20152015CQAFCQAF

CONTENTSLiterature 3 Comedy 11 Theatre 19 Circus & Dance & Family 31Music 37 Sound & Vision 77 Visual Arts 85 Special Events 93

Artist in Residence 98 At A Glance 101

Festival Team

Director Sean Kelly Administrator Kathy Young

Press/Marketing Joe Nawaz Production Louise McElvanna, Barry Hollywood, Connie Bree

Programme Design Tonic Design Website Pauric McAnespy

Management Committee Chris McCreery (Chair), Adam Turkington, Caroline Wilson, Noyona Chundur, Ciara Hickey.

Principal Funder

Funders and Sponsors

We tried, we really tried, but a more upbeat and positive foreword proved beyond us.

We wanted to share our excitement with this year’s festival - undoubtedly one of our finest ever

collections of literature, theatre, comedy and music events.

Yet across the arts sector as a whole, optimism is in short supply. In fact, in 16 years, we’ve never known

morale so low with so many arts organisations facing closure or on the brink of collapse.

The benefits of a healthy arts sector are numerous and well documented yet the philosophy of Dickens’

Thomas Gradgrind appears to prevail in the corridors of Stormont and Westminster.

When your vote is being sought in the coming weeks, we ask you to reflect on how the arts (and broader

public sector) are being destroyed for a generation or more and consider making your voice heard.

And vote with your feet please and support as many arts events as you can, while you still can. We’ve done

our best to build a very special 2015 festival, we hope you can join us.

LITERATURE

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Val McDermidKilling People for Fun and ProfitThe Black Box | Sunday 3 May | 2.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Killing people is wrong. Killing people for fun iseven more wrong. Making money out of it is justabout as wrong as it gets. Unless the mayhem andmurder is all in your head, of course. No.1 best-selling crime writer and‘acknowledged queen of the psychologicalthriller’ (The Guardian) Val McDermid will takeyou on the journey that led her from innocence tobeing guilty of entertaining millions. Laugh in allthe right places. Or else... Since publishing her first novel in 1987,McDermid has seen her books translated intomore than 30 languages, with over 11 millioncopies sold worldwide. She is the recipient of the2011 Pioneer Award at the 23rd Annual LambdaLiterary Awards, the 2010 CWA Cartier DiamondDagger, LA Times Book of the Year and StonewallWriter of the Year. Her latest thriller, The Skeleton

Road, is published by Little, Brown.

‘One of the most accomplished crime writers in

the UK, Val McDermid has an acute reading of

psychology that lifts her out of the genre strait

jacket.’ – THE INDEPENDENT

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Paul DurcanReading from The Days of SurpriseThe Black Box | Sunday 3 May | 5.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

A Paul Durcan public reading is like no other.Audiences come away drained and cleansed as if froma secular mass. He can be funnier than any stand-up,dramatic as many an actor, but once heard, the sottovoce incantatory style is never forgotten. In the year following his Irish Book Awards’Lifetime Achievement Award, Durcan returns, in his70th year, with a wonderful new collection, The Days

of Surprise, in which he muses upon the‘precrucifixion scenario’ of being prepared for surgery,the joy of retail therapy, the horror that is wheel-clamping, the ‘starry mystique’ of the weatherforecaster Jean Byrne, suicide, bird-watching,stammering, art, Mayo, New York City, New Zealand,murder in Syria and the commemoration of 1916. Perhaps the greatest surprise is the voice of thelate Seamus Heaney coming down his chimney: ‘Areyou all right down there, Poet Durcan?’ The Days of

Surprise is proof that the great poet of contemporaryIreland is in fine fettle.

‘It was mesmerising and spellbinding and deeply

affecting, each poem received in awed silence.’

– HErALD

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Martin RowsonThe Black Box | Wednesday 6 May | 1.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

In this entertaining and unapologetic event,Martin takes us on a romp through a 32,000 yearold history of visual satire, the life and work ofWilliam Hogarth and the power of giving andtaking offence, along the way exposing thetechniques, practice and purpose of caricature. Fully illustrated with images from the StoneAge, via the 18th Century, to Martin’s own 30 yearcareer as a professional cartoonist for, at onepoint or another, almost every national dailynewspaper in Britain (except The Sun). This is arare and brilliant foray into the cartoonist’s worldof visual journalism and scathing critique. rowsonlikens his political cartooning to voodoo - ‘doingdamage from a distance with a sharp instrument.” Martin is widely acknowledged as one of theUK’s leading cartoonists and political satirists. Hisstyle is visceral and offensive, and self-consciouslyfollowing in the tradition of the great eighteenth-century satirists and cartoonists, such as Gillrayand Hogarth. Be prepared to be shocked,enlightened and thoroughly entertained.

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The Other half with Mark Billingham & My DarlingClementineThe Black Box | Saturday 9 May | 2.00pmTickets £8.00 | www.cqaf.com

Take the most borrowed author from libraries inBritain, put him together with the UK’s own versionof George Jones and Tammy Wynette and you’vegot a marriage made in Nashville Award-winning crime-writer Mark Billingham

and leading country duo My Darling Clementine

come together to present a dark and glorious mixof song and story. A rundown Memphis bar. Lust, murder anddomestic horror. That long and difficult search for…The Other Half. A unique collaboration betweenthe leading lights of crime fiction and countrymusic. A show to die for....ThE

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Paul MuldoonReading from One Thousand Thingsworth Knowing101 The Redeemer (101 Donegall St) Saturday 9 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Paul Muldoon’s first poetry collection, New Weather, waspublished in 1973, when he was just 20. At the time,Seamus Heaney taught Muldoon at Queen’s UniversityBelfast, and called him ‘the most promising poet to appearin Ireland for years’’. In the intervening decades, as Muldoon became oneof the world’s most revered poets, Heaney remained hisguide and champion. Muldoon’s 12th collection, his firstsince Heaney’s death in 2013, opens with Cuthbert and

the Otters, a long, pain-flecked and glitteringly variedelegy to his mentor. Born in 1951 in Armagh, Muldoon has won the TS EliotPrize and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He was the OxfordProfessor of Poetry until 2004, is the current president ofthe Poetry Society and lives in the United States, where heis poetry editor of The New Yorker.

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Tracey ThornThe Black Box | Sunday 10 May | 8.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco

Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lowsof a thirty-year career in pop music. But with thetouring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes,there wasn’t time for an in-depth look at what sheactually did for all those years: sing. She sang withwarmth and emotional honesty, sometimes whilebattling acute stage-fright. Part memoir, part wide-ranging exploration ofthe art, mechanics and spellbinding power ofsinging, Naked at the Albert Hall takes in DustySpringfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the microphone and stage presence; TheStreets and The X Factor. Including interviews with fellow artists such asAlison Moyet, romy Madley-Croft and GreenGartside of Scritti Politti, and portraits of singers infiction as well as Tracey’s real-life experiences, itoffers a unique, witty and sharply observedinsider’s perspective on the exhilarating joy andoccasional heartache of singing.

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David O’Doherty has Checked EverythingFestival Marquee | Thursday 30 April | 8.00pmTickets £12/£10 | www.cqaf.com

returning with his much loved show David

O’Doherty Has Checked Everything, the Festivalis delighted to welcome the bad boy of Zumba tothe Festival Marquee. David O'Doherty: the ryanair James Bond,the Kevin McCloud of the tiny keyboard, formerMiss Ireland, the offspring of Shannon/PeteDoherty, recipient of the 2008 Edinburgh ComedyAward and inventor of the last remainingswimming stroke, The Squid (on back, feet first),has written a new comedy show with both talkingand songs. Take a ride into the Davidzone. One man. One small keyboard. With batteries.And a chair. And a mic. And cables. And a soundsystem. And then a room, obviously. With morechairs. And a lighting rig. It's surprising how muchstuff is involved actually.

‘A beautiful mix of acute observation and

startling invention’ – THE IrISH TIMES

‘He’s funny, wretched and clever enough to

spawn an army of imitators.’ – THE AGE,MELBOUrNE

DAVIDO’DOhERTy

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Martin Mor | Cheetah!The Dark Horse | Saturday 2 May | 8.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

‘I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full ofnapalm’

Martin is a joker, jester, wit, wag, comic,wisecracker, punner, jokester; prankster, clown,fool, buffoon. With over 25 years experience as aprofessional performer, Martin has establishedhimself as one of the UK’s most popular and in-demand comedians. From the Hammersmith Apollo to an Italianprison, from comedy clubs to performing formembers of the royal Family, from the USA to theUAE, from South Africa to China, and withnumerous appearances on radio and television,Martin is a truly global performer. He’s evenappeared wearing a leotard on the popular boardgame Trivial Pursuits!

‘A comedy institution’ – THE GUArDIAN

‘World class’ – THE SCOTSMAN

‘Uproariously funny and utterly loveable, Mor is

a wonderful entertainer and provider of many

insights on life’ – THrEE WEEKS

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Lucy Porter | Me TimeThe Black Box | Sunday 3 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Finding modern life a bit difficult? Maybe youwere born in the wrong era? In this show Lucy

Porter tries to find her rightful place in history. Sheponders whether she’d rather be a bewhiskeredVictorian explorer, a 1920s Hollywood starlet orHatshepsut the Egyptian pharaoh. Fringe favourite, familiar from radio (The

Unbelievable Truth) and TV (Mock The Week,HIGNFY), we are delighted to bring Lucy back toher spiritual home in the Black Box.

