Stuart Bailie

Book Launch: The Song is Nearly Over: Music Stories 1985-2025 By Stuart Bailie, In Conversation with Tim Wheeler (Ash) — Sound Of Belfast Festival Stuart Bailie has rolled with Tom Waits and Shane MacGowan. He has encountered Nina Simone, Björk, Sinéad O’Connor and Dave Grohl. He’s an NME veteran, a music journalist and author from Belfast. This...

Books launch in Belfast, Nov 6. soundofbelfast.com/events/stuar...

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Bandcamp sales: stuartbailie.bandcamp.com

Book has landed! Out Nov. 6. Online sales links in comments.

The Song is Nearly Over: Music Stories 1985-2025 at The Deers Head Stuart Ballie's collection of stories and articles. 40 years of insights and shenanigans, a record of fast times in popular culture.

Book launch is Nov 6 in Belfast.
Ticket link: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bel...

Stephen McCauley - Book Week NI: Stuart Bailie - BBC Sounds Celebrating Book Week NI with Stuart Bailie.

Thanks to Stephen McCauley for involving me in his Book Week NI special. I had an extended blether about my time at NME, about the Manics, Morrissey, RÓIS, Oasis & the tremendous impact of the weekly music press. The whole show is valuable. My part begins around 1.11.
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Mandela Hall, Belfast, 24.10.25.
Tickets: www.ticketmaster.ie/huartan-belf...

Huartan, tomorrow night. Nothing else like it. Bígí linn ✊

Music journalist Stuart Bailie launches new memoir book The Song is Nearly Over | Nialler9 Stuart Bailie who is known for time at the NME and has had an illustrious career in music (see below), will release a music memoir The Song Is Nearly Over:

Thanks everyone for the brilliant support. Cheers for this one, Nialler. Kickstarter ends in 4 days. Books arriving soon. Excitement!

Manchester, November 14. Will be great.

A great listen.

Stuart Bailie To Launch New Book “The Song Is Nearly” Over At Sound Of Belfast Festival Belfast music journalist Stuart Bailie announces The Song Is Nearly Over, a 40-year collection of music stories launching at the Sound of Belfast Festival.

Book launch is November 6 at the Deer's Head in Belfast, with Tim Wheeler and Terri Hooley.

Performers for Palestine An evening of music, poetry and readings to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).

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Duke Special, musician and Shirley-Anne McMillan, author. Some words on why they are performing for Palestine this Saturday at Oh Yeah Music Centre, Oct 11. Please join them. Gig link in following post.

Performers for Palestine An evening of music, poetry and readings to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).

Ticket link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performers...

Performers for Palestine concert to take place in Belfast | Hotpress The musician-led event will raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestine, featuring performances and spoken word poetry from artists across the north of Ireland.

Performers for Palestine. This Saturday at the Oh Yeah Music Centre, with Duke Special, Ciaran Lavery, Malojian, Leo Miyagee, Shirley-Anne McMillan, Joe Nawaz.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Belfast 02.10.25. Photos by Stuart Bailie

Divine Comedy album cover, Rainy Sunday Afternoon. Neil Hannon in a coffee shop.

Anthony Toner album cover for Long Long Way. A photo of Anthony's reflection in a train carriage.

Two new records, by The Divine Comedy and Anthony Toner that seem to fit with the change in season. A sense of imminent chill & things diminishing. But also the art that rallies around, finding rescue in untidy love. I've reviewed both albums for Dig With It. My review here: www.digwithit.com?p=3727

Performers for Palestine, Oh Yeah, Oct 11. Duke Special with Chip Bailey, Ciaran Lavery, Leo Miyagee, Malojian, BFrank Niamh McNally, Shirley-Anne McMillan, Joe Nawaz. Stuart Bailie. A fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestine.
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THE SONG IS NEARLY OVER: Music Stories 1985-2025 with author Stuart Bailie Join Stuart for a collection of stories & anecdote covering 40 years of insights & shenanigans - a record of fast times in popular culture.

Manchester! I'm bringing my book to the @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social on Nov 14. Reading & chatting about encounters with Oasis, Nina Simone, Sinéad O'Connor, The Pogues, Ian Brown & Tom Waits. Some great content in the festival & the craic is always immense.
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It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Appreciated!

A pledge for this book will help to manage the production costs. It's proudly DIY. Please be a pal. Preorder and share this post. Big appreciation

You can even order signed copies plus darkroom prints, made by myself from my original negatives. One of the rewards includes a ticket to the book launch at the Deer's Head, Belfast on November 6. Tim Wheeler will conduct the interview and Terri Hooley will perform live.

Cover of upcoming Stuart Bailie book - The Song is Nearly Over. Graphics and bits of gig detritus. Released Nov. 6. Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Please support my book. The Song Is Nearly Over: Music Stories 1985-2025. is encounters & interviews. Tales of Nina Simone, Oasis, Björk, Patti, Manics, Sinéad, Shane, Strummer, U2, Weatherall.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/digwithit1/the-song-is-nearly-over-music-stories-1985-2025?ref=project_build

Belfast 21.09.25. Global Sumud Flotilla Solidarity March. Eight figures on the march, crossing the lock. Photo by Stuart Bailie

Belfast 21.09.25. Global Sumud Flotilla Solidarity March. Snare drum. Photo by Stuart Bailie

Belfast 21.09.25. Global Sumud Flotilla Solidarity March. Figures at Barrow Square. Photos by Stuart Bailie

Belfast 21.09.25. Global Sumud Flotilla Solidarity March. People on the march, along the Lagan River. Photo by Stuart Bailie

Belfast 21.09.25. Global Sumud Flotilla Solidarity March. Photos by Stuart Bailie

Van Morrison, Chris Farlow plus band, onstage at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, 31.08.25

It's been a week since Van Morrison's 80th birthday night at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast. Plenty to think about. I wrote a blog. You can read it here: www.digwithit.com?p=3702

Belfast 06.09.25

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before - BBC News The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

Chris Mason is a profoundly unserious man who writes about politics as if it were a video game with no real consequences. True to form, this article is purely about optics. Not a single policy is mentioned

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