Need to shift a bus-load of fans to distant gigs? Then promoter John Quigley is at your service. John organises coach travel from the greater Belfast area to gigs/concerts/festivals of every decription throughout Ireland. He runs coaches to Oxegen, Electric Picnic, Glasgowbury, Marley Park, Slane and many, many more. Check the Bebo John Quigley: 07747 [...]
January 30, 2008
News just in that hard-working Belfast band EXIT has reached the world finals of the BodogMusic Battle of the Bands, a global search for the best unsigned band. Filmed as a part of a reality TV show to be shown on VH1 US, the eventual winner takes a $1-million record deal and battles it out [...]
January 28, 2008
Is the sound of vintage synths on the rise again? Check out the Synth Museum to choose your weapon: http://www.synthmuseum.com/index.html
January 28, 2008
It all began in a Belfast rock band named Coalesce with Stephen Duffin writing songs and playing bass and acoustic guitar. While mainly singing vocal harmonies, frequent impromptu folk/rock acoustic performances during the middle of the band’s set saw “Duff” assuming more lead vocal responsibilities. This quirky, energetic rock band lasted the college years with [...]
January 25, 2008
Now in its 15th year, Celtic Connections is one of the biggest winter folk and roots festivals. With hundreds of events and concerts taking place across the city of Glasgow, Scotland it attracts the cream of the talent from around the UK, the USA, Canada and beyond. http://www.celticconnections.com
January 25, 2008
Ulster celtic-pop fusion band Wanderluste have launched their debut CD, entitled Sink or Swim. Hailing from Downpatrick, Armagh and Lurgan, Wanderluste – comprising musicians Emmanuel Mc Stravick, Patrick Mc Gurgan and Louise Smyth – launched their career in 2004. The band is actively seeking a recording deal and a trip to California has helped open [...]
January 21, 2008
Blistered Eyes is the confident debut album by 20-something singer-songwriter Chris J Keys, a graduate of Portstewart’s live music scene. “A debut album featuring a unique voice and an organic sound of acoustic pop rock” CD Baby. Self-recorded and -produced, the 11-track CD is a collection of Keys’ songs that reflect upon his formative years [...]
January 21, 2008
The Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2008 will be held in the RDS Dublin on Friday, February 15, 2008 and broadcast Saturday on RTE 2. Comedian Dara O’Briain hosts and will be joined on-stage by various artists to celebrate the best in music, both home-grown and international. Ulster’s Duke Special and Ash are included among the [...]
January 21, 2008
January 21, 2008
The Sunday Business Post newspaper reports that revenue in the Irish music industry fell 13% last year, and the blame is being laid on illegal downloading. However, although the number of CDs sold fell 10%, netting the industry €110 million, legal downloads almost doubled, and some 80% of singles are now purchased online. Managing director [...]
January 21, 2008
Located a within the Donaghadee-Bangor-Newtownards triangle in peaceful north Down countyside, Blueroom Recording is a mid-sized professional studio with facilities for a range of digital recording and production services. Catering for all genres of music, there are recording packages to match any budget. Built and owned by Ulster band Morph, the studio is now managed [...]
January 19, 2008
Based in Belfast, nbmcmedia offers a comprehensive range of professional music services at realistic costs: recording studio, CD production, web design, internet radio and music sales. The nbmc team has many years collective experience in various aspects of the music business and maintain a substantial inventory of classic and modern gear: from vintage guitar amps [...]
January 18, 2008
Now Play It is a new kind of music tutorial website that employs the original artist (for example Duke Special, KT Tunstall, Paul McCartney) to teach you how to play their hit song using proven learning techniques. This on-line video service has been developed to help offer an on-demand and personal means of learning how [...]
January 17, 2008
Bangor-based musical instrument consultancy IBC Trading – http://www.ibctrading.com – has secured a contract with Italian guitar design company Eko worth more than £1 million over the next three years. IBC Trading specialises in product design, sourcing, sales and marketing consultancy for the global musical instrument sector.