‘Deliciously cutting’ – THE INDEPENDENT

‘A witty, thoughtful show delivered with

winning ease and bucket loads of charm’

– THE LIST

‘Impeccably punch lined anecdotes … Genuinely

delightful’ – THE TELEGrAPH

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In association with Infinite Jest

Bec hill | In...EllipsisMcHugh’s | Monday 4 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Bec Hill is a London-based Australian comedianwho has gained an international cult followingwith her quirky and refreshing approach tocomedy. In 2014, Bec wrote a show about howshe had never won an award. Then it won anaward at the Edinburgh Fringe, thus ruining thewhole premise.This is that award-winning show. Bec is the host and creator of the regularLondon comedy night Pun Run, the co-host ofthe Gods of Comedy podcast, she is thedesigner of hilarious T-Shirts, the maker ofcomics, animations and videos and wasselected as one of Time Out’s Top Ten FunniestComedians on Twitter!

‘An act that should not be missed for an hour

of non-stops laughs.’ - ONE4rEVIEW

‘Brilliantly conceived, this is one of the stand-

out shows in this year’s comedy programme.’

– SUNDAY HErALD

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MAxAndrew MaxwellFestival Marquee | Wednesday 6 May | 8.00pmTickets £12/£10 | www.cqaf.com

renowned for his cutting edge comedy andintrepid social and political commentary, doubleEdinburgh Comedy Award nominee AndrewMaxwell is a must-see for any comedy fan. As well as his continued dominance on the livecircuit, Andrew recently presented his show Public

Enemies on BBC radio 4 - a series of challengingstand-up shows where he uses his trademarkintelligence and political incisiveness to dig behindthe clichés and assumptions about four 'slow news'bugbears that are vilified and consumed with equalvigour in British society: Nationalism, The Internet,Drugs and The Food Industry. recently Andrew presented a very well receiveddocumentary for BBC3, Conspiracy Coach Trip

(renegade Pictures), which focussed on the 7/7Bombings, Creationism and UFOs. Andrew also recently starred in Sky’s John

Bishop’s Only Joking, BBC’s Live At The Apollo,Dave’s One Night Stand and he hosted BBC3’sLive Edinburgh Comedy Marathon. Andrew hasalso appeared on Have I Got News For You, Mock

The Week and Celebrity Juice, as well as radioshows including: radio 4’s News Quiz, It’s Not

What You know… and Dilemma.

ANDREw MAxwELL

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Barbara Nice | Squirrel ProofThe Black Box | Sunday 10 May | 2.00pmTickets £7 | www.cqaf.com

Phoenix Nights Janice Connolly in her much

loved guise as Mrs Barbara Nice, the People's

Princess, takes the coach over from Birmingham

to share her critically acclaimed show, Squirrel

Proof, exploring the battle to keep nature at

bay in the name of civilization.

When your only visitors are squirrels and

getting rid of them becomes an obsession then

maybe it's time to look at what's really going

on... Barbara's show was a festival hit with sell

out audiences at The Assembly rooms.

A joyful , playful experience getting to the

bottom of whats worth worrying about and

whats not .

‘Warm and spontaneous’ – THE INDEPENDENT

Expect a big helping of proper good fun!

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REASSEMBLED,SLIghTLyASKEw

Reassembled, Slightly AskewThe MAC | 30 April – 5 May | 2.00pm & 4.30pmTickets £10

A story of terror, discovery and humour; but aboveall, hope. Reassembled… is a mind-blowingautobiographical, audio-based performance aboutwriter Shannon Yee’s experience of falling criticallyill with a rare brain infection, her journey throughrehabilitation and living with an acquired braininjury. Individually, you will be admitted into a hospitalbed and using eye masks and headphones willexperience being reassembled… Cutting edge audio technology will allow youto experience Yee’s descent into coma, her brainsurgeries, her early days of rehabilitation in hospitaland her re-integration into the world with a hiddendisability. This is not a radio play; it is a completely newand unique style of storytelling that’s not to bemissed.

Tickets available directly from The MACwww.themaclive.com | 028 9023 5053

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Kitty in the LaneBlack Box Green Room | Monday 4 May | 7.30pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

Kitty sits alone in her kitchen. Her father is dyingin the room next door. Kitty wishes he would justhurry up. Kitty wishes her boyfriend, late to collecther for an evening together, would hurry up too.Lonely, depressed, anxious and still mourning theloss of her late brother, Kitty’s evening is about todevastate - or thrill. A sometimes shocking and dark drama whichunlocks Kitty’s perspective of life as a youngwoman in a lonesome environment, but is alsofilled with comedic relief through Kitty’s wittyobservations and anecdotes of her own recklessactivity in the past.

‘Áine Ryan is a wondrous actor. A full-blooded,

committed portrayal of a woman in lonely,

mental decline…This is visceral monologue, in

the hands of a superb performer. Highly

recommended.’ – FrINGE rEVIEW

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Down and Out in Paris and London101 The Redeemer (101 Donegall St) Saturday 2 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

In this dramatisation of the Orwell classic, a man

drifting through life, in early 1930s Paris, teaching

English and generally soaking up the

rich underbelly of Parisian life, finds himself falling

helplessly short and discovering a very different

view of life, looking up from below.

With a keen understanding of social inequality

and a wry sense of humour, he vividly recounts his

experiences while down and out.

Going from a sepia tinted view of poverty in

Paris to the more black and white existence in and

around London, through characters from a darkly

funny Circus to the inhabitants of a Beckettian

landscape.

‘Emphatic and evocative this poetic reimaging is

a truly enjoyable performance.’ – IrISH THEATrE

rEVIEW

‘Drew dominates the stage’ – SUNDAY

INDEPENDENT

The Kiss of the Chicken KingBlack Box Green Room | Sunday 3 May | 3.00pmTickets £5 | www.cqaf.com

We’re in London in the early 80s, in the run down bedsitof Jimmy, our protagonist. On the streets outside, thedrums are beating in the lead up to the war betweenBritain and Argentina. A tide of nationalist fervour andintolerance is running high, as Margaret Thatcher, in theguise of the Hokey Cokey Woman, whips the crowds intoa jingoistic frenzy. Swimming against the tide, Jimmy feels trapped in hisisolation, until he finds a kind of freedom through theKiss of the Chicken King, his fantasy and imagination.Based on a book by Oscar McLennan, this show takes theform of a multi-media performance monologue, which isboth moving and thought provoking.  A joint commission by the 2014 Adelaide Festival andthe Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Kiss of the Chicken King

is result of a collaboration between Oscar McLennan,Kevin McAleer, Martin Tourish and Olwen Fouere

‘Whimsical and witty, weird and wacky, this

collaboration of music, poetry and theatre will leave

you wondering where the line of madness begins and

ends’. – CATHErINE ZENGEr. rADIO ADELAIDE

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Shot Glass presents

Three StrikesThe Dark Horse | 4 & 5 May | 8.00pmTickets £5 | www.cqaf.com

Shot Glass is like theatre, but in a pub. Belfast’s newest, shiniest and bestlubricated production company first sashayed onto the stage in 2014. Sincethen there have been three sold-out shows, five burned-out actors and ahell of a lot of ring-marks on the furniture. For pity’s sake won’t you use acoaster? Originally conceived as the antidote to the stuffy formality of ‘proper’theatre, Shot Glass is a quick fix of what you fancy. Here they present threeshort comic plays, each a prickly foray into mores, leaving more than a littlesand in the vaseline.

Like a sozzled Tin Man, Shot Glass are well oiled and have a lot of heart.

‘Metaphors are mixed while drinks are poured straight. There could be

a few sore heads in the morning.’ – GrANIA MCFADDEN, BELFASTTELEGrAPH

My English Tongue, My Irishheart by Martin LynchThe Waterfront Studio | 5 – 9 May | 7.30pmTickets: 5 – 7 £14, 8 – 9 £19

Susan and Gary are young, educated 21st centuryIrish emigrants to England. One a Catholic, one aProtestant. He’s from the South, she’s from theNorth. Their extraordinary, heart-wrenching storycould well leave you traumatized. You’ve beenwarned! If you liked The History of The Troubles

(accordin’ to my Da) or Chronicles of Long Kesh,then you’ll love Martin Lynch’s much anticipatednew play. Telling the story of Irish emigration to Englandthrough the generations, Lynch’s highly innovativeplay explodes in a fast-paced, promenadeproduction involving song, dance and some of thegreatest characters ever to catch an Easyjet flight. Oh, did we mention that audience memberscan take an active part in the play?

Based on the book, The Literature of The Irish InBritain by Dr Liam Harte. Designed by Niall reaand Martin Lynch

Tickets available from The Waterfrontwww.waterfront.co.uk | 028 9033 4455

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LANCIATORE

rawlife Theatre Company presents

Lanciatore – The Juggling ManBelfast Circus School | 7 – 10 May | 8.00pmTickets £12.50 | www.cqaf.com

A credit crunch has hit Medieval Italy, but young

Lanciatore, barely surviving as a street juggler,

has a plan to steer him and his young family out of

the red and well into the black.

All he has to do is borrow money from a loan

shark, buy his way into a card game, and win

enough to repay the shark and have enough left

over to live the good life.

A cast of money-lenders, priests, prostitutes,

gambling vagabonds and burly bailiffs see

Lanciatore through his journey from rags to...

where?

Hot on the heels of The Septic Tiger & The

Christening, rawlife Theatre Co. present Paul

Kennedy’s darkly comic script incorporating

movement, rhythm, and music, directed by Martin

McSharry & Patrick J. O’reilly. Allow yourself to

experience up close and personal the lengths

some people will go to in order to pull themselves

out of dire straits.

