POP LIVES:Angela Dorgan is the CEO of First Music Contact, running Music From Ireland, BreakingTunes.comand also makes the Hard Working Heroes festival happen.
What are you reading?
I found a book of letters and stories about American comedian Bill Hicks in an Oxfam shop last week, I’m glued to it.
Last film you saw and your verdict?
The Bill Cunningham documentary at the Light House cinema. I laughed and cried at it. It’s so amazing to see someone do what they do because they love it. He is so talented and so modest . It’s his life as a love story with New York and its everyday styles and was so engaging and full of emotion. I watched it with my sister who’s just back from living there for a year and we had a ‘spot that corner’ banter through the whole film. If you love New York and love fashion, go and see it.
What are your most clicked bookmarks?
Regulars are Facebook and Twitter for engaging, breakingtunes for work and Gawker for celeb stuff. A little addicted to Etsy for vintage clothes, I also love music blogs so Crack in the Road (UK) and I Guess I’m floating (US) and Nialler9 for the homies. I’m also an avid click-througher so mostly end up anywhere and everywhere.
What track should we listen to right now?
Laura by Bat for Lashes is sublime, also Sorcha Richardson's (See breakingtunes.com/sorcharichardson)
Which boxset/TV series do you have on the go at the moment?
My sister and I are watching Mad Men in tandem from episode one and we keep forgetting which ones we can’t talk about yet. I am a big fan of Breaking Bad on TG4 and have become oddly addicted to Revenge.
If you want to discover something new online this month, make it . . .
It would have to be breakingtunes.com. We hit our 4,500 mark this week and it is truly incredible that there are that many acts/ bands in Ireland.
You can search by genre or get all tribal and search by county.
