Music News.ie was established in late 2007 from a team of music industry professionals while looking to encourage independent artists within the Irish music scene, as well as European bands, to achieve main stream success.  

Damien Gill, founder has operated in the industry for ten years before thinking of opening MusicNews.ie, a project focusing on the promotion, development and management of independent acts. In a recent magazine interview, Damien stated "our ultimate goal is to help young artists to create a name for themselves in this competitive field. And with our help they will".

Putting the preliminary plans in place Damien went onto looking for people to join his team. Searching the Irish industry he found it hard to find people compatible with the ethos envisaged for which MusicNews.ie would be operating. However, upon attending a meeting he encountered Marian Blanc and Denis Plesca, and after a few meetings, with Marian and Denis, they decided to join the venture and thus MusicNews.ie was officially born with development starting almost immediately in both online & offline avenues.

Marian Blanc, the acting Communication Manager, is in charge of public relations, e-mail/marketing sales communication and everything else in between, be it to radio stations or festivals. Denis Plesca, who was already involved in the music industry with Irelands largest music merchandiser, was the perfect match for Damien's plans and visions. Denis took the responsibility of merchandise services on the part of MusicNews.ie and has been developing this arm of the venture ever since.

When asked to comment on the team, Damien said: "with the team put together, things are ticking like a nicely. The team know what they have to do without my guidance due to their experience and professionalism, which makes my life a lot easier and I suppose it should be like that". Regarding the first steps the company yet have to undertake, Denis states, "We're working on a few ideas at the moment which look extremely promising". From what the team have to say it seems that they do have everything under control. When we Marian finally spoke up, she told us that: "We are in progress of signing with a venue which will represent MusicNews.ie' New Artist introduction to the industry, this along with the PR network that is currently being put in place like nothing in Ireland before should bring us a long way towards our goals in Music News.ie".

Music News.ie has had one of the most positive starts to a new music industry venture possible and it is hoped as the qaulity of our artists and services keep improving Music News.ie will have a vastly positive influence on the Irish Music Industry. For further information please contact one of the Music News.ie Production Team.

Some of our key aims: 

• To promote and encourage our artists at both the grassroots and established level.
• To help bands & artists to support themselves to promote their music, tour and further their musical careers as much as possible.
• To act as the middle ground for bands, singer / songwriters, promoters, organisations and other labels nationwide and internationally so that everyone can spread their wings and undertake bigger projects thus lowering any potential financial loss which can have long term effects in the furthering of Mantra Records and / or organisations involved with us. 
• To provide access to various services that bands and singer / songwriters require for as low as cost as possible to help our artists (and those of other partner organisations) free as much resources as possible.