As you may have heard from our shiny new PastieCast, the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival began yesterday and is running all the way through to the 11th May! Have a look at all the wonderful things that are happening around Belfast here. This week’s Pick of The Week is a few suggestions of things that we’re pretty excited to see.

photo of Rubberbandits – Continental Fistfight

RUBBERBANDITS – CONTINENTAL FISTFIGHT

COMEDY – 4 May, 5 May at 2 locations

The Black Box
Sunday 4 May, 7.00pm
The MAC
Monday 5 May, 7.45pm
Tickets: £10.00

Direct from Limerick!  The plastic-bag wearing music/comedy duo bring their BRAND NEW MUSICAL straight from its critically-acclaimed, sold-out London season.  Continental Fistfight is packed with dazzling new songs, great big hits and at least one puppet. Rubberbandits are ribbed for your pleasure. Fully seated. Show starts 7.30pm. Running time 70 mins.

Check out a Rubberbandits tune here to let yourself know what you’ll be in for.

photo of KEVIN MCALEER -  AS GAEILGE (IN IRISH)

KEVIN MCALEER – AS GAEILGE (IN IRISH)

COMEDY – 9 May at The Dark Horse

The Dark Horse
Friday 9 May, 8.00pm
Tickets £7

Since getting his big break on RTE’s Nighthawks, Kevin McAleer has been telling hilariously deadpan rustic yarns for over a quarter of a century. His sublime wit, slow County Tyrone drawl and forays into paranoiac delusion have left audiences the length and breadth of Ireland with sore diaphragms and possibly a renewed appreciation of the terrible truth – that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you. Kevin presented a TV series about Ulster Scots for RTÉ, Our Friends in the North, earlier this year, and was inspired by the experience to go back to learn Irish. He has been attending Irish classes in Omagh, and will perform a stand up set entirely in Irish at the The Dark Horse in this very special festival show.

Check out our review of Kevin McAleer as part of the Out To Lunch Festival here.

photo of Ponydance present PONIES DON’T PLAY FOOTBALL

PONYDANCE PRESENT PONIES DON’T PLAY FOOTBALL

8 May, 9 May, 10 May at the MAC

Ponies Don’t Play Football
Upstairs at the MAC
8, 9,10 May, 9.00pm
Tickets £12 – £17

The ponies trot back to the MAC with Ponies Don’t Play Football. Ponydance have established a strong and dedicated following at the MAC (their little ponies, if you will) who enjoy their witty, irreverent and amazingly choreographed shows. Featuring live original music, a little genius, some tasteful nudity and lots and lots of dancing. Get in quick before it sells out.

Tickets available directly from the MAC

We love love love ponydance so we’ve already seen this one, you can check out our review of a ponydance show here.

Laura Caldwell

Author: Laura Caldwell

Hi, I'm Laura. I'm 30 years old and have a degree in Journalism with Photo-Imaging at the University of Ulster. I have an undying love for Belfast and all that it has to offer, an undying love for sleeping, Tegan and Sara, trashy tv shows, foreign snack-foods and being irresponsible with money. I also quite like origami, reading, jazz, hip-hop, dubstep, anything acoustic and Food Network TV. I've written for The Big List, Culture NI, Chatterbox and The Echo, as well as writing for BBC Across the Line.

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