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Ireland announces €50 million of new funding for live music sector
The Irish government has announced €50 million of new funding for its live music sector during the coronavirus crisis, including a €25 million expansion of its popular Live Performance Support Scheme (LPSS). READ MORE: Restarting live music in 2021 – industry insiders and medical experts on what to expect Government minister Catherine Martin unveiled the new measures yesterday (March 9), which also includes €14m for a new programme called the Music Entertainment Business Assistance Scheme (MEBAS), that will contribute to the overheads of music businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis. The LPSS was first launched last November as a €5...
70 per cent of DJs have had to retrain during the coronavirus pandemic
A new survey has found that the vast majority of DJs in the UK have been forced to retrain due to the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Restarting live music in 2021 – industry insiders and medical experts on what to expect 70 per cent of DJs responding to a survey by Pirate.com said that they have retrained over the last year, 29 per cent of whom have shifted into music production. “I trained as a barber and also learned how to make beats,” one anonymous respondent told the site. Advertisement 26 per cent of respondents said that the pandemic...
Former New Found Glory guitarist Steve Klein convicted of indecent exposure
Steve Klein, former guitarist of pop punk band New Found Glory, has been convicted of felony indecent exposure. The conviction stems from a case beginning in 2014 in which Klein was charged with crimes including lewd conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography. Klein, who was asked to leave New Found Glory the day after he was first arraigned by San Luis Obispo Superior Court initially pleaded not guilty on all charges. Now, however, he has accepted a plea agreement. The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that it sees him plead guilty to felony indecent exposure, with all...
Lil Nas X trolls TikTokkers trying to cancel Eminem
Lil Nas X has dropped a new TikTok video that trolls the platforms users who have been trying to cancel Eminem. Read more: Eminem vs everyone: a massive list of every one of Slim Shady’s lyrical feuds A campaign started last week calling for Eminem to be cancelled because of some of the controversial lyrics found in his catalogue over the years. A debate then ensued pitting Millennials against Gen Z, with the former group of older Eminem fans largely coming to the rapper’s defence and saying that the younger generation is decades late to being offended by an...
Foo Fighters accidentally got “the wrong Nick” to produce ‘One By One’
Foo Fighters have revealed that Nick Raskulinecz, who co-produced their 2002 album ‘One By One’, was given the job by accident after the band “accidentally called the wrong Nick”. Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins said that frontman Dave Grohl dialled the wrong number in his list of contacts. READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music” “Nick Raskulinecz showed up and that guy who produced it and he just was a great cheerleader for us, you know?” he told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “He really was enthusiastic about us.” Advertisement “I meant to call Nick Oliveri, who was the...
Pink Floyd announce ‘Live At Knebworth 1990’ live album
Pink Floyd‘s hallowed 1990 gig at Knebworth is being released as a full live album next month. The band headlined the Silver Clef Award Winners concert at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire in June 1990, which also featured live performances from the likes of Paul McCartney, Dire Straits and Phil Collins with Genesis. Read more: Soundtrack Of My Life: Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason While the concert, which benefitted the Nordoff Robbins charity, was broadcast on MTV at the time (and later released on DVD), Pink Floyd’s performance at the show is only now being released in full as a stand-alone release...
Lou Ottens, inventor of the audio cassette tape, has died
Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, who is credited with the invention of the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. Ottens started working for electronics manufacturer Phillips in 1952, and by 1960 had been promoted to head of product development. It was there, along with his team, that he developed the world’s first portable tape recorder. READ MORE: Cassette sales are surging, but who’s buying them? In 1963, he introduced the first cassette tape at the Berlin Radio Show electronics fair, which superseded the cumbersome reel to reel systems used until that time. The following year, the name ‘Compact Cassette’...
Michael Eavis pays tribute to Bill Harkin, Glastonbury’s original Pyramid Stage designer
Michael Eavis has paid tribute to the late Bill Harkin, who designed the original Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival, following the news of his death this week. Harkin’s passing last weekend was first reported by the independent GlastoFestFeed site earlier this week. A written tribute to Harkin by Eavis, the founder and co-organiser of Glastonbury Festival, has been published by Glastonbury today (March 10), with Eavis recalling how he first came to work with the architect. “Bill Harkin first came to Glastonbury towards the end of 1970. He was delivering products to the health shops in the town and...
Groove Armada and The Coral set to play at London’s Kaleidoscope Festival 2021
Groove Armada and The Coral are among the artists who are set to play at the 2021 Kaleidoscope Festival, which will be held in the grounds of London’s Alexandra Palace. The one-day north London event debuted its first edition in 2018 and had been hoping to return in 2020 before the coronavirus-enforced shutdown of live music effectively cancelled the UK’s summer festival season last year. Read more: Independent festivals could “sink” and face bankruptcy without government-backed Covid insurance this month The organisers of Kaleidoscope have today (March 10) announced their intention to host the festival again this summer, confirming that...Recent Posts
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