Tag: The Boat Sank
7.5 Tonnes Of Beard/The Boat Sank/New Mud – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 November 2024
Gigs by tonight’s headliners are rarer than some of the rarest things you can imagine: you’re more likely to get the Pope and the Dalai Lama simultaneously knocking on your door than find this heavyweight combo’s name on an “upcoming shows” list at your local venue, and it would probably take the combined skills of Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Howard Carter to uncover the last time such an event occurred (it was 15 months ago on this very stage, to save them the exploration!). So, needless to say, their rare forays into the live domain are pretty much “must be there” occasions, and therefore work rotas were re-arranged to enable an almost equally rare venture by myself into the dark back streets of Belfast and up the stairs to my favourite venue for this, their only show this year…
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Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses NI Grand Final – Belfast, Voodoo – 10 May 2024
It could be argued that, despite what had gone down the previous evening in a field just a mile or so south of tonight’s venue, this was the most important gig of the year to date on the Belfast music scene. Yes, “The Boss” may have enjoyed one of his farewell flings just 24 hours previously, but tonight was about six of this city’s finest proponents of the art vying for the honour of, well, playing a field, albeit in the heart of south Derbyshire, as the first contestants to draw blood (sic) in the final rounds of this year’s Metal 2 The Masses took to the stage for a fiercely fought competition in which there could be only one winner but ultimately no losers…
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The Über Rock Singles Club Daily Pick – The Boat Sank
Today’s choice was a complete and utter no-brainer. It’s the absolutely titanic (sic) new offering from the equally huge sounding The Boat Sank. The band’s name is a reference to their native Belfast’s most (in)famous and notorious – and, it has to be said, crassly exploited – export and its fate. Yes, there was a boat, and it sank… as the band say on their rather cool line of merch: “get the fuck over it”.
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Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses NI Grand Final – Voodoo, Belfast – 12 May 2023
It’s been a really strange year so far, one in which Monk sometimes feels like he had his right arm cut off, as something extremely important and close to him had been missing for the past four months. Yes, it’s been the annual Metal 2 The Masses competition, in which the bossman has been very proud to serve as a judge for its first eight years… but, in 2023’s ninth iteration of the Über Kingdom’s premier battle of the bands contest, Monk had to take the very difficult decision to step down from my equally difficult role. Having said that, there was absolutely no fucking way, unless the planet imploded upon itself, he was going miss the grand finale, the ultimate fight to the death for that extremely precious slot at this summer’s bolshier-than-ever Bloodstock festival \m/
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