LIMERICK Music Week at Limerick Institute of Technology offers an impressive programme of showcase gigs, demonstrations, discussions and workshops on the music, film and media industry that is open to the general public. Aadmission is free.
Music Week runs from this Monday March 12 to Thursday March 15.
Limerick Post spoke to John Greenwood, programme leader of the Music Technology Course in LIT.
LIT has almost 200 students enrolled in media courses, from Creative Broadcast and Film Production to the Music Technology Course.
“We cover three areas. There is the business side of music, the technical and engineering side of music and the artist side of music,” explains John
Music Week is an opportunity for the college to demonstrate its work.
“We have 50 – 60 secondary schools attending the Music Week from Limerick city and county, other parts of Munster, and Galway.
“It is our engineering week where we showcase what we do.”
Also open to the public, and a valuable resource for all Limerick creatives, are the workshops and talks from experts in the music industry. Music Week has a comprehensive line up of emerging and experienced music engineers and artists.
Music production demonstrations arrive from fast-rising trance producer Gary Maguire and techno promoter/ DJ Dan Sykes.
There are also sessions in Live Scoring for Games, Camera and Visual Effects, Radio Workshops with Spin South West manager Nessa McGann and Wired FM manager Ray Burke.
Paul Boland of event production and artist management company CWB will describe what his typical day entails and Sarah Glennane gives an insight into composition for film.
Thursday is Activism Day. The only ticket-only event of the week is entitled ‘33 Revolutions Per Minute’.
The discussion in The Millenium Theatre features Vincent Browne, Blindboy Boatclub and student Katie Hughes in conversation about protest music and student affairs.
John says this event will close Music Week. Rubberbandits’ Blindboy Boatclub has close association with LIT and wanted to get involved in some way.
“One of the highlights is Activism Day, which amongst loads of other cool stuff features Vincent Browne who is a Limerick man and Blindboy Boatclub talking activism and politics.”
Activism Day also welcomes talks from rock/ metal promoter John Real (Siege of Limerick) and Paul Tarpey, analysing and highlighting Revolutionary Album Covers (3pm).
The talking gives way to a live gig from one of Limerick’s most creative and exciting duos, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies. Their sound is a hybrid of many different genres – Punk, Krautrock, Irish Trad, Techno, Hip Hop and Classical. They released their debut EP entitled ‘Kick Against the Pricks’ last November to universal acclaim.
“It is really something to see. There is a lot of cutting edge stuff on display and really cool music,” the programme leader adds.
Looking to the future, John hopes that the festival will play a supporting role for the proposed new music festival LEAF (Limerick Electronic Arts Festival) which is currently under discussion in for the city in 2019.
Check out www.lit.ie/musicfestival and LITMusicFest on Facebook for all the details and times and venues of Limerick Music Week running from this Monday March 12 to Thursday 15.