Also running at Belfast Circus School Friday 15

May – Sunday 17 May 8:00pm

MOJOMICKyBO

Mojo Mickybo101 The Redeemer (101 Donegall St) Thursday 7 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Mojo Mickybo is a vibrant and fast-paced tale of

two boys growing up in Belfast in the early 1970s –

one from ‘up the road’ the other from ‘over the

bridge’. Their friendship centres on playing

headers, spitting from cinema balconies and re-

enacting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid while

blissfully unaware of the sectarian violence brewing

around them.

This is an opportunity for a new generation of

theatre-goers to experience one of Owen

McCafferty’s most popular and successful plays and

a chance for those who saw it first time round to

rediscover its continuing relevance today.

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QQuentin Crisp: Naked hope101 The Redeemer (101 Donegall St) Friday 8 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

From a conventional Surrey upbringing to globalnotoriety via The Naked Civil Servant, QuentinCrisp was an extraordinary raconteur and wit.Making its Belfast premiere after an Edinburghseason, we see Quentin both in his belovedChelsea flat as the 1970s dawned, and in his finalyears in his adopted New York, with the newmillennium beckoning. The show draws on Quentin’s own writing andperformances in a new script by Mark Farrelly, whoalso performs (West End credits include Who’s

Afraid Of Virginia Woolf with Matthew Kelly). He isdirected by the renowned Linda Marlowe, whohas won awards for her own solo work such asBerkoff’s Women. The production premiered at the EdinburghFringe 2014 and transferred immediately to the StJames Theatre, London, prior to a UK tour.

‘An elegant one-man memoir… a mannered and

moving performance.’ – METrO

‘Funny, moving and inspiring… a wonderful

tribute to a wonderful man.’ – SCOTSGAY

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‘Farrelly has put together a winning script and perFormed it with enough style to win even crisp’s approval. an excellent hour’sentertainment.’ edinBurgh guideQ THEATRE 31

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Prime Cut Productions present

The Secret CityBridges Urban Park (Corporation St)Saturday 9 May | 5.00pm, 7.00pm, 9.00pmTickets £5.00/£3.50 | www.cqaf.com

This is the time to have your voice heard.Don’t apologise.Be angry.Celebrate your dreams.Face your demons.Seize this moment.You are the future.

Based on a 9-month collaboration with 200 young

people from across Belfast The Secret City is a

vibrant, dynamic, physical performance played

against the backdrop of Bridges Urban

Playground.

It’s their story on their terms in their city space.

Prepare to be surprised. It might just be a little bit

awesome.

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The Dutiful wifeThe MAC (The Factory) | 1 -3 May Friday 1 May & Saturday 2 May, 8.30pmSunday 3 May, 3.00pm & 6.00pm

Can these dutiful wives stand by their manin the face of public scrutiny? An emotive and highly physical piece ofdance theatre that looks at the role of ‘thewife’ within the world of politics.  Following the lives of these StepfordWives who stand by their husband from thehighs of the early campaign days, throughto the public humiliation and personal painof very public apologies.

Tickets available directly from the MACwww.themaclive.com | 028 9023 5053

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Martin MorFunny Stuff for happy PeopleThe Black Box | Monday 4 May | 12 noonTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without

them getting bored and going in a huff? Bring them to Funny

Stuff For Happy People, an hour of comedy, circus,

storytelling, poetry and stupid science.

Martin Mor has been a professional performer for almost

30 years, and has performed all over the world. As seen on

Blue Peter and CBBC Live.

‘If we could all live our lives more like Martin Mor, the

world would be a much better, happier place’ – FEST

‘Uproariously funny and utterly loveable’ – THrEE WEEKS

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Lords of Strut present ChaosThe Black Box | Tuesday 5 May | 1.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

Fame obsessed and socially impaired, Strut

brothers are back! Join Irelands most emotional

dancers as they share their ‘bullet proof’ secret to

life and happiness!

In this motivational, semi-nude, roller-coaster of

a show, watch Sean and Seamus hold it together as

they dance and bicker through a hilarious hour of

physical and ‘meta-physical’ comedy.

Irish performers Cian Kinsella and Cormac

Mohally combine comedic theatrics with dance and

acrobatics. These boys can move, they can lift, they

can make you laugh. A show with heart and muscle.

If you have not seen them before you are in for a

treat, they are very good... if you have seen them

before you will want more and they will give you

everything!

‘This show will change your life: or at least make

you laugh. What more could you want?’ – IrISH

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NStarmanBelfast Circus School |Wednesday 6 May | 7.30pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

Starman is a one man Circus Comedy Theatre

show written and performed by Ken Fanning.

For years man has looked to the heavens for

inspiration and guidance. But now the heavens

have come to them. Starman is a heavenly mix of

circus comedy and cardboard.

Ken was raised in the Dublin suburb town of

Balbriggan. After travelling through Europe for a

number of years with his juggling equipment and

20 pounds he returned to Ireland and met Tina

Segner on Grafton Street in Dublin,

They formed Tumble Circus in 1998. They

believe in a commitment to their work and

training, and this ideology has helped them

surpass their goals of becoming street performers

to now touring internationally as a professional

circus and street theatre company.

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Classic Children's Saturday Morning TVBFF Beanbag Cinema | Saturday 9 May | 10.00amTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

Join Plan 9 Film Club in the cosy confines of the beanbag

cinema for a special Saturday morning of classic children's

TV. remember the days when you could sit in your pyjamas

for hours watching the likes of Lone ranger, Banana Splits

and Tiswas…

Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Saturday mornings for

many children meant Tom & Jerry, old westerns and tailor-

made specials from the Children's Film Foundation. In the

1970s it was Tiswas and the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.

Join us (pyjamas optional) for a special compilation of

shows, advertisements and clips from the 1970s and 80s

heyday of classic children's saturday morning television;

featuring; Jamie and the Magic Torch, Terra Hawks, Flash

Gordon, Chorlton and the Wheelies and more…

Your host Joe Lindsay will be providing breakfast cereal

for all!!

MUSIC

Camille O’Sullivan | ChangelingSt Anne’s Cathedral | Thursday 30 April | 8.00pmTickets £14 | www.cqaf.com

Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable

international reputation for her intensely dramatic

interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits,

Bowie and more.

The multi-award-winning singer has stunned

audiences around the world with her 5-star sell-out

performances, including Sydney Opera House,

royal Festival Hall, La Clique, royal Albert Hall,

Later with Jools Holland (BBC) and recent rSC solo

performance ‘The rape of Lucrece’.

Fierce, amusing and mesmerizing, Camille

transforms each song she performs into an intense,

emotional and theatrical experience, inextricably

drawing her audience into a world illuminated by

the dark and the light. Expect joy and pure passion.

‘Ravishing...superb performer’ – THE GUArDIAN

‘Exceptional voice’ – TIME OUT

‘Hypnotic’ – INDEPENDENT

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Little BarrieThe Black Box | Thursday 30 April | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

These are exciting times for Little Barrie who have

composed and performed the main title theme to

Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul. Better Call

Saul drew 4.4 million viewers when premiered in

the US in February, becoming the biggest cable

premier in history.

The group with the unrivalled, trademark blend

of rock, blues, garage and soul flavours have also

just released their fourth album Shadow, and

sounding better than they ever have.

The three-piece of writer-guitarist Barrie

Cadogan, bassist Lewis Wharton and drummer

Virgil Howe, have slowly and surely been honing

their sound and maturing their style since the

group’s debut on record all of 15 years ago.

Shadow is the super-cool and confident sound of a

band at the top of their game, full of brooding self-

confidence, brilliantly combining texture and

liveness.

Never ones to sit on their laurels or make the

same record twice, the band build on the raw

energy of 2011’s King of the Waves with an album

that takes them somewhere entirely new.

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Ulrich SchnaussThe Belfast Barge | Thursday 30 April | 8.00pmTickets £10 (Bring your own refreshments)www.cqaf.com

Ulrich Schnauss is a German electronic producer

with a number of critically acclaimed releases under

his belt. The mini-album Far Away Trains Passing

By [2001] and the full length A Strangely Isolated

Place [2003] were both critical and commercial

successes as far away from Germany as North

America and Japan. Schnauss’ music fuses

electronics and the shoegazing textures of ride, My

Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins.

At long last, Ulrich Schnauss is ready to release

his latest record, A Long Way to Fall, on Domino

records into the world. A Long Way to Fall finds

the artist returning to the punchier rhythms and

pronounced lead work of his landmark album, A

Strangely Isolated Place. Comprised of ten new

recordings, the album is Schnauss’ most varied

release to date.

Schnauss has been known to veer from techno

to drum and bass via electronica, his music

combines multi-layered synthesizers with beats and

ethereal vocals, serving as an aural escape route

from the trappings of reality. His sound is a lush

instrumentation, elegant and simple creating

beautiful, diverse music.

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In association with The Sunflower Folk Club

Sarah McQuaidSunflower Public House Thursday 30 April | 9.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Sarah McQuaid’s voice has been likened to malt

whiskey, melted chocolate and ‘honey poured into

wine’ (Minor 7th).

Her new album Walking into White (2015) is

her most honest and adventurous work to date,

with a depth and texture of soundscape that are

reflected in her beautifully crafted live shows. A

captivating performer, she seduces her audience

with banter and stories from the road, as well as

with stunning musicianship; in her hands, the

guitar becomes much more than merely an

accompanying instrument. 

Born in Spain, raised in Chicago and now living

in rural England, Sarah refuses to be pigeonholed,

segueing easily from one of her emotive originals

into a 1930s Cuban jazz number, a 16th century

lute piece or an unexpected contemporary cover.

