Belfast Music Walking Tour
Experience the vibrant and diverse music scene of Belfast on the tour delivered by Creative Tours Belfast, the Belfast Music Walking Tour!
Discover why Belfast is a UNESCO City of Music and learn about the city's rich musical heritage, traditions, and roots.
Led by local music expert and enthusiast Dolores Vischer, this tour takes you through the city centre to explore iconic music venues such as the Ulster Hall, (where the tour begins), traditional bars and clubs, historic buildings, open-air performance spaces, main arenas, and even a church.
The Belfast Music Walking Tour covers a wide range of genres, including hip hop, classical, jazz, punk, opera, folk, country, electro pop and more, showcasing the wealth of musical talent in Belfast. Along the way, you'll hear some entertaining stories about famous musicians and bands and get tips on rising stars of the contemporary music scene.
At the end of the tour, you will have the opportunity to visit the Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast's dedicated music hub in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter. Here, you’ll have a chance to browse our Music Exhibition which features memorabilia from Northern Ireland's most renowned musicians such as Snow Patrol, Van Morrison, and Stiff Little Fingers. On one tour each month, there will also be a very special intimate live performance inside the Oh Yeah main venue, by one of Belfast’s finest musicians, curated especially for your tour group.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to experience the best of Belfast's music scene! Book your spot on our Belfast Music Walking Tour today and get ready for a leisurely, music-filled stroll through the city.
For non scheduled private, group or corporate tours, please contact Dolores for details, availability and prices: creativetoursbelfast@gmail.com
Starts at Ulster Hall, Bedford Street
Belfast Music Punk Walking Tour
Belfast punk music holds a special place in music history, near and far.
Take this walking tour to explore the story of punk music on Belfast’s streets, with a passionate punk music loving guide, who saw live back in the late 1970s the city’s best-known bands, including The Outcasts, Rudi, Stiff Little Fingers, Ruefrex, Victim, etc – and loves today’s punk bands too.
The story of 1970s punk and the Good Vibrations record shop and label run by Terri Hooley, has been dramatised in the ‘Good Vibrations’ film and in a theatrical production by the Lyric Theatre Belfast.
On the walk, you will explore Belfast to see where the legendary sites in the 1970s punk story were, including where the Good Vibrations record shop first opened, and where the Harp Bar and The Pound stood. You will also visit the city’s music hub, the Oh Yeah Music Centre, for a guided look around the fascinating punk memorabilia and artefacts in the display cabinets of its NI Music exhibition. You’ll hear about punk collectives in Belfast from the 1980s to now, including The Anarchy Collective, Warzone and Giro’s. Your guide will paint a picture of a night out in Hill Street back in 1979, sharing her own stories of punk gigs back then - as well as introducing you to a few of the excellent punk bands performing today.
A soundtrack of punk music will be played at each stop, including ‘70s tracks by Rudi, The Outcasts, Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones and more, as well as tracks by contemporary punk-linked bands such as Problem Patterns, Wood Burning Savages, Gender Chores and Cherym.
This walking tour offers a great opportunity to see many of the places in Belfast where the action took place, with music and stories of punk bands then and now along the way.
Starts at Go Petrol Station, 120 Great Victoria Street
