There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of May 2026 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 180 different artists on the Shows this month.

Playlists for April 2026 were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3956-ni-rocks-playlists-for-april-2026

There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.

This month there was an interview with Lorraine Lewis from Femme Fatale and special promo features with Sevendust, Dan Byrne and The Karma Effect in relation to their new albums.

Previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/ .

We don’t post album “reviews” but we do play a lot of new releases on the Friday NI Rocks Show each week. These are some of the albums released this month that we’ve featured tracks from over the past few months; or are likely to feature over the next few weeks. This month we focus on releases from Sevendust, Kissing Kaos, The Karma Effect, Dan Byrne and Shinedown.

For the first time ever, Lorraine Lewis will be bringing Femme Fatale to Belfast when the Faster Pussycat tour arrives in the city in September. Femme Fatale will be supporting along with Blacklist Union.

Back when MTV played music, Lorraine and Femme Fatale made regular appearances with the tracks “Waiting For the Big One” and “Falling In And Out of Love”. Unfortunately, their self-titled debut album in 1988 was their only release before the band split in 1990.

Lorraine returned with an all-female line-up of Femme Fatale in 2013 and did an e-mail interview for us in 2014 -  https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews/1516-ni-rocks-interview-with-lorraine-lewis-of-femme-fatale.

She then fronted Vixen for a few years before returning with new music recently.

I chatted to Lorraine via Zoom on 14^th May and talked about the upcoming tour, the new cover of “Jackson” with Blacklist Union frontman Tony West, progress on the new Femme Fatale album and more. You can hear that interview on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 22^nd May - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show - or on our MixCloud page - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/lorraine-lewis-interview-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-22nd-may-2026/