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Localmusic.ie launches this weekend with incredible giveaways and prizes
Register on-line with localmusic.ie and be in with a chance to win some fantastic prizes, including:
Beautiful hand-crafted McBrides Acoustic Guitars,
Bass & Electric Guitar Packs and Zoom GI and GIX pedals.
Theo Dorgan for Arts Under Attack Panel
Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, editor, documentary screenwriter and broadcaster. His most recent collection is WHAT THIS EARTH COST US (Dedalus Press, 2008). He had a parallel life for many years as an arts manager, including stints as co-Director of Cork Film Festival and as Director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann. He has served [...]
Jim Killock on Illegal Filesharing Panel
Before joining the Open Rights Group in January 2009 as Executive Director, Jim worked as External Communications Co-ordinator of the Green Party. At the Green Party, he promoted campaigns on open source, intellectual property, digital rights and campaigned against the arms and espionage technologist Lockheed Martin’s bid for the UK Census. Lockheed Martin have since [...]
AMP Distribution at The Music Show this weekend
A.M.P. Distribution will be showcasing their new range of Galaxy Digital Pianos at this year’s show. The flagship piano of the range is the DGP-900, a digital grand piano which will be on display at the their stand. With an RRP of €1699, they expect huge interest in this particular model. Be amoung the first to see [...]
Sunday October 4th The Music Show Seminars & Panel Discussions
12pm THE ARTS UNDER ATTACK: A RESPONSE
An Bord Snip has recommended swinging cuts in the budgets allocated to all of the arts organizations. So
how important are the arts to a country like Ireland? And how will musicians, film-makers and creative workers be affected if the knife is applied?
JAMES MORRIS (Irish Film Board), BARRY DEVLIN [...]
Noise Control at The Music Show Academy gig After Dark in association with Hot Press
Dublin five-piece Noise Control fuse rock and dance to create their trademark incendiary sound. Personally selected by Liam Howlett to support The Prodigy on one of their Irish dates, the band have also shared the stage with Bassment Jaxx, Asian Dub Foundation, Mylo and Calvin Harris.
One of the participants in this year’s Raw [...]
Saturday’s Lineup for The Music Show announced
THE LIVE STAGE - SATURDAY 3rd October
IMELDA MAY
THE CORONAS
DIRECTOR
THE CHAPTERS
BIPOLAR EMPIRE
COMPETITION WINNER
Masterclasses, Workshops & Public Interviews
PUBLIC INTERVIEW: HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL
A Conversation about Life, Work and Music with GLEN HANSARD
IRISH YOUTH MUSIC AWARDS
Presentation and performance featuring the winning band of the Irish Youth Music Awards.
GUITAR WORKSHOP
Brought to you by Tech Music Schools
DRUM MASTERCLASS with CONOR [...]
Saturday 3rd October: The Music Show
Seminars & Panel Discussion Timetable
10.20 – 11am MUSIC: THE OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION
You want to get involved in music but you’re not sure how. Whether you see yourself as an artist or want a career in the biz, there are some brilliant courses available for aspiring music pros. This is your chance to find out everything [...]
The Music Show - Sunday Lineup
Sunday Music Show Lineup Unveiled
The Music Show is pleased to confirm the line-up for Sunday 4th October
THE LIVE STAGE - SUNDAY 4th October
THE BLIZZARDS
REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
DAVID KITT
DELORENTOS
VILLAGERS
THE BRILLIANT THINGS
VENGEANCE AND THE PANTHER QUEEN
MASTERCLASSES, WORKSHOPS & PUBLIC INTERVIEWS
Public Interview: IS IT FOLK, IS IT ART, OR IS IT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL?
A Conversation about Songs with CHRISTY [...]
O Emperor for The Music Show Academy Gig After Dark in Association with Hot Press
Fresh from their stellar performance on the Hot Press New Bands Stage at Oxegen come Waterford’s O Emperor. The quintet will shortly release debut single ‘Po” taken highly anticipated long-player Hither Thither. The band were winners of the National Student Music Awards in 2007 and in 2008. Were amongst the finalists of the Williamsburg Live Song Contest in New York [...]
