Dig With It is based in Belfast. We author books and publish magazines about music, arts and counterculture. We take on commissions for writing, design, photography, animations and arts programming.

You can order the current book, Terri Hooley: Seventy Five Revolutions, on Bandcamp, Ebay or Music Glue. You can order back issues of Dig With It magazine here.

 

 

Dig With It takes its name from a Seamus Heaney poem about the primacy of the pen. It began as a blog in 2013. The magazine took shape in early 2020. It is an act of faith – engaging with culture to make useful energy.

The core team is Stuart Bailie (former Assistant Editor of NME, author of Trouble Songs, co-founder of the Oh Yeah Music Centre) and Betsy Bailie (Graphic Designer and Manchester School of Art design graduate).

 

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• June 18, 2025  —  The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

• June 15, 2025  —  Liam & Noel, Britpop & Brickbats

• June 2, 2025  —  Barry McIlheney reviews Shellshock Rock (2020)

• April 8, 2025  —  Bill Kirk: Through a Lens, Brightly

• March 6, 2025  —  RÓIS Interview – The Keen Genie

• March 4, 2025  —  Back in the night: music and femicide in the Black North

• February 19, 2025  —  The Wood Burning Savages, Hand To Mouth, review

• February 11, 2025  —  Dani Larkin at Armagh SRC, live review

• December 2, 2024  —  The Everlasting Yeah, Staying Cool Staying Free, review  

• November 29, 2024  —  Ursula Burns, The Secret Melodies of Trees, review

• November 26, 2024  —  RÓIS, Mo Léan, review

• November 12, 2024  —  Eric Bell: guitarist, rocker, vagabond, legend.

• November 5, 2024  —  Susie Blue, Venite Ad Me, EP review

• October 11, 2024  —  LMINL, The Dance Hall, album review

• August 15, 2024  —  Afterwar & Kneecap, Pristina & Belfast

• July 29, 2024  —  BIIRD, Pólca 4, Mandela Hall, Belfast

• July 22, 2024  —  Moya Brennan, The Empire, Belfast

• July 8, 2024  —  Stendhal 2024: Festival Review and Photos

• July 1, 2024  —  Northern Albums: Half Year NI Report, 2024  

• June 17, 2024  —  Conn Thornton, Meteorite Season review

• June 14, 2024  —  Kneecap, Fine Art, album review

• June 5, 2024  —  Christy Moore, Botanic Gardens, Belfast

• May 15, 2024  —  Lucy Gaffney: Pitfalls and Highlights

• May 7, 2024  —  Joel Harkin: Shams, Seanchaithe and Star Wars

• April 26, 2024  —  Esmeralda Road profile

• April 19, 2024  —  Carol Clerk & the Rory Gallagher Scrapbooks

• April 10, 2024  —  Bin There, Done That

• March 17, 2024  —  Bernadette, Huartan & Shamrocks at the White House

• March 11, 2024  —  Steve Pyke: Faces, Skies, Light Readings

• February 14, 2024  —  Huartan, Gradaim NÓS, review

• February 6, 2024  —  GUB by Scott McKendry – review

• January 21, 2024  —  Elaine Howley – In Five

• December 22, 2023  —  Inside the fairytale: with The Pogues in NYC, 1987.

