Life After Art Belfast

25/05/2024

Doors at 8! Here’s the set times for tonight! We’ve got a small ticket reserve on the door but the links still live so grab one fast if you want to ensure you’re at Belfast’s best gig all May! Hot new singles and hot new merch! Yeoooo! Set times are:
8:20
8:55
9:30
10:10

04/04/2024

Our host tonight is the incredible stand up and all round absolute babe we adore her and you will too! Jessie will be on stage at 8:30 pm to make you laugh your socks off and introduce all our acts! Set times are: Jess at 8:30pm
8:40 - 9
9:10 - 9:30
9:40 - 10:10
10:20-10:50
Youse have until 6pm to get a ticket online as youse will need to get yourself down nice and early if you’re looking the remaining door tix!

03/04/2024

https://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/life-after-art-3/
TOMORROW! Grab your tickets whilst you still can folks! Headlining tomorrow is the incredible Self-describing as “bubblegum trannycore” Big Tears are an all-trans three-piece girl group from Dublin. With songs about s*x, romance and heartbreak, their sound is unabashedly cherrypicked from queercore, garage punk, and 60s rock ‘n’ roll. First digital release “I Wanna Hurt Your Boyfriend” available now on bandcamp, DIY cassette EP “Love & Misery” coming soon…

01/04/2024

We’re so thrilled to have with us on Thursday! Get your tickets in the bio while you can folks!
TESSIO is a singer-songwriter duo from Derry - Jude McCandless and Callum Feeney. We play guitar, sing close harmonies and write our own songs. Our main influences range from Simon and Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers to the La’s. Over the past few years we have supported bands such as the Hothouse Flowers & The 4 Of Us and played support in England for The Damn Truth as part of our mini tour last summer. At Stendhal Festival, a gig reviewed in Chordblossom by Martha Greer wrote “I was left in awe of the pair as they released a series of subtly effective songs that demonstrated a skill for songwriting way beyond their years.”

31/03/2024

We just can’t get enough of Get your tickets asap to see Belfasts s*xiest superstar!
J SHIELDS is a vocalist, writer and producer. Bringing you through an immersive art-pop experience full of reverby goodness and some heavy hitting belters. J draws inspiration from nature and how the human experience can be simplified when we see ourselves mirrored in the natural world around us. Expect some layered vocals and a big belty high note to deliver the message that you’re basically just a tree.

https://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/life-after-art-3/

Photo by set design by .ffy
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22/03/2024

We’re so excited for this gig! Check out one of our acts Sage Against The Machine ! This awesome vid was taken by Punk With A Camera

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07/03/2024

TONIGHT! We’ve a few tickets left on the door, first come first serves so get there for 8. We are also some artist stalls tonight run by the team behind you can buy art, candles, and jewellery made by and as well as merch from our amazing bands! Our set times are:
Shark School 10:20
HyLy 9:40
VCN 9:10
Cloakroomq 8:40
We are so sad to announce that our fave is no longer able to MC tonight however we are so lucky to have the incredible to step in and replace her! Get there nice and early to watch his set and check out the stalls!

05/03/2024

Shark School are a female-fronted abstract garage band based in Galway City. Beginning in June of 2023, they have quickly made a name for themselves playing with bands such as NewDad, The Love Buzz, Elaine Malone and many more, most recently playing Whelan's Ones to Watch (even though they are Sharks to watch). They are known for their energetic sets, sarcastic wit and party vibes. Most recently they are known for making an elderly man levitate at their set for Whelans One to Watch…

04/03/2024

Next up on our roll call for the 7th is .music and absolute powerhouse we have been so excited to book her!
HY:LY is one of the most intriguing new artists to emerge in UK/Ireland dance and electronic for years. A modern siren causing a ripple effect throughout the Irish music landscape. Sinéad O’Connor meets Cyberpunk

A multi-instrumentalist with serious production and vocal hops, her live sets are to be seen to be believed. With a love for creating mood & intensity through her music and live performances, crafting a swirling mix of analogue electronica, alternative vocals, noises & rhythms create a genuinely intense and hypnotic abstract melting pot of energy.

Unencumbered by tradition or genre, painting tales so vivid & relatable she has become a folk hero for a certain breed of sensitive raver. Taking every measure to envelop her audience at every twist & turn.

