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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Quad5point1 6th Feb 2023		Live Music Steve Hillage @ Palace Theatre (1976)	Date should be the 11th and not the 8th
Quad5point1 1st Feb 2023		Live Music Yes @ Crystal Palace Bowl (1972)	World Premiere of "Close To The Edge" by Yes
Quad5point1 20th Jul 2022		Live Music Horslips @ Northern Ireland Polytechnic (1975)	This Polytechnic eventually became The Ulster University (Jordanstown Campus), others in the list include:- Campus locations Belfast campus Coleraine campus Magee (Derry/Londonderry) campus London and Birmingham Qatar
Quad5point1 17th Jul 2022		Live Music Paul Jones @ Starlite Ballroom (1967)	Made an appearance at the Starlite and then rushed to the Flamingo, 2 gigs in one night.
Quad5point1 11th Jul 2022		Live Music Mott The Hoople @ Guildhall (1972)	The artist "Stromboli And Sylvia" should be "Stromboli And Silvia" as seen in this Newspaper Article correction submitted
Quad5point1 29th Jun 2022		Live Music The Nice @ Ulster Hall (1969)	Lineup / running order for this concert was The Nice / Bonzo Dog Band / Yes / Sunshine. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 27th Jun 2022		Live Music The Beatles @ ABC (1963)	Added advertisement from the Belfast Telegraph. Venue should be changed to "ABC Belfast" correction submitted
Quad5point1 13th Apr 2019		Live Music All You Need Is Love And The National Philharmonic Concert Orchestra @ Belfast Waterfront (2019)	Review Just attended this performance tonight and considering it was only the 2nd night of the tour it wasn't too bad. Basicaly this is a Beatles tribute act that plays the songs the Beatles recorded with orchestration. There was the odd bum note from the Orchestra but overall I reckon they did quite a good job, particularly with the more challenging songs like A Day In The Life and Tomorrow Never Knows, extraordinarily good in fact. I hope by the end of the tour they will have polished up their act a bit. John Lennon was quite flat in a few places and Paul McCartney needs to work on his breath control and Mic technique. George and Ringo I thought were very very good and a great rendition of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Orchestra was very well received. As I Said before, by the end of the tour they should've ironed out all the wrinkles and it will probably be great by the time the last gig comes around. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 22nd Nov 2018		Live Music Jeff Lynne's ELO @ The SSE Arena (2018)	It was a fantastic night, the only other song they could've played to make it special for me would've been "Here Is The News"
Quad5point1 26th Oct 2018		Live Music Jeff Lynne's ELO @ The SSE Arena (2018)	Review Just back from this concert and it was beyond superlatives. I think I just had an audience with God!!!. Sound was incredible, light show was amazing and every musician on the stage were at the top of their game, absolutely faultless. It was also the final gig of the tour. Setlist was Standin' In The Rain Evil Woman All Over The World Showdown Livin' Thing Do Ya When I Was A Boy Handle With Care Last Train To London Rockaria! Can't Get It Out Of My Head 10538 Overture Twilight Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle Shine A Little Love Wild West Hero Sweet Talkin' Woman Telephone Line Turn To Stone Don't Bring Me Down Mr Blue Sky Roll Over Beethoven 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 11th Jul 2018		Live Music Jeff Lynne's ELO @ The SSE Arena (2018)	Venue now called The SSE Arena was once known as The Odyssey Arena, should they be linked?
