brutal,” says Chris, while Liam adds: “It was heartbreaking to see him try and push on in the studio, sometimes he would keel over from the pain and then try to push on with work again.”
Eventually, something had to give. Chris underwent surgery in November 2023, just as their album was coming close to being finished. The experience has brought Maribou State – friends since their teens back in Hertfordshire, just outside of London – close like never before. That album, poignantly titled Hallucinating Love, is imbued with a special warmth, the kind of rush of being with your friends in a festival field, hugging them tightly, and of triumphing over a challenging few years. The pair also made the difficult decision to delay its release, so that Chris could have the recovery time he needed. There were serious complications with surgery and, at one point, concerns that he might not make it. Thankfully he pulled through – and the duo are grateful to their fans for their support. “They’ve been so compassionate and understanding during this time, it’s been really amazing,” says Chris.
Hallucinating Love is worth the wait: it’s ambitious, packed with sublime anthemia, and is injected with restless energy, soaring strings and stunning guest vocals from long-standing collaborator Holly Walker and new friends like MOBO-nominated artist Andreya Triana. It evidences Maribou State’s evolving balance of intimacy and intricacy, as well as their knack for making epic sundown music. Says Liam: “When we were writing, we were imagining how great it’d feel to finally be back onstage, bringing people together again.” The overall feeling is one of hope. Hallucinating Love is “about being in a dark place, a place of struggle, and then looking forward to bright futures,” Chris explains.
They established new healthier, more structured ways of working – “involving lots of matcha tea!” quips the latter. “We reframed the way that we approached making music,” adds Liam.
“It’s essentially been musical therapy,” says Chris. “It has just got us to communicate better, and that has been really powerful.”
Working more closely with others also helped to mine musical gold, at various recording sessions in bucolic settings around the country. Liam and Chris invited along collaborators like incredibly talented producer Jack Sibley and bassist Jonjo Williams, creating little makeshift communities wherever they went. It infused their music with a new energy. On the album’s lead single ‘Blackoak’, you can even hear an amateur choir of friends, recorded in the stairwell of an old country house during one of their stays.
Hallucinating Love has an earthy charm, echoing the countryside settings of those writing retreats. The woody soul of ‘Blackoak’ is buoyed by beautiful strings and syrupy analogue synth, or there’s the cabin-folk of ‘Rolling Stone’ and the Celtic marching drums of standout track ‘Peace Talk’, on which Holly Walker delivers a truly superb vocal performance. She returns on another highlight, ‘Otherside’, too – a joyful blast of soul-pop that evokes careening along the coastline in California. The field recordings and samples in their music – for which the duo are known – give their sound a richly layered texture, like a dusty cassette tape found in the bottom of a glovebox. And here they take it all to the next level: ‘Dance on the World’, ‘Otherside’, ‘Peace Talk’ are among their most expansive tunes yet – evidencing just their skill as songwriters. Second single ‘All I Need’ is classic Maribou, a trick-mirror of melancholy and hope, with Andreya Triana’s gorgeous vocal cushioned by a propulsive, glitchy trip-hop beat, brightly-lit guitar and ghostly omnichord. This being Maribou State, the songs are evocative and full of gorgeous details – see ‘Bloom’’s guitar line, unfurling like a flower, with drum flourishes that gently recall old-skool rave.
Crucially, the duo wanted to reflect the lineage of great British electronic music, from jungle and UK garage to IDM and trance, and celebrate its influence as well as their place in that history. “We’ve always been very hidden in the project, and revelled in the ambiguity and anonymity,” admits Liam. “But as we’ve gotten older, we’ve wanted to show who we are much more. And naturally it made sense to then point towards British dance music culture because it’s something to be really proud of.” There are some left-turns too you might not expect from the pair, too. The kosmische groove of Ekos (say it echoes) stands out, and was the first song that Chris wrote for the album, sampling his father’s old Eko guitar. “It’s the first time I’d sung on anything of ours that’s been released,” he says.
Even during their darkest days, Maribou State found a way to challenge themselves and push themselves creatively forward. And they’re entering this new phase stronger than ever before – not just as producers but as artists too. “We’re so much more connected as a duo now,” says Liam. “We’re more grounded and resilient.”

