General queries
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Personal email – collabs, event bookings, DJ queries, general queries, business contacts, ideas and direct contact. No music promo here please. See below.
Advertising & Sponsorship
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For sponsored content, advertising, campaign involvement get in touch with Michael McDermott.
Sending us music or gig listings?
There are three emails:
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Promos, track streams, premiere offers, album links & releases.
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As above but exclusively for Irish artists – we listen to everything we get sent here.
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For gig listings, festivals and events only.
Music supervision & sync licensing
Niall is available for music searches for use in brand and agency projects including TV advertisements, film, trailers, in-flight entertainment etc with an emphasis on emerging Irish music. Full info on this page.
Some more info for bands & PR sending music for consideration
Some general advice for new artists sending out music.
Please try and give as much advance of the release as possible as it often takes me a few weeks to get through everything sent in. Ideally a month to six weeks.
If you are sending songs, make it as easy as possible for people to hear your music:
- Immediate streaming links to songs (Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, Youtube, DISCO etc) with an option to download tracks.
- A simple email with some info on the release, bio, release dates, social links and links to hi-res photos and downloads (avoid attachments)
- The use of mini online sites like Adobe Spark or a private website link featuring all of the info is preferable to a designed attached PDF EPK.
- Don’t require downloading of the files for to hear first. You can offer downloads of tracks and photos via Dropbox, Google Drive etc (also suitable for radio).
- Generally, try to reduce the number of clicks it takes for someone to hear your music.
I try to listen to everything I get sent but due to the high volume of emails coming in, it is now very difficult. Please don’t chase up after you’ve sent an email – I will read the first one even if it takes me a few weeks. If I don’t get in touch, please don’t take it personally – I have only a finite amount of time to listen to the music sent to me. I don’t have the time to respond to all emails unfortunately that come in looking for a feature, premiere or pitch but rest assured, I’ve considered your music and would be in touch if was interested in featuring.
Gig news, festival press releases & live info
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Gig inclusion at the editor’s discretion. I only feature stuff of interest to the site and its audience. Festivals and really special events I want to hear from you.
