DownloadMusic.ie Compilation Album Announced
Word is in from downloadmusic.ie camp and the fifteen bands featuring on the new USB compilation album are:
Codes
Dirty Epics
Driving By Night
Jo And The Flood
Justin Manville
Orphan Code
Ro Tierney
Roberta Howett
Saccade
Suddyn
The Flaws
The Kinetiks
The Radio
The Rumours
Vesta Varro
Congrats to them! That’s an album and a half all right. Looking forward to my nifty USB key!
meh… wont see my money. i can isten to most of these every 5 minutes on phantom
Wish Phantom really did play that much Irish music!
[...] Off her rocker has the list of bands that have made the downloadmusic.ie usb album. [...]
Phantom do play loads of Irish music, but its the same bands and trakcs over and over. That compilation looks like a night in for one of the Pfm DJs
Most bands being playlisted go on bulletin rampages with the stations’ contact details to keep friends phoning and texting in. The Minutes posted an exhaustive, united Ireland of telephone numbers and email addresses last week, covering every DJ who’d been sent a copy of Harmonic, commanding their legions to request. Radio stations have to respond to that demand. It seems Butterfly Explosion fans have better things to do, as result we dont hear them on the airwaves? Do you request?
i used to request. but whenever i requested something i wanted to hear, it got overlooked.. when i requested something i knew theyd want to play my thing got played and my text read out…. only speaking about phantom, never bothered requesting from anone else
I dont request because I don’t waste my time hoping for a decent Irish song to come on our ‘premier’ Irish station. How about going out and getting the bands eps and such. If a load of Irish bands have their mates requesting them on the radio…. well whats the point.
Luckily The Minutes are a decent band…. but say a shit band posted a list like that. How many more times do we need to hear The Flaws (not a shit band but move the fuck over).
And your reply doesn’t address my comment at all. What has requesting got to do with it? I’m just saying that Phantom play lots of Irish tunes
(relatively… in fairness… still way too little) but they play the same ones…. either bands they are mates of, are being pushed by a label or as you said… being highly requested (which is not a sign of quality necessarily)
And my main point is agreeing with Shane. I really respect what Downloadmusic.ie are about but that list of bands seems a little lazy. Some nice surprises sure but Kinetics, Flaws, Dirty Epics…… come on.
ditto what dave said.
Yo, I never correlated requests with quality. I’d be the first to suggest that Irish music on radio is often the most obvious, unpalatable crap. Not all, obviously but there are usual suspects who wouldn’t last a second in the serious arena.
I mention requests because the stations respond to demand. One of the decisions a band will make is whether to focus on musical integrity or mainstream success. Rarely are the two compatible, here anyway.
Bands seem to make a choice whether they’ll be radio-friendly and accessible, appealling to a specific audience who are as much a promotions tool as the Internet or media. The circle of people involved in such ventures mean the bands can release on a larger scale because the radio airplay provided a wider audience.
Then there are bands we discover by word of mouth and talent, miles better than popularly-played dross. Even if their music is playable to a large audience they still need to command attention. IF neither the band or their fans are prepared to request them on radio they’re almost destined to a dead start because they were never prepared to forsake integrity of musical direction in the name of tarting themselves across fansites, bulletins or lame interviews. They can release all the EPs they can make but unless the work’s put in to reach further than immediate listeners, sales figures and radio/tv airtime as a direct result of talent rather than marketing will unlikely reach the same level afforded to Flavour of the Months like The Minutes. The same knot of hardened fans in these pop bands track every movement across their sphere. They’re determined and that is why their bands last the distance and continue to be played three months after the single release.
So pretty much like with everything : voice your opinion. Explain what you’d like to do more of and encourage your fellows to do the same. Enough people asking for The Eclectic would surely get them played in due time…
Regarding the compilation: DownloadMusic.ie didn’t choose those tracks, independent judges did. I can only speak for my own method of voting (headphones in, eyes closed) but there probably was an element of ‘douze points’. Who, however, was Russia?
Nay, i shall put this to the test. We’re back in secondary school science class.
Exp: To get The Eclectic airplay
Apparatus: Bulletins, Messages, Emails, Blogs, Comments,
Method: *messy scribbled writing*
… Also, some of those judges picked were hardly “indipendant”. Some, Im surprised even knew anything about the irish music scene at the minute. Some, are the very people that are responsible for the cycle of those 5 or 6 bands on the radio everyday! Some, Were good choices.
If the Irish indipendant music arena is ever going to expand and give these bands a proper chance, people need to open their minds beyond the quick flash in the pan music and play some new bands before the current ones fizzle out and the scramble to find someone new begins! and who knows, maybe even play some other genre than indie or rock.? The radio needs to get involved with whats realy going on.
Argh, this subject infuriates me because it’s a vicious circle: the DJs play what people want to hear and when Luan Parle gets 100 requests in an hour, they’re gonna play her single.
However is the problem that :
Good bands or their fans don’t make enough effort to break the airwaves?
The Irish media is too lazy to research music trends?
or
There are too many people in important positions deafened to real Irish talent because of the chatter from their cronies on the grapevine?
Go ahead and experiment: I’ll track your progress and rally support :p
keep an eye out. i need to make up lists of who i sent the EP to and the time thier shows are on at etc.
also, i think its a bit of both. But things should be made easier for bands, theyve got enough on their plate already dont you think?