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Spring is springing and there are some updates from the Bandwidth barn to share with you.

Smart Turkey -
Firstly and feistily, we are proud to have given delivery to a bouncing baby section – a brand new comic strip from Jared Longlands called Smart Turkey – have a captain hook at the very bottom of the Bandwidth films index page – and check back regularly, the Turkey will be respawning every week or so.

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Urban Hymns: The Movie @ONE DOOR CINEMA CLUB -
Secondly we’re proud to welcome back to the barn another steamy helping of ‘Urban Hymns: The Movie’. To launch Oh Yeah’s new free film exhibition space ‘ONE DOOR CINEMA CLUB’ – we’re presenting this awesome concert-film all over again.

For those who missed it the first time – ‘Urban Hymns: The Movie’ is a film of the awesome and near-holy event which took place last October in the May Street Presbyterian Church in Belfast. Organised by the Oh Yeah Music Centre, acts like Duke Special, Foy Vance and Bronagh Gallagher gathered together in the church and, from the pulpit, sang two songs each with The Inishowen Gospel Choir – each one of their own tracks and a soul cover. Other acts included that night included Joe Echo, Gabriel Makamanzi, Burning Codes and Ken Haddock. To see a snippet of what to expect, check out our Christmas special podcast from Joe Echo. And to further whet your fancy (or is that tickle your appetite?), have a look at the Inishowen Gospel Choir in action on the night here and here.

We filmed it all and screened the result in full at the Belfast Film Festival this year – but now its back and available to view in its complete form for 5 days from 12noon to 3pm, starting Monday 15 June at Oh Yeah.

And as if this wasn’t all ebnough to convince you – admission is totally FREE.

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Vote for Bandwidth on NI Chart -

Thanks to the guys over at NI Chart dot com who have complied a poll to find Northern Irelands’ favourite music video.

There are some quality submissions there – and I get a chance to nominate just some of my own favourites – It’s a great honour to be nominated not just once, but for FOUR different videos – namely, It Bends In The Middle for Dutch Schultz, Kids Don’t Behave Like This for A Plastic Rose, Golden Recruit for Panama Kings and The Evening Angels Gather Here for The Jane Bradfords.

What makes this such an extra extra special honour is that the nominations were made by my peers in the film-music-video-journalism world – so thank you so much guys.

To see a full list of the nominees – and there’s some great work there – head to the NI Chart Poll.
To vote for a Bandwidth filum in the poll click here:
Dutch Schultz – It Bends In The Middle
A Plastic Rose – Kids Don’t Behave Like This
Panama Kings – Golden Recruit
The Evening Angels Gather Here – The Jane Bradfords

So vote early and vote often!

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In Stores Now -
And finally, Bandwidth is planning to launch a new web series from next Monday 15th. Entitled ‘In Stores Now’, its a series of unique performances from local artists, each performing an acoustic track in a different independent shop or establishment in Belfast. To launch the series we’ll be showing a double-wahmmy of Escape Act playing in The Spaniard bar, and Clown Parlour performing in the wonderfully whacky Viva Retro on North Street.

After that the series will run every Wednesday for 12 or so weeks – or until we get banned from every shop in town.

But then there’s always other towns….

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