Entertainment

Gig guide: Live music for the week ahead

Dana Masters plays The Mandela Hall in Belfast tonight
Dana Masters plays The Mandela Hall in Belfast tonight

Today

Glen Hansard – The Ulster Hall, Belfast

Dana Masters – Mandela Hall, QUBSU, Belfast

Surf Green, Sit Tight, Kavalier etc – Voodoo, Belfast

Oli Howe, Dave Redmond, Darren Beckett – No Alibis, Belfast

Bosco Ramos, Junk Drawer, Slouch – Sandinos, Derry

Saturday December 16

And So I Watch You From Afar, Touts, Catalan etc – Telegraph Building, Belfast.

The Defects, The Gakk, Fubar – Oh Yeah, Belfast

John Gibbons – Mandela Hall, QUBSU, Belfast

Waking Android, Darren Doherty & The Heathen Choir, Sonja Sleator etc – A Party Across The Road, The Bear & Doll, Belfast

Cara Dillon – Millennium Forum, Derry

The Answer – Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill

Sunday December 17

Cara Dillon – The Ulster Hall, Belfast

CKY, Raging Speedhorn, Black Chapels etc – The Limelight, Belfast

Tuesday December 19

Katharine Philippa – Naughton Gallery, Belfast

Wednesday December 20

Imelda May, Mick Flannery – Waterfront Hall, Belfast

Declan O’Rourke – Glassworks, Derry

Touts, Alder, Judas Wolves – Top of The Town, Omagh

Thursday December 21

Gascan Ruckus, Via:Barvikha, Wasps etc – The Empire, Belfast

Friday December 22

Thrillhouse, Unbelievable Lake, Blackguard etc – The Underground, Draperstown

Saturday December 23

Touts, Mosmo Strange, SLT – Nerve Centre, Derry

Wednesday December 27

The Nameless, Bam Bam and The Calling, Fremonte etc – The Gweedore, Derry

Friday December 29

Ryan Vail, Joshua Burnside – The MAC, Belfast

The Emerald Armada, Nathan O'Regan, Orchid Collective etc – The Empire, Belfast

Bry – Elmwood Hall, Belfast

Cherym, RadioFreePalestine, Gorilla Warfare – The Nerve Centre

Derry

Slow Place Like Home, Foreign Owl, Stephen McCauley – Bennigan's, Derry

Saturday December 30

The Bonnevilles, The Crossfire Hurricanes, The Groundlings etc –

The Speakeasy, QUBSU, Belfast

Sunday December 31

NI Soul Troop – The Empire, Belfast

Tuesday January 2

Electric Octopus – The Menagerie, Belfast

Thursday January 4

Sharon Shannon – Market Place Theatre, Armagh

Friday January 5

Ibibio Sound Machine – The Black Box, Belfast

Saturday January 6

The 4 of Us – The Black Box, Belfast, 2pm

DJ Yoda – Stranger Things Mixtape, The Black Box, Belfast

Monday January 8

Unyielding Love, No Great Loss, Nolan – The Menagerie, Belfast