This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Musicians, including songwriter Phil Coulter Johnny, Duhan, Michael English, Tony Allen, Sibéal Ní Chasaide, Ruaile Buaile, Moxie and John Sheahan of The Dubliners, join Labour TDs, including party leader Brendan Howlin, to help launch the Music Bill 2016 calling for legislation for an Irish Music quota for music in Irish Radio.
Hozier on the hour every hour so.
About time/Fight.
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Probably the easiest way to kill off Irish radio for good.
Who dreams up this rubbish?
Erm I think that’s impossibly gifted Sligo band Moxie with John Sheahan
Thats an awful idea. If music is good enough it’ll become popular and get airtime. Forcing subpar Irish music onto the airways will just push even more people towards Spotify, TuneIn etc.
“If music is good enough it’ll become popular”
That is demonstrably untrue given the absolute state of popular music. A more appropriate maxim would be “if music is played enough, it’ll become popular”.
More people confusing media with charity.
What a waste of time…. Positive discrimination Bla bla..We don’t have any really important issues do we? Like, NAMA being an incompetent mess or Enda Kenny sending women off on the boat…
OH look now we are being told what to listen too.
To anyone who fancies an Irish music quota: listen to The Green Scene on LMFM for a truly horrifying window on the future… except it’s happening NOW!!!!!
I’ve only ever known it to be listened to by people who need some occupation while awaiting death.
@TOB: the death notices on LMFM are also a hit among the key coffin-dodging demographic. After 15 minutes of Gerry Malone’s monotone, you’ll yearn for a touch on the shoulder from the fella in the bright nightgown.
I see your Green Scene and raise you a Country’n’Irish with Tony Kehoe weekdays at 6pm and Sundays 10.45 – 1pm (after mass, of course!) on South East Radio.
The 8th level of music hell.
@Daisy: Thanks for the pointer. I’m giving that serious consideration – I’ll be able to catch the last hour and 3/4 this Sunday after the Archers omnibus.
What plonker thinks giving over to politics any music is worth a shot? The blind leading the blind just as when the Irish language was given over to them. Definitely; death knell.
Get your shamrock off my glamrock..
well played
good man!
Many countries do this, what’s the problem?
The problem is that it’s not a social cause.
Quotas are to be demanded when it comes to plays and playwrights, but not when it comes to commercial music.
So if its a play thats crap its ok if its irish. But say if its an irish singer then thats bad.
Quota.
Another word for mediocrity.
…those tax defaulter bills aren’t going to pay themselves…
the Rte report on Morning Ireland yesterday used a english folk song ‘the fox’ which is based on a middle english poem.
A string section from the government always seems to be playing these days. Stradivarius hasn’t a thing on them
i was under the impression we already had this kind of quota? how else does one explain Fight Like Apes?
A deep conundrum or A Fierce Pancake as Flann O’Brien would say. On which note…
https://youtu.be/GDAuaStv2Kk
QED
Late Date on RTE Radio 1 with Frilly Keane: https://youtu.be/LvdLovAaYzM
Lions led by a snivelling gremlin.
As n approach this is a bit backward in this day and age. You might even say it’s a blunt instrument.
oh i see what you did there
Oh dread.
Howlin pr stunt
A rare spelling error. It starts with a “C”
Howlin Wolf.
As long as it’s not the Hozier-type moany-holes singing ‘deep and emotional’ (cliched) dirges all the time
the french did this in the mid-90s
From what I’ve seen of him in that ‘You’re a Star’ series, and from what I’ve heard about him in the Planxty documentary below, I’ve gotten the impression that Phil Coulter is a bit of an ar$ehole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXOgdupzDus&list=PL5BF20A0AB0A61BA0
Cool Filter
Coulter not getting enough royalties? They’ve some notions, trying to own the airwaves.
…has Coulter ever apologised for the Bay City Rollers?