The Deans at The Music Show Academy gig After Dark in association with Hot Press
The blues-rock trio from Galway have been creating quite a stir of late, having just released their third long-player Distraction. The album follows on from debut One and sophomore outing The Album. Impressively the band have recorded and played with such industry legends as Henry Mccullough (Joe Cocker And Wings), Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy) Jackie McCauley [...]
Graham Hopkins Zildjan Drum Masterclass
One of the country’s best-known drummers Hopkins honed his skills in Kilkenny’s My Little Funhouse before moving on to worldwide success with Northern rockers Therapy? Following his departure Hopkins put together his own band Halite who recorded two albums and played at Slane with the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Having made [...]
Graham Hopkins accompanied by Keith Farrell for his drum masterclass presented by Zildjan
Base Player/producer extraordinare Keith Farrell to join Graham Hopkins for his drum clinic, this Saturday 2pm at The Music Show.
Keith plays base with many such as Mundy, Cathy Davey, Pugwash, Duckworth Lewis Method, amongst many others.
Anto Drennan Joins Johnny Fean For Guitar Masterclass
The line-up for this year’s Music Show just keeps on getting better…
Guitar players and music fans alike are in for a double treat at the Music Show, with the addition of Anto Drennan to the line-up for this year’s event, which takes place at the RDS, next weekend October 3 and 4.
He will join legendary [...]
The Music Show presents AFTER DARK in association with Hot Press
The Academy, Saturday 3rd October
DAVID KITT
NOISE CONTROL
THE DEANS
O EMPEROR
+ DEATH DISCO with BP FALLON & Special Guest
Tickets: €12 (includes booking fee)
Doors: 7:30pm
The Music Show presents in association with Hot Press, After Dark - a showcase of some of the top Irish indie acts - featuring David Kitt, Noise Control,The Deans and O Emperor. The gig [...]
Roland Ireland to launch 6 New Products at The Music Show
Roland Ireland is delighted to announce the arrival of 6 new product to the range, including 2 new VDrum Kits, New Audio Sampler, Boss Vocal Performer, Play along audio player to for guitar practice and more.
Visit our stand at The Music Show this year to learn more about these new products and get the chance [...]
The Blizzards join Music Show line-up!
The Blizzards are the latest Irish stars to be added to the line-up for Music Show, which takes place in the RDS on October 3 and 4, adding hugely to a bill that already includes The Coronas, Imelda May and Republic of Loose, among the current leading lights of Irish rock.
The highly rated Mullingar outfit [...]
TV3’s Xpose talk to The Script @ the launch of The Music Show
When Irelands current hottest ticket, The Script, launched The Music Show 2009 there was what can only be described as a media frenzy. TV3’s Xpose were among those who got to talk the men themselves where they explained to over 100,000 viewers why The Music Show would be the place to be on October 3rd [...]
Nick Angel For The Music Show
He’ll join Jim Sheridan and John Carney to discuss ‘Where Music Meets Pictures’.
Nick Angel was the director of A&R at Island Records from 1990 to 1999 and was responsible for the signings of P.J. Harvey, Pulp, The Orb, Talvin Singh, and Apache Indian.
Since 1999, Nick has been the Music Supervisor at Working Title Films. His [...]
World Launch of new Marshall line-up at this years Music Show
KMI is delighted to announce the world launch of Marshall’s most affordable Valve range ever. Designed to offer all valve amplification in an easy to use format the MA range can deliver clean to overdriven with ease and because the design has been built around the experience and knowledge of Marshall’s long history with Valve amplification you [...]
Hot Press is looking for one unsigned band to play The Music Show
Your band could be joining Republic of Loose, The Coronas and Imelda May on stage.
Hot Press is offering unsigned acts the opportunity to play on The Live Stage at The Music Show in the RDS, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October.
To be in with a chance of joining Imelda May, Republic of Loose, Delorentos and many [...]
David Arnold & Fight Like Apes’ MayKay confirmed for Music Show
Award-winning composer David Arnold has been added to the line-up for the Music Show, which is RDS-bound on October 3 and 4.
