Today’s recommendation is a band called Boathouse, as recommended by Northern Irish Photographer, Phil O’Kane. Phil’s recommendation is below:

Since 2006 Boathouse have been touring local venues throughout Northern Ireland, each night attracting larger audiences. With a myriad of instruments beyond guitar, bass and drums they fill the air with the sounds of a glockenspiel, accordion, keyboards, trumpet and flute and the emotive vocal talents of Gerry McCrudden and Amy McGarrigle.

Before the summer they recorded a session for BBC Radio Ulster’s Across the Line, three of those tracks are available to listen to on their MySpace, and they should have an EP available in the coming months.

The second track on the recording, ‘What I Remember‘, begins with the innocent sound of a few notes being tapped on the glockenspiel while the rest of the instruments slowly rise to the vocal level bringing out the powerful lyrics so clearly.

They have a two gigs planned in Belfast before the end of the year: Lavery’s Bunker on 26th Nov and Common Grounds Café on 21st Dec, honestly they shouldn’t be missed.

Thanks to Phil for the recommendation. By the way, if you haven’t subscribed to Phil’s blog yet, I highly recommend it. He’s a great photographer.

If you know of a great band that we haven’t heard of, why not recommend them and we’ll write about them here on Unreality Music.