So it’s with a kind of bitter-sweetness that we bring you this week’s In Stores Now from Belfast trioHeliopause. Sweet because the band, headed up by the prodigiously talented Rich Davis, are one of Bandwidth’s all time favourite acts and we’ve finally got around to featuring them on this site.

Bitter, perhaps, because two-thirds of the band are now migrated to the sunny beaches of Brighton – so we may not see a Belfast gig from them for a while. Not that Heliopause are strangers to travel – Rich has recorded material, like the band’s first EP in Berlin, and – in his other incarnation as a filmmaker – worked in Iceland and.. er.. Cushendall (courtesy of Bill Drummond).

But come to think of it, there’s sweetness again here – because just before leaving, the band were in the Belfast’s Start Together studio recording their first full-length album – which promises to be out later this year.

Until then, we’ll alway have this performance to remember them by – the time we all spent together in a freaky and ever so slightly gaudy floral shop in the city centre.

Heliopause – The Moon & Sixpence

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Filmed by Will McConnell
in Belfast, August 2009

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