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  • Here comes summer 2013

    It’s that time of year again. Behind the scenes, promoters are engaged in the usual bouts of ducking and diving with agents and acts over next summer’s big outdoor shows. The venues have been booked, the dates have been ticked …

  • What’s in The Ticket today – and your plugs

    Skyfall: Donald Clarke goes on The Ticket’s secret service to Pinewood Studios, home of Mr James Bond, and hears from Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Barbara Broccoli about the new British secret agent’s latest run-out, as directed by Sam Mendes. …

  • New Music – Flume, Saint Lou Lou, Sol Cat

    Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. Flume Sydney-based producer Harley Streten …

  • How about EMI artists buy their own back catalogues?

    Do any On the Record readers want to throw some cash into a FundIt campaign to buy some EMI bits and pieces? Like, I don’t want to buy the whole label – no interest in Coldplay or The Beatles for …

  • A is for Arthur, advertising and alcohol

    It’s a blackout. This is what happens when you are a major drinks brand with a very large advertising and sponsorship budget and you want to brand a day as your own. Historically, days were named after saints, but this …

  • Unblogged

    OTR is closed for blogging business until Wednesday September 26. We shall talk and type to you then. Please feel free to talk to oneanother via the comments below about upcoming gigs, the state of the music business, Swedish House …

  • Back to the Phoenix Park: MCD vs the gardai (round 2)

    It’s the story which refuses to go away. Last week, concert promoters MCD issued a hefty report on what happened – and didn’t happen – before, during and after the Swedish House Mafia show in the Phoenix Park in July. …

  • Banter: the summer of the Swedish House Mafia

    Banter is coming home. After a summer spent yakking up and down the country – thanks to everyone who was involved in our sessions at Limerick’s Make A Move festival, Donegal’s Earagail Arts Festival, the Galway Arts Festival and the …

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