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This may only be copied under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Ireland agreement (www.newspaperlicensing.ie) or written publisher permission. -2- Table of Contents 13/11/2013 Irish Independent Tabloid-Special Supplement: €1,000 ar fail don amhran ur is fearr............................................................................................ 3 03/11/2013 Sunday Independent-Business supplement: Booming Spotify on sound footing with ad offering.......................................................................4 09/11/2013 Irish Farmers Journal Country Living: Danny Carthy flying the country flag.............................................................................................7 14/11/2013 Evening Echo-Downtown supplement: Dingle jangles with sound of post rockers.....................................................................................8 04/12/2013 Hot Press: FIRST OTHER VOICES ACTS UNVEILED..........................................................................................9 15/11/2013 Irish Times-The Ticket: Hearing Other Voices.................................................................................................................. 10 01/01/2014 Irish Music Annual: IMRO ROYALTY DEADLINE IS NOW ON-LINE ONLY..................................................................... 11 20/11/2013 Kerryman North: in December Other Voices returns to Dingle for twelfth time...................................................... 12 25/11/2013 Western People: It's Dingle, all the way, for more top music acts......................................................................... 13 27/11/2013 Waterford Today: IYMAS 2014................................................................................................................................ 14 30/10/2013 Donegal Post: Ocean FM wins Europe's biggest award...................................................................................... 15 Copyright Material. This may only be copied under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Ireland agreement (www.newspaperlicensing.ie) or written publisher permission. -3- Irish Independent Tabloid-Seachtain Supplement Circulation: 131161 Wednesday, 13 November 2013 Area of Clip: 12200mm² Page: 4 Page 1 of 1 €1,000 ar fail don amhran ur is fearr Le Robert McMillen Gearrliosta Ar mhaith leat €1,000 a Deanfar gearrliosta de na bhuachan as an amhran hiarratais is fearr agus beidh nuachumtha Gaeilge sin ata na hamhrain a roghnofar le scriofoagat? No an bhfuil amhran canadh beo os comhair lucht i do chloigeann gan e a bheith feachana ag an gComortas breactha sios agat go foill? Naisiunta in Ostan Seven Oaks, Bhuel, ta comortas naisiunta Ceatharlach, ar an Satharn, 8 fogartha chun amhran nua as Marta 2014. Gaeilge a roghnu le dul san Is e IMRO a bheidh mar iomaiocht ar son na hEireann sa phriomh-urra ar an gcomortas Chomortas Idirnaisiunta Pan i gcomhar le Gael Linn. Chomh Cheilteach 2014 — agus maith leis an airgead, beidh b'fheidir gur amhran seo agat a trofai mar dhuais don bhuaiteoir. bheidh ann. I mbliana, beidh rannog Is ga do na focail agus don speisialta ann d'iomaitheoiri gceol a bheith nuachumtha agus faoi 17 mbliana d'aois, mar sin, glacfar le hamhran traidisiunta, cuirfear failte roimh amhrain pop-amhran, amhran tire, nuachumtha o amhranaithe amhran rac Ceilteach agus eile. aonair agus o ghrupai oga ceoil Ni folair na hiarratais a agus €200 chomh maith le bheith ar dhluthdhiosca agus trofai mar dhuais. a sheoladh chuig Glor Rachaidh amhran na Cheatharlachroimh an 31 Eanair hEireann ar aghaidh le bheith 2014. in iomaiocht leis na hamhrain eile o Albain,an BhreatainBheag, Oilean Mhanann, Corn na Breataine agus on mBriotain chun Corn Pan Cheilteach 2014 agus duais mhor airgid a bhuachan. Ta rialacha uile agus foirmeacha iarratais an chomortais naisiunta ar fail ar www.panceltic.ie. Daithf 0 Se le hAine Durkin agus Seoirse 0 Dochartaigh, buaiteoirf Chomortais 2013 -4- Sunday Independent-Business supplement Circulation: 250641 Sunday, 3 November 2013 Area of Clip: 85900mm² Page: 7 Page 1 of 3 Booming Spotify on sound footing with ad "We know your age, your sex, the type of music you like and other things about you," he said, speaking to the Sunday Independent at Dublin's Web Summit. "That's a very powerful proposition for certain types MD of music streaming of advertisers who want to reach you. We're offering firm in UK and Ireland audio ads that target users tells Technology Editor who use the free PC streaming service, but not the premium Adrian Weckler about mobile service." firm's commercial plans One group which sometimes gives out about the move to streaming is artists. "We firmly believe that Although Spotify does not Downloading what people really want is is dead: long live divulge exactly how much it access over ownership," pays per song to bands and 'streaming'. That's said Adam Williams, Spotify music labels, one recent the message that managing director for the UK estimate calculated that it global online and