January 16, 2008
Sounds of Northern Ireland presents the “Best of SO:NI” featuring The Beat Poets, Million Dollar Reload, Superfreakz, Thief – some of the bands that graced Musicbest Records’ popular showcase events during 2007. That’s Thursday, January 17 at The Empire. Admission is a mere £3. http://www.myspace.com/onesonimusic
January 15, 2008
Lisburn rock band Exit are the only Ulster act to make the all-Ireland finals of the Bodog Music “Battle of the Bands“. This Irish heat is part of a worldwide search for the best unsigned bands and will be featured on US music channel VH1. Exit are a hard-hitting anthemic melodic rock four-piece, formed by [...]
January 14, 2008
UlsterMusic.com contributor Nick Fitzsimons writes on Van’s lasting transatlanticism: Oh Yeah‘s recent – and well-received – homage to Astral Weeks has kicked off quite a bit of reminiscence about Van Morrison’s music and influence. And nowhere outside of Belfast has there been quite as much reminiscing as in the San Francisco Bay Area.
January 13, 2008
Amazon has cut a deal with Sony BMG to offer DRM-free tracks from Sony artists on Amazon’s recently launched mp3 music download service. The deal makes Amazon the only e-tailer to offer DRM-free mp3s from all four major music labels, as well as more than 33,000 independent labels. Amazon MP3 was launched in the US [...]
January 12, 2008
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne writes a penetrating and insightful article about artist coping strategies in the digital music business age for Wired magazine: “…What is called the music business today… is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business [...]
January 11, 2008
Top up that iPod you got for Xmas with free music downloads from The Guardian‘s pick of the best websites: http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/reviews/story/0,,2234937,00.html
January 9, 2008
The Ulster Orchestra, based in Belfast, employs 63 full-time musicians and is currently celebrating forty years of musical achievement. As Northern Ireland’s only professional symphony orchestra, its tours throughout Europe, to Asia and the USA have enhanced the reputation of this region.
January 8, 2008
Are you a jazz/swing musician looking for work? Are you a band looking for work? Northern Ireland based Octave Music Solutions is recruiting new talent to keep up with market demand. Register on-line at www.octavesolutions.co.uk or call +44 (0)28 90 327 874
January 7, 2008
Robert Levine writes for Rolling Stone magazine on The Death of High Fidelity: “In the age of mp3s, sound quality is worse than ever… Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered – almost always for the worse.
January 6, 2008
Ulster Youth Choir was established in 1999 to provide the best of Northern Ireland’s young singers aged 16-24 with the opportunity to sing together to the highest possible standards receiving training from some of the best choral and vocal practitioners from throughout the UK and Ireland and is now regarded as one of Northern Ireland’s [...]
January 5, 2008
Soul man Sam Mahood – a legend of the Irish shownband era – sadly passed away on Sunday, December 23. Back in the day of the Belfast Beat (Maritime Blues) scene, Sam Mahood played with Just Five and later toured with the Big Soul Band [who made the Commitments look like Val Doonican - ed]. [...]
January 4, 2008
The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the Van Morrison “all-time classic” album, Astral Weeks. This landmark recording – a mixture of jazz and soul and Celtic lyricism – includes tracks such as Cyprus Avenue, Madame George and Beside You. With this in mind, a series of Ulster music makers will play the album [...]
January 3, 2008
Fastfude - the Northern Ireland music community (social networking) website – is now an obese 10-year-old and to mark the occasion a birthday party is to be held on Saturday, January 5 at Belfast’s Empire Music Hall. The show is served from 8.30pm with live bands and DJs, including Escape Act, Coda, The Dangerfields and [...]
January 2, 2008
For over 25 years POLLSTAR has provided music business professionals with the most reliable and accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules, ticket sales results, music industry contact directories, trade news and unique specialized data services. In addition to publishing the concert industry’s leading trade publication, POLLSTAR also maintains the world’s largest database of international [...]
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