David Roy

Belfast

Features Reporter at The Irish News

David, not Roy. Semi-serious person writing about music, movies, TV, comedy, books, theatre, cars, travel, stuff...

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Jack the Ripper’s Belfast days: did infamous London murderer evade cops here to kill again?

1 week ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

Skip to main contentEntertainment“HE BECAME referred to in the press as ‘Belfast’s man with the knives’,” explains tour guide Andrew Johnston of how a key suspect in the infamous Jack the Ripper murders links the north to the gruesome spate of grisly, unsolved killings which took place in London’s Whitechapel between 1888 and 1891.
First acts announced for Stendhal Festival 2025

1 week ago | msn.com | David Roy

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First acts announced for Stendhal Festival 2025

1 week ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

THE Orb, The Lightning Seeds and Kate Nash are among the first crop of acts announced for this year’s Stendhal Music Festival. The annual event at Ballymully Cottage Farm outside Limavady will return from July 4 to 6 this summer with a bill featuring an eclectic selection of music and comedy.
‘It feels right Cast are opening for Oasis’ - John Power on history with Liam and Noel and marking 30 years of classic debut album All Change

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

What are you up to today, John? I’m in London at [top music producer] Youth’s place doing strings on the new album we’re recording for Cast that will come out next year. You only put out Love is The Call last year, so you haven’t wasted any time getting back into the studio. Do you feel like Cast are on a roll at the moment? Totally. Love is The Call was the debut [album] of the renaissance of Cast.
Van Morrison to celebrate 80th birthday with special Belfast gig

2 weeks ago | msn.com | David Roy

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Van Morrison to celebrate 80th birthday with special Belfast gig

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

VAN Morrison will be inviting the public to join him on his 80th birthday with a special hometown show. The east Belfast-born music star has announced that he will stage an 80th Birthday Celebration Concert on his big day, August 31, which will also feature a performance by his daughter, Shana. A "special guest line-up" for the show at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall is still to be announced.
Top Belfast music venue under threat from new hotel

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

A Belfast city centre music venue co-founded by Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody could face closure if planning permission is granted for a nearby hotel, its CEO has warned. The site of the proposed new 40-bedroom establishment in the Cathedral Quarter would be adjacent to the Oh Yeah Music Centre on Gordon Street.
First look at Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr in The Naked Gun reboot

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

Paramount Pictures has released the first images and trailer for Liam Neeson’s upcoming comedy movie The Naked Gun. The Co Antrim actor will play Lt Frank Drebin Jr, son of the original Naked Gun star Lt Frank Drebin who was portrayed by the late Lesley Nielsen in three films between 1988 and 1994, as well as the short-lived cult TV series Police Squad! from 1982 which spawned the franchise.
Three to see at the Ards International Guitar Festival

2 weeks ago | msn.com | David Roy

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‘It’s just time to come back’ - Ricky Warwick celebrates Co Down roots with career-spanning homecoming show in Ards

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | David Roy

“MY WIFE’S very good at DIY - I’m very good at following her directions,” chuckles Ricky Warwick of the ongoing renovations at his new home in Comber. Having been based in Los Angeles for over 20 years, the rocker is now in the midst of setting up a base in Co Down - insert your own joke about ‘swapping Hollywood for Holywood’ here - just down the road from where he grew up in Newtownards.