Category: OTL14 Music

Combining the finest West African musicians on the planet with one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 20th Century, the London Astrobeat Orchestra will bring their unique interpretation of the music of Talking Heads to Out to Lunch.

London Astrobeat Orchestra have become renowned for their uplifting performances of songs from the iconic Talking Heads movie, Stop Making Sense.

Focusing on cult classic albums Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues, London Astrobeat Orchestra are a funky, rhythmic, and earth-shatteringly tight live band.

Considering the afrobeat vibes that run through all the best Talking Heads albums, it makes total sense that this collective from West Africa, Europe and beyond should offer this unique, razor sharp take on the finest of Mr David Byrne & Co’s timeless compositions. We couldn’t be more excited for this Friday night OTL special.

Doors 8.00pm | Limited Unreserved Seating

Well Hello Gorgeous – don’t let the January blues Rain On Your Parade – Lady Portia Di’Monte, Northern Ireland’s First Lady of Drag and a very Funny Girl Brings you The Queen Bee of Broadway Barbra Streisand, with Brunch and lots of #HIJINKS from the from the sliver and small screen along with Fun and Games.

Join Lady P and special guest act The Queen of Camp Miss Onya Becks. It may only be an hour of high camp, musical mayhem but you’ll want it to last All Night Long. You’d be Nuts to miss it so get booking and say Hello Dolly to the Girls!

A Lady P and Me Production.

NI Opera Studio presents music by Stephen Sondheim

An empty theatre at night, a mysterious visitor: the members of the Northern Ireland Opera Studio present a tale of escape, longing, and love in an unexpected place – set against the evocative music of Stephen Sondheim ahead of the NI Opera and Lyric Theatre co-production of Sweeney Todd.

The Sazeracs are a band consisting of Linley Hamilton on trumpet, Kyron Bourke on vocals and piano and Steve Davison drums. Each member of the band boasts years of experience playing in an eclectic mix of bands ranging across genres.

The main premise of this project is to breathe new life in to some classic songs from the New American songbook by adding their own unique Jazz interpretation of songs from the like of Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed.

The Sazeracs have a unique approach to the material they play, with melodic referencing and intricate arrangements making this proposition one of the highlights of this year’s Out to Lunch.

Doors 12.45pm | Unreserved Seating

The Revisited Series, which proved popular in the early days of Oh Yeah, returns for another special event as part of Out to Lunch 2019.

This year it’s the turn of Doolittle, the seminal rock record by The Pixies. Released in 1989 on 4AD, Doolittle changed the face of alternative rock with songs like Monkey Gone To Heaven, Here Comes Your Man and Debaser – influencing everyone from Nirvana to Bowie, PJ Harvey to Pavement.

To celebrate the legacy of an insistent, dynamic and ground-breaking alternative rock record the Oh Yeah will re-imagine the album with local artists including Arborist, Hand Models and Sister Ghost

Doors 7:45pm  |  Limited Unreserved Seating

Andy Irvine is one of the great Irish singers, his voice one of a handful of truly great ones that gets to the very soul of Ireland. He has been hailed as “a tradition in himself”.

Musician, singer, songwriter, Andy has maintained his highly individual performing skills throughout his over 50-year career.

Andy has been at the helm of legendary bands like Sweeney’s Men in the mid 60s, to the enormous success of Planxtyin the 70s, and then Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and recently Usher’s Island. Andy has been a world music pioneer and an icon for traditional music and musicians.

As a soloist, Andy fills the role of the archetypal troubadour with a show and a travelling lifestyle that reflect his lifelong influence, Woody Guthrie. To quote the Irish Times, “Often copied, never equalled”, his repertoire consists of Irish traditional songs, dexterous Balkan dance tunes and a compelling cannon of his own self-penned songs.

Between the achievements of his solo, group work and collaborations, he is a highly revered troubadour of the Irish music world. Andy never fails to deliver a pulsating, heartfelt performance.

‘Andy Irvine’s solo stage show is a musical travelogue through time and space. His right hand dexterity on bouzouki was nothing short of amazing.’ –  FRETS MAGAZINE

 ‘His artistry is quite simply unique.’ – THE INDEPENDENT

Doors 7:30pm | Unreserved Seating

Kathryn Joseph is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. Her debut album Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled won the 2015 Scottish Album of the Year Award.

