Irish Music: June 2004 Archives
Planxty have release a DVD of one of their reunion concerts which was in vicar street Dublin.
All the old favourites are there as well as some new tunes. The DVD also contains some bonus tracks and a documentary. One of the bonus tracks (Where only our rivers run free), is a favourite of mine as it used to be sung by my Geography/music teacher Paul Kavanagh. He and his wife were part of a succesful group known as McMurrough.
The DVD is excellent and is a must for all planxty fans. The link below links to Christy Moore's website (One of the member of Planxty). At 22 Euro it is a good buy.
Tracklist:
1. The Starting Gate 4.38
2. The Good Ship Kangaroo 4.31
3. The Clare Jig 3.14
4. Arthur McBride 3.59
5. Little Musgrave 9.20
6. Vicar Street Reels (2004) 4.21
7. The Blacksmith / Black Smithereens 5.03
8. The Dark Slender Boy 4.37
9. As Christy Roved Out 4.01
10. As Andy Roved Out 5.17
11. The Kildareman’s Fancy 4.15
12. Raggle Taggle Gypsy 5.46
13. The West Coast Of Clare 6.05
Plus 3 bonus tracks and Documentary
From the variety of tones that emit from our open plan office, I was not surprised to read that ring tones are to have their own
chart in the UK.
Music industry association the Mobile Entertainment Forum and KPMG have launched a fortnightly top twenty chart for downloadable mobile phone ringtones.
The MEF Official UK Ringtones Chart is the first chart to be compiled from confidential data provided by ringtone licensees and is collated by KPMG. Participating firms include Amplefuture, Buongiorno/Vitaminic, Infomedia, Musiwave, Opera and Phonefurniture.
The first artist to be number one in the new chart is Eamon, with a ringtone taken from the former number one single "I don't want you back."
The predictions are that by next year that ringtone revenue will surpass sale of singles.
The popularity of ringtones is a prime of example of micropayments. If you can convince some one to spend 1 euro per week and scale this across a teenage market your are certainly on to something big.
