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Reporting exclusively for UlsterMusic.com, Iain Todd takes a shine to the rocking Chrome Horse… It seems that there are two kinds of bands in this world: the ones who exist in order to seemingly squeeze every penny out of their music and out of the people who listen to it, and the [...]

Keith Getty, Kirstyn Getty, Stuart Townend, and the New Irish Choir & Orchestra play the Millennium Forum Theatre in Londonderry on Sunday, June 21, 2009, commencing at 7.45pm. Founded in 1994 by composer and hymn-writer Keith Getty and now led by Artistic Director, Jonathan Rea, the New Irish Choir & Orchestra is a group of [...]

Kicking off with The Grainne Duffy Band and The Bluez Katz on Friday, May 23, Belfast local Rab McCullough will also perform among many others.

Nouveau folk-rock band The Lowly Knights have revealed plans to play two festivals this summer – Forfey Festival August 7, and Castle Palooza – after a few months lull of in live work. Following a very busy first half of 2009, the band has instead been spending time focused on writing and recording new material. [...]

Local transport hero John is running buses to these concerts: http://www.coachestoconcerts.co.uk
[sadly, no coaches to this concert. maybe next year, eh John? - ed]

WaTunes now offers a free music distribution service called WaTunesfree with no up-front fees and no royalty slice. WaTunes promises to distribute MP3s to iTunes, Amazon’s MP3 store, Rhapsody, and eMusic.

Talented showman who thrilled Ulster’s ballroomsTuesday, 28 April 2009. Showman Dave Glover, who has died at 85, used to tell friends that he spent a lifetime stoking up a musical flame – because he had been born in a fire station. And the band leader who decorated ballrooms the length and breadth of Ireland – but especially the Arcadia in Portrush and the Floral Hall at Bellevue – wasn’t being funny. He was indeed born in the Ardoyne Fire Station.

“I’ve vague memories of watching the fire engines going out with their bells ringing,” he once said. “Part of the station was converted into apartments for ex-servicemen like my dad Sam, an inspector on the trams, and my mum Eileen.”

As a boy of 14 he sang in the choir at Whitehouse Parish Church and dreamed of music as a career. But his mother insisted on a trade and he became an apprentice fitter in the shipyard and later at planemakers Shorts.

Eventually he and his brothers set up Roundwood Engineering which flourished for years in the city before the family sold out. But before that happened Dave had to make his mind up between engineering and bands – he chose music.

“I never had any regrets about my decision although I could have become a wealthy man when Roundwood was sold,” he said.

Dave was twice married to singers in his band – and divorced. His first wife was Lynne Shaw with whom he had a son David and a daughter Debra, and his second wife, Muriel Day, became a household name in 1969 when she came fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest with Wages Of Love.

In recent times Dave, whose partner for 32 years was Anne Mulholland, lived quietly at Carnmnoney where he took an active interest in the passing music scene.

Eddie McIlwaine

Music Meetups are designed to allow anyone involved in the Northern Ireland music industry to network with other like-minded individuals. You might be a musician looking for others to collaborate with, or a band needing contacts, a manager, a studio person, a promoter or anything else related. The date for the next meetup is May [...]

Directed by singer and presenter Fil Campbell, Summersong 2009 is an intensive 5-day course for aspiring singers (minimum age 14) into any style of music. The goals of this annual course, now in its 10th year, are:  to build confidence; improve performance; prepare for auditions/exams; record a demo CD; and prepare a press pack. Applications [...]

The gobal music industry is still “overly-dependent” on selling music in physical formats – CD and vinyl. Some 75 percent of global sales are still physical, against just 4 percent digital. That compares to 80 percent physical versus 10 percent digital in Europe. But according to yearly data from the International Federation of the Phonographic [...]

First published in 2000, Irish music magazine The Journal Of Music in Ireland [JMI - ed] was re-launched on April 1, 2009 as The Journal of Music. Aimed towards an international readership seeking an intelligent but accessible read on musical life today, The Journal of Music brings together contemporary classical, traditional and jazz in one [...]

The Celtic Music Agency claims to be “one of its kind”, offering a unique selection of the finest Irish musicians, duos, soloists, 4-piece Ceili bands, fiddlers, piper’s, and dancers – anything in the genre of Irish entertainment. Many of its performers are former all-Ireland Champion Musicians and singers of the highest standard. More: http://www.ghentertainment.co.uk