Last but by no means least, the final entry in OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series. I hope you’ve enjoyed this week of other voices on the blog and, yep, I think we’ll do it again sometime. We end with Sinéad Gleeson paying tribute to the man who provided “the crazy paving foundation” of her musical likes.
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The next guest post in the 500 Words of Summer series comes from James Byrne, the man behind Any Other City Records. Here, he explains just why he runs a label.
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OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series continues with music writer Lauren Murphy rewinding five years to how the Irish music scene looked in 2005.
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For the latest post in our 500 Words of Summer series, we say hello to music programmer Aoife Flynn who wonders if we’re living through a golden age for Irish music.
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We have reached the halfway point in OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series and here’s writer and ex-blogger Derek O’Connor on his slow-tech summer.
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Next up in the 500 Words of Summer series, documentary-maker Aoife Kelleher writes about some recent music documentary discoveries.
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Anyone who follows the music business or technology threads on OTR will have come across the erudite, considered and articulate views of regular poster Ronan Hession AKA Mumblin’ Deaf Ro. When I was putting together the prospective list of writers for the 500 Words of Summer series, Ronan’s name was the first one on the page. Here, he goes data-mining to inject some truths into one never-ending music business debate of our time.
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The second in OTR’s 500 Words of Summer series comes from Cork DJ and vinyl enthusiast Stevie Grainger on why the 45 is his weapon of choice.
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Welcome to On The Record’s 500 Words of Summer series.
All this week, we’re running guest posts from a bunch of people on a variety of topics. You will definitely recognise some of the writers and you will probably not know others but, trust me, all the posts are well worth reading. The writers were given a simple brief: write about whatever you want to write up to and including 500 words. We’ve got posts to come on the golden ages of Irish music, running a label, music documentaries, the joy of the slow-tech life, seven-inch singles and much more besides.
We kick off the series with Ailbhe Malone who goes in search of some young voices in pop.
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