Oh Ireland! With This Proliferation Of Music Magazines, You’re Really Spoiling Us

New music magazine on the block this week readers. Well, kind of anyway. Master of all things musical, and tormentor of Nokia PR guru’s everywhere Nialler9 and his gang of merry cohorts, including the undoubtedly fabulous, witty and erudite Sinead Gleeson, went online this week with the digital wing of their new musical empire, State Magazine.

The first copy should be available in all good music shops, and plenty of shit ones no doubt, barring any little snafu’s, on March 6th.

It’s a far cry from the days of having to rely on the free copies of the Slate (cinema reviews sometimes by yours truly) and the the Event Guide to get your musical fix, as well as get your fingers all black and inky.

State will join the ever growing list of quality musical publications bursting forth from these shores in recent years such as the excellent (if totally anal and humourless) Foggy Notions and the previous new kid on the block, the Trinners produced freebie Analogue.

Hopefully the final nail in Hot Press’s coffin will be hammered in by this newest addition.

Ireland has come along way musically in recent years, and Dublin as a city has finally got it’s act together with regards to building it’s own, well established, underground scene (as the list of Irish Acts lined up to play the SxSW festival in Texas goes to show - Paddy Casey and Delofuckingrentos excepted, of course..) and while the disappearance of the pirate radio stations was a bit of a pain in the hole for a while, the explosion of music blogs like Nialler’s, as well as the appearance of these magazines, has really done wonders for the gig scene about town in the past few years.

Long may it continue, and good luck to the lads and ladies over at State.

 

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