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nightlife · Saturday 25 July 2026 · 9:00pm 
EastSide Electronics By Night at Banana Block Belfast
At Banana Block · Portview Mill, 310 Newtownards Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim
At Banana Block · Portview Mill, 310 Newtownards Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim
East Belfast has quietly built one of Ireland’s most respected electronic music scenes, and EastSide Electronics By Night is where that scene puts its best foot forward. This is the club-hours edition of the annual EastSide Electronics event - part of the wider EastSide Arts Festival - held inside Banana Block, a converted Victorian linen mill on the Newtownards Road. If you care about house music, this is a proper night out: a tight lineup in a venue with genuine character, not a hotel ballroom with a rig rented for the occasion.
Banana Block occupies the former Strand Spinning Mill at Portview Trade Centre, a building that has been reimagined as a creative and cultural hub since opening in late 2021. The events space within it is raw and industrial - exposed brick, high ceilings, the kind of room that takes a sound system well.
For the By Night edition, the headliners are Timmy Stewart and Jordan Nocturne, the duo behind The Night Institute, an organisation that has shaped Belfast club culture for over a decade and inspired a generation of the city’s electronic music fans. They are joined by Efa O’Neill, a Dublin-based DJ, producer and host of the Out of Space radio show, who brings a different edge to proceedings.
EastSide Electronics 2026 spans multiple venues across east Belfast - Bullhouse and C.S. Lewis Square also feature - so the Banana Block night fits into a wider celebration of the scene. The By Night show runs from 9pm into the early hours of Sunday 26 July.
Banana Block is at 310 Newtownards Road, about two kilometres east of Belfast city centre. Translink Metro buses serve the Newtownards Road regularly from the city centre; the journey takes around 10 minutes. Taxis and ride-hailing apps are well available from the centre too. If you are driving from outside Belfast, the A2 brings you in from the east; the A1/M1 from Dublin connects to the city ring. Street parking is available in the area but a taxi into town afterwards is the sensible option.
East Belfast has its own distinct character - the Newtownards Road corridor around Portview has become a focus for independent creative businesses, and the Banana Block site itself is worth a daytime visit for its market, food traders and unusual banana museum. There is more to see in Belfast and across Co. Antrim.
Heading to Banana Block in Belfast? Antrim has plenty more to see. Read the Belfast area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.