My girlfriend and I are both totally obsessed with music. We both play in different bands, and naturally our interests tend to lie in this field. We both like to get to gigs as often as we can and for us the idea of a romantic night out together is a few drinks at a live music venue, checking out the other bands! That’s not to say that we didn’t have other interests, and our holidays were normally a case in point. We would tend to head out to countries in the Mediterranean where our tastes in music was definitely not covered! We never went there for the music, and we always had a great time. It was nice to just soak up the sun, get a tan and relax for a week or so, but when we returned home it always felt to a certain degree that we had in some way wasted a week. This was of course because we hadn’t really engaged in our favourite pastime, listening to, or playing music.
This year I had something completely different in mind. Recently we had started playing together musically with a couple of mates, and our band was starting to come together. I had a few contacts in Northern Ireland and I was pretty convinced that we would be able to organise a mini tour of Northern Ireland, which would enable us to stay for a week in Belfast, something I had always wanted to do. The appeal of this was immense, because there is such a strong musical following in Belfast, and live music Bars are two a penny. Money wasn’t too much of an issue so I decided that we could probably afford to only play three nights out there, which would give us some time to explore the city and see some other bands out there. I spent a bit of time having a look at a few websites which had information about what to do in Belfast and tourism in Belfast and it seemed to me that we would have a job fitting all of the things in that we would want to do!
I got straight on the phone to my friends in Belfast and immediately arranged for us to play a few dates in the summer. I then went online and bought some flights to Belfast before someone tried to change my mind!
Now that it is all organised I can’t think about anything else! I can’t wait for our stimulating holiday in Belfast!