There’s even traces of Icelandic titan Bjork, musical DNA that came to life after she began playing.

ft BBCRadio1, BBCIntroducing, MainStage AVA/Celtronic Festival. Currently part of Scratch My Progress talent development.

29/02/2024

Our roll call continues with the fabulous
Maggie Murtagh AKA The Vigilante Cannibal Nun is the brainchild of artist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and performer, Carol Murphy, who initially wrote and performed her story in verse as a series of films that she shot on her mobile phone, in her bedroom, and launched online at the beginning of 2022 as The Body & Blood.
The Body & Blood is a comedy horror about Maggie Murtagh, an Irish country girl who transmogrifies into The Vigilante Cannibal Nun during The Famine after the death of her family. She steals from the rich to give to the starving poor. She eats the colonizers; becomes an addict; and destroys her soul only to discover that she is the living dead.

28/02/2024

WOWWWEEEE It’s right round the corner folks! Continuing our roll call for the 7th we’ve got. .cloakroom South Down 4 Piece Power Trio Cloakroom Q. are a music band from South Down, who are known for their dynamic tension, silly songs and handsome members, haha yeah right on! Tickets in the link below!
https://www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/life-after-art-mar23/

27/02/2024

ROOOOOLLLLLLL CALLLLLLLL our host for the evening is Céilí Rae Minogue is an early-mid-late-twenty-something with a surreal sense of humor and an adorably stiled delivery. She really hopes you’ll laugh at her jokes even if you don’t understand them. We think she’s fantastic and you will too!

31/01/2024

TOMORROW!!!!! We can’t wait to see youse so snap up the last of the tickets while you still can!

Here’s our running order:
Starting us off at 8:30 is our host who will guide us through:
8:40pm sylvan 9:10pm art.bar 9:40pm machine 10:20pm
What a bunch of legends!

26/01/2024

Announcing our final act for St Brigid’s Day! .machine We know you’ll love them just as much as we do! Encouraged by her friends’ response to her original music, Jude Barriscale formed Lunch Machine in 2017. She along with Robert Mulhern, Pearse Owens and Kieran Devlin - on bass, guitar and drums respectively - draw from a myriad influences and genres in their song-writing and delivery. Mainly, garage rock, new wave and psychedelia.

25/01/2024

We’re getting closer folks! Head to the bio and grab your tickets whilst you still can! Another one of our incredible acts is .art.bar
Makeshift Art Bar are at Belfast based post-punk noise band. They draw influence from the explosive noise of Gilla band and Incorporate an unsettling atmosphere inspired by the Birthday party. They released their first single In October 2023 which ‘So Young’ magazine described as “noisy, dissident and unhinging rock” and were credited for the sound they bring to the Irish music scene.

22/01/2024

We are buzzing to be bringing .sylvan to the stage this St Brigids day! ‘A visionary new artist in the Irish dark pop scene’ - Gemma Bradley BBC Radio Ulster. Megan is a Belfast based experiemntal electronic dark pop artist who is completely DIY in the production, writing and performing of her haunting, emotive, and catchy music.

20/01/2024

We are so thrilled to announce Sianna Ni Laithbheartaigh as one of our acts for St Brigids day! Melancholy bedroom folk-pop is one way to describe Siânna. Inspired by the likes of Adrianne Lenker and Angel Olsen, their solo act outside of the world of TRAMP tip toes on the darker themes of experiencing life, and the attempts to put it in to sounds. The perfect set if you’re in need of a good weep!

17/01/2024

Bring on Introducing our host; Donegal native and long time Derry inhabitant, comedian Leeann Toland could best be described as tired. So very tired. Having performed from Dublin and Belfast to Edinburgh and Berlin; Our Leeann was a finalist in the 2022’s Show Me the Funny and was a semi-finalist in the long running So You Think You’re Funny at Edinburgh Fringe.

05/01/2024

Life After Christmas was absolutely incredible! Slightly Dishevelled blew our minds! .spaexperience fed our souls! had us falling in love with love and Leeann Toland and both had us in stitches. We are so grateful to have you guys, our audience that trusts us to put the best acts on every time! Thank you for coming and dancing and laughing. Thank you to the incredible acts! Thank you to our favourite place The Black Box, Belfast! Happy New Year Folks! We’ll be back better than ever!
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