Nick Kelly

"Given the year that's in it, I believe we should all do our best to gift products from local and independent producers. Over the next few days, I'm going to post some (highly subjective) suggestions for fabulous gifts which will be helping keep Irish-based independent businesses afloat. INDIE GIFT #1 - MUSIC While their art has provided comfort during the darkest hours of lockdown, almost all independent musicians have suffered a catastrophic decline in income as gigs remain shut down and online services like Spotify eat our lunch. If you want to keep the music playing, the best thing you can do is gift physical or virtual recordings via https://bandcamp.com/, which passes most of the proceeds directly to the artist (and on Fridays deducts no fees at all). Here are some great local artists whose music you can check out and buy there (apologies for the many other brilliant friends whose tunes I'm forgetting)..."