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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 29/11/2013 Galway City Tribune: ■ Pub staff bare all to aid charity fundraising................................................................................ 3 19/12/2013 News Letter: 10th Nashville Songwiters Festival to feature 50 events and 100 artists...................................... 5 15/12/2013 The Sunday Times-Eire: Artists alarmed at copyright proposals......................................................................................... 6 13/12/2013 Irish Independent-Day and Night: Artists Spot the difference............................................................................................................ 7 03/12/2013 New Ross Echo: Arts Centre to host music business course....................................................................................8 17/12/2013 The Star: Coronas have view to a Kil'........................................................................................................... 9 21/12/2013 Limerick Post: Court bid to stop the music at Limerick bar.................................................................................10 31/12/2013 Irish Examiner: Irish musicians share €32.4m royalties bonanza........................................................................ 11 31/12/2013 The Herald - National Edition: Irish stars share €32.4m bonanza...............................................................................................12 31/12/2013 Irish Independent Tabloid: It's music to their ears as royalties hit high of €32m.................................................................. 13 11/12/2013 The Sun-Eire: Jail threat to club boss for royalties............................................................................................ 14 11/12/2013 Irish Examiner: Nightclub owner told to face the music or go to jail.................................................................... 15 11/12/2013 The Star: 'Pay Up Or Go To Prison'............................................................................................................. 16 31/12/2013 The Star: Right-on cash for artists............................................................................................................. 17 25/12/2013 Bray People: Singer Parle hopes for Christmas number one............................................................................ 18 31/12/2013 Daily Mail Eire: U2 & Co earn €32m... while you're waiting on the phone............................................................ 19 Copyright Material. This may only be copied under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Ireland agreement (www.newspaperlicensing.ie) or written publisher permission. -3- Galway City Tribune Circulation: 24847 Friday, 29 November 2013 Area of Clip: 47900mm² Page: 5 Page 1 of 2 The bar man dared her to organise She roped everyone in the Veronica found the entire it. If she walkedthe walk, Pub staff pub and live venue into the process exhilarating. they would strip for the talk. shoot - all 30 part-time and fulltime "The first shoot of the girls For most people, such madcap bare all to staffers, aged 19up to 45 - was a group shot, they were notions would be all forgotten very nervous and very critical about, consigned to the right up to the bosses - Fergus aid charity of themselves. By the second bin of great ideas conceived in McGinn, Rob and Gary Monroe. and third they weren't so bad. over-enthusiasticmerriment. fundraising For the older guys it was a case But not Veronica.The admin Almost all the staff are Irish, of'are you done yet'," she recalls. worker in the Irish Department with their modesty protected at NUI Galway had always by a few strategically placed BY DENISE McNAMARA "The third group were wanted to organise a charity props. mainly college students who event and followinga few horrific There are a few fully bare AFTER a night's festivities at were very ripped. They were deaths from cancer in her bottoms to titillate the masses her favourite Uvevenue, Vernonica arses that will launch all 1,000 all about 'did you get that line Ni Ghriofa happened native Carraroe, Cancer Care Westwas the obviouschoice for calendars, quips a hopeful to notice a rather odd thing. Veronica. All the staff at Monroe's on the charity. "It was an off-the-cuffcomment With no previous experience Dominick Street were peculiarly in managing a photo shoot, handsome, males and females but it took wingsand flew. alike seemed to have I ended up taking my holidays killer bodies. to do the shoot over two days. I She declared aloud that they nagged loads of people to donate should all pose for a nudie calendar their time so everyone involved and it would be the easiest from the makeup artist, money you could raise for designer, printer and photographer charity. did it for free." -4- Galway City Tribune Circulation: 24847 Friday, 29 November 2013 Area of Clip: 47900mm² Page: 5 Page 2 of 2 of my ass'. I was calling them in life. It was about doing something Monroe's Live scooped the One Direction. They were absolutely outside your comfort National Live Music Venue of hilarious. They were zone and having a bit of fun." the Year award at the Irish just loving it, for them it was Her personal favourite is the Music Rights Organisation very much a photo shoot and August shoot highlighting the (IMRO)headquarters in February they were giving it welly." Galway Races with three male followinga vote by the public. The shots involving the Monroebar staff. Another is the Christmas All the nude stars will be brothers and Fergus involved shoot feature with fivegorgeous fully clothed when they get to a great deal of banter. gals, a tree and very pert meet their adoring public at the "The one of Gary I love becauserear. launch tonight at the venue he's in stitches laughing. "I'm sure some will find it from 7.30pm. I didn't want it to be this serious controversialbut I think they all The A3 size calendar costs thing about looking beautiful. look so totally amazing," €10 with all proceeds going to There's too many seriousthings gushes Veronica. Cancer Care West. -5- 12/19/2013 00:00 | News Letter Media Source: Press Page: 45 10th Nashville Songwiters Festival to feature 50 events and 100 artists Online article -6- 12/15/2013 00:00 | The Sunday Times-Eire Media Source: Press Page: 4 Author: Eithne Shortall Artists alarmed at copyright proposals Online article -7- Irish Independent-Day and Night Circulation: 131161 Friday, 13 December 2013 Area of Clip: 19100mm² Page: 26 Page 1 of 1 NIALLBYRNE BETAWWW.NIALLER9.COM Artists Spot the difference : n the wake of the recent hubSj| them explaining exactly how they bub from well-known musiII determine what gets paid out to cians like David Byrne and artists. There is no fixed per-play - Thom Yorke, Spotify has rate, for example, meaning an launched Spotify Artists, artist's cut in any given month (spotifyartists.com), an informationaldepends on other factors like the website that aims to show artist's total streams divided by musicians in a transparent way total streams and Spotifys monthly how they get paid. Wow,that only revenue. took about five years. It also pays up to 70pc of royalties While Spotify and streaming to those who hold the master looks like the way forward as a recording and publishing rights way of listening to music, information to those songs. That's record labels around payments per stream and organisations like MCPSI and was, until now, derived from artist IMRO here to you and me, who statements received via a thirdpartypass that on to the artist. service, never from Spotify Even better for artists, Spotify directly. launched an analytics tool which The site naturally takes an optimisticcan give artists direct access to PR stance on its quest to get their listening data. In the old music fans to pay for music again days, artists were obscured from and its plans to pay all artists more any of this transparency by older as they add premium subscribers paper models that took months (40 million is the goal, they're at due to bureaucratic systems and six million). manually generated reports. They say that they've paid That overdue transparency is a $500m in royalties this year so far, step in the right direction, especially that they pay out 70pc of their revenue for artists, who can now arm and say that a "niche indie themselves with real information album" has earned $3,300 in July about their stream data and who 2013though doesn't explain if niche will be in a greater position to here is Arcade Fire or Ariel Pink. negotiate better streaming deals The important stuff includes with labels in future. -8- New Ross Echo Circulation: 18400 Tuesday, 3 December 2013 Area of Clip: 17500mm² Page: 16 Page 1 of 1 Arts Centreto host music businesscourse STARTINGON Wednesday, January 29, nery), Emma Harney (leading music the Internet on music has given more 2014, the Wexford Arts Centre will run publicist) and others to be confirmed. powers to creative musicians and songwriters a weekly course intended to explain the Key subjects to be covered will include than ever before. But it has also practical workings of the music business The Internet as a Marketing Tool, How made the worldwide music scene a more and the music media. The weekly to Get Radio Play, How Record Companies competitive place. So there's a growing course, from 7.30