11/05/2026
After three sell-out nights at The Deers Head, we’re absolutely thrilled to bring in one of the true dons of the Belfast scene for a very special 3-hour set…
David Holmes.
Before the film scores, before Ocean’s Eleven, Killing Eve, Good Vibrations, ’71 and the rest, David Holmes was one of the key figures pushing Belfast’s underground music culture forward.
Alongside Iain McCready, he was behind the legendary Sugar Sweet nights at the Art College, a club night that became the stuff of Belfast folklore. In the middle of a very different Belfast, Sugar Sweet was one of those rare spaces where the music cut through everything that was going on in the country at the time. People came from all sides of the city, the sound system was serious, the records were, to most people in the room, previously unheard, and the atmosphere was completely off the scale.
Sugar Sweet was also a record shop, run with that same obsessive energy, the kind of place where the best records might be hidden under the counter until they’d been road tested at the club first. Proper record shop behaviour, basically.
So this one feels special for us.
A proper Belfast music figure, playing a 3 hour History Of House set in a room that has already given us three incredible sold out nights.
Support on the night comes from residents Dilly, Eamon Beagon and Marty McAllister, keeping things locked in from early doors.
Huge thanks to everyone who has supported these events so far, it is such a lovely family of seasoned clubbers. We honestly can’t wait for this one.
Bank Holiday Sunday
30th August
The Deers Head, Belfast
