A Joyful Slog is a one-hour documentary exploring the essential and necessary rise of do it yourself independent music culture in the last 20 years in Ireland by DCTV’s Community Of Independents with help from FMC Ireland. It features interviews with And So I Watch You From Afar, Halves, Owensie, Richie Egan of The Redneck Manifesto, Road Records, Jape, Leagues O’ Toole, Vincent Dermody of The Jimmy Cake and Whelan’s, Angela Dorgan of FMC, Nay from Harmless Noise, Gib Cassidy, Mick Roe of the Richter Collective, Cathy Pellow of Sargent House, Ed Hannon and yours truly.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
