5. Havna’che
The Black Box
Saturday 23rd January, 9pm
Havana ‘Che is back! Celebrating 20 years of this groundbreaking salsa band, band leader Conor Guilfoyle brings his high octane 9 piece to Out to Lunch to re-introduce the sense of the salsa grooves to the masses.
After an extended hiatus, Havana ‘Che once again brings together Ireland’s leading exponents of the authentic Cuban sound, from timba and salsa to rumba and guaguanco.
The lineup includes musicians from Ireland, Venezuela, Japan, France, Czech Republic, Ukraine and of course Cuba creating pure unadulterated party music. Music for dancing. Music for grooving. Bring your dancing shoes or just soak up the salsa vibe. This one is going to be big!
Tickets £12 |Doors 9.00pm | Standing
6. My Name is Saoirse
The Black Box
Tuesday 26th January, 1pm
1987: Johnny Logan has just won the Eurovision, mobile phones are about to be invented, and in Limerick, Saoirse O’Brien is sick of her best friend calling her a frigid.
Soon after agreeing to a night of drinking with the lads in Wilson’s Pub, she discovers her pregnancy, and is forced to set out on a journey that leads her miles away from home, and the carefree adolescence she knew.
Tickets £6.50 (including lunch) or £7 at the door|Doors 12.45pm | Unreserved Seating
7. Metamorphosis
The Black Box Green Room
Wednesday 27th January, 1pm
100 years ago, Franz Kafka published the only significant work made available in his lifetime – indeed, the closest thing he would write to an autobiography – The Metamorphosis.
In the surreal short story, Mr. Samsa, the commercial traveller, becomes a strange creature at night, whilst, elsewhere in Prague, Mr. Kafka, the strange author, becomes an insurance clerk by day.
‘Late one morning, as Gregor Samsa awoke from unsettling dreams, he discovered himself, in his own bed, changed into a gigantic insect.’
In a new translation by writer Reggie Chamberlain-King, The Metamorphosis becomes an ensemble piece for guitars, violins, readers, and drone machines.
Following the success of his critically-acclaimed adaptation of The Third Policeman with Stephen Rea, the music is composed by Colin Reid, with visuals by comic artist, Debbie McCormack. It is funny, touching, and hypnotic reconciliation between the writer and his story.
Tickets £6.50 (including lunch) or £7 at the door | Doors 12:45pm | Unreserved Seating
8. Girls Names – Sounds Around a Vision
The Dockers Club (Pilot Street)
Friday 29th January, 8pm
Girls Names came together as two-piece back in the summer of 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they’ve grown in number and ambition.
Their last album, The New Life, was an unexpected underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes.
On Arms Around a Vision, they’re more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers.
Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance – Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany’s Zero Group and both Neubaten and Bowie’s Berlin
Tickets £10 |Doors 8.00pm | Standing
9. A Wine Goose Chase
The Black Box
Friday 29th January, 1pm
Susan Boyle loves wine. What’s more she knows what she’s drinking and talking about. She’s got 2,000 years of Irish wine history to back her up!
So, sit back, let her pour you a glass while she takes you on a trip with the tenacious Irish people who transformed the wine world and didn’t let coming from a grape-free land stop them
This hour-long one woman theatrical performance fuses interactive wine tasting with storytelling in a warm intimate setting.
Audience members will have the opportunity to put their senses to use and hopefully leave with a new insight to a drink that has been part of Ireland’s history for much longer than we might think.
Tickets £10 (includes lunch and wine tasting)|Doors 12:45pm | Unreserved Seating
10. How to Butcher a Lamb – A Faculty Lecture
The Black Box Green Room
Sunday 31st January, 3pm
A Faculty Lecture with Belfast Food Tours especially for Out to Lunch, we’ve asked Lisburn Road butcher and local legend Michael McCormick to take us step by step, nose to tail, through an entire lamb.
Michael will take us through the animal, not just showing us how it’s broken down but where certain cuts come from, how best to use them and where you can get best value.
Safe to say this lecture isn’t for everyone but if you like your meat and prefer to know where it comes from and not just buy it wrapped in cling film in the supermarket then this is the lecture for you.
Tickets £6| Doors 2.45pm
