FEBRUARY

Thursday 2nd: Bar Open from 7pm for tunes and bevvies. No door tax
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Friday 3rd: THE HUNGRY EAR

T.H.E. Record Session 001

9pm / £3 (Free before 10.30pm)

Gus, Ben, Tim & Andy playing records for all ears.

beats.blues.dub.electronica.filmscores.folk.funk.hiphop.jazz.latin.psych.soul…

The Hungry Ear is also a new website run by the same guys. T.H.E. focuses on musicians/producers & DJs and has grown from a need to share new & old sounds, with an emphasis on open conversation with the artists behind the beats. T.H.E. aesthetic is shaped by a heavy appetite first and foremost in hip hop & electronic music. Current features with Jeremy Ellis, DJ Clap & Halp, upcoming pieces on Belfast beatmaker Sina, Ital & plenty more…

http://www.thehungryear.com/

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Saturday 4th: Nightlife w/ Johnny Bubba (Jet Project / Extended Play) and Louis Girvan (Nightlife resident / Moody)

If you like your drinks ice cold and booty shakin then come and join us for a night of Tropical House, Party Funk, Disco, Ship-hop, Yacht Rock, 80’s Jams and Future Soul.

Hosted by one of Belfast’s rising DJ’s/Producers Bubba (Hot Creations/Pets Recordings/Extended Play) whose future house jams have been receiving plays and supports from the likes of Jamie Jones, Robert James,Ewan Pearson, Trevor Jackson,Hannah Holland, Catz N Dogz and Soul Clap to namedrop a few.

http://www.facebook.com/events/256205021118373/
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Sunday 5th: TBC
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Thursday 9th: ZAMBISOUND Presents Le Petit Chat DJs

9pm / £3

Latitudinarian night of House music: Deep, Disco, Funk and maybe some Zamrock.

All Proceeds on the night go to Project Zambia
http://www.projectzambia.com/
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Friday 10th: CHUTNEY presents 33 1/3

5 acts plays for 33 1/3 minutes. This month Barry’s Electronic Workshop, Martin Byrne, Rudimentary Records, T-Polar, Mark Manley (Belfast Music Club)

9pm / £5

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/118417518278521/
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Saturday 11th: DIRTY TALK
DJs Jonny Carberry & Mark Gilliland return to the Menagerie with more rock n roll, mutant disco, post-punk, synth wave, noise-pop and electronic body music.

9pm / £5 (£3 before 11) Free mixx cd!!

http://www.facebook.com/events/174033986035319/

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Sunday 12th: TBC
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Tuesday 14th: BLUE ROMANCE

Charles Hurts DJs / £3 / 8pm

Alone on Valentines Day? Maybe on the inside? Blissfully happy? Whatever your reasons come down to the Menagerie on Valentines Day for Blue Romance and purge your hidden syrupy wounds (or not!) with the best romantic tunes from before you were born to the present day. 

Don’t be left on the shelf this Valentines Day…

Drinks Promos / Cocktails all nite long..

http://www.facebook.com/events/374238279258518/

http://iheartau.com/2012/01/blue-romance/

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Thursday 16th: THE HUNGRY EAR

A tribute to the music of the late, great hip hop producer James ‘J Dilla’ Yancey (1974-2006).
Featuring classic Dilla beats, samples and productions played by:
T.H.E. residents / Rudimentary Djs, Good Soop DJs. Tim Carroll, Seaz Beats & Chris Caul

With visuals by Stuart Sloan (featuring rare & unseen Dilla footage)

http://www.facebook.com/events/375483995811364/
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Friday 17th: MENAGERIE PRESENTS: THE MIRACLE FORTRESS

All vinyl selections for your dancing and listening pleasure w/
Marty Malone (Belfast Night Owl), Sarge (Dr. Crippins), Dom Small, Mark (Bop Yestrum).
Playing garage, pysch, fuzz, soul, breaks and loads more…

£3 (Free before 10pm) / Drinks promo before 11pm)

http://www.facebook.com/events/360950093922835/
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Saturday 18th: VINYL KOMBAT
A night of hiphop, turntablism & drum ‘n’ bass featuring DJ Koncept, Convertor, O-One, QFO, Daz, Cull and more…

9pm / £5

http://www.facebook.com/events/163771250398005/
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Sunday 19th: TBC
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Tuesday 21st: CHOCOLATE LOVE FACTORY ‘OCTAVIA’ EP LAUNCH

w/ support from Steering Fail, Music For Dead Birds, TB Chapman
9.30pm / £5

http://www.facebook.com/events/205387416225935/
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Thursday 23rd: SOMADRONE (Dublin / Skinny Wolves) + DOCUMENTA + SATSUMAS DJs

Somadrone’s sound is a lush minimalism, a sonic trip, soundtracks for early light.
Conceived in 1998 by Neil O’Connor (The Redneck Manifesto), with a focus on electronic pop and experimental music

Documenta: Drones, fuzz, phases, melody, space, restraint and limited chords.

9pm / £5

http://www.facebook.com/events/241371482612626/
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Friday 24th: BELFAST MUSIC CLUB w/ MO PROBS (Soju Bar, Berlin)
+ BMC Residents 

Mo Probs is a producer, dj and record fiend, she is resident at the reputed Soju Bar, Berlin’s foremost spot for the rawest underground parties, crystal clear sound, and anything goes music policy. 

Over the years she has played with many of the left-field dance circuits luminaries, including previous BMC guests Mark Seven and Danny Wang, who described Mo as ‘the wiki of music’ and initially put us onto her skills. 

Mo has promised to burn up the dance floor for us with a heavy session of divine vintage house, mutated psychedelic disco, acid rock, odd-ball italo and whatever else she can dig up..! 

9pm / £5

http://www.facebook.com/groups/9870418647/
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Saturday 25th: THE DROP
w/ Undadog, Bad Operator and The Drop Residents - Chops (Team Fresh) and Bumper 

Back in a new venue for 2012, it’s the relaunch of The Drop in the Menagerie. Expect Bangin Dubstep, DnB & Drumstep. We bring the F’n house down!

9pm / £3

http://www.facebook.com/events/324073924305660/
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Sunday 26th: TBC