CEO

Best thing about your job?
Supporting others in doing great work. I also find it a privilege to champion music from NI whenever and wherever possible.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Argh so many! Women’s Work 2017 Showcase was pretty special. It really felt like a turning point for women in music, a coming together, an incredible lineup, community vibes, a sense of change. Brilliant gig.

Dream gig ticket to see?
I would have loved to see Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall.

Operations Director

Best thing about your job?
Getting to work with incredibly talented, creative, passionate and driven people. And seeing the happiness that music brings to audiences and artists.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - incredible energy in the room. Showed me the great potential the venue has.

Dream gig ticket to see?
The Strokes supported by Idles, with Gram Parsons as an opening act in the old Mandela Hall. I mean that’s nonsense fantasy stuff right there.

Music & Older People’s Manager

Best thing about your job?
Providing a voice for older people and hearing incredible stories.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Acoustic Picnic featuring three musician from the Drake Project.

Dream gig ticket to see?
Elvis Presley Louisiana Hayride, October 15th ‘54, Shreveport.

Youth Engagement & Outreach Manager

Best thing about your job?
My job here brings all of my passions together; live music, the creative arts, youth work and education. But the overall best thing about working in Oh Yeah is the team of people I have around me. They are a constant source of support, advice and seriously good craic.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Clash of the New Breeds 2022 - The biggest and best youth gig to date. The venue was full of young people, dancing, laughing, recording and making memories and so many wonderful opportunities arose from that gig.

Dream gig ticket to see?
I would have given anything to have seen Amy Winehouse apart from that I have always wanted to go to Glastonbury but have never managed to get a ticket.

Marketing & Communications Officer

Best thing about your job?
That I get to be creative in an arts role. And that my musical knowledge, useless fun facts and array of bootleg t-shirts are appreciated.

Best gig you’ve attended?
Placebo at the 3Arena Dublin last year. Seeing my favourite band live for the first time is better (and all the more surreal) with the girl who you met because of them there with you.

Dream gig ticket to see?
Christine and The Queens in an underground cabaret club in Berlin with just a piano and microphone. Or that very same set up but 1997 Placebo. Why not both? It's a dream after all.

Venue Coordinator

Best thing about your job?
Playing an active role in facilitating and promoting music as a positive force for social good in the local community, and wider world. Working alongside, and meeting all sorts of wonderful people.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Very difficult question! Jape, Ryan Vail and Go Wolf back in 2013 was definitely a highlight.

Dream gig ticket to see?
One of the Talking Heads ‘Stop Making Sense’ shows or Radiohead at Glastonbury in ‘97.

Finance Assistant

Best thing about your job?
Having a job in music that 15-year-old me would’ve been beside herself about (finally).

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Ash. I wasn’t supposed to be there but there was a big accident and I couldn’t get home, watching them sing Oh Yeah on the Oh Yeah stage. Or Bastille soundchecking way before they were famous.

Dream gig ticket to see?
The Beatles in the early days at the Cavern Club.

Operations & Administration Assistant

Best thing about your job?
It perfectly complements my passions outside of work and I’m privileged to be one of those people who enjoys going to work every day.

Best gig you’ve attended in Oh Yeah?
Kitt Philippa, Owen Denvir and Joshua Burnside in October ‘15.

Dream gig ticket to see?
Jeff Buckley, in a quiet old man bar.