Strange Victory Presents

Stage times for tonight's John Francis Flynn gig in the Empire Music Hall

7pm Doors
7:30pm Kevin Fowley
8:15pm John Francis Flynn

Remaining tickets available on the door from 7pm.

Great review in Hot Press from Edwin McFee on last Friday’s amazing Swami + The Bed Of Nails show in Ulster Sports Club

Live Report: Swami And The Bed Of Nails play dream show for Belfast rock fans | Hotpress Punk legend John Reis makes his long awaited return to Ireland. Edwin McFee was front and centre.

Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Joan As Police Woman returns to Belfast on Tuesday 8th April 2025 to play the Limelight 2..

Joan is known to many for her collaborations with Antony, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed and David Sylvian. A deeply soulful artist who crosses musical genres effortlessly.

Lemons, Limes And Orchids is the sixth formal studio album from American alt-rock musician and producer Joan Wasser, under her name Joan As Police Woman. A distinctly nocturnal sounding affair concerning the ability (or inability) for human beings to let go and move on from events in life and love, it’s one of the most impressive displays of Wasser’s unique voice.

A Limelight / Strange Victory Presents co-promotion..

Tickets on sale now from ticketmaster.ie

This Friday! Swami + The Bed Of Nails feat of play Doors 7pm.

Support from Many Souls, a Belfast based collective who include members of Not Squares, Blue Whale and Third Man Theme amongst their ranks.

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Looking forward to welcoming back LA Psychedelicists WAND to Belfast on Friday November 1st..

Thrilled to have the amazing open for Falkirk legends this Wednesday night 11th September in the

Supporting next Friday night we welcome .world from Phoenix, Arizona.

The nine-piece ensemble creates a truly unique psychedelic world funk experience by seamlessly blending traditional Klezmer with American Funk and other world music genres such as Jazz, Thai Pop, Tropicalia, Bossa Nova, Cumbia, and Afrobeat . Phoenix New Times says, “Jerusafunk is not only one of the most original bands in town, it’s one of the most fun.”

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In association with

Upcoming Strange Victory Presents Belfast shows from The Jesus Lizard Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band Deerhoof Arab Strap Wand John Francis Flynn Swami + The Bed Of Nails and Rachael Lavelle

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In conjunction with our friends Moving On Music Limelight Belfast Black Box Ulster Sports Club Empire Music Hall, Belfast

All Hail Swami John Reis. He of Hot Snakes, Rocket From The Crypt and Drive Like Jehu. His latest career decision is the formation of Swami And The Bed Of Nails. With a sound firmly rooted in the early sounds of punk rock and rock n roll, they offer an immediate blast of joy that celebrates our time on earth.

Tickets on sale this Wednesday at 9am from
https://www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/5461606?venueId=461726

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Strange Victory + Limelight Belfast are proud to present the first ever Northern Irish show by Chicago legends the JESUS LIZARD on Tuesday 14th January 2025..

Tickets on sale this Friday morning from Ticketmaster..

In the jade-cultivating climes of online rock journalism, the angle of “band has new album,” is about as interesting as watching Instagram reels of your brother-in-law’s recent bathroom remodel. But when a band decides to follow up their last album from over 26 years ago? That’s high on testicular fortitude and as dumb as fidget spinners.

Yet, when that band is the Jesus Lizard, everything in your pathetic cultural dystopia suddenly falls away and the air smells like Heaven… Their seventh studio album, Rack, produced by Paul Allen, and slated for release on September 13 via Ipecac Recordings, features 11 tracks of brisk guitar rock you haven’t heard since… the last time the Jesus Lizard took over a stage in your town.

The Jesus Lizard — vocalist David Yow, guitarist Duane Denison, bassist David Wm. Sims, and drummer Mac McNeilly — have returned with a record teeming with the kind of madness needed to beat down today’s AOR mediocrity and piss-perfect pop drivel alike.

Huge thanks to the amazing Timo for helping make it happen.. X

Moving On Music & Strange Victory are delighted to welcome JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN and band back to Belfast for their biggest headline show to date.

Tickets https://www.citizenticket.com/events/moving-on-music/john-francis-flynn/

John Francis Flynn is an artist firmly at the vanguard of a new Irish music; both rooted in the tradition but also side-stepping a "paddywhackery" that he struggles to stomach. John masterfully unpicks traditional songs and rearranges them with a deep, emotional force. They float in a surreal space between the past and the present, the analog and the digital, between love and tragedy.

