I won’t lie, this one got away from me. The newsletter is always in the back of my mind throughout the month and I think I speak for everyone when I ask: “how the fuck are we halfway through September already”? I incorrectly assumed I had ample time to pull together the prestigious Cool Gig Guide for the most depressing month of the year but, alas, here we are. Perhaps it’s a result of years of mental anguish coming to terms with the end of the summer holidays as a schoolboy; to be quite frank this article has a distinct ‘back to school’ flavour to it and for that I’m sorry. It’s like the time I pretended to read Dracula for my GCSE English Lit’ class and scraped by in the coursework after staying up all night wondering if there weren’t more exciting ways to decode undertones of good versus evil or of lust and romantic love. Not really. And to put the exclamation point on that idea I find myself spending my September nights in 2024 reading a Shakespeare critique for fun. Life has a certain way of making a dick out of you.
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Only one song for it this month. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Alex Chilton.
Cool Gig Guide: September 2024
Friday 20th September
Slow Healer, BRONCOS and Forty Foot at the Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast. Tickets
Saturday 21st September
VERA, The Thing Is… and Blue Deputy at The Union Bar, Belfast. Tickets
Paranoid with Snake Neighbourhood and Jet Black Tulips at the Oh Yeah Centre, Belfast. Tickets
The Bonnevilles at The Diamond Rock Club, Ahoghill. Tickets
Thursday 26th September
LEVELS 1st Birthday | Scarlet Cavaliers, Susi Pagel, Banshee, The Thing Is… at Mandela Hall, Belfast. Tickets
NIMHAF | Open Decks Night at The Black Box Belfast. Free
Under The Drum Festival | Joshua Burnside, Arborist, Brand New Friend, Junk Drawer, ROE, and Blue Whale in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Tickets
As always, thank you for reading Mull It Over. There may be a break between this and the next edition just to record the radio show which will be coming to you from Belfast Built in the next couple of weeks. Barring some spark of inspiration, that is.
