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Most important people in Irish Music ?

  • 16-06-2008 1:09pm
    #1
    iMax
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    Who do you think are the most important people in Irish Music today ?

    Performers, industry people, presenters, is there a definitive list ?


    My own suggestions:

    Alison Curtis - Today FM Producer/Presenter
    Tom Dunne - Today FM Presenter/Musician
    Dave Fanning - RTE Presenter
    Gerry Whelan - Singer
    Jackie Hayden - Hot Press General Manager/Music Journalist
    The Edge - Musician (obviously)
    Neil McCormick - Music Journalist/Author
    Glen Hansard - Musician/Oscar Winner

    Is Alison Curtis alone in being a woman in a man's world ? Is Fanning relevant anymore ? Is Dunne Done ???

    Who would you suggest ?


Comments

  • #2
    all the stars
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    ME :D just nobody knows it yet :D


  • #3
    unclebill98
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    The most important people in the Music Industry are the ones you've never heard about.

    These people are not known. The make it work and call the shots.

    Simple.


  • #4
    Savman
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    Dead right. There's a whole world of stuff going on outside the realms of the Hot Press Yearbook :rolleyes:


  • #5
    iMax
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    but in terms of people known for their contribution to Irish music ?


  • #6
    Savman
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    iMax wrote: »
    but in terms of people known for their contribution to Irish music ?
    Oh. Well in that case The Wolfetones, The Dubliners and The Pogues.:p


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  • #7
    frobisher
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    "Important" is a pretty subjective term. If you said powerful you'd maybe get a clearer response. In which case U2 and Paul McGuinness are going to be pretty high up there. Louis Walsh is a very powerful figure too. Brendan O'Brien has shaped a lot of big records with his mixing skill, although very little that's actually Irish. There is a Boards.ie wide ban on discussing certain things that might fall into this category too. The music programers on TV and radio are powerful, but more as a group than as individuals. Niall Stokes' is powerful in relation to Irish music as Hot Press sells a lot of copies and it is the window to the Irish music world for a lot of people.

    And of course...... me. :pac::pac::pac:


  • #8
    Welease
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    Consumers.. without those you wont get very far.... ;)


  • #9
    Alanthroneus
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    PHILOMENA BEGLEY \m/


  • #10
    Stef1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭Stef1979


    hansard...really....why??? :confused::confused::confused:


  • #11
    iMax
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    Stef1979 wrote: »
    hansard...really....why??? :confused::confused::confused:

    He's an oscar winning, multi platinum selling international artist, just because he's a ginge, you have to give the rest to him ;)


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  • #12
    Stef1979
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    yeah kudos to him for winning the oscar, I'm not taking it away from him personally I don't think the competition was up to much but either way he has it. My question was why is he important to music, everything u listed he did for him and fair play to him for it... I just don't see him as important....


  • #13
    BigBenRoeth
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    Good god,it would have to be the remaining Dubliners and Shane Macgowan.


  • #14
    S.I.R
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    Phil lynott... if not for him/thin lizzy then the irish would have no rock, u2 are a bunch of puff's, pouges get you going then shane passes out, rory gallarhar finds it difficult to finish a set ( back in the day )


    honestly, before you name anyone else, he has to be in the top 3...


  • #15
    BigBenRoeth
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    S.I.R wrote: »
    Phil lynott... if not for him/thin lizzy then the irish would have no rock, u2 are a bunch of puff's, pouges get you going then shane passes out, rory gallarhar finds it difficult to finish a set ( back in the day )


    honestly, before you name anyone else, he has to be in the top 3...


    I agree that Phil is important.
    But,even though Shane does some whack things and his voice is irregular,there's been very few incedents where he actually had to stop playing...


  • #16
    Savman
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    Does self-importance count? Could make for an exhaustive list tbh.


  • #17
    studiorat
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    As well Phil Lynott there's Rory Gallagher, Bob Geldof, Liam Clancy and Van Morrison who all made inroads on the aul international scene in the 70's.

    Daniel's a pretty big seller in his own right and generates a fair amount of work for peeps in Ireland.

    Considering the fact that of the broadcast royalties generated in Ireland last year that came to €7.25 million, only €750,000 stayed in the country I reckon radio and television isn't particularly important.


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