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Saviours Of Our Musical Tastes
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Gar
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11/4/2004 10:11 AM
    With respect to John Peel, I wondered just how many journalists do enough for musicians nowadays. So basically the theme of this topic is to name the dj's, journalists, writers etc who still work effortessly to inform the mass population of the wonderous bands/artists coming through the ranks. I'm not a fan of the radio much so I wouldn't recommend any dj's. Although, I did discover a few artists thanks to John Walshe. But I think that written journalists don't do enough and the one's who do aren't as appreciated as they should be. Feel free to transform this thread into a heedy debate, it's needed on a bitter Thursday morning!!!!
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    11/4/2004 10:31 AM
    BP Fallon.
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    11/4/2004 10:44 AM
    My fellow county-men Donal Dineen on Today FM after midnight and Cian Ó Ciobháin on Raidio na Gaeltachta between 10 and 12 each night.
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    11/4/2004 11:21 AM
    I think Jenny Huston's pretty good at playing new artists and stuff, phantom of cos when it's on, but to be honest I find new artists just by going to gigs, the internet (more so now than ever), free Cd's with magazines and taking chances some times just buying albums cos I like the cover and stuff, bit weird that way. I found Josh Ritter, Richard Hawley, The Shins and loads of others just thru the covers of their albums.
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    11/4/2004 11:51 AM
    Who says our musical tastes need saving? All I want is music radio thats a bit interesting and slightly unpredictable.
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    11/4/2004 12:41 PM
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    Who says our musical tastes need saving? All I want is music radio thats a bit interesting and slightly unpredictable.
    I agree 100% I especially won't have Jenny Huston telling me about music.
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    11/4/2004 1:56 PM
    Journalists - Jim Carroll, Eamonn Sweeney Radio DJs - John Kelly, Alison Curtis, some people on Radio na Life whose names I never found out, Tom Dunne once in a while, Donal Dineen (though why dont Today-FM archive his shows?) and I used to really like Philip King when he did his Sat night show
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    11/4/2004 2:08 PM
    My musical tastes as far as I'm concerned are in tip top form ranging from everything to everything. Don't listen to Radio cause the decent programs are on late so I'm either asleep or out. And that about wraps it up for me.
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    11/4/2004 2:53 PM
    gotta agree with karlito 100% there, when i was a wee lad in tipperary it was dave fanning who introduced me to much of the alt scene, tipp not being the hub of musical activity is is today.(that was the joke)_
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    11/5/2004 10:31 AM
    I like John Kelly. Also, Andy Kershaw, to some extent on BBC Radio 3. I've very little time for indie-rock these days, so I wouldn't know who's playing that.
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    11/5/2004 11:30 AM
    As any journalist will tell you, it's the editors, not the lowly reporters, who'll decide how much exposure new/alternative/groundbreaking music gets in print or on air. These are the same monied sect who decide the future media direction of our country at D6 dinner parties - or so some would have us believe. And the future ain't good, witness shelving of Dineen to a later night slot on Today FM. The existence of the IT's Ticket magazine has also been under threat for some time, if you listen to certain whispers. Peel's death, and the media hubbub surrounding the extent of new music's exposure to the masses, raised another question for me, though. Is it not the case that classic music, across a variety of genres, is woefully underrepresented on the airwaves (with the notable exception of BBC Radio 3)? When was the last time you heard a John Coltrane, or Muddy Waters, track on the radio? Or are they simply too 'minority interest' to merit airplay?
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    11/5/2004 12:25 PM
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    And the future ain't good, witness shelving of Dineen to a later night slot on Today FM. The existence of the IT's Ticket magazine has also been under threat for some time, if you listen to certain whispers.
    that Ticket yarn will come as news to a lot of people, especially as i've heard they're putting a lot of their main writers on contracts to make sure they can't write for anyone else. if u look at the ticket recently, theyre selling ads like they are going out of fashion and thats the real bottom line
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    11/5/2004 3:21 PM
    I heard a Coltrane track on the radio one night, it was about 1 in the morning. Think the station might've been Anna Livia. But I do get your point. The Ticket needs new young fresh writers. It is mainly targeting students afterall.
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    11/5/2004 6:15 PM
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    Originally posted by Gar The Ticket needs new young fresh writers. It is mainly targeting students afterall.
    I'd say very few students read the ticket and that its target audience is a lot wider and broader than that. It's probably aimed at those irish times readers whose taste in arts extends beyond opera, classical and dull theatre. it would be very hard for any national newspaper to aim specifically at students - or even to aim a supplement at them unless it was called "Oi Students! Read This! You Will Get Laid! You Will Get Drunk!". national newspapers, by definition, tend to be broad churches
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    11/8/2004 9:03 AM
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    that Ticket yarn will come as news to a lot of people, especially as i've heard they're putting a lot of their main writers on contracts to make sure they can't write for anyone else. if u look at the ticket recently, theyre selling ads like they are going out of fashion and thats the real bottom line
    Granted. The Ticket itself may be thriving but recent JNRS figures indicate sales of the main paper are being trounced by the Indo. If that re-occurs, the board will be quick to 'review their product', such was the context of what I heard. I'd be very surprised if more than 2/3 Ticket scribes were on contract - but again I'm certainly open to correction on that one. Not that this thread should degenerate into media watching- apologies folks...Cluas.com is the future of course! On the jazz front, since I posted someone's pointed out that Lyric FM run a cracking jazz show on Sat and Sundays at 7pm, called Jazz Alley...for all the 'coool' folks out there..
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    11/12/2004 9:18 AM
    Long Live Jools....! MC Solaar, Mercury Rev and Ian Brown are on Jools Holland tonight (Interpol are on next week...yayyyy!)...just remember to have your remote handy when the pitiful, ahem ...sorry the 'Beautiful' South are on....uuurrrgggghh
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