Intimate, fearlessly frank and with a fathoms-deep emotional resonance, Kathryn Joseph’s second release From When I Wake the Want Is takes its listeners on a turbulent journey through her psyche in a “constant exchange between pain and beauty” (The Skinny).

Bringing together heavily rhythmic piano, striking vocals and vivid lyrics, Joseph’s modern folk songs of devastating intensity will have you entranced.

From When I Wake… isa compellingly soulful set that suggests Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Talk Talk and Kate Bush as kindred spirits and documents both life’s traumas and their resolutions.

“Possibly the best album we’ll hear all year.” (Clash)

Joseph, along with director, actor and musician Cora Bissett, wrote the music for a stage version of Emma Donoghue’sbook Room, which was produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. In 2017, Joseph collaborated with Marcus MacKay and The Twilight Sad’s James Graham on the project Out Lines. Their debut album Conflats was released in October 2017.

Kathryn was invited by Robert Smith to play his curated Meltdown Festival this year.

Doors 2.45pm | Unreserved seating

Glasgow born sisters Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel are young traditional musicians who use their Donegal ancestral culture to create a sound that encompasses the soul of Irish music.

Being siblings helps them achieve a stunningly close blend on fiddle, flute and uilleann pipes, interspersed with songs in English and Irish, many from their family and local repertoire.

Since the launch of their debut album, they have performed in various venues and festivals across Europe, America and Asia and have appeared as guests on stage or toured with acts such as Altan, The Chieftains, and Sharon Shannon.

Clare has recently become the Young Traditional Musician of the Year at the 2018 TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards, the first person Scottish person ever to win this.

The Friel Sisters represent a new strand in traditional Irish music – they superbly balance a contemporary approach with an informed understanding of the Irish origins of their song and music.

Doors 12:45pm  | Unreserved Seating

Born and raised in Belfast, Gráinne Holland’s love of music and song began at an early age.  A product of the Irish language revival in the North of Ireland, she was raised in both Gaelic and English and she attended the first Irish-medium school in Belfast.

It was here that her love of traditional song was fostered. Gráinne has to date, released two albums of traditional Gaelic songs with contemporary arrangements; Teanga na nGael in 2011 and Gaelré in 2015 to great critical acclaim.

Now Gráinne will celebrate the release of her third studio album with a concert at Out To Lunch. Produced by Brian Finnegan and featuring some of Ireland and Scotland’s finest musicians; Corcra is an album of Gráinne’s own original songs in both Gaelic and English.

Performing with Gráinne will be Brian Finnegan, Sean Óg Graham, and Liam Bradley.

Doors 7.30pm  |  Unreserved Seating

The second Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album was released by Domino in April and represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan and Mississippi John Hurt; and three very different vocalists.

The combination is unusual: YTK’s Everything Sacred, released in 2016, may be the only precedent. Yet while, on paper, the constituent elements might seem disparate, the recent, hugely acclaimed album is, if anything, even more coherent than its predecessor.

It also basks in a truly magnificent title: Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars. Just don’t call it fusion.

Doors 7:30pm  | Unreserved Seating

The Swingtime Starlets are an all-professional close harmony trio, who perform songs from the 40’s Wartime Era, Hollywood’s Golden Age and Retro Pop!

Get your toes tapping, your sweetheart swaying, your jitterbug jiving and become entranced in the romance as this diverse, dynamic duo transport you through the eras of Swing, Jazz and Blues.

Let their renditions of the Great American Songbook and Hollywood’s Golden Era transport you through the years with their beguiling voices, close harmonies & vintage style!

Doors | Unreserved Seating

An acclaimed singer-songwriter with a career that has consistently garnered critical praise. NPR proclaims that he’s “the musical equivalent of an arrow to the heart,” while The New York Times calls his work “beautifully finessed.” Teddy released his first, self-titled album in 2000.

Thompson also toured as part of Rosanne Cash’s band before signing with Verve. Soon after, Thompson released his much lauded 2006 sophomore album Separate Ways, which demonstrated how much his songwriting, performing and record-making skills had evolved since his debut.

