{"id":632,"date":"2009-12-03T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2009-12-13T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T10:02:16","slug":"north-west-bands-come-together-for-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/12\/north-west-bands-come-together-for-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"North West bands come together for HURT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"King<\/a>
King Coma, winners of BT Sounds Like Summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King Coma (Strabane), Pavesi from Donegal and celebrated Strabane musician Gavin Kelly and his new band Catalsyt will be performing at Strabane\u2019s Alley Theatre on December 30th<\/sup>, offering a final chance to hear some great local bands before 2010 and raise much needed funds for the North West charity, HURT.<\/p>\n

Winners of BT Sounds Like Summer 09, King Coma have been busy since their summertime success writing new tracks, shooting a \u00a0music video and speanding time recording their new tracks. The band are really looking forward to returning to the Alley, the place of their bands night triumph to the delight fo the Strabane audience. Joining King Coma will be Donegal\u2019s finest band, Pavesi. The group is made up of \u2018Duck\u2019 Gallagher on vocals, Ronan Hanna on guitar, Michael Gillespie on bass and Mark Hanna, drums and are also previous winners of Sounds Like Summer on 2008. The band have recently topped the charts of ukundiscovered.com for the last three weeks with their hit song, \u201cTurnaround Year\u201d and are now back in the studio recording three more tracks before the Christmas break.<\/p>\n

\"Catalyst<\/a>
Catalyst from Strabane starring Gavin Kelly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Catalyst is a new band formed by Gavin Kelly from Strabane and is being hailed as the next big thing on the local music scene. Starring Anne Marie Devine, Steve McElroy, Siobhan McCafferty and Ritchie McCosker, the band have been heavily influenced by Bruce Springsteen’s Seeger Sessions tour and other great acts including The Waterboys, Dave Matthews Band and Josh Ritter. Blending elements of Irish traditional music, Irish\/American folk music and even a little bluegrass, this new outfit hope to bring something a little different to the local music scene. They’re currently working on original material and putting their own spin on some great covers, producing sounds which they hope will appeal to music enthusiasts from all walks of life.<\/p>\n

\"Pavesi\u2019s<\/a>
Pavesi\u2019s Duck Gallagher and Michael Gillespie from Pavesi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe night is intended to be a great get together for people over the Christmas period\u201d commented Andrew Orr from the Alley \u201cGreat bands, the superb surroundings of the Alley bar and a chance to meet up with friends over the Christmas break. Tickets are only \u00a35, with profits from the night will be going towards HURT, a great North West charity helping reduce incidents of suicides in our community. So book now on 028 7138 4444 or online at www.alley-theatre.com<\/a> and enjoy a night out with friends at the Alley.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Coma (Strabane), Pavesi from Donegal and celebrated Strabane musician Gavin Kelly and his new band Catalsyt will be performing at Strabane\u2019s Alley Theatre on December 30th, offering a final chance to hear some great local bands before 2010 and raise much needed funds for the North West charity, HURT. Winners of BT Sounds Like … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[47,73,72,74,5,70,69,75,38,71,10,6,9,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}