Foy Vance – Belfast Is Born Again
Regular Bandwidth followers will know that we often frequent the Communion Belfast night at the Black Box on the last Sunday of every month.
This March however, was a very special occasion, with the event moved to 17th, St Patricks Day – and the headliner one Foy Vance. This marked somewhat of a return for Foy who – though he lives and works in London now – comes from Bangor Co. Down’s sunny shores – and here he talks about what it’s like to be back in his birthplace, and he plays a few new tunes too.
Filmed by Will McConnell in Belfast, March 2011
Thanks to MASH & Graham Brown
Update: Here’s a bonus track – a demo Foy was working on while we were recording, he just wrote it on the plane the night before in fact – which has now made it into his live set, called “Belfast Is Born Again”. Enjoy!

This man’s music is deeply moving. Thank you for sharing. I will be (most definitely) telling everyone I know about his work.