Sounds of Belfast: Linley Hamilton with the Scott Flanigan Trio
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Weird… nothing in the post appeared! Here it is…
On 24 September – the day before all live music (or recorded music [!?!]) in licensed premises in Northern Ireland was banned, the second of the now almost mythical shows at Scott’s Jazz Club, held at Ballyhackamore Working Men’s Club, took place. The featured guest with the Scott Flanigan Trio that night was that colossus of Irish jazz and all-round good guy Linley Hamilton.
Before the show, the Oh Yeah centre (a music resource place in Belfast) commissioned a filmed performance of two numbers (which debuted online yesterday) for its ‘Sound of Belfast’ series, documenting artists doing their thing in a range of largely empty/inactive venues. Either an SOS to the powers that be or the dance band on the Titanic playing on as the ship goes down…
The appositely titled ‘Throw it Away’ and the cryptic ‘April Mist’ (May, June, July, August, September etc. were also missed by once-performing musicians…) were filmed for the series by the fabulous Cormac O’Kane – wizard of sound and vision.
This is the first professional film/audio from Scott’s Jazz Club’s to emerge. Cormac filmed both gigs proper and excerpts from these will appear online, with specially filmed introductions by Scott Flanigan in person, in due course. 🙂
Excellent.
A very posh-looking jazz club you have there. Hope it reopens before too long.
I’ve been enjoying Linley’s BBC Radio Ulster shows. Some interesting music by artists I was previously unaware of.
Thanks Mike – Cormac and Karen did a lot to dress the room, and create the lighting and back projections, etc. Hopefully, we’ll get a chance to run more shows before too long – though realistically, I suspect it will be January at the earliest, and probably later. There seems to be an obsession at levels of rule-making with the assumption that alcohol + music = mingling/leaping around. There is currently a debate in the NI Executive about whether to allow restaurants/cafes that serve alcohol to open (and if so, with no-alcohol-sales restriction on them) on Friday, when the current NI restrictions on restaurants/cafes/barbers etc. are lifted. Restaurateurs are saying there’s almost no point, then – they’re better off closed, keeping people on furlough.