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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Gerry Ryan RIP
  • RIP
  • April 30, 2010, 15:22

2fm broadcaster Gerry Ryan was found dead at his home in Dublin this morning. He was 53 years of age.

Aftershow parties – where the real business gets done

It’s not just bankers and politicians who are ingenious when it comes to topping-up pension plans. This weekend, Black Eyed Peas (“the most corporate band in America,” according to the Wall Street Journal) play two shows at Dublin’s O2. When …

#Now Playing – April 30

This week’s essential tunes from OTR and guest selector, Yannis from Foals. Please feel free to add your own selections. Renee Fleming “Intervention” (Decca) New York Metropolitan Opera diva Renee Fleming’s striking version of the Arcade Fire classic. The Gaslight …

Three from The Ticket – and your plugs

Flight of the Conchords: the story of “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo” as told by Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement ahead of their Dublin shows next week. O Emperor: the Cork/Waterford band tell Lauren …

OTR returns to The Ticket

From tomorrow, On The Record will be making a return to the pages of The Ticket as a weekly column. The new OTR set-up will have an opinion piece, a Now Playing section and a weekly New Music round-up. This …

DJ Shadow, Ireland, July

DJ Shadow plays Belfast’s Ulster Hall on July 4 and Dublin’s Tripod on July 5. Tickets for the Belfast show are £20 and are now on sale, while the door tax for the Dublin show will be €32.50 and tickets …

“This music blogger IMRO licence thing”

As many of you know, there have been various blog and Twitter rumbles this week about IMRO’s moves to ask music bloggers (ie people who host MP3 files on their site) to pay for an IMRO/MCPSI Limited Online Exploitation Licence. …

Making (not a lot of) cash from streaming

It’s funny how certain music business stories keep on returning to the news cycle. A year ago, we wrote about the economics and politics of streaming on the back of Spotify and Lala being in the news. In recent weeks, …

The Far Side – playlist for Tuesday April 27

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday April 27, 10pm-midnight Big shout out to everyone who got in touch on OTR, on Twitter and on email with suggestions for the hip-hop hour. It was a hoot but, as …

Kickstarting a festival or an album

One of the best panels I stumbled upon at SXSWi in Austin last month was Funding Your Projects from the Crowd, which looked at how crowdfunding provided a different kind of financial link between creators and audience. One of the …

Bad day for “the global standard in secure media delivery”

Play MPE are a company that the vast majority of people who write about music know only too well. They are, per their own website, “the perfect solution for content owners to securely deliver their audio and other media to …

Richard Downes to become the new Charlie Bird
  • Media
  • April 26, 2010, 16:17

News from RTE that Morning Ireland’s excellent presenter Richard Downes will be packing his bags and heading to the USA as the station’s new Washington corr. Here’s hoping he’ll make a better fist of the gig than The Bird, who …

The randomiser says “we don’t give a hoot about your stinkin’ Facebook campaign”

Incoming: Beirut play Dublin’s Tripod on August 24, their first show in the city in over three years. Mmm, must be new music on the way too. Attention all OTR readers who like to communicate in 140 characters or less: …

Get the last of your plugs!

In The Ticket today, Rufus Wainwright talks about his operatic tendencies, we take a walk on the beach with Cathy Davey, Donald Clarke previews the summer’s blockbuster movies and well-known gong fan Brian Boyd runs the rule over the Ivor …

Stevie Wonder, Dublin, June – confirmed

The mystery is over! As previously announced by promoters MCD in a newspaper ad, Stevie Wonder plays Dublin’s O2 on June 24. This time, though, per an OTR source in the blue corner, tickets are actually going on sale on …

Buy Irish!

In case you haven’t seen it, check out Nialler9′s Irish Week which is proving to be hugely enjoyable. Niall asked a bunch of folks involved in different strands of Irish music (including OTR) to list the five Irish bands or …

Guest post – Delorentos’ Kieran McGuinness on Haiti

Kieran McGuinness from Delorentos is one of a number of Irish volunteers heading to Haiti this week to take part in the Haven Partnership’s Build It Week initiative. Here, he talks about why he’s volunteered for the trip, the fundraising …

The Far Side – playlist for Tuesday April 20

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday April 20, 10pm-midnight DJing dates: I’ll be DJ-ing at the Bumper to Bumper headphone disco with Michelle Doherty at the Dublin Dance Festival’s opening night bash in Meeting House Square, Temple …

On, off, on, off, on, off and now on again – it’s Lenny!

As previously reported and then retracted, it’s now confirmed that Lenny will play Sligo’s Lissadell House on July 31. It will be the third summer in a row that the Lenny dude has played an Irish show – he’s obviously …

Mountain Man, Dublin, July

One of OTR’s favourite acts from this year’s SXSW festival, Mountain Man, make their Irish debut at Dublin’s Crawdaddy on July 2. Tickets for this one will be €13 and go on sale later in the week.

Guru RIP
  • RIP
  • April 20, 2010, 12:20

Very sad news via Stevie G about the death of Gang Starr’s great MC and Jazzmatazz main mover Guru. The 43 year old passed away yesterday after a lengthy battle with cancer.

The man with the €27 million pension

No matter what happens in the future, Irish Nationwide will always be associated with Michael Fingleton and his €27 million pension. The building society have just unleashed their latest accounts and they’re not a pretty picture. Even the fact that …

Volcanic circumstances – list of cancelled shows

The following Irish shows due to take place this week have been postponed or cancelled due to ash from that blooming volcano and its impact on air travel: LCD Soudsystem (Tripod, Dublin, Tuesday and Wednesday – per promoter, rescheduled dates …

The randomiser says “do you want some volcano insurance with that?”

