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IMRO Chats is a monthly podcast series exploring the topics, challenges and opportunities shaping Ireland’s music industry.

  1. Music Venues

    4D AGO

    Music Venues

    IMRO Chats is a monthly podcast series exploring the topics, challenges and opportunities shaping Ireland’s music industry. Following the IMRO Live Music Awards this month, our next episode, Music Venues, concentrates on small and medium-sized venues, exploring how these spaces support artists, foster audiences and sustain live performance across Ireland.  Featuring insights from venue operators and artists including Robbie Campion and Davey Furey of Bob’s Hideout in Bob’s Bar, Durrow, Co. Laois, Stephen Butler from The Set Theatre in Langton’s Hotel, Kilkenny, and musician and performer Ollie Cole, the discussion highlights the atmosphere, challenges and opportunities these venues create. This episode also captures the build-up to an exciting performance from Damien Dempsey, during rehearsals at The Set Theatre.

    37 min
  2. SXSW

    MAR 18

    SXSW

    IMRO Chats is a monthly podcast series exploring the topics, challenges and opportunities shaping Ireland’s music industry. In this month’s episode, IMRO Chats focuses on SXSW, the annual music, film and tech festival in Austin, Texas, revealing how the event provides opportunities and support for Irish artists to perform abroad. Featuring insights from industry professionals, policymakers and artists including Angela Dorgan from First Music Contact, Minister of State Robert Troy and Dan Malone of Dublin band Yard, the discussion showcases the pathways the festival creates, how Irish acts are supported, and what emerging artists need to succeed internationally.

    37 min
  3. Culture Card

    MAR 4

    Culture Card

    IMRO Chats is a monthly podcast series exploring the topics, challenges and opportunities shaping Ireland’s music industry. In this month’s episode of IMRO Chats, we explore the proposed Culture Card for Ireland and what it could mean for increasing access to music and culture.​ Featuring voices from young people, industry professionals and policymakers, we examine how the scheme could work and what impact it might have on the future of Ireland’s music community.​

    42 min
  4. Borderline 3.0 - Simon Merriman, Jule Konrad, The Null Club

    FEB 18

    Borderline 3.0 - Simon Merriman, Jule Konrad, The Null Club

    On today’s episode we are previewing the Borderline Festival 2026. Now in its third year, the festival showcasing emerging alternative acts from Ireland and beyond, will be taking place from the 19th to the 21st February in The Workman’s Club and the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. Ahead of the festival, Danny Carroll spoke to founder and organiser Simon Merriman, the international booking agent Jule Konrad and the musician Alan Duggan Borges, who will be showcasing his new project The Null Club as part of this year’s festival. For a bit of context and background we begin with Simon, who curates the festival and also organises many many gigs across Ireland, as part of Singular Artists. You can learn more about Borderline here - https://www.borderlinefestival.com

    52 min
  5. IMRO 360 Series: AI, Copyright and The Future of Music

    07/28/2025

    IMRO 360 Series: AI, Copyright and The Future of Music

    In this episode we have a live recording from the inaugural IMRO 360 Series – a new annual event discussing issues and topics of importance to the Irish music industry. The title of the inaugural discussion was ‘AI, Copyright and the future of music’. Hosted by Jess Kelly (technology correspondent with Newstalk), the event featured a panel of industry experts providing insights and opinions on the development of AI generated music, the copyright issues faced by the music industry and what the future may look like as we adapt to these changes in technology. Featured on the panel are: Adriana Pérez-Gill, Senior Legal Advisor, International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP)Barry Scannell, Legal Director, William Fry LLP & Member of the Government of Ireland’s AI Advisory CouncilEleanor McEvoy, Singer, Songwriter, Musician & Chair of IMROJackie Alway, OBE, Int'l Legal & Industry Affairs Universal Music Publishing International & MPAI Board Member          Adriana Moscoso de Prado, General Manager, European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC)Dan Archer, CEO and co-founder of Copyright Delta, which specializes in safeguarding copyrighted material.The panel was introduced by the CEO of IMRO, Victor Finn.

    54 min
  6. IMRO Ireland: Music Report 2025

    07/21/2025

    IMRO Ireland: Music Report 2025

    The 2025 IMRO Ireland Music Report, compiled by CORE Research, was launched last week, revealing that Ireland’s music industry is a significant contributor to the national economy, generating €1 billion annually and employing over 13,400 people. The research findings were launched by Alan Kelly TD, Chaiperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, and presented to IMRO members. Over the next 40 minutes you’ll hear from the CEO of IMRO, Victor Finn, TD Alan Kelly, Core Research Business Director Conor Hughes, and first, the chair of the IMRO Board, Eleanor McEvoy. You can read the full report at the link below: https://imro.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Ireland-Music-Report-June-2025-1_compressed.pdf

    42 min
  7. Music Current 2025

    07/07/2025

    Music Current 2025

    On this episode of the podcast we are meeting two Irish composers who contributed to the recent Music Current Festival 2025. Music Current Festival is an annual contemporary music festival produced by Dublin Sound Lab. The festival offers a showcase of contemporary Irish and new international electronic music in an accessible and friendly environment. As well as the main concert programme, the festival includes workshops, professional development classes, and public panel discussions. This year Danny spoke with and attended workshops by Timothy Cape and Shane Latimer. Shane is a musician based in Dublin who plays 6, 7, and 8 string guitars, and synthesizers. At this years festival he performed as part of Dublin Sound Lab, as well as hosting a workshop exploring contemporary guitar techniques Before meeting Shane, we’ll talk with Tim Cape. Timothy is an Irish composer who combines notated music, improvisation, physicality and text to create visceral music-theatre works which engage with contemporary political issues in unusual and playful way. At this year’s Music Current, he led a workshop on inter-disciplinary performance, guiding participants through methods to generate performance material using instruments, voice, text, objects and movement. He also collaborated with the Paris-based ensemble soundinitiative to premiere a new work called Soother. We spoke about this, the development of his creative practice, and the importance of creative spaces for contemporary music.

    55 min
  8. Irish Music Month - Amhrán na Laoch

    06/20/2025

    Irish Music Month - Amhrán na Laoch

    Irish Music Month has been organised by the IBI and Hotpress since 2021. This year they launched Amhrán na Laoch, to find the best song in Irish. In this edition of the IMRO podcast, Dave Macardle describes Irish Music Month and the role that radio stations play in promoting Irish music, Rónán Ó Domhnaill provides information on the Media Commission's involvement through Fís & Fuaim and we hear from Huartan, the winners of Amhrán na Laoch.

    39 min
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IMRO Chats is a monthly podcast series exploring the topics, challenges and opportunities shaping Ireland’s music industry.

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  • Creator
    IMRO - Irish Music Rights Organisation
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 IMRO Chats
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