‘Likely to make the hairs stand up on the back

of your neck.’ – Aled Jones, BBC rADIO 2

‘A world class talent ... burns with a brilliant

allure.’– LIVING TrADITION

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Sara watkins, Sarah Jarosz and AoifeO'DonovanSt George’s Church | Friday 1 May | 8.00pmTickets £12 | www.cqaf.com

Three of the brightest talents in contemporary American music join

forces for a unique tour which promises to be a milestone in

contemporary American roots music.

Sara Watkins was a founder member of the acclaimed Nickel Creek.

An incredible artist, her solo career and collaborations with the likes of

Fiona Apple and Jackson Browne, have stunned audiences and critics

alike.

Grammy nominated Sarah Jarosz has caused a major stir with the

maturity of her songs, the purity of her vocals, and her ability to

effortlessly switch between guitar, banjo and mandolin.

Her last recording, Build Me Up From Bones has been widely hailed

as a masterpiece.The stunningly accomplished Aoife O'Donovan came

to prominence as the lead singer and songwriter with Bluegrass legends

Crooked Still. Her first solo release, Fossils, and her solo performances

have marked her out as a major International artist.

Three exquisite talents in one room, there may not be a better gig in

Belfast this year.

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The StranglersFestival Marquee | Friday 1 May | 8.00pmTickets £20 | www.cqaf.com

The Stranglers are revered as one of the most exciting,

credible and influential bands to have to have come out of the

UK, as essential today as at any time in their lengthy career.

One of the great stories from the punk generation, with

their own highly original sound that combines a brilliant

melodic touch with a genuine dark aggression and an

effortless cool. Their continued run of album success has

marked a long, controversial and pioneering career.

They continue to deliver an impressive and enrapturing live

show. The set will include classic tracks such as Peaches, No

More Heroes, 5 Minutes, Duchess, Something Better

Change, Always The Sun and Golden Brown alongside some

lesser performed numbers from their extensive catalogue.

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In association with the real Music Club

Josh RouseThe Black Box | Friday 1 May | 8.00pmTickets £12 | www.cqaf.com

Singer-songwriter Josh Rouse’s journey has

taken him from his rural Oshkosh, Nebraska home

through a stint in Nashville and now to his

adopted hometown of Valencia, Spain, where he

wrote and recorded much of his upcoming album

The Embers of Time (Yep roc).

He says the songs were inspired by an

existential crisis – he calls it ‘my surreal expat

therapy record’ – and on the lead single Some

Days I’m Golden All Night, he grapples with

some of his faults, but it’s far from a heavy listen.

rouse offsets the confessional lyrics with a

arrangement of vibraphone, steel guitar, and

gently propulsive drums that gives his bluntly

honest self-assessment a remarkable buoyancy, as

well as a more-than-passing resemblance to the

softly rocking countrypolitan sound that came out

of Nashville during the ’70s.

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Ambient ForcesThe Belfast Barge | Friday 1 May | 8.00pmTickets £6 (Bring your own refreshments) | www.cqaf.com

Ambient Forces is a cutting edge music project that brings together threeinnovative, improvising composers, Alan Niblock (double bass) Rachel

Musson (saxophone) & Roger Turner (drums/percussion). Alan is a Jazz musician/improviser/composer involved in many aspects ofmusic. He has performed with a wide variety of local and international artists,including Slide Hampton,  Bucky Pizzarelli, John Bunch, Norma Winston andmany more.  rachel is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK.She is a Sound and Music New Voices composer/improviser. She hasperformed with Alcyona Mick, Han Bennink, Eddie Prevost, Olie Brice, Johnrussell, Adam Linson, Sebastian rochford, among many others. One of the great second wave of British free improvisers, roger Turnergrew up amongst the Canterbury musical life of the 1960s. roger currentmain collaborations are The Tradition Trio with Alan Silva and JohannesBauer, The Phil Minton Quartet with Veryan Weston and John Butcher andduos with John russell and Phil Minton.

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Cáit ‘Rocky’ O’RiordanThe Black Box | Saturday 2 May | 2.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Original Pogue Cáit 'Rocky' O'Riordan andband recreate the manic fun and energy of theearly days of The Pogues, when they gigged insmall sweaty clubs and pubs blasting out thesongs that would become classics. Cáit was a music obsessed seventeen-year-old when a chance encounter with ShaneMacGowan led to her joining the band as bassplayer. She spent four years touring Europe andrecording the band’s first two albums, Red Roses

for Me and Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Since leaving The Pogues, Cáit has playedbass with The radiators from Space, Hothouse Flowers, Gavin Friday and many others. Havingspoken publicly about her battles with depression and alcohol, these days she ishealthy and sober and is studying for a PhD atUCD. In early 2015 Cáit put together a new band ofgreat young Irish musicians and is looking forward to kicking off her summer tour in Belfast.We cannot wait.

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The CharlatansFestival Marquee | Saturday 2 May | 8.00pmTickets £20 | www.cqaf.com

In January The Charlatans released their newalbum Modern Nature to some of the finestreviews of their career. To say we’re excited aboutthis special Festival show would be anunderstatement. The album comes after a brutally difficult yearfor the band following the death from brain cancerof their old friend and drummer Jon Brookes lastyear. The band went into their studio Big Mushroomin January 2014 and as Tim recalls ‘We were achingfor the summer when we wrote it. It was freezingand we were trying to write songs that made ushappy. ‘ The result is Modern Nature. Featuring elevennew tracks, including the 6 Music A List recordTalking In Tones, the album was produced by TheCharlatans and Jim Spencer and mixed by CraigSilvey (Arcade Fire, Portishead). The album features a cacophony of contributorsfrom their three temporary drummers - PeteSalisbury of The Verve, Stephen Morris of NewOrder and Gabriel Gurnsey of DFA’s avant-discogroup Factory Floor, to Kate Bushs’ backing singersMelanie Marshall and Sandra Marvin, strings bySean O’ Hagan and brass courtesy of Dexys’ BigJim Paterson.

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Stealing SheepThe Black Box | Saturday 2 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Stealing Sheep's acclaimed 2012 debut, Into

the Diamond Sun won rave reviews with its'medieval-kraut-folk' inspired sound. Since itsrelease they have toured as guests of Alt-J,opened for St.Vincent in Paris, performed thesongs of David Lynch at the Barbican andcollaborated with the radiophonic Workshopon an original soundtrack to the cult 70'sscience fiction film La Planete Sauvage. New album on Heavenly records Not Real

is grounded by bright melodies and insistentbeats and unified by vocal harmonies;sometimes metronomic and chant-like,sometimes choral and pop. Grayson Perry’s pop-folk art and the band’sself-created mythologies were also a source ofinspiration for songwriting. Having fallen headover heels for the pagan pop revivalism ofInto the Diamond Sun, we can’t wait to hearthe band make their festival debut in the BlackBox.

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Stendhal Festival of Art presents

Join Me In The Pines + guestsThe Oh Yeah Centre | Saturday 2 May | 8.30pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

It’s been an incredible first year for Join Me In The Pines who begantouring last Spring by selling out Dublin’s Unitarian Church and a hugelysuccessful Irish tour followed in support of their wonderful album Inherit. JMITP’s front man is Bell X1’s David Geraghty who released his debutsolo album Kill Your Darlings in 2007, to critical and fan acclaim. Thealbum was also nominated for a Choice Music Prize that year. 2009 sawDavid return with his second solo offering The Victory Dance. Both ofthese albums were written and recorded between stints in the hectic BellX1 touring schedule. It is a busy year for Mr. Geraghty as he has just completed the filmscore for You’re Ugly Too starring Aidan Gillen. The film had its premiereat the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February.

Brought to you by the good folks at Stendhal Festival. (7-8 August, 2015)

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rudimentry presentsJon1stThe Belfast Barge | Saturday 2 May | 9.00pmTickets £10 (Bring your own refreshments)www.cqaf.com

Jon1st could be best described as a 'DJ's DJ': aselector able to simultaneously capture a crowdwith his upbeat selection of tracks crossingnumerous tempos and styles while incorporatingtechnical skills developed in his background as anaward winning-turntablist without breaking the flowof his mixes. His turntablist abilities saw him win the 2013World Online DMC Championship as well as 3rdplace in the 2013 World DMC Final and have beenpraised by established names like DJ Craze,Shortkut, DJ Marky and DJ Vadim. In the last two years alone he has played atestablished festivals such as Bestival, The Big Chill,Soundwave Croatia and Strawberry Fields and haspreviously been booked to open up for acts such asDaedalus, MF DOOM, Bonobo, DJ Vadim, OmUnit, Qbert, The Herbaliser, DJ Format,Badbadnotgood and Luke Vibert to name a few.

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David LyttleAether & Echo | Sunday 3 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Hot Press magazine describe David Lyttle as a‘one-man industry’ for his work as a drummer,instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and recordlabel owner. His third album Faces blends soul, hip hop andjazz, and features diverse collaborations with hiphop legend Talib Kweli, Irish music star DukeSpecial and Grammy winning Blue Note jazz iconJoe Lovano. With festival dates at home andabroad and media supporters like BBC’s LaurenLaverne and rTE’s John Creedon, 2015 is lookinglike his most high profile year to date. David’s touring band features rhea Lyttle(vocals), Anne Lyttle (vocals), Zane (rap), JohnLeighton (keyboards), Keith Duffy (bass) andMeilana Gillard (saxophone/flute).

