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Ready for the weekend? During Covid, it is time to chill out and let your feelings settle down. To help with this, Babylon brings you ‘Be Mine’, a new single by the Irish singer Stephen Cooper from his solo project…
Very little has been hit quite as hard during lockdown, then live music. With festivals cancelled and venues closed, sometimes for good. The present and immediate future of gigs and culture is quite a bleak one. This said, organisations and…
Belfast and Northern Ireland have been bustling hubs for exciting music and bands for decades. From Van Morrison to Snow Patrol to Two Door Cinema Club, many have broken out of the local scene to receive international attention and acclaim. …
Are you ready for Irish pubs reopening on September 21st? I’m sure you all are. We all miss a good pint after work, surrounded by friends whilst listening with admiration to the person performing. Before they reopen, you can have…
The first socially distanced concert happening in the UK on August 11 has a lot of people wondering, is this what the new norm will look like going forward? In Ireland, we have three counties back in lockdown and the…
From Snow Patrol, to Sinead O’Connor, Fontaines DC, to Van Morrison. Ireland is home to a vast number of now world-wide loved artists, of all different decades and genres. Despite it’s history of trad music, artists in Ireland have and…
Many people think of Irish music as traditional only: country style music with an orchestra of traditional instruments, mostly singing rebel songs. The truth couldn’t be further away, however. Over the last 50 years, music in Ireland has had an…
The Arts have always been the thing we turn to when the mind needs an escape. Whether it’s music, tv, books or films, we need the Arts more than ever during this pandemic. However the creative industries are going to suffer…
Honesty: who wants it? Hands up! Okay, okay! A little secret: the truth is that, these days, almost every Irish person will scoff at the common “do you speak or know any Irish” question. Quite sad really when you think…