A few months ago I was part of an industry panel involved in choosing the acts to appear on a new USB compilation album released by DownloadMusic.ie. Having known the tracklisting for several long weeks at this stage, here’s the full run down. The album, chart tracked, will be released on August 15th priced at €12.99.

  • Codes – ‘This Is Goodbye’
  • Dirty Epics – ‘The Cure’
  • Driving By Night – ‘Fears Of men’
  • Jo And The Flood – ‘Hey Jo’
  • Justin Manville – ‘Tonight’
  • Orphan Code – ‘Last Dance’
  • Ro Tierney – ‘The Voice’
  • Roberta Howett – ‘Shadows’
  • Saccade – ‘Wasting My Time’
  • Suddyn – ‘Letting Go’
  • The Flaws – ‘1981′
  • The Kinetiks – ‘Bite The Bullet’
  • The Radio – ‘Manmade’
  • The Rumours – ‘When The Sun Hits Your Eyes’
  • Vesta Varro – ‘Weighted Love’

The quality of the 50 acts we had to choose from was ridiculously high, so it’s great to see most of those I had nominated getting the push forward onto the album. It’s another great stroke from DownloadMusic.ie and Johnny Beirne and hopefully will do more to promote quality independent music on the Irish scene.