Kelis - The Botanic Inn

Philip Taggart - ATL Content Assistant



Last Week The Botanic Inn, in Belfast, is the beerlarious student haunt for the Holyland’s massive. The club has more in common with cover bands and pints of stout than it does with New York starlets and milkshakes. On Thursday night I played artist liaison at a secret gig in The Bot that played host to NYC’s shaker of milk, Kelis. The most bizarre moment came when, stood 2 meters from her in a cold clinical backstage waiting area I wondered ‘how is she going to walk in those 5 foot stilettos, without falling flat on her face?’. Either that or Dave Grohl eating a packet of crisps in London.



Podge from Ham Sandwich

Amy McGarrigle - ATL Producer



Hardly first class star spotting, but when I just turned eighteen I went to my sisters 21st shindig in Dublin. There I meet a notorious partier and lovely nutter who talked to me about being in a band for about an hour before anybody else turned up. Famed for jumping out of boxes, it turned out to be Podge from Ham Sandwich, a band who are currently, and finally, properly making a mark on the music scene, about eight years later! Persistence pays off!