LAVERYS.FM • Mogwai – The Bad Fire
2025-01-24 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
The arrival of a new Mogwai album – their eleventh – is cause for great celebration. The album’s title, The Bad Fire, is a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell. It reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through. New to the studio was American producer John Congleton, known for his work with Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Rós, John Grant and pretty much everyone in between. Congleton’s work can be heard on the album’s three singles. The album opener “God Gets You Back” sounds like Daft Punk being hunted by My Bloody Valentine, while “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” sounds like a victory parade for a baby yeti; and “Lion Rumpus” does actually sound like a lion rumpus. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground. Yet the music contains an updraft, a sense of beauty encased in the onslaught. This holds you up, suspended and empowered, reminding you that paradise is your birthright. This is especially true of The Bad Fire. It may have been created in dark conditions, but all that is transcended by the act of four musicians working together here, now, in the moment – the only place where Mogwai exist.
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LAVERYS.FM • Mac Miller – Balloonerism
2025-01-17 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Balloonerism is the upcoming seventh studio album by American rapper Mac Miller. It will be his second posthumous album since his death in September 2018. Miller recorded the album between 2013 and 2014, around the time his mixtape Faces was released

LAVERYS.FM • Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
2024-11-22 17:00 - 21:00 | The Woodworkers
A totemic presence in indie and rock for decades as a member of Pixies and The Breeders, American musician Kim Deal presents her first ever solo album. Nobody Loves You More, as well as featuring the single ‘Coast’, includes songs that date back as far as 2011. Boasts engineering from the late Steve Albini plus contributions from her sister and bandmate Kelley Deal, Teenage Fanclub’s Raymond McGinley and members of Savages among others.

LAVERYS.FM • Warmduscher - Too Cold to Hold
2024-11-15 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Too Cold To Hold is undoubtedly their best and most ambitious album to date. Taking on board the repetitive and polyrhythmic grooves of gqom (an alluring South African take on house music), adding in a dash of hip hop flavours and even jazz, and then harnessing that to their punk-funk, disco pogo, it’s a spellbinding mix. The album is produced by the band’s Ben Romans Hopcraft alongside Jamie Neville.
Too Cold To Hold sees the band stretch out, open up and produce their most dazzlingly eclectic and honest album to date. One of the many aces in Too Cold To Hold is that not only does it give people what they want, it also provides what they need. Having come off tour enthused about what the future held for the band.
Guests include Irvine Welsh, Lianne La Havas, Janet Planet, Jeshi and CouCou Chloe.

LAVERYS.FM • Primal Scream - Come Ahead
2024-11-08 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Primal Scream have announced details of ‘Come Ahead’ – their first new album in eight years.
The new project will mark the band’s 12th studio album and first full-length LP since 2016’s ‘Chaosmosis’. It’ll contain 11 new tracks, and is set to see songwriter, vocalist and frontman Bobby Gillespie deliver some of his most personal and emotionally-open work of his career.
The writing process began back in 2022, and came during a time when Gillespie was unsure if he would make another Primal Scream album again. According to a press release, the entire LP began with the lyrics, and marked the first time in a long while where the words came ahead of the music.
“The story came first. Bobby wrote alone, using an acoustic guitar. Ideas flowed fast, in long bursts of inspiration,” it read. “This process, in tandem with encouragement from producer David Holmes, provided a new way in. Working with Holmes and Primal Scream guitarist Andrew Innes, the Come Ahead sessions were completed between Belfast, London and Los Angeles.”

LAVERYS.FM • The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2024-11-01 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Songs of a Lost World is the long awaited new album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and the first in 16 years.
The album was written and arranged by Robert Smith and produced by Smith and Paul Corkett. The band is Robert Smith, Simon Gallup (bass), Jason Cooper (drums), Roger O’Donnell (keyboards) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar)

LAVERYS.FM • Pixies - The Night The Zombies Came
2024-10-25 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
‘The Night The Zombies Came is Pixies’ tenth album, if you count their classic 1987 4AD mini LP Come On Pilgrim, and first new music since 2022’s acclaimed Doggerel LP. 13 new songs that find Pixies looking ahead to the most cinematic record of their career.
Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Black Francis explains:
“Fragments that are related and juxtaposed with other fragments in other songs. And in a collection of songs in a so-called LP, you end up making a kind of movie.”
Druidism, apocalyptic shopping malls, mediaeval themed restaurants, 12th century poetic form, surf rock, gargoyles, bog people, and the distinctive dry drum sound of 1970s era Fleetwood Mac are just some of the disparate wonders that inform the new songs.
For the new album recording sessions the band returned to work with producer Tom Dalgety, who drummer David Lovering refers to as “a fifth Pixie” after producing 2016’s Head Carrier, 2019’s Beneath the Eyrie and 2022’s Doggerel. Early on in the recording process at Guilford Sound studio in Vermont, the band noticed the new songs were dividing into two camps: what they came to call the “Dust Bowl Songs” – country-tinged, ballad-esque numbers such as ‘Primrose’ and ‘Mercy Me’, and on the other side, the album’s furious punk numbers such as ‘You’re So Impatient’ and ‘Oyster Beds’. Only ‘Jane (The Night the Zombies Came)’ keeps its feet in both camps — reminiscent of early 60s Phil Spector, the band hitting the sweet spot between mushy and abrasive, it’s a track that Black Francis allegedly likened to being chased by a swarm of bees.
The Night The Zombies Came sessions also saw Pixies welcoming new bass player Emma Richardson (Band Of Skulls) to the line up; the first British band member to join the group. There’s also an expanded role for guitarist Joey Santiago. After contributing his first-ever Pixies lyrics on Doggerel, for the new record Santiago wrote the words to ‘Hypnotised’ by completing a complex lyrical riddle of sorts, known as a sestina

