“It is with great sadness that we announce that Alternative Ulster was unsuccessful in securing Arts Council funding for 2012/2013. As a result, AU Magazine is being put on hiatus. The website will continue to be run on a voluntary basis, and AU will continue to promote the best of Northern Irish and Irish music, [...]
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17 May
I’LL SHUT UP ABOUT THIS ALBUM SOON
At the risk of sounding like a complete bore (sorry, I will stop going on about it, promise), I recently had the pleasure of meeting the man behind my favourite album in a long, long time. I did a rushed pre-gig interview with John Grant when he played The Button Factory the other week. I thought [...]
23 Feb
CEE LO GREEN: FORGET-YOU-NOT
Originally published in AU Magazine, November 2010 IT’S NOT every day that you get to hurl the phrase ‘fuck you’ with gusto down a phone line to a celebrity. It’s even less likely that the object of your outburst will respond with friendly enthusiasm. Then again, it’s not every day that you get to talk [...]
26 Aug
JÓNSI: GET UP AND GO
Originally published in AU magazine, March 2010 LET’S BE frank for just a moment. When you think of Sigur Rós, arguably one of the most cerebral bands of the 21st century – a band whom the word ‘ethereal’ was seemingly devised solely to describe – you don’t necessarily expect them to be captivating conversationalists. Harsh? [...]
24 Aug
HOLY FUCK: CELESTIAL BLISS
Originally published in AU Magazine, May 2010 BRIAN BORCHERDT IS single-handedly destroying his band’s reputation as a carefully-managed, well-oiled and complex music-making machine. “Rehearse?,” he laughs down a phone line from New York City. “Nah, we don’t really rehearse.”
20 Aug
FRANZ FERDINAND: ARCHDUKES OF POP
Originally published in AU magazine, February 2009 I’M SITTING in a restaurant in trendy Shoreditch, London, with one of the most popular British bands of the past decade. “Oooh, Rhubarb Crumble” says Alex Kapranos, gleefully eyeing the menu just handed to him by a star-struck waiter. “That sounds amazing. Can I have some of that, [...]
16 Aug
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR: LADIES’ MAN
Originally published in AU magazine, May 2008 HE’S THE man your mother warned you about. The man your father would board up your bedroom window to prevent you seeing. But in reality, there’s no getting around it: Har Mar Superstar is quite.. well, lovely.
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