Whoooop!
The Album of the IYMA’s, Pesky Kids, has just entered the Irish Compilation charts at number 13..
My job was to look after the artwork and basically the branding for the project..
🙂
Well Done to Dermot and Everyone involved in the project and to The Pesky Kids from Monaghan and especially MGRB who won the honour of recording the album for their county! Thumbs up lads!
Check out www.irishyouthmusicawards.ie
Episode 5, Culture Cafe DCUFM.com
Loads of busy-ness going on tonight.. phones being weird.. technology getting back to normal, the goldfish bowl was a hive of activity!
Here’s what we got up to:
1. Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: Dance The Way I Feel
3. Miracle Bell: Who Took It All?
4. Chat with Dave from Miracle Bell (Jess the manager was too shy to speak on air, ah bless!)
5. Miracle Bell: Into The Trees
6. Chat with Wookie about Octocon.
7. Babylon Zoo: Spaceman
8. Chat With David Turpin who releases his new album ‘Haunted’ this Friday
9. David Turpin: The Bone Dance
10. Chat with Angela Dorgan, Hard Working Class Heroes about next weekend’s Festival
11. Neosupervital: Dance With You
12. Chat with Dermot Lambert from Garageland and a rock legend in his own right as part of Blink, about the launch of the second years CD of the Irish Youth Music Awards
13. Boy Number Seven: Come Inside
14. Culture Cafe theme DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
Didn’t unfortunately have time for some other cool music I had on the playlist including Hockey,Vampire Weekend and Noah and The Whale and didn’t have a chance to get Kev to do his music reviews so he will be doing them next week…
The hour goes sooo fast!
Today and yesterday, (yes me in my sick bed) I was working on some artwork for ‘Pesky Kids, The IYMA’s Volume 2 Monaghan’. Thats a mouthful!
Basically it’s the album of the IYMA’s. MGRB from Monaghan won the competition this year hence: Volume 2. Monaghan
The artwork is pretty much the same format as last year’s Volume 1: Donegal. It’s a 12 page full colour booklet with full colour backliner and full colour disc.
The logo I came up last year and the tagline ‘Young Music Has a New Home’, which I think is still pretty cool. I used the Hard Way RMX font, as the CD is aimed at people between 14-19, this isn’t a boring font and has a bit of a hiphop/rock graffiti edge to it.
Last year’s CD was launched at the Music Show in the RDS, not sure what the story is with this year’s CD, I just know its going to press yesterday.. Ah sure what’s new its Rock N’ Roll!
A little more time to get the artwork done would have been good..That reminds me I must do a blog post on music duplication!!
…nessy out!
I’m starting to feel a bit better myself even if my leg isn’t. Ten weeks ago I thought I would have had videos made, web sites done, loads of writing done but being ill can make things not work out quite as planned.
It’s about eight weeks til I’m back in college so, to be honest, I really don’t want to feel like I’ve wasted an entire Summer. For so long I wanted to do different things but didn’t have the time or the ‘balls’ to go for it, I don’t want to waste the chances and opportunities that I have now.
So for next week, I have set myself a task or list of things to do every day. From Saturday, I’m video editing Chrome Horse’s music video for their song ‘Death Row’. Kudos to the lads for their patience while I’ve been out of action.
I also have to start editing the IYMA’s, going to do a couple of versions, 2 minute clip, 25 minute promo and later and hour feature. There’s about 23 hours of footage there so that will be fun to get through.
Jimmy MacCarthy’s website is almost done, the site will be located at JimmyMacCarthy.net Everything should be up and running by the weekend, fingers xxxed
Hopefully I wont have fallen over at this stage, Tuesday I’m doing a new radio demo, something I haven’t done in about 18 years (He-he God I’m old!) Looking forward to getting back to ‘Nessy on the Radio’ on DCUFM but if the opportunity arises I’d like to push the radio thing a bit more. Its a long time since I did behind the scenes work on LMFM or did the stringer/voiceover work on Northern Sound. I have audio cassette recordings somewhere of these I must try and find them and put them online.. I have have cassettes from Energy Radio in Navan circa 1996, must have a look over the weekend…
Next week I’m also hopefully starting to film for the ‘Let it all out’ video for Nucentz and Rawsoul, have the studio to play with, just waiting to find out what day suits everyone.
When you can’t move around, you get frustrated but its also a good time to write, albeit (i love that word) leg elevated in front of desk. I find that my lack of sleeping can actually be good for ideas for videos, short stories, whatever so I’m thinking of buying a netbook that I can type away on in bed. Had a quick look around and with the recommendation of Mr Cian Markey (multimedian at large), I’ve come to the conclusion that a Samsung N110 might be a good buy… now to get a good deal!
It’s taking me ages to get better, a DVT is a lot more serious I guess, than I thought and it seems to take the system a hell of a long time to get rid of it… I want to know why no one has invented a Nanobot has is ingested into the system, eats the DVT and then dissolves… nevermind developing the technology to pull a satelite to earth with a string, hurry up and do the medical stuff! Pronto!
It’s a steep climb but I’ll be running up that hill..
…nessy out!