Titanic Week and Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Picks!

Titanic Week

The Titanic Belfast Festival is finally here to commemorate 100 years since the big boat sailed away.  They're putting on MTV concerts, boutique festivals, light shows, dramatisations, tours, plays, movies, all sorts to mark the occasion.  But the Biggest news is the opening of the 90 odd million pound Titanic  Belfast Centre.  Now PastieBap.com hasn't had a chance to go yet but we will be there at the end of the month and we'll be giving our opinion on whether its been £97 million well spent.  But I have to say that the buzz surrounding the opening was phenomenal.  It was all over the social media and world wide; the news papers were spreading the news. I personally am excited to see what it's like and I'm excited for Belfast to get such an impressive looking building.  It certainly makes my train ride into work that little bit better looking and it's a welcome addition to the port of Belfast.  The rejuvenation of the Titanic Quarter as a whole has been a breath of fresh air for Belfast and securing these sorts of monies can't have been easy especially during this recession. I feel it firmly secures Belfast as a world class city and an excellent holiday destination for anyone visiting for the UK or world wide.  In fact we like the building so much we've put it in our banner!  Come back at the start of May for our full write up.

Titanic Belfast

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Picks!

These are our top picks from the upcoming Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.  There is a lot to choose from however so go and have a wee look for yourself.

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BeeMickSee - I'm not like you

I remember being at a Roysta gig in the Pavilion and he had Mental Deficiency as support.  But before either of these bands took to the "stage", what looked for all the world like a wee spide grabbed the mic and made his way to the front.  As his music kicked in and he began spitting rhyme after rhyme of coherent, witty and often insightful raps it became apparent that this guy actually knew what he was doing.  Spending the majority of his set on the floor with the crowd he certainly warmed the people for the upcoming acts and earned himself a few new fans in the process. I couldn't believe that I'd never heard of this guy before. Since then I've seen him all over the place. He's a part of the awesome Bomb City 7 who seemed to play just about every festival going during the summer.  Also recently he had his single launch recently at Boojum on Chichester street.  Having the ingenious idea of giving a free single with every Burrito.  Here's a wee video of what rap in a burrito bar looks like by the way.

And that single was the ridiculously catchy "I'm not like you". With crunchy guitars and a sing-a-long chorus this is definitely one you could stick on at a house party or see yourself shouting along to at a gig. I suggest for now though you check out his stuff for yourself (which is a free download) on Bandcamp.   Between BeeMickSee, Bomb City 7, Team Fresh and Roysta there's a decent enough wee scene for Norn Irish rap, I guess you just need to know where too look.

http://beemicksee.bandcamp.com/
http://bombcity7.bandcamp.com