Item: Mount Kimbie. Truly splendid live vibes from the Kimbies’ Dom and Kai at the OTR Presents show at the Twisted Pepper on Friday night. At times, they were reminiscent of some old-school 4AD heads at play (the Pale Saints …

Ruling delivered on illegal firesharing. Judge quotes Saint Colmcille.

Full report here from Mary Carolon on today’s High Court judgement by Mr Justice Peter Charleton which allows Eircom to proceed with their three-strikes-and-your-internet-is-cut-off policy. Per Mary’s report, “the judgment arose from a settlement last year of proceedings by four …

On the Record Presents: Mount Kimbie tonight
  • Clubs
  • April 16, 2010, 12:57

No transport SNAFUs here so that means we’ll have Mount Kimbie in the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1) tonight from 11pm. Full info on the rest of the bill here. Hopefully, we’ll see you there.

The Ticket app – we’re in business

The Ticket’s app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is now live. Please post all comments and feedback about the new app here.

Always make the best use of Plug Fridays on OTR #bandtips

In The Ticket today, Tara Brady looks at the chick flicks which Hollywood hopes will keep those not interested in the World Cup happy, Mary Hannigan casts football’s leading men (Wayne Rooney as Buzz Lightyear), The Redneck Manifesto talk “Friendship”, …

The Ticket: there’s now an app for that

Tomorrow morning at 9am, The Ticket app for the iPhone will go live at the Apple App Store. It will be free of charge and give users access to The Ticket’s music and movies’ news, reviews and features. Check it …

A volcano can be termed “unforeseen circumstances”, right?

I’d say there are a fair few promoters biting their nails at the moment with the airports closed for the rest of the day at least due to that volcano in Iceland. With the Trinity Ball on tomorrow night and …

Running a record label in 2010

It’s always interesting to get a look at what goes on behind the scenes in a business you admire. XL are one of those labels who’ve steered a singular course in recent years and managing director Ben Beardsworth gives an …

Up, up and away with Villagers

You have to admit that it looks very good. As Conor O’Brien prepares to release the “Becoming A Jackal” album next month, his Villagers’ ducks are lined up in a row. Excellent early reviews (including a rave from Jon Pareles …

The Far Side – playlist for Tuesday April 13

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday April 13, 10pm-midnight DJing dates: I’ll be DJ-ing at Mud (Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) at the On The Record Presents night with the awesome Mount Kimbie on Friday …

Deezer Test

The randomiser has the first farmer’s tan of the year

OTR coming soon to an app near you? The Irish Times’ news app is now available for your iYokes and, what do you know, it’s already topping the charts at the App Store. Next up: The Irishman’s Diary app (er, …

Stevie Wonder, Dublin, June

No official announcement on this one yet but, as OTR reader pmk points out, there was an ad in The Sunday Times at the weekend so it looks like someone has listened to our plea from a few weeks ago. …

The Middle East, Dublin, June

It turns out that The Middle East’s Irish debut will not be at Oxegen after all, because the band are set to play Dublin’s Sugar Club a few weeks before that on June 26. Tickets for this one go on …

Show some love for your local record store (again)
  • Retail
  • April 12, 2010, 09:39

Next Saturday (April 17) is Record Store Day and a bunch of indie record stores around the country will be hanging out the bunting for the occasion. You can expect in-store gigs, limited special-edition releases and probably some free lollipops …

The king of plugs

In The Ticket today, Anna Carey lists the flicks every teen girl should see, we head to the opera with The Knife, go duck-watching with Stornoway and hear Luca Guadagnino discuss his new flick I Am Love. Donald Clarke previews …

Malcom McLaren RIP
  • RIP
  • April 8, 2010, 19:19

The truly unique Malcom McLaren has died. The Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow and New York Dolls’ manager, punk rock impressario, music-maker, motormouth, commentator, fashionista, artist, rock’n’roll swindler and would-be mayor of London had been suffering from cancer for quite …

Castlepalooza 2010 – the line-up

Some of the acts who will be heading to Charleville Castle in Tullamore, Co Offaly over the August bank holiday week (July 31 and August 1) for this year’s Castlepalooza festival include: Mercury Rev Fionn Regan Wave Machines (heard great …

Brendan Perry, Irish tour, May

Dead Can Dance co-founder Brendan Perry plays three Irish shows in May. Expect a mixture of Dead Can Dance and solo material when Perry and his band play Dublin’s Tripod (May 26), Cork’s Pavilion (May 27) and Galway’s Roisin Dubh …

The Far Side – playlist for Tuesday April 6

As played on The Far Side, Phantom 105.2, Tuesday April 6, 10pm-midnight Thee Oh Sees “I Was Denied” (In the Red) Givers “Up Up Up” (Valcour) Magic Kids “Hey Boy” (Goner) Harlem “Friendly Ghost” (Matador) Summer Cats “Hey You” (Slumberland) …

Going forward, moving backwards

Perhaps the most striking element of the entire Sean Quinn fandango over the last week was his admission that he lost €3 billion gambling on Anglo Irish Bank shares. The media thought I’d lost one or one-and-a-half billion, Quinn said …

The OTR re-up (now available in pineapple flavour)

Good news for the capital city gigging classes (1): Tortoise return to Dublin for a show at Whelan’s on July 10. Tickets now on sale at €29 a pop. So, there will be no Slane gig this year. Despite venue …