Davy Sims's Podcast

On this episode the story of the Oh Yeah music centre with Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane. There's music from Hand Models, Reevah, Strange New Places and Cut in Blinks. In June, it will be 10 years since Charlotte Dryden started working in Belfast’s Oh Yeah music centre. She and the founder Stuart Bailie began on the same day, although Stu had been driving the project since early 2006 and doors opened to music in 2007. Charlotte’s now the Chief Executive of this remarkable organisation which manages a careful balance between celebrating the history of music from Northern Ireland and developing new music, young musicians and music business talent. Stuart has moved on and we’ll be hearing from him on the next episode. The Oh Yeah building in the cobbled streets of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter once a warehouse – is now an exhibition, performance space, a recording studio, offices from where people promoting music business work. And there’s a bar and cafe. As well as music events, Oh Yeah runs courses for talent d