MTV to stage Titanic festival gig in Belfast
MTV is to return to Belfast with an outdoor concert marking the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Titanic Sounds will feature several artists staged against the backdrop of the city’s new Titanic Belfast tourist attraction on April 13. It is part of the Titanic Festival commemorating the loss of the Belfast-built liner in the North Atlantic.
An MTV spokesman said: “More information on performers and ticketing will be announced in the coming weeks.”
Belfast hosted last year’s MTV European Music Awards in November, with top acts including Lady Gaga, Jessie J and Justin Bieber.
The Titanic Festival is a series of events expected to attract massive tourist interest.
The six-storey Titanic visitors' centre is close to the slipway where the Titanic was launched a century ago. The building could cost £90m (€106m) and is the most expensive tourism project built in the North.
Other events planned on the night of April 14 include a church requiem which will remember the 1,500 lost lives, with haunting music by composer Philip Hammond at St Anne’s Cathedral. There will also be a play celebrating the people of the Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was built.
Meanwhile, an iPad app has been designed detailing the Titanic’s legacy, following her journey from the docks of Belfast to her sinking. Features include rare archive footage, photographs of the ship’s construction, the sinking timeline and “did you know” facts.
Tim Davies, marketing director at the History Press, which helped produce it, said: “The Titanic app looks fantastic and we’re confident that both enthusiasts and general consumers alike will enjoy it enormously.”
