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New Irish Music News

August 1998: New Irish Music is featured in a report in Hot Press magazine from Ireland and an interview with BBC Radio in London.

August 1998: The second New Irish Music Acoustic Showcase night is held, this time at Fiddlesticks Pub in the West Village. Aidan Mallon, Brendan O'Shea, Kevin Lynch and The Monaghans are the featured musicians.

September 1998: The Walls (the band formed by Steve and Joe Wall, former creative core of The Stunning) are offered the fourth Harp Lager radio commercial spot to be aired throughout the USA within weeks.

September 1998: New Irish Music launches its search for music for new Harp Lager radio advertisements to air in 1999. Press release:

New Irish Music, the organisation based in New York working to promote Irish bands to the American record industry, is looking for music for a radio advertising campaign to air in the USA during 1999.

In the last year a series of radio advertisements in the USA for Harp Lager has proved to be a useful promotional springboard for Irish bands. The Sawdoctors, The Geraniums and New York-based Telulah Crash have had their music aired nationally in America by this means.

The radio campaign has proved successful for Harp Lager and will be expanded in 1999. Irish bands are invited to submit material for consideration for this campaign to New Irish Music, 131 Avenue B, Unit 3C, New York, NY 10009, USA ( mark envelope 'Harp Lager Advertisement' ).


The guidelines for content are loose: original material with upbeat tempo and lyrics are favoured, with the theme of 'common ground', friendship and cameraderie in general. The idea of the campaign is to not only promote Harp but also to promote the original material of Irish bands. Guitar rock/pop has been favoured to date, but all musical genres will be considered.

Any further specific questions can be sent by email to John Greally at New Irish Music .