LAVERYS.FM • Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
2024-10-18 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
‘Dreamstate’ is Kelly Lee Owens fourth studio album, due to be released on the 18th October at new label home dh2.
There’s an incredible feeling of freedom and escapism found throughout Kelly’s upcoming album ‘Dreamstate’. It’s the sound of a person letting loose and letting go while encouraging everyone else to do the same. ‘Dreamstate’ is built on the foundations of collaboration, with producer-writer credits from Bicep, Tom Rowlands from The Chemical Brothers and George Daniel.

LAVERYS.FM • Goat - Goat
2024-10-11 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
The Ouroboros – the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail – appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, it’s taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it’s an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality.
This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Following on from the uncharted territory of the soul-searching and folk-tinged Medicine and the dark, atmospheric soundtrack to Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole, Goat sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at igniting dancefloors and expanding minds.
Whilst this particular mercurial incarnation summons the party dimensions from which we were first introduced to this band well over a decade ago, it also possesses no shortage of curveballs and curiosity. ‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz/wah-drenched guitar. Yet if these and the filthy, swaggering groove of ‘Dollar Bill’ mark familiar territory for Goat devotees of old, ‘Fools Journey’ is just the first of several journeys into the beyond – a blissful drifting meditation infused with free jazz and shamanic overtones which bears the hallmarks of their concurrent project Djinn.
True to the notion of this band effortlessly straddling past, present and future, ‘Frisco Beaver’ – another irresistible party-starter powered by insistent guitar filigree and percussion-driven trance-states – is a literal sequel to ‘Disco Fever’ from 2012’s World Music. Yet elsewhere Goat can happily look towards new horizons and come back with some of the most righteous vibrations they’ve yet delivered. The band’s love of hip hop is the fuel for both the rollicking ceremonial throwdown ‘Zombie’ and the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ouroboros’ which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we’re right back where we started.
As Brad Dourif’s character Hazel Moates intones in the 1979 movie Wiseblood “Where you come from is gone; where you thought you were going weren’t never there. And where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it”; in Goat’s eternal now of renewal and revelation, there’s never been a more potent means of escape.

LAVERYS.FM • Leon Bridges - Leon
2024-10-04 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
‘Leon’ has been in the works for a while, according to Bridges. It was recorded with producer Ian Fitchuk at Mexico’s El Desierto studio, and with co-producer Daniel Tashian in Nashville.
In a statement about the upcoming project, he said: “’Leon’ has been a long-time coming. I started writing pieces of it as far back as Gold-Diggers Sound. They didn’t fit what I was trying to do with that album and I tried moving on. But I couldn’t shake them because they’re part of me. And, if I’m honest, also because I think this is some of my most excellent work yet.”
“In many ways, ‘Leon’ has been in the works since my childhood. This record is about simpler days. It’s about time spent in my beloved Fort Worth and the experiences that made me the man I am today. It’s soulful music in the truest sense – it’s imbued with my soul.”
“I’m excited to share these stories about my home, about nostalgia, about my upbringing, about where I’m from, with all of you. I hope this music brings you back to your roots and your journey.”
It reads: “With ‘Gold-Diggers Sound’, Bridges has entered a new chapter. Donning the hat of a journeyman, he holds onto some of the retro characteristics he’s known for while firmly embracing a fresh sound and a new direction – and he might also be teasing a taste of things to come.”
In recent years Bridges has been making music with Khruangbin, including two EPs titled ‘Texas Sun’ and ‘Texas Moon’.

LAVERYS.FM • Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching
2024-09-27 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn’s final hours as the night comes to a close.
Written during a blistering 2023 which saw Ezra Collective tour the world, and become the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize, Dance, No One’s Watching is a documentation of the many dance floors they encountered. From London to Chicago, Lagos to Sydney, dance and rhythm connect us. These songs are a testament to that spirit.
The album was recorded at Abbey Road studios, where the band was surprised by a group of close friends and family, turning the sessions into a live communal celebration of love, music, and dancing.
‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ is a record that speaks to the unifying power of dance. Set for release in September 2024, it is a powerful and distinctive addition to a catalogue that continues to blaze a bold new trail in contemporary British music.

