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Pete Doherty

A rapper support act, multiple stage invasions, dancing ballerinas – business as usual for Pete Doherty

This Is Radio Ash

Tim Wheeler gets to play all his favourite tunes, from The Ramones to Teenage Fanclub

Axis Of

Andrew Johnston talks to the eco-friendly punks from the north coast. Click Play Audio to listen to single 'Brobdingnagian'

Fight like Apes

One of the bands of 2009 look back on a year to remember

Falling and Laughing with Edwyn Collins

Before his Belfast performance, meet the man who invented indie music

That Petrol Emotion

'Criminally under-rated' 1980s band returns, and Joe Nawaz loves every minute of it

And So I Watch You From Afar

Instrumental rockers talk music, serendipity and what's in a name ahead of Christmas gig at the Ulster Hall. Click Play Audio to listen to their track 'Set Guitars to Kill'

Horslips

Celtic rockers reel in the years in style

The Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival

Click Play Audio for a podcast with festival director Colin Magee and music from Iain Archer

Tim Wheeler Donates his Golden Guitar

Ash frontman presents iconic Flying V to the Belfast Music exhibition

NvTv Presents: The Answer

Ahead of their December 14 gig at the Ulster Hall, we dip into the NvTv archive for a singalong and a chat with the County Down rockers

Ash: The A-Z Series

‘We’re seeing kids turning up at our shows because their parents are fans. That’s when it hits me how long we’ve been going.’

The Specials

James Meredith skanks back the years at St George's Market

The Dangerfields

Belfast rockers still going after 41 members, countless bust ups and plenty of JD. Click Play Audio to listen to 'Gimme Gimme Rock 'n' Roll'

21st Century Troubadour

Musician Andy White on drinking with Johnny Depp, revisiting Belfast and turning an online diary into a book - just don't call it a memoir

Wild Beasts

Joe Nawaz finds his gig of the year 'a mesmerising performance from a band who should and will be huge'

RISING STARS: Farriers

Singer and songwriter Stephen McCartney on the band's sound and why writing is a democratic process. Click Play Audio to listen to two Farriers tracks

Bandwidth Presents: Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Calgary's finest join Mississippian William Elliott Whitmore for a special performance from this year's Open House Festival

Lemmy At 'Em

Motörhead frontman on entering the US charts and why rockin' for a half-century is a little too ambitious

Cosi Fan Tutte

Graeme Stewart witnesses a masterclass in Mozart's libretto

Fascinating Aida

Belfast falls head over heels for three dirty old ladies

Warsaw Village Band

The Polish folk punk-funk ambassadors impress Joe Nawaz in a Spiegeltent performace

Bollywood Club Night

Bollywood comes to Belfast in an evening of all things eastern

RISING STAR: Eilidh Patterson

Derry folkstress on her faith, working with the same soundman as U2 and the importance of an online presence

Buzzcocks

Pop punk legend Pete Shelley on Buzzcocks, Malcolm McLaren and falling in love with the Velvet Underground

The Cribs

Johnny Marr joins the Jarman brothers for another stab at the big time

Belfast Festival: Camille O'Sullivan

The cabaret star on designing Notre Dame, interpreting Tom Waits and dreaming of a hole in the ground

DReam

Garbhan Downey fights off the hens to witness a triumphant homecoming gig

Tristan Loraine

The pilot-turned-filmmaker on making movies without a budget, his Armagh childhood, and getting John Rhys-Davies to shave off his beard. Catch the trailer for 32 North 62 East below

CLASSICAL REVEW: the Ulster Orchestra Opening Concert

Graeme Stewart discovers an orchestra in fine fettle at the start of the 2009/10 season

D:Ream

Preparing to headline the City of Song Festival in Derry, frontman Peter Cunnah talks candidly of the dark days and the light

Silver Apples

How did you like them Apples?

NORTHERN LIGHTS: Van Morrison

Garbhan Downey doesn’t believe Van Morrison needs to explain himself in his new film

Bandwidth Presents: Lisa Hannigan

Mercury prize-nominated chanteuse sings a few ditties for Bandwidth Films

Aeroplane, Henrik Schwarz

The Belgians bring Belfast's damp summer to an electrifying end

Belfast Festival: Tinariwen

Stuart Bailie on the Saharan blues band headed for the Belfast Festival

Live at the Castle

Status Quo, Jools Holland and more rock Carrickfergus

Northern Lights: Horslips

Garbhan Downey on the Irish folk rock group who made the Gaelic language, legends and love affairs cool

Cutaways

Cutaways stand out against a jazz-rock backdrop

Northern Lights: Nadine Coyle

Garbhan Downey says the Derry singer’s plan to launch a solo career could be the smartest move she’s ever made

Million Dollar Reload

The 'meat and potatoes' metal band diss AU magazine, cosy up to Guns 'n' Roses and make a pilgrimage to metal Mecca Castle Donington

The Really Rubbish Orchestra

Music-makers encourage industries to clean up their act

Moon Unit

Belfast-Berlin electro outfit extend a warm welcome to one and all

Ulster Youth Choir

The Ulster Youth Choir's 10th Anniversary Concert proves that the group is a force to be reckoned with

Shooting Nashville's Musical Heroes

Travelling from Belfast to Nashville, guitarist Ken Haddock lifts a camera to document the vibrancy and warmth of the American city

AU PRESENTS: The Answer Diary

On the road with the County Down stadium rockers

The Luchagors

Ex-WWE wrestler turned band leader struggles to win them over in Auntie Annie's

Workshop with Top Jazz Musicians

Develop jazz skills at the University of Ulster

My Cultural Life: Paddy Glasgow

Everyone's favourite festival promoter on Deep Purple, Bob Dylan and the trials and tribulations of organising Glasgowbury. Photo copyright Phil O'Kane (philokanephotgraphy.com)