With the summer fast approaching a lot of people will be getting excited for festival season. The allure of festivals like Glastonbury and Coachella is enough to get some to empty their bank accounts on a great music filled weekend away rolling around in the mud. But for those of us in Ireland who fancy... Continue Reading →
With the first two months of the year out of the way, a lot of people's minds are turning towards the summer and festival season. Last year a popular feature on this blog was the analysis music festivals. This year I will be continuing to do these posts. The first of which will be today's... Continue Reading →
This site by in large is a blog which tries to explain basic economic concepts using examples from the music industry. However, it also occasionally provides an economic analysis of events in the music industry in order to provide commentary on the world of music. A popular example of this was the recent analysis of... Continue Reading →
A recent post on this site (See here) tried to analyse whether Ireland's national festival, Electric Picnic, had gotten better or worse in terms of the size of it's headlining acts. The article seemed of interest to quite a few people judging by the number of views it got so I said I would conduct... Continue Reading →
The headlining acts for the 2019 Electric Picnic festival were announced this week and as usual the announcement was met with mixed reviews. This year's indie/soul type headliners (Hozier, the Strokes, and Florence and the Machine) sees a departure from last year's more Hip Hop based headliners of Kendrick Lamar, NERD, and Massive Attack. Obviously... Continue Reading →
If you were one of some 55,000 people lucky enough to venture up to Co. Laois last weekend for the Electric Picnic festival then you may have been feeling a tad bit down the past few days. Getting over that first initial day of exhaustion and dehydration is obviously going to be incredibly tough if... Continue Reading →
