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Across the global music industry, conversations about representation and equity have become impossible to ignore. Recently we explored these questions through a number of lenses, from Linda Coogan Byrne’s newly released book Why Not Her?, A Manifesto For Culture Change, which examines the dismal disparities across radio play and festival line-ups in the UK and…
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In recent years, few cultural initiatives have reshaped Ireland’s conversation around identity and belonging as clearly as Black and Irish. What began as three simple words shared online quickly grew into something much larger. At a time when conversations about race and representation were intensifying across the world, the phrase captured an experience many people…
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February Signals: A Bigger Music Industry, and a More Exposed One By the time March arrived, February had already left a clear set of fingerprints across the music industry in the UK, Ireland and Europe. It was a month that celebrated scale, spectacle and global reach. It was also a month that quietly exposed the…
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Book Review History has a habit of sanding down its sharpest edges. Movements become moments. Radicals become footnotes. The people who did the organising, the drafting, the strategising get compressed into a paragraph, if they are remembered at all. In Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, Keisha N. Blain refuses that…
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Book Review Invisible Women is the kind of book that shifts your perspective in small, permanent ways. After reading it, everyday systems start to look slightly different. You begin to notice assumptions that once felt neutral. Caroline Criado Perez builds her argument around a deceptively simple premise. Much of the modern world has been designed…
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Book Review Ireland has produced political memoirs. It has produced literary fiction that dissects power. It has produced feminist scholarship rooted in academia. What it has rarely produced is a forensic cultural manifesto that drags an entire creative industry into the light and demands structural reform. Why Not Her? A Manifesto for Culture Change is…
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The UK government has formally launched the review of the BBC’s Royal Charter, the constitutional framework that sets the broadcaster’s mission, governance, public purposes and funding model. The current Charter expires at the end of 2027. The next Charter will define the BBC’s direction from January 2028 onwards. This is not routine administration but a…
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If you are a working musician in the UK or Ireland, Feb 2026 is shaping up to be a period of serious structural funding rather than symbolic gestures. Here’s what’s live, confirmed or opening soon. 🇮🇪 Ireland: Structural Support Expands Ireland has confirmed that the Basic Income for the Arts scheme will continue from 2026…
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Over the last few years, conversations about equity in music criticism have shifted from fringe to front page. One organisation doing this work not with flash but with depth is Why Not Her? — a platform committed to amplifying women in music, challenging industry bias, and reshaping what cultural discourse looks like. Their mission isn’t…
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