Arnold has scored five consecutive James Bond movies starting with 1999’s The World Is Not Enough; won a ‘Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture’ Grammy for Independence Day; collaborated with the likes [...]
Glen Hansard added to Music Show line-up
The Swell Season-er is one of numerous additions.
Glen Hansard is the latest heavyweight to confirm for the Music Show. The Academy Award-winning songwriter joins a growing list of leading names who will appear at the RDS over the weekend of October 3 and 4. As reported in the last issue of Hot Press, the new [...]
Liberty Global Vice Presidents for The Music Show
Shane O’Neill, the Chief Strategy Officer with Liberty Global, has been added to the list of participants at the Music Show.
O’Neill, originally from Dublin but currently based in London, is Senior Vice President with the company and is President of their Chellomedia subsidiary, which is responsible for their content business. Chellomedia currently owns and operates [...]
Pirate Buster for Music Show
He was the man whose evidence put a huge hole in the stern of Pirate Bay, in a landmark judgement in Sweden earlier this year. Now the CEO and Chairman of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, John Kennedy, is set to speak at The Music Show, which takes place on October 3 and 4, [...]
Jim Kerr & Nicky Ryan added to The Music Show
As revealed yesterday on hotpress.com, Simple Minds mainman Jim Kerr and Enya co-manager and producer Nicky Ryan are the latest heavyweight additions to the Music Show line-up, which takes place in the RDS on October 3 and 4. It’s been a great 12 months for Kerr who organised a 90th birthday party for Nelson Mandela in [...]
The Script Launch The Music Show
The Music Show was officially launched, today Wednesday, 26th August by Irish superstars THE SCRIPT. To mark the occasion, the Dublin trio participated in a Special Public Interview conducted by Hot Press’ Stuart Clark, in front of invited guests at the Westin Dublin. The event offered a preview of the type of entertaining, educational and [...]
This is your chance to attend a special interview with The Script!
The Music Show, the largest event of its kind to be staged in Ireland, will be launched this Wednesday, August 26 by THE SCRIPT, at a secret location in the centre of Dublin.And we are offering fans of the band the opportunity to attend this very special event – and maybe even to ask questions [...]
Trabants make rare appearance at The Music Show
They are the basis for some of the most iconic images in rock. For two days they were on exhibition at the RDS in Dublin, as part of The Music Show.
The humble Trabant – a small saloon car of East German manufacture – first came to prominence in rock when one was featured on the [...]
Boyzone Star joins ‘Digging for Gold’ panel at The Music Show
Mikey Graham joined producers Future Cut – Darren Lewis and Tunde Abelola - and Grag Haver on a panel entitled Digging For Gold – Making Hit Records.
Graham is best known as a member of Boyzone, who had six UK No.1 records, and numerous other hits, in the course of making three albums and releasing a [...]
Manics & Mel C Producer Greg Haver joins The Music Show Line-Up
Greg Haver joined the list of major industry names appearing at The Music Show 2008 . The event will take place this year at the RDS in Dublin on October 3rd and 4th and continuing in the success of last year boasts a line-up that is packed with industry heavyweights.
Last year Greg Haver joined the [...]
International Producer Duo Future Cut confirmed for The Music Show
International production maestros Future Cut were added to the line-up of guest speakers at The Music Show 2008, which took place at the RDS on October 4 and 5.
Among numerous other major hits, Future Cut collaborated extensively with Lily Allen, co-writing, producing and mixing half of her debut album, including the number one smash hit [...]
The Music Show Opening Times Announced
The Music Show will take place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October 2009 in the Main Hall, RDS Ballsbridge. Featuring the latest & greatest in music equipment, The Blizzards, Republic of Loose, The Coronas, Cathy Davey and many more preformed on the Live Stage 2008 as well as the likes of Marc Carolan (Muse), [...]
John Feeley added to Music Show lineup
Live music industry classical guitar guru John Feeley was the latest addition to The Music Show 2008, set for October 3rd-4th this year in Dublin’s RDS.
Ballinasloe-born John Feeley enjoys the label of “Ireland’s leading classical guitarist” bestowed upon him by The Washington Post, and is also a lecturer in the DIT Conservatory of Music. With [...]
