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Techcrunch reports that “360″ Music Deals Become Mandatory As Labels Prepare For Free Music - as announced by Edgar Bronfman, CEO of Warner Music. Fair enough I say, for those that want to get into bed with the majors. Its a simple deal: they invest in you, they own your IP, and they get a […]

Check out http://www.digitalcircle.org/2008/10/17/digital-circle-podcast-08-crisis-what-crisis/ for the latest Digital Circle podcast featuring myself, Michelle Gallen, and Ruairi McNally chatting with Davy Sims about the impact of the global economic crisis and new ways of doing things… including the Escape Act album release

Just back from a few days in Manchester/Salford, having attended the UnConvention unconference at Sacred Trinity Church. The event brought together a bunch of like-minded independent music people, all seeking to learn, share and make new friends. I met a lot of friendly, interesting people doing innovative things to make and promote music. I wish […]

Check out the Digital Circle Podcast #2 to hear me chatting with Davy Sims in the aftermath of my talk on ‘A Manifesto for a Sustainable NI Music Industry’. After consuming way too much coffee I was worried that my presentation would have turned to gibberish, but it went well and, as hoped, triggered some […]

Kele Okereke from Bloc Party was on the wireless last week chatting with Steve Lamacq about their terribly exciting release of their new album ‘Intimacy’. The band had fans fooled with the release of a supposed ‘one-off’ single ‘Mercury’ but then announced that an album would come out on the following Thursday. This was all […]

NIMIC’s seminar on Monday was reasonably interesting. It set out to cover ‘Sync’ aspects of music publishing, or getting your music on the telly and movies. In a music world gone mad, Sync deals and other publishing income are becoming increasingly more important both to the sustainability of your music career, but also to the […]

having done the poster for tomorrow’s Escape Act gig at Club NI:NG, Smitty asked me to create one for the triumphant return of ‘the Dirt’ in late December. I’m quite pleased with the result.

My good Myspace buddy Tom just posted a global message to bands assuring us that our players would recommence automatic playing asap once a bug has been ironed out. Great, I thought, my chance to share some thoughts on the mattter:
hi tom
its good that the player doesn’t play automatically as this can be irritating. i […]

NIMIC have announced a seminar on ‘Making a living in the Live Music Sector’ to be held at Belfast’s Spring and Airbrake on November 7th. With Feargal Sharkey and Paul Clegg among other, it should be interesting an entertaining, but will it impart the secret ingredients needed for bands here to get sustainable on the […]

Its not surprising that Universal have announced the release of some upcoming singles on USB memory sticks, or that its been done before. Its just funny cos I’ve been investigating an idea for distribution of escape act’s music using a cheap alternative to the CD. The USB memory stick just doesn’t fit the bill however. […]