‘infectious...hypnotic, soulful and terrifically

rhythmic.’ – HOT PrESS

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Jig Of Life: The Kate Bush ProjectPort A’ tSaoil: Tionscadal Kate BushThe Black Box | Monday 4 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Kate Bush is an artist like none other – weaving rock,

classical and folk music to extraordinary effect. Her

lyrics are highly dramatic, drawing on a wide range

of literary and cinematic sources, exploring themes

of childhood, love, death, war and mythology.

Caitríona O’Leary – acclaimed by Crescendo

Magazine for ‘her angelic and ethereal voice –

performs the very best of Bush’s songs, trans-created

into Irish by Gabriel rosenstock. She will be joined

by roger Doyle (keyboard), Adrian Hart (fiddle),

Éamonn Galldubh (flute, whistles, uilleann pipes),

Mark Keogh (sequencer). The show features on-

screen projections of the lyrics with images created

by Margaret Lonergan.

Níl éinne inchurtha le Kate Bush mar ealaíontóir.

Fitear rac, ceol clasaiceach agus ceol tíre go han-

éifeachtach ar fad sa saothar aici. Baineann

drámatúlacht thar na bearta lena liricí agus í ag tarrac

go tuisceanach as réimse leathan d’fhoinsí liteartha

agus cineamatagrafacha, téamaí a bhaineann leis an

óige, an grá, an bás, cogadh agus miotaseolaíocht.

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The StavesFestival Marquee | Monday 4 May | 8.00pmTickets £12 | www.cqaf.com

After 3 years of constant touring, The Staves

return in 2015 with their second full-length

album, If I Was, backed by a wave of

anticipation that should see them cement their

place at the forefront of the UK indie-folk

scene.

A trio of sisters from Hertfordshire, The

Staves produce bewitching and memorable

pop songs, rich in vocal harmonies and tender

hooks.

Their new album was recorded over five

trips across to Wisconsin and was produced by

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), a move which adds a

muscular weight to the release, not only in

terms of the resultant music but also to the

band’s high flying reputation, which seemingly

continues to grow with every song they unveil.

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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni BaFestival Marquee | Tuesday 5 May | 8.00pmTickets £15/£12 | www.cqaf.com

Combining tradition with jazz, blues and rock

has earned Bassekou Kouyate three

number one world music albums and a

Grammy nomination.

With his band Ngoni Ba, he has

revolutionised the ngoni, one of the oldest

string instruments in Africa, has graced the

Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and

performed with Paul McCartney, John Paul

Jones and many more.

He brings the UK premiere of his new

album Ba Power to the Festival (his first

release for Glitterbeat records).

It is a striking, career defining record marked

by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and

full-throttle emotions. The band has turned

up the volume significantly and Bassekou’s

masterful ngoni playing has reached a new

level of intensity, creating a unique sound

that can only be called Afrorock.

This is not the same Ngoni Ba. This is indeed

Ba Power.

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In association with The real Music Club

The Lost Brothers + MalojianThe Black Box | Tuesday 5 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

The OnceMcHugh’s | Wednesday 6 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

The Lost Brothers fourth album, New Songs Of

Dawn and Dust, marks a significant stepforward for the Irish duo. The album was recordedand mixed at Parr Street Studios with old friend andcollaborator Bill ryder-Jones (The Coral) at theproduction helm and is a thing of beauty in ourview. The band describe musical influences thatrange from Chuck Berry to Harry Nilsson toBeck, from Ennio Morricone to Jack Nitzsche, fromSweeney’s Men to Van Morrison, from Bob Dylan toLou reed and Nick Cave. What already promises to be a special night willbe made all the better with the addition ofMalojian who we champion endlessly and make noapologies for it. With a new album Southlands inthe can and a brilliant lead track Communion Girls,surely 2015 is going to be Stevie Scullion’s year?

Over the past five years, The Once has been quietlymaking a name for themselves in their nativeCanada. In the coming year, however, the rest ofthe world will get to discover the joyous, harmony-rich acoustic music that have made them suchfavorites in their homeland. The band are rooted in its essential musicalelements – singer Geraldine Hollett’s incandescentvoice, the trio’s gorgeous harmonies and thespirited acoustic instrumentation supplied by Daleand Churchill. Hollett’s captivating, compassionate vocals hasbrought comparisons to such iconic Americanastylists as Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and EmmylouHarris. Dale and Churchill, both talented andversatile players, utilize guitars, mandolins, banjosand even a bouzouki to build a rich musicaltapestry.

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Luka Bloom + support Brigid O’Neill TrioThe Black Box | Wednesday 6 May | 8.00pmTickets £13 | www.cqaf.com

returning to one of his favourite venues, we’re

delighted to welcome Luka Bloom to the Festival

following the acclaimed release of his recent album

Head and Heart.

Since the release of one of the all-time Irish

classics Riverside recorded in 1990, people from all

corners of the globe have embraced the true

beauty of this remarkable musician. He has a

catalogue of quality recordings that any songwriter

would aspire to.

With Head and Heart, Bloom continues to

push the boundaries of what his music can do,

making provocative, poetic music that delves deep

into the intricacies of the human soul, pulling out

the nuggets and putting them in song.

Luka Bloom has received phenomenal praise

regarding his ability as a performer, which has

resulted in sell-out shows worldwide. This is a

testament to a real troubadour who has worked and

developed over many years into a true master of

live performance.

‘Bloom never fails to deliver an entertaining

show, and you are hereby advised to catch him at

a town near you’. – IrISH VOICE

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Brooks williams + guests The Mighty MojosThe John Hewitt | Wednesday 6 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Brooks Williams is a blues singing, guitar picking,

bottleneck slide playing, certified road warrior who

has toured continuously for over 20 years.

His unique combination of traditional and

original music inspired Dirty Linen magazine to call

Brooks Williams one of ‘America’s musical

treasures.’ His guitar skills won him a place on the

Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists list, in company with

the likes of Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke and Doc

Watson, to name a few.

As one of the world’s premier acoustic guitarists

and singers, Brooks Williams continues to tour

worldwide, every night delivering the deepest and

most intense interpretations of everything from

early blues songs to his recent original

compositions. From coast-to-coast, country-to-

country, Williams and his guitars roll and tumble like

nobody’s business.

‘How soulful a solo guitarist can be when he has

talent, taste and astonishing technique.’ – BLUES

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Melt yourself DownThe Black Box | Thursday 7 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

With a line up that includes past members of Acoustic Ladyland, Transglobal

Underground and Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down come to the Cathedral

Quarter Arts Festival with a glowing C.V. and reputation as one of the most

talented and extraordinary bands on the planet.

The trick though is to pin down their sound. You see, we’re dealing with

geniuses here, musical geniuses who have no respect for genre or convention,

and any attempt to pigeonhole these guys just makes you sound like you’re

listing all of the different types of music you know. Like punk, and hip hop, jazz

funk, blues afrobeat and psyche just for starters. You see? Now we’re at it.

Just go watch them, take a pen and paper if it helps but we guarantee that

30 seconds into their set you won’t give a damn what their music is called and

just be glad you’re in the presence of genius.

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Le galaxie + guests go wolf!Aether & Echo | Thursday 7 May | 9.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Your favourite dancefloor tearjerkers Le Galaxie present a live tour to

launch their second album Le Club!

Le Galaxie have played and headlined some of the biggest and

most reputable venues and festivals in Ireland and Europe.  In 2013

they were nominated for the Meteor Choice Music Prize and named

entertainment.ie Irish Live Band of the Year. Now with

the upcoming release of Le Club, Le Galaxie have never sounded more

relevant.

Fresh from signing with Universal Music Ireland, Le Galaxie will

release the highly anticipated Le Club on 24th April. From the

stomping, technicolour opener Put the Chain On to synth-driven

title track Le Club and back to colossal hit-makers Humanise and

Carmen, the album is bursting with 14 shimmering electronica tracks

heavy with rhythmic sequences, vocal samples and all round good

sounds.

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Lucy Rose + support Jake IsaacFestival Marquee | Thursday 7 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Lucy Rose is set to play her first headline Belfast

show in two years in May two years in May and it’s

going to be a very special one. The acclaimed

singer takes her five piece band out on the road to

play some new material from her second album,

due later in the year.

Lucy’s uploads on YouTube have had a massive

impact. Her heart-stoppingly poignant songs and

cracked porcelain voice resulted in a signing to

Columbia records.

Working on the follow up to her 2012 debut

Like I Used To across 2013/14, Lucy stepped out of

the studio for rare live shows including supporting

Neil Young in Hyde Park and playing the second

stage at Glastonbury Festival.

The Independent review of her Glastonbury

show singled her out as one of the festival's rising

stars, labelling her ‘the stand out female vocalist of

the weekend." Her forthcoming album will confirm

her upward trajectory and we’re very proud to

welcome her to our Festival Marquee.

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wwhhPeter BroderickMcHugh’s | Thursday 7 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Peter Broderick‘s name has become synonymous

with the thriving independent music scene over

the past decade, having released ground-

breaking albums on prestigious record labels such

as Erased Tapes, Bella Union and Type records.

Peter Broderick is an American-born multi-

instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. In his later

teenage years he became entwined in the

Portland, Oregon indie folk scene, recording for

the likes of M. Ward, Laura Gibson, Horse

Feathers and Dolorean.

2007 saw him moving across the ocean to

Denmark, where he began a long collaboration

with the Danish band Efterklang, touring around

the world with them for the next five years (and

prominently featured on the recordings

Performing Parades (2009), Magic Chairs (2010)

and Piramida (2012).

Bella Union has announced the return of Peter,

who recently released a new EP entitled (Colours

of the Night) Satellite recorded mainly in

Lucerne, Switzerland alongside a new LP due in

spring 2015.

