Updated 25/03/2012 Greetings everyone, apologies once again for the lack of updates but as you can see by the snazzy new picture above this, a spring clean of the site is in progress. Further to that we have a very exciting announcement to make shortly so keep reading......... Firstly, we hope you had half as good a St Patrick's as we did. We have an absolute corker with 3 gigs in 3 days (4 for Jimmy) and by Sunday night after King Cross WMC we were all begging for mercy. The Moorlands on Friday was a pleasurable if somewhat sedate start to affairs, we're not sure everyone there was aware it was St Patrick's, either that or they really didn't give a monkeys? St Patrick's Day itself at the Halifax Irish Club was a brilliant night and we're really happy to say a complete success for the Club too. The doors were locked by 10 pm as the club was full and all in all we had a great time. We finished up on the Sunday afternoon at King Cross WMC with our good friends Both Barrels too, Pete & Jim sounded on top form and a great crowd made for the perfect end to a pretty special weekend. The Calendar is now updated to the end of June. It's a few weeks until our next public gig -April 28th at The Rose & Crown, Greetland. We always have a decent night here and the pub is full of music lovers so get yourself along for fun, frolics and nonsense. A date for the diary.... May 26th. At present the details are being finalised (there have been issues on that front) however what we do know is that it is a charity gig for The Basement Project who do lots of fantastic work in the area and who offered help to our dearly missed friend Martin McGinley. We will be playing as will some other friends but those people are not confirmed as yet. We know it all seems a bit sketchy now but when details are firmed up we will let you have them immediately. Now then.... the bit you've all been waiting for............... For about 1 year now we have been planning and in discussions,trying to realise a long held ambition and dream, and ladies and gentlemen we have only gone and bloomin' well done it!!!!                       BELT OF THE CELTS ARE OFF TO PLAY GIGS IN IRELAND!!!!!!! We are beyond excited about our little tour (a tourette?) and we are now counting the days until we go. We have 2 gigs lined up for the 2nd weekend in June. We set off on Thursday 7th and what's left of us returns on Monday 11th. 6 guys, a mini bus, a ferry,  Ireland, music, Football and alcohol.....what could possibly go wrong? The gigs we have are as follows: SAT 9th   June - Rodgers Bar, Scariff, Co. Clare SUN 10th June - Cois Na Habhna, Mountshannon, Co. Clare (before Ireland's 1st Euro 2012 match) So between now and June we will be in a semi permanent state of giddy excitement so we'll apologise now. You all take care of yourselves until next time. 02/02/2012 Well heeeeeeelllllllllooooooooo there! We'd love to tell you all that the reason it's been a bit quiet on the website is because we've been holed up in a studio completing our latest masterpiece or that we've been on a humanitarian charity visit to an underprivileged country but the truth of it is we've just been bone idle. First things first, the Calendar is now updated to include gigs up to the end of March. This includes all of our St Patrick's week gigs and there are some corkers involved there - please make sure you get to one if not all 4 of them. We may need as much morale boosting as we can get come Sun 18th Mar! Since a fantastic Boxing Day gig at The Pump Room (hopefully not the last one) we've had a few private gigs which is the real reason this place hasn't been updated, so we've had very little to tell you but it is full steam ahead for the rest of the year and we can reveal here and now that The Belt of the Celts are off on a mini tour of Ireland this June and needless to say we can't wait!!!! Full details will be revealed soon and we're hoping that if the venue locations dictate that some of our loyal followers (yes there are some!) may feel inclined to hop on a cheap flight and join us for the craic too? We recently received some sad news that Geraldine Dillon nee Murphy had suddenly passed away. Geraldine was a regular and lively attendee at our gigs and was in fact at the gig on Boxing Day. Our heartfelt condolences go out to her family at this troubling time, she will be missed x x x x x Depending on a number of factors the website my undergo some appearance changes in the next few months just to freshen it up and keep anyone who visits here vaguely interested. The next public gig is Sun 11th March at The Irish Club from 14:00..... Then it's that time again yeeeeeeha.