We had two days and nights in Belfast last week, flying out very early Wednesday morning and returning Friday midday. I'd never been before. It's a great city, we loved our time their exploring the place and while it might be a bit of a cliche to say that the Guinness is excellent, it really is. Belfast has many wonderful pubs in which to try the Guinness, loads of history (the difficult parts of which it doesn't shy away from and which are still part of its present) and lots to do. I definitely intend to go back.
We also missed David Holmes and Timmy Stewart DJing together which took place in Belfast last night. Luckily last week David returned to NTS for his monthly God's Waiting Room show, so we've got that to listen to instead- three hours of sounds starting out ambient and drifty, going cinematic and jazz- ambient jazz in fact- and then veering into psychedelic jazz and all sorts of interesting, superbly well stitched together songs. There's no tracklist available at the moment but you can tune in at Mixcloud.
I also offer you this for Sunday, a two hour mix celebrating the sounds of Bristol courtesy of Nick Callaghan and Love Will Save The Day FM. Nick's put together an all vinyl, two hour celebration of The Wild Bunch, the Bristol collective and sound system from whom Massive Attack emerged. Surface Noise is two hours of Bristol based treasures, the sounds that The Wild Bunch were listening to and playing, the reggae and dub, mid- 80s hip hop, post punk, soul and New Wave sounds that fed into the ether and became such a key part of 90s culture. Find it here. It goes well with a pint or two of Sunday Guinness.
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