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woody woodmansey’s holy holyFestival Marquee | Friday 8 May | 8.00pmTickets £12 | www.cqaf.com

Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy Woody

Woodmansey’s Holy Holy play David Bowie songs

from the early 1970s. But they are NOT a tribute

band. For one thing, their drummer isn’t trying to be

the bloke off of the Spiders from Mars. He IS the

bloke off of the Spiders from Mars.

And each of Woody Woodmansey’s drum parts, from

the conspicuous double heartbeat motif which runs

through Five Years to the battering ram rhythms of

Cracked Actor, confirm this.

Everything comes watermarked with his

signature style. To watch Woody in action is to

understand that authenticity is everything.  He is

simply one of the world’s best..

The stellar line-up includes Generation X/The

Cult guitarist James Stevenson, Ian Hunter/Bob

Geldof band member Paul Cuddeford on bass,

rumer collaborator Malcolm Doherty on vocals

and Brian Eno/Ian Dury pianist rod Melvin.

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The Primitives + guest The SabrejetsRAOB (17 Church Street) | Friday 8 May | 8.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

The Primitives emerged from the independentscene of the mid-80s that spawned The Jesus andMary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and PrimalScream. Their sound distilled the shimmering guitarjangle of the Byrds, the buzzsaw style of Theramones and 60’s girl group melodies into two anda half minute pop gems. A widely acclaimed first album, Lovely, madethem the UK’s indie stars while the huge success ofthe single Crash saw them cross over to a massaudience. Further chart success followed, alongwith two more studio albums, Pure and Galore. The band were reunited in 2009 by theuntimely passing of their original bass player SteveDullaghan, reforming to play a show in his memory,their first show together for 17 years. In 2011 the Primitives released the Never Kill A

Secret EP through Fortuna Pop! The recordfeatured two brand new songs and two covers ofsemi obscure female fronted songs. The two coverswere a precursor to their latest album Echoes and

Rhymes, released on Elefant records in 2012.

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Divine Styler + Bahn DJs The Black Box | Friday 8 May | 9.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

The man they once called ‘the Jimi Hendrix of hip-hop’ has returned with what critics are loudlyproclaiming is his strongest work to date. Over a decade since his classic Directrix albumdropped on Mo Wax, Divine Styler now steps upwith his fourth studio album DefMask, adystopian/sci-fi concept album executed in thestyle of Blade runner. Delivering highly-charged, well-crafted, grittyelectronics with trademark lyrical intellect, andheavy synths that battle crushing snares layeredwith futuristic verse - it's a killer, but it's also acerebral breath of fresh air. For those unaware of the artist, Divine Styler firstentered the frame as a member of Ice T's rhymeSyndicate. He has worked with DJ Shadow, House

Of Pain, Quannum, and Daedalus, to name a few. DefMask was released on the U.K. label GammaProforma in December to rave reviews around theworld.

In association with Earagail Arts Festival,

Kinnegar Brewing & rathmullan House Hotel

The New Donegal TraditionSunflower Public House | Friday 8 May | 8.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

An evening of established and emerging artists

from Donegal featuring Martin McGinley, Ted

Ponsonby, Declan Mc Clafferty, Sarah E. Cullen &

Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde.

Distinctive and fiercely autonomous, the

Donegal Tradition has boasted some of the finest

fiddle players in Irish traditional music. Yet in recent

years the county has witnessed the explosion of a

new musical vernacular from the roots of Donegal’s

rich cultural seam.

Alongside a rising artisan movement in local

cuisine including the multi award-winning craft

brews of Kinnegar Brewing, The New Donegal

Tradition presents a spoken word and musical

celebration of established and emerging artists

from both the traditional and contemporary folk

scene of Ireland’s northernmost county.

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wilko Johnson + guests BillyBoy Miskimmin’sMercy LoungeFestival Marquee | Saturday 9 May | 8.00pmTickets £17.50 | www.cqaf.com

He told us he would come back to Belfast if he

ever got the chance and he’s as good as his word –

Ladies and Gentlemen, we bring you – Wilko

Johnson!

In a triumphant comeback tour from his battle

with cancer, the former Dr Feelgood guitar hero is

back out with vigour and a new zest for life,

pounding stages with his finger-style, chop-chord

strumming.

Following his critically acclaimed joint album

with The Who’s Roger Daltrey, Wilko is on searing

form playing tunes from an untouchable back

catalogue and tracks from the phenomenal Going

Back Home.

When Wilko duck-walks his way into the

Festival Marquee blasting out his own kind of

gutsy rhythm and Blues and rock & roll, it will be

unlike anything you have ever seen. We can

guarantee it.

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gaz CoombesThe Black Box | Saturday 9 May | 8.00pmTickets £15 | www.cqaf.com

Former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes bringshis visionary solo music to CQAF as he releases hisalbum Matador to ecstatic reviews. responsible forten Top 20 hits and six Top 20 albums, Supergrass’ IShould Coco was Parlophone’s fastest selling debutsince The Beatles’ Please Please Me. However, it’s the bumps and bruises he’s facedalong the way, including self-doubt, personal lossand drug-induced tour psychosis, that he examineson his new album Matador. The album’s radical musical backdrop was firsthinted at on his 2012 solo debut Here Come the

Bombs. The critically acclaimed album opened thenext chapter on a musical career that began at theage of 14, when Nude records signed his firstband, The Jennifers. May 2013’s strictly limited edition 12” single,One Of These Days / Break the Silence, acted as abridge between his debut and the more expansivefeel of his newer songs. Along with Buffalo, it wason repeat-play at BBC 6 Music.

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‘BY THE END, IT FEELS LIKE A JOURNEY

THROUGH ONE MAN’S RAWEST AND

REAL EMOTIONS... THAT LIKEABLE

SUPERGRASS SCAMP IS SHEDDING HIS

YOUTHFUL SKIN TO EMERGE AS A

SERIOUS AND FASCINATING ARTIST.’ –

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Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide)The John Hewitt | Sunday 10 May | 7.00pmTickets £10 | www.cqaf.com

Eef Barzelay is an Israeli born, New Jersey raised,Nashville based songwriter and singer best knownfor founding indie/alt -country band Clem Snide. Although much admired by some of music’sbiggest names, (Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, BenFolds), and praised by the likes of NPr, the OnionAV Club, and rolling Stone, Clem Snide managedto stay mostly below the radar. But their recordsand gigs are cherished by many. Around 2006 the band dissolved and Eefstumbled into film work with the Sundance hitRocket Science. He’s since scored several indiefilms, most recently William H Macy’s directorialdebut Rudderless. Over the last several years Clem Snide hasevolved primarily into Eef Barzelay performing hisspare lyrical based songs alone and quietly withwitty if not unsettling banter in between. The most recent Clem Snide record entitledGirls Come First is the culmination of this timespent in relative obscurity and domesticity (Hecurrently lives in Nashville with his wife and twokids). The 10 songs featured on it skew toward theintimate and tender and feature some of Eef’s mostpowerful songs to date.

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In association with The real Music Club

Mary gauthierFestival Marquee | Sunday 10 May | 3.00pmTickets £14 | www.cqaf.com

Adopted child, teen runaway, addict,

convict—instead of wearing her many pasts

on her sleeve, Mary Gauthier wears them

sewn into her songs like trophies from battles

mainly lost.

Spinning dark poetry into lyrics that are

three parts autobiography, two parts short

story, and five parts brutal candour, Gauthier

has rightfully taken her place alongside

America’s premier songwriters.

While the sentiments may be stark, they

are beautifully disrobed, and the musical

phrasing provides gentle relief. Listening to

Gauthier perform is like finding hidden gems

in a vintage clothing store.

We are delighted to welcome Mary back

to CQAF with Trouble & Love, one of the

wisest testaments of broken-heartedness an

Americana singer-songwriter has ever

committed to tape.

‘…her razor-sharp eye for detail and hercommitment to unsentimental self-reflection puts her in a class with greatssuch as Kris Kristofferson, John Prine andyes, Bob Dylan.’ – LOS ANGELES TIMES

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hCBThe hackney Colliery BandAether & Echo | Sunday 10 May | 8.00pmTickets £8 | www.cqaf.com

Formed in 2008 out of a desire to play music that appealed to the feet as

much as to the ears, The Hackney Colliery Band is east London’s unique

take on the brass band.

Featuring trumpets, trombones, saxes, sousaphone and marching

percussion, the band are totally acoustic and yet able to blow the roof off

any room.

Mining nuggets of funk, hip-hop and high-octane rock from the musical

coalface and throwing in a few chunks of Balkan brass, electronica and

contemporary jazz for good measure, The Hackney Colliery Band’s setlist

is as diverse as the London borough that gave them their name.

Whether playing to a global audience of hundreds of millions at the

Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics or to a few hundred in a

club, you can be certain of one thing: this is high-energy, good-time music

that’ll make you want to move your feet.