While supporting Lankum on their 2019 UK tour he caught the eye of Geoff Travis and Jeanette Lee who quickly signed John to Rough Trade imprint label, River Lea.

John’s debut album ‘I Would Not Live Always’ was released through the label in Spring 2021. Produced by highly regarded producer, Brendan Jenkinson. This release further highlighted the enormous talent hidden away in the corners of Ireland’s folk scene.

His 2023 release, ‘Look Over The Wall, See The Sky’, is an album concerned with imagination, but not only with what John calls, “an imagined Ireland,” but also the re-imagining of traditional Irish music and the hopeful fantasy of an Ireland that could exist ‘over the wall’: powerful, hopeful and free.


"Full of generosity and insight; songs that show us to ourselves in the way perhaps only folk music can." The Quietus

"I Would Not Live Always offers a singular and striking clarity of vision." **** UNCUT

Strange Victory & Moving On Music Presents

RACHAEL LAVELLE

Thursday 24th October 2024
Belfast Ulster Sports Club

Tickets Available this Friday at 10am
https://www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/5439623?venueId=461726

Dublin-born singer and composer Rachael Lavelle’s debut album ‘Big Dreams’, has quickly seen her become recognised as one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging talents. It’s seen the album receive a nomination for Ireland’s prestigious Choice Music Prize Album of the Year.

Lavelle has also been tapped up to tour with breakthrough Irish trailblazers Lankum and CMAT, as well as taking part in the Sorcha Richardson curated ‘Imagining Ireland’ at The Barbican in London and National Concert Hall in Dublin alongside SOAK, Ye Vagabonds, Aby Coulibaly and more.

Big Dreams’ is an existential coming-of-age album that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. Inspired by sounds of everyday life and an intriguing obsession with YouTube self-help videos, the album explores romance,directionless-ness, ambition and the expectations of the unsatisfied digital native. ‘Big Dreams’ is an introspective journey that invites the listener to ask what it means to be alive in the 21st century. Floating in a world that is at once full of irony and honesty, Rachael examines the essential things: sleeping, eating, work and the search for love, reimagining them in a dream-like musical landscape of luscious synths, manipulated vocals, cinematic sound design, strings, woodwind and electronic beats.

In the years prior to the release of her debut, Lavelle has also toured with the likes of Villagers and Anna B Savage. She’s also collaborated with a wide range of artists including Peter Broderick, Saint Sister and lent vocals to the aforementioned Villagers’ album ‘Fever Dream’ (via Domino Records).

Currently sitting at Number 6 in the midweek UK album charts with his amazing new record Loophole, delighted to welcome back MICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND to Belfast on Wednesday 4th December when they play the Empire Music Hall..

Tickets on sale from
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Tonight Belfast! ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE play with support from Doors 7.30pm Remaining tickets from cqaf.com.

Tonight Belfast! JANE WEAVER plays on the last night of her U.K./Irish tour and also the last night of the Remaining tickets via cqaf.com

LA Psych band WAND return to Belfast on Friday 1st November in support of their forthcoming new record Vertigo, out July 26th on

Tickets on sale this Friday morning at 11am from
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Upcoming Strange Victory Presents Belfast shows from Jane Weaver Deerhoof Arab Strap Acid Mothers Temple Official Chelsea Wolfe with more to come.. www.strangevictorypresents.com for tickets..
In conjunction with our friends The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Moving On Music Limelight Belfast Black Box Ulster Sports Club The Belfast Empire

Arab Strap return to the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on Wednesday 11th September in support of their new album “I’m totally fine with it, don’t give a f*ck anymore"

Tickets on-sale at 10am tomorrow morning from :
https://www.ticketmaster.ie/arab-strap-tickets/artist/783821

North Belfast’s Hotly Tipped Casual Riots play the Limelight 2 on Sat 23rd March. Tickets on sale now from Ticketmaster..

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 🖤 Darkly distinctive US singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe plays Limelight Belfast on Saturday 26th October!

Tickets on sale Friday 10am from Ticketmaster.

Japanese Space Rock Legends stop by on Tuesday 14th May for their first Belfast show in 6 years..

Tickets from https://cqaf.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873654764