Bandwidth will be helping to launch the new film club at the Oh Yeah Music Centre – named in homage to a brilliant little electro-beat combo from these here shores – the ‘ONE DOOR CINEMA CLUB’ launches tomorrow at 12 noon with an exclusive screening of ‘URBAN HYMNS: THE MOVIE’

First shown at the Belfast Film Festival, this feature-length concert film documents on of the most important musical events of 2008 – an exclusive, sold out night of sould msuic from Ireland’s top artists.

‘Urban Hymns: The Movie’ will be shown on a loop between 12noon and 3pm every day next week Monday 15th June till Friday 20th- at 69mins that’s about 2 and a half screenings a day – in the Oh Yeah centre’s specially built 6 seater cinema. I would at this point make some audacious claim about the One Door Cinema Club being the smallest cinema in Ireland, but I’ve not real way of verifying that. So answers on a postcard please.

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Admission is FREE – so come down, catch some Urban soul music from the Inishowen Gospel Choir accompanying Duke Special, Foy Vance, Bronagh Gallagher and a host of other awesome awesome acts.

The brilliant Matthew Patton is launching a photographic exhibition next week at Charlie’s Coffee Shop on Bradbury Place, Belfast – entitled ‘CAMERA-SHUTTER-LIFE’ – and Bandwidth will be there too exhibiting some of our favourite videos, along with some cheeky new stuff – all compiled into a short film..

There will also be live music from A PLASTIC ROSE, JUNIOR JOHNSON & COLENSO PARADE.

AAAANNND…
it’s free in..

- so tag along – the exhibition launches at Charlies this Sunday @ 7.30pm and runs for a week or so…

 
Update: also, check out some kind words from Patrick at the Secret Fireworks Blog about the Roller Disco video. Cheers dude!

In association with May Street Church, The Oh Yeah Music Centre and The Belfast Film Festival, we are proud to announce Bandwith’s first feature length film, “Urban Hymns: The Movie”.

Filmed last October at May Street Church, the event organised by Oh Yeah, May Street and the Belfast Festival, brought the best local musicians together to sing some fantastic blues classics with the Inishowen Gospel Choir – and Bandwidth was there to film it all.

Featuring Foy Vance, Duke Special, Bronagh Gallagher, Joe Echo, Burning Codes and many many more this was the most talked about concert of the year – and its your only chance to see it again (or for the first time if you missed it completely) – in this exclusive one off screening at Oh Yeah!

Presented with exclusive behind the scenes stuff and some background from the people involved, this is unmissable stuff for lovers of soul and blues music.

£3 entry

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To celebrate the culmination of Bandwidth’s 10-week residency at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast, we will be attending the very first Project X event, curated by Horseface Promotions this Sunday 14th December at Oh Yeah. Doors open at 7.30pm and tickets are under £5.

Project X, which describes itself as ‘An Adventure in Musical Anarchy’ is a collaborative project that puts new musicians together and, over the course of 10-weeks, attempts to create new and challenging music through intensive improvisation sessions. Bandwidth was of course there to film the whole process.

The gig should be amazing, and Bandwidth will be there showcasing upcoming material, including clips from the Project X sessions and our footage recorded back in October from Oh Yeah’s Urban Hymns event at May St Church, featuring Duke Special, Foy Vance and Bronagh Gallagher playing soul classics with the Inishowen Gospel Choir.

This November saw Belfast’s very first (hopefully first of many) Solidarity Festival, hosted by the very beautiful Belfast 4-piece And So I Watch You From Afar.. Over three days, in four different venues around the city, the locals were entertained by over 20 Northern ireland acts, signed and unsigned, all playing on the same bill in the spirit of cooperation, solidarity (funny enough) and to showcase the greatness of the N. Ireland music scene to the world. It wasn’t just bands in attendance, but alos artists and other creative types. Graham Smith showed some of his photographs, while community station NVTV had some pictures to show. There was also a weird tepee outside the Mandela Hall.
Bandwidth was in attendance throughout, and left with a sore head and some truly legendary footage. So, in 3 installments, feast your eyes and ears on:

Here Comes The Landed Gentry – getting silly backstage at the Oh Yeah centre

General Fiasco – Owen chilling out in the bar (noticing a theme here?) after their Mandela Hall gig

Cara Cowan – a fabulous newcomer winning over her crowd with Jefferson Airplane covers, again at Oh Yeah.

Enjoy the shows, and to meet the people responsible, visit here.