The first track from a series of 3, will be a ‘Touch of Cold’ – and here, after the clip, is an exclusive sneaky peak of how it’ll sound. Check back in August for more..

http://www.myspace.com/silhouetteofficial

Watch a 30 sec clip:

Listen to all of “Silhouette – Touch Of Cold”

Download (Mp3, 7.3 MB)

Camera: Will McConnell
Sound Mix: Walter Thee Goon

You can hear a track from A National Light on this week’s new music podcast.

Read more here: THERAGS.COM

So the plan is there’ll be one clip a week for the next few weeks featuring tracks from their new album A National Light, which is stonking.

Thanks again to the lads and to Colm Russell, and here’s the first clip:

Read more here: THERAGS.COM

BANDS!!

Do you have a new song or demo to share with the world?
Submit it to us in mp3 format, with artwork attached, and a way we can get in touch with you.

If we like what we hear, your music will be included on the Bandwidth New Music Podcast!

Just follow the link –
Send me your track
Or sendyourmp3s@bandwidthfilms.com

The Bandwidth New Music Podcast will be available free on itunes and the Bandwidth site – and it’s a new way to promote local music

Send your demos, singles, B-sides, session tracks and live tracks – all is welcome!

Much love, and looking forward to hearing what you got..
Will
Bandwidth

Welcome to 2010 – I hope you all had a wonderful and peaceful Christmas and New Year.

So things are already starting to err.. warm up (musically) – look out for great things from A Plastic Rose this year, as hinted by Gerry in an interview with Matthew Patton on his blog

As a reminder, here’s the first video for Kids recorded this time last year (how time flies):

Download for iPod (35.3MB)

So after a day or so it’s all finally hitting us.
Thanks to all at The Irish Music Television Awards, to Graham Smith and all at And So I Watch You From Afar. Matt and I are very grateful. That’s what I meant to say last night. My actual speech may have been a little less coherent.

Congratulations to all the other winners – its was a night of exceptional talent. And I hope to see a lot more from you very soon.

In the meantime – these awards were pretty heavy. Physically I mean. So much so its quite hard to find a shelf to keep it on. I hear Tom Hanks keeps his oscars in the kitchen – this will do for me:

Bandwidth is very pleased delighted and honoured to have picked up 3 nominations at the Irish Music Television Awards; two for Best Live video (ASIWYFA in the Waterfront Studio & the Lisa Hannigan session in Derry), and one for Best Director (Will McConnell)

Let’s just say again that, after only really doing this half-properly for a year now, its a great honour for Bandwidth to be recognised in this way, most particularly considering it is an independent in a world of big-budget labels.

The handing out of shiny trophies will take occur in the awful trendy sugar club in Dublin on 27th November.

In the meantime, here’s the two videos what done the damage.

Lisa Hannigan – Lille

Download for iPod (71.3MB)

ASIWYFA – Set Guitars To Kill

Download for iPod (93.3MB)

Bandwidth has made it to the shortlist of the Irish Web Awards in the ‘Best Video Podcast’ category. Check out the site, where our friends over at Panic Dots have been nominated like four times. So it’s all good!

Seems like yesterday – well, it was only February – that they tore up the Limelight to launch their eponymous EP:

A Plastic Rose – Superspeed

Download for iPod (44.5MB)

And the good times roll on for Northern Ireland bands. Huw Stephens in Wales picked up on Belfast’s Not Squares and promptly plucked them for the BBC Introducing stage. Footage from Leeds is now up on the bbc site.

Suck it up here:
BBC INTRODUCING

** UPDATE – Videos of A Plastic Rose have just been posted – hop over here **

Thanks to our new friend Patrick over at Secret Fireworks who gave Bandwidth a very positive write up yesterday. It’s good to feel loved.

He’s a particular fan of IN STORES NOW, and episode 3 in particular featuring John Shelly & The Creatures – He said this: “The sound is gorgeous, the band are inventive (using a vinegar bottle on a slide guitar, salt shakers etc) and there’s a great circular shot that brings in the entire chip shop.