• December 2, 2023  —  Emma Hart – In Five

• November 28, 2023  —  Irish Artists for Palestine, Black Box Belfast

• November 19, 2023  —  Connor Dougan – In Five

• November 9, 2023  —  David Holmes, Blind on A Galloping Horse, album review

• October 26, 2023  —  Problem Patterns – Blouse Club album review

• October 11, 2023  —  Playlisted – by Lauren Johnson

• October 5, 2023  —  Reevah – Daylight Savings album review

• September 30, 2023  —  Lonesome George, live at The Empire, Belfast  

• September 25, 2023  —  Brand New Friend, Grandstand album review

• September 16, 2023  —  Joe Nawaz, Five Days, review

• August 30, 2023  —  Huartan: Odes to the Undead

• August 15, 2023  —  Kneecap: a bone of contention

• August 14, 2023  —  Eastside Electronics IV – film premiere and photos

• August 10, 2023  —  The ELLAS mixtape project

• July 10, 2023  —  Stendhal Festival 2023, Saturday Stories

• July 7, 2023  —  Playlisted – Timmy Stewart

• July 1, 2023  —  Docs Ireland 2023 – Review

• June 23, 2023  —  Acoustic Dan & Gerard Skelly – Vocal and Drum – review

• May 30, 2023  —  Alicia Raye, profile

• May 25, 2023  —  Tina Turner and a paramilitary chorus

• May 19, 2023  —  Chalk, live at the Black Box, review

• May 18, 2023  —  Jealous of the Birds – Hinterland album review

• May 12, 2023  —  Joe Mulheron, RIP. Singer, Songwriter, Publican, Activist

• May 11, 2023  —  Good Vibrations, Belfast Opera House, review

• May 10, 2023  —  Chalk – The Dig With It interview

• May 2, 2023  —  Joshua Burnside – live at the CQAF Marquee, Belfast

• May 1, 2023  —  Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire album review

• April 27, 2023  —  Joe Nawaz – Playlisted

• April 18, 2023  —  Arborist, An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros, review

• April 12, 2023  —  Dig With It Editorial – Issue 10

• April 10, 2023  —  Ferna – Understudy album review

• March 21, 2023  —  Rachel Craig Profile

• March 3, 2023  —  New Pagans, Ulster Sports Club, Belfast

• March 3, 2023  —  Phil Kieran, The Strand Cinema, album review

• February 16, 2023  —  New Pagans, Making Circles of Our Own, album review

• February 14, 2023  —  The Wood Burning Savages – The Dig With It Interview

• February 5, 2023  —  This Ship Argo – Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks – album review

• January 23, 2023  —  Ricky Warwick – Playlisted

• January 14, 2023  —  Niall McDowell – New Dig

• December 22, 2022  —  Joshua Burnside – Where the Streets Have No Shame

• December 21, 2022  —  That Petrol Emotion – Every Beginning Has a Future: An Anthology 1984-1994

• December 17, 2022  —  Ash – Ulster Hall review

• November 18, 2022  —  Robocobra Quartet – The Dig With It Profile

• November 15, 2022  —  Ferna Profile, NIMP Special

• November 14, 2022  —  Rory Nellis: Overwhelmed & Underlined

• November 14, 2022  —  Charlotte Dryden on the NI Music Prize

• October 26, 2022  —  Paul Brady – Crazy Dreams, book review

• October 7, 2022  —  #StopBurningUsOut – Buoy Park Rally, October 6

• September 23, 2022  —  ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In

• August 26, 2022  —  Becky McNeice – Profile

• July 28, 2022  —  Carol Clerk Bursary for Music Journalism – Award Announced

• July 27, 2022  —  Pagan Beliefs – a profile of New Pagans

• July 26, 2022  —  Winnie Ama and the divas that matter

• July 26, 2022  —  David Trimble, John Hume, Bono and the ‘Yes’ Gig

• July 25, 2022  —  Lemonade Shoelace: Simply the Zest

• July 4, 2022  —  Stendhal Festival 2022 – Review

• July 1, 2022  —  Playlisted – Taylor Johnson, Brand New Friend

• June 28, 2022  —  Playlisted: Ross Parkhill

• June 23, 2022  —  Review: Robocobra Quartet – Living Isn’t Easy

• June 21, 2022  —  Review: Bernie McGill – This Train is For

• June 8, 2022  —  Nandi Jola, Sue Divin, Belfast Book Festival

• June 2, 2022  —  Let Us Be Seen: Elspeth Vischer documentary

• May 17, 2022  —  Axis Marks The Spot: The Road To Bella Pacifica

• April 28, 2022  —  Brian Smyth, the Green Genie

• March 22, 2022  —  And So I Watch You From Afar – The Jettison Story

• March 13, 2022  —  Paul Connolly: Guitars, Kindness, Dehumanisation and Power

• March 13, 2022  —  Gavin Martin, 1961-2022

• March 7, 2022  —  Writers for Ukraine – Lyric Theatre, Belfast

• February 19, 2022  —  Charlie Hanlon. Teenage contender. Some Hanlon.

• February 14, 2022  —  Wynona Bleach – Moonsoake review

• February 12, 2022  —  Wendy Erskine – Dance Move – Review

• February 3, 2022  —  Dig With It Editorial, Issue 7

• January 27, 2022  —  Rory Nellis – Written & Underlined – album review

• January 10, 2022  —  The Cannibal Nun: Carol Murphy’s Film Rampage

• January 6, 2022  —  Jan Carson – The Raptures – review

• December 22, 2021  —  Queering the Green: Post 2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press)

• December 7, 2021  —  Brian Smyth – Playlisted

• December 4, 2021  —  Pillow Queens, Ulster Sports Club, Belfast

• November 17, 2021  —  NI Music Prize 2021 – Starter’s Orders!

