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Barrels Ale House (24.06.03)
A man with a point to prove
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Sex Love and Religion: Life is not
always fair (16.06.03)
courtesy of BJ Cole.
Highlights, and there are quite a few of them, include
a soothing sweet-as-honey atmospheric ballad in Yesterday's
Rain and the country-tinged Cuddle Up Tight.
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Sex Love and Religion: Houston on
song (16.06.03)
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It's always a big risk when unsigned acts take the hard road and put out their
own material without record company support.
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The Empire Strikes Back
(10.06.03)
HAVING opened its elegant portals three weeks ago,
the Em- pire Music Hall is the most exciting development
in the Belfast live music scene for ages.
Owned
by a sizeable retail and property concern, the previously derelict upper floors
of the Empire Bar in Botanic Avenue have been refurbished to sumptuous Victorian
music hall splendour to the rumoured tune of £500,000, and it shows.
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Brians Uplifting Spiritual
Music (10.06.03)
Brian's spiritual music proves a truly uplifting experience.
By PHILIP CROSSEY
WHEN a young Brian Houston took to the stage as an
Elvis impersonator at a Boys Brigade event, a musical
career was born.
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Crush: Debut Offering (10.06.03)
Houston takes off with debut offering
By Mike Edgar
HAL Ketchum, one of America's finest singer/songwriters,
plays the Elmwood Hall in Belfast tomorrow night.
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Reviews: Brian recalled to Waterfront
(10.06.03)
By Eddie Mcllwaine
BRIAN Houston, pictured left, who will go down in history
as the first professional artist ever to sing at the
Waterfront Hall, is going down to Laganside again.
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Houston at the Lyric (10.06.03)
Singer-songwriter Brian Houston returns to Belfast's
Lyric Theatre this month with the best of the material
featured on his recent six month sellout tour.
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Getting it all together
after The Mighty Fall (10.06.03)
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ORGASMIC" was how one young fan referred recently to meteorically ascendant
local
songwriter Brian Houston. Whether she was describing the man's outrageously
energetic
live act, or the levels of hyperbole currently emanating from the pens of
pop, rock and folk
columnists across the country, was a matter of some conjecure.
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Garden party one of the
best (10.06.03)
WHAT a bunch of whingers. I have been going to outdoor
rock events in Ireland since 1975 (at least one event
every year) and although the Garden Party
in Botanic was probably the shortest because of the time curfew, it was one
of
the best
organised I have been to.
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Elvis, Van, and the life
of Brian (10.06.03)
As Ireland's biggest talent never to secure a major
record deal, he could be forgiven for turning his back
on a musical career that promised a bigger
slice
of the celebrity cake. Not that that bothers the Belfast born musician; he's
as focused as ever, the songwriting skills are still in place and the voice
is better than ever.
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Brian's brainchild (10.06.03)
Daughter Inspires big hit
By Eddie Mcllwaine
TALENTED singer-songwriter Brian Houston is on the
crest of a wave - and it's all down to
his five-year old daughter Stephanie.
She was the inspiration behind the
Houston composition Daddy's Into Jesus Again which
has turned into a hit in Northern Ireland.
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Brian back on top form
(10.06.03)
By Maeve Quigley
ONE of Belfast's finest singer/ song- writers will
be making a return to the prestigious sur- roundings
of 'the Waterfront Hall on Thursday night.
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Crush: The new Van Morrison? (10.06.03)
The new Van Morrison? Not quite - but Brian Houston
is nonetheless a name to look out for
No method, no guru, no teacher
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Crush: HOT PRESS (10.06.03)
Brian Houston "Crush" (First Kiss)
IT's AMAZING what two six hour sessions in a Belfast
recording studio can produce. It's as though the Lagan
and Detroit rivers have decided to converge
in the
airy enirons of Novatech Studios - and all these little tributaries come
shuffling from the union. Brian Houston is a man with sole and sass. And
Crush is the
first
chance to show them off with elan.
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Show-stopper (10.06.03)
"
Write about Brian Houston in your column," advised Terri Hooley - "He's
going to be a star."
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