Bandwidth may not win Oscars any time soon but we should be damn proud of them.”

Download for iPod (50.9MB)

What, isn’t there an Oscar for best retail-based musical performance?

Patrick has a real handle on the music scene in Northern Ireland at the moment – he’s blogging from a fan’s perspective – and its damn entertaining. We would heartily recommend you take a perusal – and don’t forget to join his myspace page too. Job done!

Many thanks to Deirdre McKenna for allowing us to collaborate with her on this month’s IN STORES NOW gigs with the fantabulous Kitty & The Can Openers

The Golden Thread have a great article about Deirdre and the exhibition “This Might Work!” – which inspired us so much – on their site which you can ** check out here **

If you missed this unique performance the first time – have a look here – this is a new, previously unreleased song from the KATCOs (cool abbreviation huh? The name just gets better an better) – so remember you saw it here first!

Oh and what with UFOs all around the place and all the talk of moon landings..

A happy event in the Bandwidth paddock – the results for the NI Chart Music Video Poll are in, and Bandwidth came in a storming SECOND and FIFTH in the poll with The Jane Bradfords – The Evening Angels Gather Here and A Plastic Rose – Kids Don’t Behave Like This

This is a great honour and privilege for us and we don’t take it lightly. Thanks to everyone who voted. And congratulations to a stonking winner Richard Crothers’ Clown Parlour – Rabbit (A Guilty Sweat) – which I’m going to admit we all voted for too.

To celebrate, here’s a chance to relive some of the old videos, starting with The Jane Bradfords:

The Jane Bradfords – The Evening Angels Gather Here

Download video from iTunes (58MB)

And who could forget the quiet little one in the corner, Kids Don’t Behave Like This for A Plastic Rose.
We don’t want the debate to end though – even since the poll was conducted there have been some fantastic new music videos released, like this one from Brendan McCarey for Under Stars & Gutters.
So here’s to next years poll and a whole bunch of doubtless great new videos in time for then.

In the meantime – drop a comment below suggesting your FAVOURITE LOCAL VIDEO WHICH WAS OVERLOOKED in the NI Chart poll..

A Plastic Rose – Kids Don’t Behave Like This

Download for iPod (35.3MB)

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WAS YOUR FAVOURITE LOCAL VIDEO OVERLOOKED? LEAVE A COMMENT AND SUGGEST A GREAT LOCAL MUSIC VIDEO WHICH DIDN’T MAKE THE POLL:

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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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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….

Head over to the Official Therapy? Site and check out some stills from Bandwidth’s Session shoot last week. The band were in town recording for BBC Radio 1 Introducing in Northern Ireland, and we at Bandwidth were there to capture it all..

MORE SOON..

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.

Bandwidth are proud and happy to announce they have taken residency in Belfast’s wonderful Oh Yeah centre in Belfast. Oh Yeah is a new centre for musicians and music businesses in Northern Ireland, with many great resources and a lot of good will to bring out the best for local music. Bandwidth have been selected for a prestigious 10-week residency programme called ‘Scratch My Business’, which will offer us to the chance to work with lots of other great and talented businesses, hopefully culminating in big event at the end of the year. Stay tuned for more..

andwidth are proud and happy to announce they have taken residency in Belfast’s wonderful Oh Yeah centre in Belfast. Oh Yeah is a new centre for musicians and music businesses in Northern Ireland, with many great resources and a lot of good will to bring out the best for local music. Bandwidth have been selected for a prestigious 10-week residency programme called ‘Scratch My Business’, which will offer us to the chance to work with lots of other great and talented businesses, hopefully culminating in big event at the end of the year. Stay tuned for more..

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Bandwidth podcast from Bandwidth films. Featuring an exciting live music performance, updated regularly, each episode can be downloaded free at this site (www.bandwidthfilms.com), through our myspace or on the itunes music store.

To launch we are proud to announce a double bill of NYC’s finest, The National, playing in a secret location in Belfast, and Fighting With Wire, recorded at The Spring & Airbrake in May. Enjoy!