Northern Irish Music Industry: Similarities to and Differences between the US Music Industry

Irish Music Industry

Irish Music Industry

Bibliography:

Webliography:

http://www.creativeni.com/

This is a website that serves as a resource for all of those who are in the creative and unique industry. It has different articles where the best clubs and pubs. It has reviews and articles about happenings in music industry. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.dojo.ie/jukebox/

It has all the news needed for the musicians. It has concert dates and reviews. You can listen to music and take a quiz on Irish music. Their quiz is very interesting. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.musicnetwork.ie/

This is a website is dedicated to development of Irish music. It provides live music, concert information and serves as a resource for musicians. It is educational for young musicians and provides news in the industry. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.nimusic.com

This site provides general information about the Northern Irish music industry. It has useful information/resources for musicians. It also has concert information as well as articles. It has a link page also. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.index.com/bands.htm

This web site provides the information on Northern Ireland’s bands. It provides a list of artists and bands. It has their album reviews, and you can access their personal websites through here. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.homeandaway.com/Nireland_music.htm

It has links to all of Northern Irish music websites, news and articles. It has information on Irish culture and music. [Fawwaz Houti]

 

http://www.radiowest.fm/

This is a website for a local Northern Irish radio station. It has Northern Irish news and great music. They are working on having a live radio over the internet. They also proved news about music. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.northernrecords.nireland.co.uk/

This is a website for a record label. It has description of the activities they hold. It also has a very good links page. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.hot-press.com

This is website for Ireland’s music newspaper. It has articles about the artists and news in music industry. It has album reviews and interviews. [Fawwaz Houti]

http://www.riaa.org/
This is a website for American music industry (Recording Industry Association of America).  This website explains everything about the American music. From the legal aspect all the way to album reviews. It even has news and a parent’s page. It has a lot of resource for listeners of music and for artists. [Fawwaz Houti]

Evolution

http://www.evolution.org.uk/

This web site has great information about the gigs all around Northern Ireland. It has the news of the music industry. It has information about the festivals all around Ireland also. [Fawwaz Houti]

HitHeads.com

http://www.hitheads.com/

This website is resource for the entire musician all around the UK. It provides help of the professional in the areas of law, promotion, and manager and connects the labels. It has music industry new from all over the world as well as Ireland. [Fawwaz Houti]

BBCi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/index.shtml

This is web site the well known British news agency, geared towards Northern Ireland. It all also has the music news. There is a selection that you can click, which is “First stop”, this program is about music industry in the Northern Ireland. [Fawwaz Houti]

Belfast Festival at Queen’s

http://www.belfastfestival.com/welcome/dsp_SplashScreen.jsp;jsessionid=FDF798D6E28BB770A0C3857ACD93B929

It has the description of the festival that takes place in Belfast. It includes news, articles, history, venues and much more. [Fawwaz Houti]

Fastfude.com

http://www.fastfude.com/

This website includes news, information about the Irish bands. It has a monthly gig listing that people can attend. It has information on new releases. It also contains Reviews of the albums and concerts. [Fawwaz Houti]

Real Music Club

http://www.realmusicclub.com/

This website is for the acoustic music organization in Northern Ireland. They support the local musicians to join the popular signers and learn from them. It has the listing of gigs and dates. Also photos and other links. [Fawwaz Houti]

The Federation of Music Collectives

http://www.fmc-ireland.com/

This web site is set up to promote the organization of new groups in Ireland. It has great resources for new start up bands. Articles about the other band their success stories. It provides help and even helps with attaining instruments to new artists. [Fawwaz Houti]

Musicians’ Union

http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/welcome.shtml

I found this to be a great web site for anybody who wants to succeed as a musician in Ireland. It just has everything you need; rules about gigging, advertisement, behavior and all sorts of things. [Fawwaz Houti]

New Rhythm Industries

http://www.nrini.co.uk/

This is a website to help musicians from Northern Ireland to succeed overseas, in this case would be here in the U.S. they make videos, run promotion, and make t-shirts and logos and so on for musicians. [Fawwaz Houti]

Blast

http://www.blast.ie/

Supported by "Treasure Islands" recording company. It has forums, news, internet store, events, photo and more. It has a list of all local bands and information about them. [Fawwaz Houti]