Ireland. required 200,000 plays per music service Spotify has been "But I don't think that month to earn a single person's saying for over three years. downloading will disappear As the Netflix of the music minimum wage. altogether. Don't forget, you "To be honest, that really industry, the Swedish company still have people collecting is booming worldwide. depends on a lot of things," vinyl. In fact, I think it's gone But is it fair to artists? And said Mr Williams. "It can vary up 13 per cent in the last year." can it persuade 'traditional' according to which country Back-handed compliments downloaders using iPhones it's in, the size of the market, to rival platforms aside, Mr and iTunes to ignore their the mix of free versus premium Williams is on a mission to stored-up digital collections plays and so on. But we and go with streaming? ramp up Spotify's business in very definitely offer a fair deal Ireland. To this end, the companyto artists. has launched several "We give 70 per cent of what new commercial programs for we take in back to rights holders Irish firms who wish to advertise — and we will have paid on Spotify in Ireland. over $lbn (€741,000) to music The pitch is as scary as it is rights holders by the end of impressive. -5- Sunday Independent-Business supplement Circulation: 250641 Sunday, 3 November 2013 Area of Clip: 85900mm² Page: 7 Page 2 of 3 this year. Don't forget that 4G mobile services with higher we're obliged to pay the licence monthly data caps will holders, which is often a different increase the appeal of Spotify thing to paying bands or and its streaming rivals. artists directly." "We're pretty confident that Not everyone is convinced people are using us as a great though. Radiohead's lead way to get music they would singer, Thom Yorke, recently normally not have the opportunity went on a rant about streaming of getting," said Mr services, describing Spotify Williams. "It's about access, as "f**kers" who simply not ownership." want to "get in a way" of bands Spotify is an internet music and their audiences. service that plays (or 'streams') "It's the last desperate fart music on demand to your of a dying corpse," he said. "Spotify is suddenly trying computer, phone or tablet. to become the gatekeepers to Most popular music is there: the company says that it has the whole process." over 20 million songs. According to most industry It's free (with some ads) to estimates, Mr Williams use on a computer, while it costs €10 per month to use it and Spotify are pushing an (ad-free) on a smartphone. open door. Although the company Unlike rivals such as iTunes, does not give regional the service does not 'download' songs. Instead, it plays breakdowns in terms of its (or 'streams') them, in the user base, the service is booming same way that YouTube in Ireland. The advent of 'streams' videos. -6- Sunday Independent-Business supplement Circulation: 250641 Sunday, 3 November 2013 Area of Clip: 85900mm² Page: 7 Page 3 of 3 TECHLUMINARIES GATHER FOR 'ONE HELL OF A PARTY' ffl^ 3 m J ~ -It ray CYBERCELEBS: Some of Silicon Valley's elite technology entrepreneurs were wined and dined by an A-list cast of Irish music and movie celebrities on the last night of Dublin's Web Summit last week. Bono and wife AMHewson (above left) joined director Neil Jordan, John Rocha, 'Game Of Thrones' actor Jack Gleeson and Lisa Hannigan on a pub crawl with some of the most powerful digital industrialists on the planet, in town for the summit. Tech luminaries attending the elite soiree included techno-industrialist Elon Musk, Spotify's Adam Williams (top left), Evernote CEO Phil Libin (above right) and AOLCEO Tim Armstrong. A special dinner in Christchurch Cathedral was hosted by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, with food by Domini Kemp. Tesla Motors' founder Elon Musk, who is often compared to the movie superhero character Iron Man, was asked at the Dublin Web Summit why he had chosen to come to Dublin last week. "Because I heard there was going to be one hell of a party," he said. Photos: VIP/Declan Masterson/Colin Keegan bl -7- Irish Farmers Journal Country Living Circulation: 71022 Saturday, 9 November 2013 Area of Clip: 11300mm² Page: 36 Page 1 of 1 Danny Carthy flying the country flag t is time to salute Next Saturday, 9 November, "It could also increase high-profile people in the Danny Carthy of the Danny will speak at the the percentage of Irish Irish music industry. folk group Fiddlers International Congress of royalties being retained by "Change is now necessary Green. For more years Irish Studies between 2pm IMRO. It would at the same for the development of than I care to remember, and 4.30pm at the Donnybrook time play a major role in the a proper Irish music industry Danny has been flying Room, Bewleys Hotel, support of Irish folk culture. for all," says Danny, who the flag for more coverage Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. "I have made presentations is highly regarded by many of Irish music on Irish "I will address the to the joint Oireachtas good friends in the Irish national radio.