• November 16, 2021  —  Mike Edgar, Outstanding Contribution to Music, NI Music Prize, 2021

• November 15, 2021  —  Bangers ‘N’ Mash (Ups), Fist City Radio, Cryan, Belfast

• November 12, 2021  —  Joshua Burnside, Ulster Sports Club, Belfast

• September 23, 2021  —  Invader Band, album review, ‘Peter Gabriel’

• August 25, 2021  —  Villagers – Dig With It Interview Extract

• August 16, 2021  —  Stendhal, August Weekend: 20 Festival Takeaways

• July 27, 2021  —  Lou Price: hand-in-hand through his Parkside

• July 15, 2021  —  Inhaler: The Dig With It Interview

• July 12, 2021  —  Stendhal Festival, Saturday July 10, 2021

• July 11, 2021  —  Stendhal Festival, Friday July 9, 2021

• June 24, 2021  —  Saint Sister – Where I Should End

• June 17, 2021  —  Dani Larkin, Notes for a Maiden Warrior

• June 6, 2021  —  Stendhal returns! June 5 Review

• May 21, 2021  —  Joshua Burnside, Higher Places review and album guide

• April 4, 2021  —  Easter Parade, Van Morrison and the Healing Game

• March 26, 2021  —  Hannnah Peel – Fir Wave album review

• March 24, 2021  —  A Boi Named Sue: Suzie Blue Profile

• March 19, 2021  —  NEW PAGANS: The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All

• March 12, 2021  —  Enola Gay: “you don’t get to be racist and Irish”

• January 27, 2021  —  New Pagans: A Collision, Mother and Artist

• January 21, 2021  —  Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places book review

• December 30, 2020  —  Weatherall, Heavenly, Magic in Progress

• November 13, 2020  —  Lyndon Stephens: King of Gordon St.

• October 9, 2020  —  Therapy? The Authorised Biography by Simon Young

• October 4, 2020  —  The Gospel According To Sinead

• October 3, 2020  —  Rocky O’Reilly And The Thrill Of The Fight

• September 14, 2020  —  Joshua Burnside – Into the Depths of Hell

• August 5, 2020  —  John Hume, Bono, Trimble, Ash and the ‘Yes’ Gig, 1998

• July 28, 2020  —  Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death

• July 19, 2020  —  The Defects – The Death of Imagination

• June 7, 2020  —  Up Went Nelson: Songs For Swinging Statues

• June 6, 2020  —  James Ashe: Do The Strand

• May 29, 2020  —  Dexys Midnight Runners, Internment, Ardoyne’s Burning

• May 28, 2020  —  Joel Harkin: Never Happy

• May 24, 2020  —  Dara McAnulty: To Be Different

• April 18, 2020  —  Lyra McKee: Lost, Found, Remembered (Faber & Faber)

• April 13, 2020  —  Arborist: Q&A with Mark McCambridge

• April 10, 2020  —  Anthony Toner, Ronnie Greer Albums

• April 3, 2020  —  Malojian – HUMM (Rollercoaster)

• March 5, 2020  —  Fontaines DC, The Murder Capital, Homelessness Benefit, Dublin