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Looking for JohnnyBlack Box Green Room | Sat 2 May | 3.00pmTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

When Johnny Thunders died in New Orleans onApril 23rd 1991, he left behind a mystery. For manyin the mainstream, Thunders was perceived as anenigmatic outlaw yet he was adored by a legion ofdevotees and cited as an influence by at least threesuccessive generations of musicians. Thundersrefused to play the corporate game and was bothelevated and damned for it. Looking for Johnny is the creation of DannyGarcia The rise & Fall of The Clash. He spent 18months filming interviews with fifty of the peoplewho were closest to Johnny, building a compellingnarrative drawn from first hand testimonies. The film examines Thunders’ career from theearly 70s as a founding member of the influentialNew York Dolls, the birth of the punk scene withThe Heartbreakers and later incarnations includingGang War and The Oddballs. Interviewees includeSylvain Sylvain, Lenny Kaye, Bob Gruen, TerryChimes, Alan Vega, Peter Perrett, BP Fallon andmany others. N

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Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban DecayBlack Box Green Room | Sunday 10 May | 3.00pmTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

The first film to trace the origins of industrial music, taking you on a journey throughthe crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America’s thriving avant-garde scene. Emerging in the mid 70s, Industrial music provided a vibrant, provocative andartistic soundtrack to the picket lines, economic decline and cultural oppression ofthe era. Industrial musicians found inspiration in Krautrock bands Kraftwerk, Faust andCan, 20th century art movements Dada, Futurism and Surrealism and post-modernwriters William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and J.G. Ballard. Combining the do-it-yourself attitude of punk with mail art and undergroundfanzines, these pioneers were also among the first bands to incorporate tape loops,homemade synthesisers, factory field recordings and cut-up techniques in theirmusic. Discover the personal story of industrial music founders Throbbing Gristle,Cabaret Voltaire, noise music inventor Boyd rice of NON and fifteen other of thegenre’s most influential figures, exposing their incredible stories for the first time onfilm.

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I NEED ADODgE!

CQAF and Belfast Film Festival present

I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the RunBlack Box Green Room | Tuesday 5 May | 8.00pmTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

The Clash frontman Joe Strummer was a leading

figure in the punk movement of the 1970s, and

arguably one of the most important and influential

figures in rock and roll history.

After the dissolution of the band in the 1980s,

the singer-songwriter travelled the world

searching for new musical influences. On a

Spanish radio show in 1997 Strummer mentioned

a classic Dodge that he somehow misplaced in

Madrid.

Through interviews with Strummer’s close

friends and members of 091, radio Futura and

The Clash, director Nick Hall investigates what

Strummer was doing in Spain at the time, and

what happened to his Dodge.

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CQAF and Belfast Film Festival present

Roar!BFF Beanbag Cinema | Wednesday 6 May | 8.00pmTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

No animals were harmed in the making of this movie.Seventy members of the cast and crew were! This isthe most terrifying film you will ever see and ahilariously absurd venture for all concerned. roar is a 1981 cinematic oddity starring TippiHedren and a young Melanie Griffith. Written,produced, directed, and starring Noel Marshall, whowas an executive producer on The Exorcist, 'roar' wasthe only time that Marshall was allowed to direct,possibly for the personal safety of the general public. roar was the most disaster-plagued picture inHollywood history and it took 11 years to make. NoCGI in this stupendous wrong-headed classic! !I

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A year in BurgundyDirect Wine Shipments, Corporation Square Thursday 7 May | 7.30pmTickets £10 (including a glass of wine fromBurgundy) | www.cqaf.com

We're very pleased to be hosting this acclaimed

wine documentary A Year In Burgundy with Direct

Wine Shipments voted Best UK Wine retailer in

2013. The film will be accompanied by a glass of

white or red Burgundy to enhance the experience!

Featuring French wine importer Martine Saunier

as your guide. A Year In Burgundy plays out

against a backdrop of spring showers, drought,

heat wave, harvest moons and the damp cold of

winter.

We get to know the Morey-Coffinets, featuring

three generations of wine-makers, and we also

meet the uncrowned Queen of Burgundy – now in

her eighties, but still involved in every detail of her

winemaking and creator of some of the best

renowned and most famous wines on earth.

VISUALARTSBEATS,

RhyMESLIFE

Second Chance Cinema present

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called QuestBlack Box Green Room | Friday 8 May | 6.00pmAdmission Free (No Booking Required)

Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most

innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time,

the Queens NY collective known as A Tribe Called

Quest have kept a generation hungry for more of

their groundbreaking music since their much

publicized breakup in 1998.

Actor/Director Michael rapaport documents

their inner workings and behind the scenes drama

that continues to follow the band to this day. He

explores what's next for, what many claim, are the

pioneers of alternative rap

Beats, Rhymes & Life (also the title of the

band’s 1996 record) balances brutal honesty with a

heartfelt devotion as it tracks A Tribe Called

Quest’s mid-1980’s formation in Queens; the

evolution of the group and its four members:

Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (better known as Q-Tip),

Malik Taylor (Phife Dawg), Ali Shaheed Muhammad

and Jarobi White; their close ties to fellow music

innovators like De La Soul and the band’s eventual

dissolution.

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Margaret harrisonwe are Them, They are UsGolden Thread Gallery | Until 15 MayTuesday to Friday | 10.30am to 5.30pmSaturday | 10.30am to 4.00pm

We are Them, They are us is Margaret Harrison’s

first solo exhibition in Ireland, Harrison is widely

regarded as one of the most important artists of

her generation and was awarded the prestigious

Northern Art Prize in 2013. This exhibition will

present seminal works created at various stages of

her career alongside more recent pieces.

Harrison has spent her career creating artwork

that addresses political and societal concerns. She

investigates these issues by examining events

such as the Greenham Common Women’s Peace

Camp and the colonisation of the Australian

landscape. In other works, Harrison questions

issues of gender inequality and the objectification

of women in popular culture. Hugh Hefner is

reimagined as a Bunny Boy, posing provocatively

in a corset, stockings and bunny ears. A man who

has made millions through the objectification of

women is, in turn, objectified.

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Lorem Ipsum:A Mixed Media Installation by Paul MooreArts and Disability Forum | 1 May – 19 June Tuesday to Friday | 11.00am to 3.00pm

Using sound, video and sculpture, Lorem Ipsum is

a new body of work concerned with the ambiguity

of information and the limits of language as a tool

of communication. The work considers identity

and the self, whilst addressing the artist’s personal

experience of dyslexia.

Paul Moore is based at Creative Exchange

Artist Studios Belfast. This will be his first solo

exhibition.

Launch: Thursday 30 April, 5 - 7pm

Artist’s Conversation: Thursday 7 May, Ipm

Book in advance for BSL or audio description.

leo@adf.ie | 028 9023 9450

For further information www.adf.ie

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Buzz Logan – Shankill and BeyondRed Barn Gallery | Until 30 MayTuesday to Saturday | 10am to 5pm

Working with the Linen Hall Library, the rBG

presents 55 images by the late Brian (Buzz) Logan.

Mostly known for his work from the Shankill

area in the 1970s and 80s, curator Frankie Quinn

(who was introduced to photography by Buzz in

1982) has been given access to his entire collection.

This representative selection covers Logan’s

time as a student at Queen’s in the late 1960s with

previously unseen images of the fledgling Peoples

Democracy and Civil rights Movement, his time in

Dublin where he worked for the Irish Independent

for 10 years, scenes from the Shankill, landscapes

and other images up to his untimely death in 1989.

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Image: Ministry of Transportation (2003) © Geert Goirisgggeert goiris ExhibitionBelfast Exposed | 1 May – 27 JuneTuesday to Saturday | 11am to 5pm

On Friday 1 May Belfast Exposed will launch a

major solo exhibition by Belgian artist Geert

Goiris.  Goiris photographs remote and

inhospitable places, which lie at the edges of

civilisation – polar regions, deserts, volcanic zones,

glaciers, caves, forests and mountains. He can be

seen as a contemporary explorer in search of new

landscapes and new ways of seeing.  

On 1 May we will also launch our new gallery

space dedicated to supporting emerging

artists. This new series opens with ‘Interferences’, a

solo exhibition by Alberto Maserin. 

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Stephen Shaw The John Hewitt | 3 May – 1 June

Stephen Shaw is an artist based in

Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. Since the

1980s Shaw has produced

watercolour paintings addressing

themes of urban decay and neglect,

mainly of marginalised and desolate

areas of Belfast.

An underlying theme is the effects

of nature and decay on the built fabric

of our city. How neglect, vandalism

and natural weathering has rendered

once pristine surfaces into multi

coloured and textured semi abstract

artworks in themselves.

Shaw has had had many

successful solo Exhibitions, most

notably in red Barn Gallery, Belfast, in

February 2012, where a 30+ year

retrospective of his work based in the

Shankill area of Belfast was received

with both critical acclaim and

commercial success. ‘His paintings have an undiluted acidic realism,

which tell a tale of the public authority neglect in

the face of overwhelming hardship.’

– BrENDAN O’NEILL, QUEEN STrEET STUDIOSgSS

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SPECIALEVENTS

Andrew glenn ExhibitionBlack Box Green Room | 30 April – 24 May

Andrew Glenn was born in Northern Ireland and

graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting from

the Norwich School of Art and Design in 2004.

Andrew has lived and worked in Luxembourg,

Slovakia, London, and the republic of Ireland, and

recently relocated to Northern Ireland taking up

permanent residence in Belfast, where he studied a

Masters in Fine Art at the University of Ulster,

graduating in 2014.

FiveArterial Routes & OneThousand Commercial Signs:Ruth Brolly and Forum ForAlternative BelfastPS², 18 Donegall Street | 30 April – 9 Maywww.pssquared.org

Commercial signage surrounds us in our city streets,

it lets us know about the types of goods sold in

shops and designates building and business

purpose.

They are indicators of commercial live as well as

social history and infrastructure. This project

examines signage and issues of urban planning on

five arterial routes of Belfast, the Antrim road, Falls

road, Lisburn road, Newtownards road and

Ormeau road.