Quad5point1 16th Oct 2016		Live Music The Sessions @ The SSE Arena (2016)	Review Didn't really have much expectation of what we were going to see but all in all it wasn't a bad nights entertainment. Musically I thought the show was quite good, there were several versions of The Beatles and they would change intermittently to suit the narrative of the show. One set of Beatles were definitley better sounding. It did get a bit hammy and over acted in places but not bad. I was surprised however to sit and watch the studio engineer smoking quite a bit throughout the performance and was obviously added to give a sense of how it must've been back in the day but in this day of anti-smoking legislation I'm surprised they got that passed. Every now and then the scene would be broken up by a group of teenagers running around screaming which I didn't particularly like, other than that quite a good evening. The Sessions website [YouTube Video] 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 15th Oct 2016		Live Music Brit Floyd @ Belfast Waterfront (2012)	Review Would've got a 10 only Damien in the band had a broken ankle, his leg was in a cast and he had difficulty playing. There were the odd moments when he would lose concentration, balance or something else and strange notes would eminate from his guitar. He at one point when finishing a number on an accoustic guitar played the wrong ending note and he visibly slumped his head forward in a dispondant manner. You couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. In true Wall fashion " The Show Must Go On " 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 15th Oct 2016		Live Music Horslips @ Dunluce Castle (2014)	Review This, on the face of it should've been a good night, unfortunately it turned out to be one of the coldest summer solstices in living memory. Being perched on the clifftops overlooking the Irish Sea only served to exacerbate the situation with the wind coming off the sea making the temperatures plummet even further. I felt sorry for the guys in Horslips as by the time they came on it was freezing and they could hardly play their instruments at all. So all-in-all a pretty gruelling event and one not to be repeated 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 15th Oct 2016		Live Music Alison Krauss And Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas @ Belfast Waterfront (2011)	Absolutely superb concert from start to finish. Favourite track from the night would have to be Ghost in This House
Quad5point1 15th Oct 2016		Live Music Jethro Tull @ Belfast Waterfront (2011)	Although billed as Jethro Tull it should really have been Ian Anderson as he was the only person on stage all night. It got a tad boring for my liking and I left after he played Thick As A Brick at the start of the second set
Quad5point1 15th Oct 2016		Live Music Deep Purple @ St George's Market (2010)	Originally scheduled as an outdoor concert at Custom House Square in Belfast it was moved indoors to St Georges Market due to weather conditions. St Georges Market has a very low ceiling and isn't very big and the band played at Spinal Tap levels. I had to plug my ears it was so loud and eventually ended up in the street to get away from the noise. A totally ruined night because of the volume levels and I've had tinitus ever since.
Quad5point1 14th Oct 2016		Live Music Alison Krauss And Union Station @ Belfast Waterfront (2010)	Review Based on the success of the BBC4 music show The Transatlantic Sessions and Following the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow early in the new year, a selection of artists from the Transatlantic Sessions part of the festival will make a short tour in these islands: four dates in England and one (Thursday 4 February) in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast. The package consists of Shetland fiddle maestro Aly Bain and dobro legend Jerry Douglas, Nickel Creek vocalist/fiddler Sara Watkins, O brother where art thou? soundtrack star Dan Tyminski (aka the singing voice of George Clooney), Eddi Reader, Tim O’Brien, Darrell Scott, Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), Bruce Molsky and Cara Dillon and 'the ultimate house band'. The BBC4 shows were made available to buy on DVD also 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 14th Oct 2016		Live Music Journey @ Odyssey Arena (2013)	Only went to this gig to see Thunder. As soon as Thunder finished I was heading for the door but my wife wanted to see what the other acts were like. After sitting through Whitesnake with an aging adolescent singer (Coverdale) I just wanted to leave. All he could do was strut round the stage clutching his crotch, I think he did this in order to hit the high notes :-)
Quad5point1 23rd Mar 2015		Live Music David Gates And Bread @ Belfast Waterfront (1997)	I don't think I've sat through a concert with my jaw on the floor before, but this night was an exception. It was a last minute purchase (actually 2 hrs before the gig) because my wife wanted to see them. Tickets bought, rushed to the Waterfront, took our seats and got absolutely blown away. These guys were so good, so professional and just pretty damned perfect. I always hoped that someday I would see them again but I don't think that will ever happen. Score out of 10, if I could I would give it a 100. Fantastic !!!
Quad5point1 23rd Mar 2015		Live Music Crash Test Dummies @ Ulster Hall (1994)	This was a "Spur Of The Moment" purchase just for somewhere to go, but boy was I surprised. This had to be one of the best concerts I'd seen up to that date. Musically it was perfect, Brad Roberts was in cracking form and had me laughing loudly. The band were superb musicians and Ellen Reid, as well as being a superb musician & vocalist was looking Ab Fab. They also covered tracks from their album "The Ghost That Haunts Me Now" which I hadn't heard before, but remedied by ordering it the next day. All In All, an extremely enjoyable evening and a new album to listen to, in fact, still two of my favorite albums.