As MySpace have gotten on top of the whole “cancel my account” thing, we’ve finally been able to remove the MySpace accounts for the podcast and One Take Sessions. Given both have a decent standard of living elsewhere online, and the bulk of MySpace contact for bookings and audio submissions comes in the from the main KilkennyMusic.com MySpace, we’ve decided to cull the other two.

The Sound System Podcast MySpace is no longer in existence and the ‘Sessions MySpace should be removed tonight / tomorrow.

Anyone who has either of these accounts in their friends list on MySpace (as some of you do) will have an extra space to play with from this week forward.

We’re working on the forums since late last night (and early this morning).

You’ll notice the links on the homepage (top 15 posts) have now changed to /boards/ instead of /forum. This is the new location for the member’s forum i.e. www.kilkennymusic.com/boards

The software has been changed, the look and feel has been changed and there’s a few added features as well. We’ll be toying around with it for most of the day but would appreciate your comments, either by leaving a comment here, starting a thread in the forum.

There will be updates during the day (e.g. we’ve to bring the avatars back) etc. but all feedback is appreciated!

The member’s forum has been disabled until Sunday morning. As announced in the forum yesterday, we’re doing some works and wanted a low-traffic time so figured Saturday night wouldn’t be too bad…

Check back to this post for updates, where available.

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Saturday 22:20: Forum disabled.
Sunday 00:05: Forum backup complete.
00:24: Forum reopened, passed test-phase 1.
00:47: Forum disabled.
01:26: Kettle boiled.
02:26: Tools downed.
08:47: Tools picked right back up again, forum still disabled.
09:33: Second database fully restored, forum location on the move.

We’ve been in hiding the last few days - or at least from an online point of view.

Friday we tried catching up with a few gigs around Kilkenny (missed Acrojunk - sorry lads); Saturday saw us taking off to Wicklow where we caught up with a bunch of great people including some record label types, an IMRO rep and some musicians and music techies from around the South East; Sunday was a day of rest, meetings, preparation for the week and yesterday we got tucked into the launch of ArtLinks in the Parade Tower, a quality night of music and performance with Camille O’Sullivan putting on an excellent show; the first part of today spent in Carlow reviewing some new developments for KKM.

Sometimes, it is possible to hide from the internet…

We’re fund raising for video camera equipment to enable us to do several things

• Start broadcasting our gigs online, weekend gigs and the One Take Sessions held every third Thursday.
• Archiving high quality digital footage of our gigs and special performances to showcase on Kilkenny Music TV. Footage would also be used in preparation for DVD releases of gig highlights in Kilkenny on an annual basis
• KilkennyMusic.com will begin to podcast video interviews with bands both local and national in an attempt to a) boost the profile of the bands in question and b) boost the profile of Kilkenny as a “go-to” music destination in Ireland.
• Overall offer a higher quality of service across a broader media spectrum

We need YOUR HELP to achieve this goal over the next 25 days. We’ve never embarked on a fundraising adventure before though over the past two years have been delighted to accept grant funding from The Arts Office here in Kilkenny towards the purchase of live equipment.

The purchase of video equipment (estimated at just over €1,000) will enable us to push KilkennyMusic.com to a whole new level and we hope that you’d be able to make it possible. This coming Wednesday we celebrate turning 2 years old and while we’ve grown well in the last two years we’re about to get an awful lot bigger as a community.

For all details, please click here and don’t forget to forward to everyone you know!

Now don’t start giving out or anything but the homepage has gotten a facelift! If you’re a reader via RSS only, drop by and let us know what you think. We had the three column layout for a few months but figure as we’ve a couple of things planned content-wise that the homepage needs a slight restructuring.

As well as increasing the output from the gig calendar (5 gigs up to 10), we’re also bringing the latest reader comments to the new right sidebar, and bringing the next KKM event atop the video.

The site, the forum, the One Take Sessions blog, the Podcast, the whole lot - all on a massive go-slow yesterday. Worse than being stuck on High Street at 4 on a Friday I tell ya.

Gremlins started to creep in some time on Monday night and were all over the place by yesterday, the status messages we were posting to the site failing to show as well.

My apologies to all for the massive inconvenience. We’re not a happily hosted music bunny this week I’ll tell ya.

As we begin to step up the blog content on KilkennyMusic.com we’re bringing in the ‘VOTD’ or quite simply ‘Video Of The Day’. Each morning you’ll find a new video to watch on the homepage of KilkennyMusic.com, either uploaded by ourselves to the KilkennyMusic.com TV channel on YouTube or sourced from around the web. It gives us a chance to highlight videos often overlooked or just introduce you to some new music!

Some of the videos will be oldies, some of them fairly newbies (at least one this week is anyway) but keep an eye on the homepage each morning before 9am for a new music video from somewhere around the web, start your day off with some good music!

Ross has been busy again and has two new albums up in the KilkennyMusic.com gallery for Laminate and Original lineup after the madness that was Saturday night. Great to see the crowd out for this one again. If you weren’t there you can relive some of it through the galleries (click the bands names above) or check the YouTube video of Laminate performing ‘Paper’.

Just to have some music to listen to on Monday morning, here’s ‘Tom Petty’ by Laminate.

LISTEN: Laminate - Tom Petty

Yes…. at long bloody last I’ve put the gig guide back online, pulling the gig feeds from Google Calendar which means you’ll be able to grab them via RSS as well (once I get the address out).

Its been a while since you’ve been able to see whats coming up in Kilkenny but if you hit the ‘Gigs‘ links on the top of the page - voila. Not only that but you can submit your own gigs via the form on the same page so that we don’t miss anything out!

We’ll only be publishing gigs going on in Kilkenny so if you’re tripping to Dublin or Carlow or looking to plug other shows, use the forum as normal. We’ll be bolstering the gig guide as much as possible over the weekend seen as there’s so much coming up. Top of the bill is Reemo and Secret Police who we’ve got on tomorrow night - hope to see you there!

Go check the gig guide (dates appearing throughout the evening) and submit yours if you’ve got any!