25 Mar, 2008
New Message Board on Irish Rockers
We've just set up a brand new Online Forum on IrishRockers.com to replace our Yahoo Group which has been active for over five years now.
Everyone is invited to join in the chat - check it out now
17 Jan, 2008
Introducing the IRISH ROCK DISCOVERY JUKEBOX!
New on IrishRockers.com for 2008 is the Irish Rock Discovery Jukebox. The IRDJ will be showcasing some undiscovered gems from some
great Irish rock bands that you may not have heard of yet and perhaps a few more well known bands too.
Thanks to Dennis of Voodoo Loons and Chewey of Mellow Drops
for kick starting it with two great tracks! Hope you enjoy!
13 Aug, 2007
News Section Added!!
Following shortly on the heels of the Gig Guide launch, we are pleased to announce another exciting expansion of the site - we have
now added another new section - 'Irish Rockers News'. Artists who already have a login for the Gig Guide will now be able to add their own news articles to IrishRockers.com.
The News section was built using WordPress, the number one blogging software framework.
As before any Irish bands/artists interested in participating that have not already signed up for the Gig Guide should contact
to get a login for posting their news articles (and listing their gigs).
2 Aug, 2007
Gig Guide launched!
We are excited to announce the launch of the brand new the Irish Rockers Gig Guide. This gig guide is unique on the web
in that it lists gigs by major Irish artists taking place all over the world.
Irish bands/artists can contact
to get a login for listing their gigs.
28 Apr, 2007
We've added a cool new Search feature to IrishRockers.com.
Go ahead and try it out using the search box just above.
22 Mar, 2007
IrishRockers.com is back bigger and better than before after moving to a new web hosting solution that can handle the increasing volume of traffic
to the site. During the switch over some visitors may have not been able to access the site, sorry for the inconvenience.
Full access has now been restored. Thanks for your support.
- IrishRockers.com Webmaster
15 Mar, 2007
Apologies to all site visitors who have been turned away recently due to us surpassing the daily bandwidth limit allocated to the
site. The good news that we can take from this is that it's a sign that the site is getting more popular. In the run up to
St. Patrick's day the quest for all things Irish is also adding to the traffic. We are currently taking measures to remedy the
situation - in the short run reducing page and image sizes (which will also make the site faster to load) and looking into
alternative hosting solutions for the long term. Please bear with us and we hope to have this situation resolved soon.
For a small country Ireland has made and continues to make a huge impact on modern music. With a population of just around 5 million people, Ireland has launched more than it's share of internationally successfull, yet originally Irish, rock groups and artists on the world.
The homegrown Irish rock music scene really started developing in the 1960s. At that time the Irish music scene was dominated by the unique Irish phenomenon of the 'Showbands' which were groups of professional performers who played at dancehalls and clubs across the country putting on a professional 'show' and playing all the American and British hits of the era. In the 1960s this was pretty much the only way a professional musician in Ireland could make a living. Two famous Irish artists that started off working in showbands but went on to put Ireland on the map as far as rock music is concerned are Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher. Van Morrison achieved international success in the 1960s with the beat group Them before launching a hugely successfull solo career that is still going strong in it's fourth decade. Rory Gallagher fromed the blues rock trio Taste and went on to achieve critical acclaim in his solo career which lasted until his death in 1995. He is considered by many music critics to be among the greatest rock guitarists of all time.
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