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1999 |
| May 1999 |
The CLUAS website is launched as a hobby site by
Eoghan O'Neill.
Originally CLUAS offered not just music articles but film and
theatre reviews as
well as some travel writing. Over the years however CLUAS has evolved into a
webzine focused on indie music. |
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July
1999 |
The CLUAS.com Discussion Board is launched.
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Aug
1999
|
The CLUAS MP3 section is launched, offering the first digital music
programme to unsigned Irish acts. The first act featured was
Aengus Devine. In
the coming years over 40 unsigned Irish acts went on to be featured in the CLUAS
MP3 section. |
|
November 1999 |
The first CLUAS newsletter is sent out
to an initial subscriber base of 77. To date over 3000 people have subscribed to the CLUAS email
newsletter. |
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December 1999 |
The first CLUAS gig takes place in the Isaac Butt venue in Dublin. On
the bill were Charis, Aengus Devine and Stoat. |
|
December 1999 |
The results of the first ever CLUAS.com end of year readers poll are
published. The results also contained categories for the best songs and films of the
nineties. |
|
2000 |
| January 2000 |
CLUAS broadcasts its second concert in Isaac Butt's live over the
internet. CLUAS was the first site in Ireland to broadcast unsigned Irish acts
live over the internet. |
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March 2000 |
The first CLUAS writer meet-up takes place in the Long Hall pub,
Dublin. |
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Sept 2000 |
CLUAS.com wins a Golden Spider
for the ‘Best Personal Site' |
|
2001 |
| October 2001 |
CLUAS is shortlisted for the 2001 Golden Spider in the “Readers
Award” category. CLUAS however does not win the award, coming second only to the
Eircom.net portal. |
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November 2001 |
The CLUAS.com Discussion Board is
relaunched using the open
source code developed by the Snitz community (check out a selection of the
most memorable discussions that took place
between 2001 and 2004 on the discussion board). |
|
November 2001 |
CLUAS hosts The Walls live in Whelan's. The Walls dedicate their
performance to Mic Christopher who died earlier in the day. CLUAS broadcasts the
concert live on the internet, audio and video. |
|
December 2001 |
The CLUAS end of year Readers' party
takes place in Whelan's with The
Frames, Damien Rice, The Walls, Rodrigo y Gabriela all on the bill. Over IR£6500
was raised at the concert for Concern's Afghanistan campaign. The concert was
also broadcast live over the internet, both audio and video. |
|
2002 |
| June 2002 |
CLUAS passes the 200,000 threshold for monthly page impressions for
the first time. |
|
July 2002 |
The CLUAS discussion board got hacked
by a Turkish hacker!
However
no serious damage was done (as the discussion board database is backed up
regularly) although any messages posted in the four days up to 29 July 2002 were lost. |
|
2003 |
| July 2003 |
The CLUAS website is not accessible for three days starting on 31 July 2003
as its web hosting company was victim of a 'Distributed
Denial of Service' (DDoS) attack rendering CLUAS and other websites
inaccessible. In many quarters a DDoS is considered as an act of
'cyber-terrorism' and the FBI were accordingly investigated this
attack! |
|
2004 |
| January 2004 |
The CLUAS writers mailing list is launched allowing the CLUAS
writer community to keep in touch with each other more easily. |
|
April 2004 |
CLUAS opens the polls for readers to vote for their
top 50 Irish
albums of all time. The results are published on the day of CLUAS.com's 5th
birthday. |
|
May 2004 |
CLUAS marks the occasion of its firth birthday with a concert in
Whelan's featuring Bell X1, Republic of Loose, Dave Couse, Anne Scott.
Over
€5000 Euros are raised at the event for Warchild. |
|
October 2004 |
Two new sections are added to CLUAS.com:
-> The CLUAS 'Gigs of the fortnight'
-> The CLUAS Opinion section is launched with a
provocative piece from Aidan
Curran on the state of the Irish music scene. |
|
2005 |
| June 2005 |
Breaking with its tradition, CLUAS - in order to cover costs associated with
hosting of the website - starts generating some modest revenues by including
text advertisements on the website (from the Google "Adsense" program) and
securing commissions from referred sales (through Amazon.co.uk's referral
program). |
| October 2005 |
A new section with profiles of individual
CLUAS writers is launched |
| November 2005 |
CLUAS reaches out to China! A new CLUAS column
'The Beijing Beat'
is launched, written by Mark Godfrey's, CLUAS.coms's Beijing-based
writer. |
| December 2005 |
A powerful new search page is launched on the
CLUAS site that allows readers to search through the entire CLUAS
archive. |
|
2006 |
| January 2006 |
The 'French Letter' column,
written by Paris-based CLUAS writer
Aidan Curran is
launched. |
| April 2006 |
A redesigned of the CLUAS home page is launched making easier to
navigate the site and for visitors to quickly see the latest additions
to the site. |
| May 2006 |
The CLUAS MySpace page is
launched where - each month - CLUAS writers highlight 4 bands on the
Irish scene who have been found guilty of creating exciting music. For
each act presented on the CLUAS MySpace page an MP3 of theirs is made
available via the MySpace media player. The first four acts picked to
feature on the MySpace page were Channel One, The Chapters,
Delorentos and Roller/Sparkers. |
| July 2006 |
The CLUAS guidelines for good
writing are published. Put together by CLUAS writer Aidan Curran, the advice provided in
these clear guidelines aims to facilitate first-time as well as veteran CLUAS
writers in producing engaging and credible articles. |
| November 2006 |
CLUAS begins an ambitious migration to a brand new content platform
(DotNetNuke). As expected there were a number of
hiccups and some
teething problems for users. But it was worth it - the new
technology opened up new possibilities for the CLUAS website that
prepares it for the future. |
|
2007 |
| March 2007 |
The first CLUAS blogs are launched! Leveraging the new DotNetNuke
technology CLUAS launches a total of 5
music blogs.
First blog entries discuss everything from
Nina Hynes in Paris to
listening to Van Morrison after surfing to the
launch of Muse.ie. |