LAVERYS.FM • Jamie xx - In Waves
2024-09-20 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Nine years on from the release of his seminal GRAMMY, BRIT, Ivor Novello and Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut album In Colour, London musician, DJ and producer Jamie xx announces his long-awaited second album In Waves. Across 12 tracks including “Baddy On The Floor”, his joyous summer collaboration with club culture icon Honey Dijon, Jamie xx replicates the emotional crescendos and thrilling volatility of an almost mystical night out and features further collaborations with Robyn, The Avalanches, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier and Panda Bear, Oona Doherty and his The xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim. Created over a four year period ushered in by his much-loved 2020 Essential Mix and peppered with periods of self-reflection, a global pandemic, the blinking reemergence into the strobelight and a newly discovered love of surfing as escapism, it’s an album that’s on course to eclipse the heights of its globally acclaimed predecessor. Released on 20th September 2024 via Young.

LAVERYS.FM • Floating Points - Cascade
2024-09-13 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Floating Points releases his new album, Cascade, out via Ninja Tune. Cascade pushes Floating Points’ sound forward into new places. The eight songs here are allowed to smoulder and spark for up to eight minutes at a time, allowing for more expansive exploration of sounds and grooves than before.
A subtle homage to his hometown of Manchester ripples across Cascade. “Afflecks Palace” an enveloping glide of harp melodies overtaken by otherworldly bleeps and beeps, named after a Mancunian market described as an “emporium of eclecticism.” Elsewhere, there’s ‘Key 103’, named after “an underground Manchester radio station a young Sam Shepherd would listen to “religiously”.
Almost a decade on since Elaenia, his revered debut album, the composer has discovered ways to thread his experiments outside of club music seamlessly into his music designed for the dancefloor.

LAVERYS.FM • Fred Again… - Ten Days
2024-09-06 17:30 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
The concept for Fred Again‘s new album is simple: “My new record is called ten days,” Fred said in a statement. “It’s ten songs about ten days.” Those 10 songs, due out Sept. 6, feature collaborations with Anderson .Paak, Four Tet, Skrillex, Emmylou Harris, among others. Three tracks from the album, “adore u” (featuring Obongjayar), “ten” (featuring Jozzy and Jim Legxacy), and “places to be” (featuring Anderson .Paak and Chika) that have come out over the past year are available to stream now.
As simple as it is, though, Fred explained the ten days concept further on Instagram: “There’s been a lot of biggg, mad, crazy moments in the last year but basically all of these are about really very small quiet intimate moments,” he wrote. “Some of them are, like, the most intensely joyful things I have felt, and some of them are the other side of things. And some days I don’t want to speak about loads ‘cos I’m not the only person it was an important day for if that makes sense.”

LAVERYS.FM • Jon Hopkins - RITUAL
2024-08-30 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Jon Hopkins’ upcoming album, RITUAL, is set for release on August 30 via Domino. This follow-up to his 2021 album Music For Psychedelic Therapy. RITUAL features deep, hypnotic drums and builds to an epiphanic climax. The title track’s video, directed by Dave Bullivant, showcases aerial rope performer Bryony Louise Fowler. Hopkins describes his composing process as intuitive and reflective, noting that the album has the structure of a ritual, open to personal interpretation.

LAVERYS.FM • Fontaines D.C. - Romance
2024-08-23 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
Fontaines D.C. have announced details of their highly-anticipated fourth album, Romance. This marks their first collaboration with producer James Ford and is their most confident, inventive, and sonically adventurous work to date. The album aims to build on the success of their 2022 release, Skinty Fia, which topped the UK and Irish album charts and earned them numerous accolades, including “International Group of the Year” at the 2023 BRIT Awards. The Dublin-originated, now London-based band continues to evolve with Romance.

LAVERYS.FM • WHY? - The Well I Fell Into
2024-08-02 17:00 - 21:00 | Lavery’s, 12-18 Bradbury Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT71RS, United Kingdom
WHY? have announced their eighth full-length album, The Well I Fell Into, set for release on August 2nd, 2024. Led by Cincinnati songwriter Yoni Wolf, the band has also released the first single, “The Letters, etc.” Wolf explains that the song, partially written over a couple of years, evolved after significant life experiences and touches on themes of acceptance and healing. The album, self-released on Wolf’s new label Waterlines, features 14 tracks that capture the emotional journey of a heartbreaking breakup, showcasing some of the band’s most poignant and immediate work to date.