It was followed in 2007 by Up Front & Down Low, a collection of personally charged readings of classic American country songs that demonstrated Thompson’s increased assurance as a performer and interpreter.

In 2008, Thompson released the upbeat and highly acclaimed, A Piece of What You Need, which was declared “one of this year’s best” by The Guardian and debuted at #9 in the UK charts. A fifth studio effort, Bella, was released February 2011 to much acclaim and led to touring the world with Elton John among other things.

In 2014 Thompson gathered his musical clan to release Family, one of the folk records of the year which garnered a multi-page, in depth piece from The New York Times magazine.

In 2016 Teddy released Little Windows, a record of original duets with singer Kelly Jones. The album was recorded live to tape and features an all-star band of backing musicians. Teddy also produced Dori Freeman’sdebut album which was hailed by The New York Times as one of the year’s best.

2017 saw the release of the long-awaited Shelby Lynn & Allsion Moorer duets record produced by Thompson.

Doors 7:45pm | Unreserved Seating

Martin Harley is a supremely talented Roots and Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter with a burgeoning global reputation.

He’s a devotee to the music that came out of the Mississippi Delta and many other forms of roots music. Though Harley’s sound is rooted in the blues it seeks to tell his own story and draws on the ruminations of a musician who has spent much of his life on the road.

Renowned for his prowess as a slide guitarist, Martin is almost unique in the UK in his playing lap slide. During year-round worldwide touring he’s absorbed a plethora of diverse influences, honing his craft into the classic songwriting style he possesses today.

In the US, Martin has headlined Music City Roots in Nashville and toured coast to coast with ZZ Ward, Delta Rae and opened for Iron and Wine, Bruce Hornsby, World Party, Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa amongst many others.

‘Harley offers the listener a masterclass in taste, style and roots blues’ – GUITARIST MAGAZINE

‘No doubt that he is a slide guitar master. He is the business.’ – ROOTS MAGAZINE

‘Awesome’ – Johnnie Walker, BBC RADIO 2

‘Quite simply a great live act’ – TIME OUT

Doors 7.45pm | Unreserved Seating

Cutting her teeth as a sideman in Boston’s roots music scene, Laura Cortese forged a unique path through a pool rich in talent (due to a large population of Berklee School of Music graduates like herself) including stints as an instrumentalist with Band of Horses, Pete Seeger, Rose Cousins, Jocie Adams (of The Low Anthem), and Uncle Earl.

Her Compass Records debut, California Calling, is the next step in her career as a frontwoman and bandleader – she & the Dance Cards (Valerie Thompson – Cello, Jenna Moynihan – fiddle & banjo, and a rotating cast of North America’s preeminent bassists) break new ground with a bold and elegant new album, based in the lyrical rituals of folk music but exploring new territories of rhythm and sonics.

With the support of Sam Kassirer, album producer of folk-pop favorites like Lake Street Dive and Joy Kills Sorrow, they’ve created something that’s simultaneously rowdy, delicate and cinematic. This is post-folk that seriously rocks. Out to Lunch anticipate a truly show-stopping performance.

Doors 2.15pm | Unreserved Seating

Colin MacIntyre – aka Mull Historical Society – has been rather busy these last few years. Most notably, the man responsible for 2001’s gold-selling debut album Loss wrote his debut novel in 2015 and The Letters of Ivor Punch went on to win the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award.

More recently, Colin has released two new stories; The Boy In The Bubble is a memoir about growing up on the Isle of Mull, while The Humdrum Drum is his first children’s picture book and comes complete with accompanying CD of original related songs and an audiobook.

Thankfully for fans of the Mull Historical Society side of his persona, he has just released his first music in over two years. Wakelines is produced by Bernard Butler and features songs about family, home, islands, dreams and travel.

This is Colin’s eighth album and from the title track onwards it is another collection of masterful, no holds barred, joyously quirky, epic pop.

Born into a family of writers and storytellers, Colin is a descendant of the Gaelic warrior-poet, Duncan Ban MacIntyre,and grew up on the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides (pop. 2,500 people, 26,268 sheep).

Doors 7:30pm  |  Limited Unreserved Seating