• January 28, 2020  —  Arborist – A Northern View

• January 10, 2020  —  Greg Cowan: Forever An Outcast

• December 11, 2019  —  Lyndon Stephens: The Quiet Arch Man

• November 25, 2019  —  Goodbye Vibrations – Terri Hooley Plays Out

• November 19, 2019  —  Abomination and the Anti-Paisley Underground

• November 19, 2019  —  Playlist Selections, Sunflower Bar, 16.11.19

• November 11, 2019  —  Lankum, Darkling Air, Orphan Brigade

• September 4, 2019  —  Binge-Watching With Paul Muldoon

• June 3, 2019  —  Lyra’s Walk: Sisters, Blisters and Resisters

• May 24, 2019  —  Lyra: Dreams and Responsibilities

• May 3, 2019  —  SOAK – Grim Town Review

• April 2, 2019  —  Miami Showband on Netflix

• March 25, 2019  —  Inhaler, Touts, Voodoo Belfast

• March 16, 2019  —  Fontaines DC: Hard Rain Falling

• February 27, 2019  —  Robert Holmes 1976-2018

• February 21, 2019  —  Ubu The King – The MAC, Belfast

• February 18, 2019  —  Music Drugs Love War – Geraldine Quigley

• February 11, 2019  —  Bridie, In The Name Of Love

• February 10, 2019  —  David Quantick – Go West

• February 2, 2019  —  Inflammable Material – 40 Years On

• January 25, 2019  —  Brand New Friend, American Bar, Belfast

• January 24, 2019  —  David Keenan: For The Good Times

• January 9, 2019  —  Radio Free Derry, 1969

• December 31, 2018  —  Kurt, Courtney and David Cavanagh 

• November 24, 2018  —  Foo Fighters In LA, 1997

• October 4, 2018  —  We Are Not Afraid

• September 6, 2018  —  Good Vibrations, Lyric Theatre

• May 14, 2018  —  JD Fennell: Red Storm Rising

• April 27, 2018  —  Brand New Friend: Seatbelts For Aeroplanes

• November 20, 2017  —  Raving For Bap – Sleevenotes

• November 7, 2017  —  Neil Hannon, Sunrise and Remembrance

• August 19, 2017  —  Jackie Flavelle, Bass of Ages

• June 11, 2017  —  With Radiohead In 1997: Viva La Megabytes!

• June 5, 2017  —  Michael Longley – Angel Hill Book Launch, Belfast

• May 25, 2017  —  Katharine Philippa, Across The Rooftops

• April 14, 2017  —  Rothko And Red: Maroon With A View

• April 12, 2017  —  Touts. Punk Fever. All Crimes Are Paid.

• March 24, 2017  —  O’Riada, Heaney, McGuinness and the Republic of Conscience

• March 5, 2017  —  John T. Davis at 70

• February 27, 2017  —  Sock It To ’Em, James Brown

• January 30, 2017  —  Billy Bragg, Joe Henry, Ulster Hall Belfast

• January 16, 2017  —  Glen Hansard, Seamus Heaney HomePlace

• December 23, 2016  —  Remembering Frank Murray

• December 21, 2016  —  Bullitt Style and Steve McQueen

• November 1, 2016  —  Remembering Bap Kennedy

• October 14, 2016  —  Late Night Tales: David Holmes

• September 25, 2016  —  Belfast To Bogotá: Singers With Altitude

• September 19, 2016  —  Seamus Heaney: No Kicks On Route A6

• August 21, 2016  —  The Darkling Air – Untamed & Beloved

• August 12, 2016  —  66 Days, Back Home & Bobby Sands

• August 3, 2016  —  Gerard Dillon’s Dream

• July 25, 2016  —  John Dee, David Bowie, Prospero’s Books

• July 22, 2016  —  When Pete Seeger Met John Doherty

• June 16, 2016  —  Henry McCullough: Gone To Meet Hank

• April 9, 2016  —  Ryan Vail – For Every Silence

• March 31, 2016  —  Jealous Of The Birds – Parma Violets

• November 18, 2015  —  Julian Cope Is Dead, Viva SLF

• October 7, 2015  —  Neil Stuke And The Robot Connection

• August 24, 2015  —  Cyprus Avenue, Van Morrison And A Meaning Of Trees

• July 29, 2015  —  The Miami Showband Massacre – 40 Years On

• May 27, 2015  —  SOAK – Before We Forgot How To Dream

• May 11, 2015  —  Jealous Of The Birds, The Bar With No Name, Belfast

• May 3, 2015  —  Cáit O’Riordan, The Black Box, Belfast

• May 1, 2015  —  Camille O’Sullivan, St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast

• April 12, 2015  —  The Gay Ballads Of Ireland

• March 28, 2015  —  Word Wrestling & The Longley-Ormsby Tag Team

• September 29, 2013  —  My Favourite Shirt

• September 7, 2013  —  Early Dolores

• August 31, 2013  —  Van Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Among The Regions

• August 21, 2013  —  The Invincible Soundtrack

• August 19, 2013  —  Never Mind The Bullocks

• August 7, 2013  —  Face Saving Exercise

• August 5, 2013  —  The Abbey Habit

• August 1, 2013  —  The Life Of O’Brien

• July 31, 2013  —  From Bad To Verse

• July 23, 2013  —  Postcard From A Young Manic

• July 17, 2013  —  Bear//Face Necessities

• July 16, 2013  —  Dr. Simone, I Presume