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OBelfast Tease-O-RamaFestival Marquee | Sunday 3 May | 7.30pmTickets £12 | www.cqaf.com

This special festival edition of Tease-O-Rama is

brought to you by your hosts Soup DuJour and

Venus Dupree gleefully serving up an uber-

glamorous night of fun and frolics. Dazzling talent

from both near and far awaits with special guests

Eden Berlin and Vicky Butterfly, two of Europe’s

most exciting burlesque acts, and joining them is

the winner of Miss Burlesque Ireland 2014, Kat

Moiselle.

All set against the backdrop of the marquee,

the house band will welcome you and to finish off

Venus will lead you into the small hours spinning

the best disco in town!

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Night at the OrpheusUniversity of Ulster | Wednesday 6 May | 6.00pmAdmission Free (Booking Required) | www.cqaf.com

The Orpheus building at 12- 20 York Street began

life in 1932 as the head quarters of the Co-

Operative Society and since the 1980s has been the

home of the Belfast School of Art. This tour will lead

you through the building's most iconic spaces one

last time before it is closed to make way for the

expanded University of Ulster campus at the end of

June 2015. During the tour a series of live events

will take place throughout the building, opening up

the past lives of the Orpheus and those who have

inhabited it.

This event was developed in collaboration

between University of Ulster and CQAF and is free

event. Booking is essential as numbers are limited

to 20.

All for the Dead Man’s PennyWar Memorial Building | Sunday 10 May | 2.00pmTickets £4 | www.cqaf.com

A story by Liz Weir with music by Ciaran

Mulholland

Internationally-renowned storyteller Liz Weir

and fiddle player Ciaran Mulholland tell a tale that

links past and present, a tale of lost youth and

memories that span the generations.

A teenage girl explores her family history a

century after World War I. Whilst 200,000 Irish

soldiers fought in the war, this is the story of one

young Donegal man who responded to the call to

arms.

Like the youthful warrior Oisín, he left a world

which would be totally transformed during his

absence.

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Open Source at The Big TableLower Garfield Street | May 8 – 10 | 12pm - 7pm

The Open Source is a performance space, music

venue and workshop hub, bringing life back into

empty space in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter during

the festival.

This year Open Source moves outdoors, to a

purpose-built banquet table on Lower Garfield

Street. The Big Table will host a weekend of activity

focused on the theme of, ‘The Love Economy –

Cooperative Alternatives to Free Market

Economics.”

Launch event: Thursday 7 May, 7pm-8pm

Aether and Echo at the Big Table: 8 – 10 May

7pm until late.

VE Day 70 years onNorthern Ireland War Museum | Saturday 9 May10.30am – 4pmAdmission Free (No Booking Required)

VE Day, celebrated on 8th May 1945, officially

announced the end of WW2 in Europe.

On Saturday 9 May, The Northern Ireland War

Museum hosts a family event marking the 70th

Anniversary of VE Day.

You will have a chance to play games, sing

tunes from the 1940s, and sample rationed treats

from the era creating an opportunity for those who

celebrated VE Day in 1945 to reminisce about the

festivities.

A VE Day exhibition of previously unseen

scrapbook material and film footage will be on

display 30 April – 10 May

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Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping ChoirBlack Box Green Room | Sunday 3 May |7.00pmTickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

‘I Know You’re on the Street right Now!’

New York City based Reverend Billy & The Stop

Shopping Choir are a post religious, anti-

consumerist church. They hold ‘services’ wherever

they can, in... concert halls, theatres, churches,

community centres, forests, fields, parking lots

and perhaps most importantly, inside stores, as

close to the cash register as they can get, within

spitting distance of the point of purchase.

The choir are planet criers, gospel shouters,

and punk disruptors. This post religious church

service pursues the mysterious catalyst that ignites

collective knowledge into collective will.

‘It's an act. It's an art. It's almost a religion.’ –

NEW YOrK TIMES

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Artist in Residence Ciaran LaveryThe Belfast Barge | Friday 8 May | 8.00pm Tickets £6 | www.cqaf.com

Ciaran Lavery sings from the heart, his songs sing

of Shame, Love, Loss and redemption. Like all

great songwriters his lyrics contain the universal

truths that are the essence of the craft.

The songs are certainly striking a chord with

over 12 million plays on Spotify and growing it’s a

testament to the strength of the material that it has

organically spread this  far with little or no

promotion.

Ciaran was recently named one of Zane Lowe’s

Next Hype Artists, has been playlisted on XFM and

Amazing radio. Tonight he appears in a very

special one off show on the barge accompanied by

three string players, not to be missed.

Ciaran shall also play various support slots

throughout the festival.

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foolsfestival.com

Monday 4 May

We’ve got 120 comedy street theatre shows for free

#foolsfest

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Check out the line-up and fantastic food deals at:

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Monday 4 May

We’ve got 120 comedy

to do during the day?Stuck for something

Check out the line-up and fantastic food deals at:

Cathedral Quarter & City Centre

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Reassembled, Slightly Askew2.00pm, 4.30pmThe Mac (The Works) p20

Camille O’Sullivan7.30pmSt Anne’s Cathedral p38Ulrich Shnauss

8.00pmThe Belfast Barge p41

David O’Doherty8.00pm Festival Marquee p12Little Barrie8.00pmThe Black Box p40

Sarah McQuaid

Sunflower Public House p42

Friday May 1Reassembled, Slightly Askew2.00pm, 4.30pm

The Mac (The Works) p20

Ambient Forces8.00pmThe Dark Horse p46Josh Rouse 8.00pmThe Black Box p45

The Stranglers8.00pm

Festival Marquee p44Jarosz, Watkins, O’Donovan8.00pmSt George’s Church p43

The Dutiful Wife8.30pmThe Mac (The Factory) p32

Saturday May 2Reassembled, Slightly Askew2.00pm, 4.30pmThe Mac (The Works) p20

Cait O’Riordan2.00pmThe Black Box p47

Thursday April 30

9.00pm

8.00pmThe Dark Horse p24

Tuesday May 5Lords of Strut1.00pmThe Black Box p34

I Need a Dodge (Joe Strummer)7.30pmThe Green Room p80Bassekou Kouyate8.00pmFestival Marquee p56

The Lost Brothers8.00pmThe Black Box p57

My English Tongue, My Irish..8.00pmWaterfront Studio p25

Shot Glass8.00pmThe Dark Horse p24

Wednesday May 6Martin Rowson1.00pmThe Black Box p6

Night at the Orpheus6.00pm

Sunday May 3

Reassembled, Slightly Askew2.00pm, 4.30pmThe Mac (The Works) p20

Val McDermid2.00pmThe Black Box p4

Kiss of the Chicken King3.00pmThe Black Box p23The Dutiful Wife3.00pm, 6.00pmThe Mac (The Factory) p32

Paul Durcan5.00pmThe Black Box p5

The Rev. Billy7.00pmThe Green Room p97

Looking for Johnny 4.00pmBlack Box (Green Room) p78Martin Mor8.00pm The Dark Horse p13

Down and Out in Paris & London8.00pm101 The Redeemer p22

The Charlatans8.00pmFestival Marquee p48

Join Me in the Pines8.30pmOh Yeah Centre p51

The Dutiful Wife8.30pmThe Mac (The Factory) p32

Jon1st9.00pmThe Belfast Barge p52

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7.30pmThe Festival Marquee p94

David Lyttle8.00pmAether and Echo p53

Lucy Porter8.00pmThe Black Box p14

Monday May 4

Martin Mor12.00 noonThe Black Box p33

Reassembled, Slightly Askew2.00pm, 4.30pmThe Mac (The Works) p20Kitty in the Lane8.00pmThe Green Room p21

The Staves8.00pmFestival Marquee p55The Kate Bush Project8.00pmThe Black Box p54

Bec Hill8.00pmMcHughs p15

Tease O Rama

Shot Glass

Starman7.30pmCircus School pg35

Andrew Maxwell8.00pmFestival Marquee p17

Luka Bloom8.00pmThe Black Box p58

The Once

8.00pmMcHughs p57

My English Tongue, My Irish...8.00pmWaterfront Studio p25

Brooks Williams8.00pmThe John Hewitt p59

Roar!8.00pm

BFF Beanbag Cinema pg81 Thursday May 7My English Tongue, My Irish...8.00pmWaterfront Studio p25

A Year in Burgundy7.30pmDirect Wine Shipments p82

Lucy Rose8.00pmFestival Marquee p62

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8.00pmRAOB p66

Lanciatore8.00pmBelfast Circus School p26

Quentin Crisp8.00pm101 The Redeemer p28

The Donegal Tradition8.00pmSunflower Public House p70

My English Tongue, My Irish...8.00pmWaterfront Studio p25

Divine Styler9.00pmThe Black Box p69

Saturday May 9Open Source12 – 7pmLower Garfield St. pg 96

Classic Saturday Morning TV10.00amThe Beanbag Cinema p36

VE Day (70th Anniversary)10.30 – 4.00pm

NI War Memorial Building p96

The Secret City5.00pm, 7.00pm, 9.00pmBridge Skatepark p30

The Other Half2.00pmThe Black Box p7

My English Tongue, My Irish...8.00pmWaterfront Studio p25

Paul Muldoon8.00pm

8.00pmBlack Box p60

Mojo Mickeybo8.00pm101 The Redeemer p27

Peter Broderick8.00mMcHughs p64

Le Galaxie

8.00pmAether & Echo p61

Lanciatore8.00pmBelfast Circus School p26

Friday May 8Open Source

12 – 7pmLower Garfield St. pg 96

Beats, Rhymes and....6.00pmThe Green Room p84

Woody Woodmansey8.00pmFestival Marquee p65

University of Ulster p95

The Primitives

Melt Yourself Down