Mind Control In The Irish Music Scene

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday May 27, 2003 20:21 by Eddie Sheridan - www.cpu-records.com eddiesheridan at o2 dot ie 00353863837051

Ireland is currently undergoing some kind of ethnic cleansing music wise with the little peoples voice being taken away

Some people are calling it some kind of sinister conspiracy. Others are saying its just beauracrats unaware of the damage they are doing.
Let me give you some facts and then you decide for yourselves.
A long time ago it was decided by the major record companies that in order for them to make more money it was neccessary to take control of what was played on the airwaves from the dj's.
This left no way of a dj being approached by unsigned bands and getting some airplay.
Most radio stations have computers to decide what music is played. Who programs these computers and where does the ordinary radio listeners opinion come into play here?
We learned to adapt to this situation by means of pirate radio stations who were not dependant on market share points and also by some tv programs like no disco.This gave bands a very small but vital chance to make it to national prominancs.
May 2003.... no disco taken off the airwaves, all pirate radio stations persecuted. All thats left is plastic lesbians and american singers who are up on peadophile charges to compete for that coveted Irish number one slot. This is a tragegy for the Irish music scene. A complete disaster on an industry that if it had four legs and ran around a race track would get all the subsidies it needed and be tax free also.
Music has raised the profile of Ireland worldwide and deserves to be supported. If you think of the man hours this week spent by all the bands in Ireland travelling the country unpaid to play a gig then think of the return all this work in the past has given to this country its a shame that we have been allowed to be strangled in this way.
Every superstar in the world was unsigned once and if the conditions that exist today existed 20 years ago we would have no u2( Fill in the name of most of the successfull Irish bands here yourself)
This is the most exiting time ever for Irish music, dont kill our future musicians careers before they start.
Support unsigned music.