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Bandpages.ie is Irelands premier website for booking live music entertainment for events and gigs nationally and we are looking for someone to join our small but busy team.
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Started in mid 2011, Bandpages.ie won an Eircom Spider Award within 6 months of launch and has been getting busier ever since. For the next stage of our growth plan we are offering a full-time Marketing Internship to join our small team of music aficionados - starting mid June.
We are interested in your attitude and ambition as well as your experience and qualifications. We don’t expect you to re-invent the wheel, but we do expect you to create successful marketing and PR campaigns/ideas and implement them. You will be given the autonomy to follow…
In an age of music industry PR dominance we see factory formulated hit after hit, who isn't getting tired of this sad ol' routine when we know poetic greatness when we hear it.
A quick glance back through the best-selling singles of the last 10 years in the UK makes for depressing reading. Many of the top tunes since 2002 have included protege's of Simon Cowell's money-making juggernaut... think Will Young, Michelle McManus, Steve Brookstein, Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke, all releasing covers of other Artists' work. And don't forget the 2005 chart-topper from Tony Christie and Peter Kay on their quest to find Amarillo.
Add to these the resurgence of dance music and the development…
We've seen the fast decline of vinyl record and CD sales happen before our very eyes during the past decade, so what can we expect from record companies moving forward.
Gone are the days when people rushed to the record store first thing in the morning to buy an album and then spent the rest of day listening to it over and over again. We’re no longer getting excited about taking a record out of its sleeve or hold our breath for the first spin. Some people don’t even seem to care about the beautiful artwork that once accompanied us through the first listen.
Music purchases in the past few years are turning more and more towards digital. In 2011, digital revenues were up 8 per cent to a staggering US$5.2 billion. And with the tendency to download music came yet another…