Sound of Belfast runs between November 9 – 19, 2023, with the support of the Arts Council Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, BBC Radio Ulster, Music V.
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Jim Reilly was originally raised on Denmark Street, off the lower Shankill, before relocating to the Falls Road, Divis and Turf Lodge. When he was 14, his mother asked him what he wanted for his birthday. He asked for a drum kit and the neighbour had a mail order catalogue, so it was ordered up.
A child of Northern Ireland's Troubles recalls, 46 years later, that fateful night when The Miami Showband was ambushed by the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group on the anniversary of the atrocity.