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Now, you don't have to be sugarcoating your criticisms just because it's me... Tell me what you really think :)

Ah, but no amount of concealer can hide the pimples of American foreign policy!

Ah January indeed! I wrote the article that that quote was taken from (not the article Jane featured in). I think folks are reading it a tad out of context. You can judge - http://www.tribune.ie/magazine/features/article/2009/jan/18/ohmygawd-bless-america/ Anyway, hate it on it's own...

Yep. I will now beat a hasty retreat. Sigh.

Hold on... are you a made up internet person?

And what are the artists going to make the money from?

I just got an imro payment for a whopping 3.41! I spent it on refresher bars.

Now I apologise for sounding like a PD. I've been on the dole making music in the past. So I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just don't think there's anything particularly noble about it either

In otherwords get paid by the Irish state to make music. Is there something wrong with earning a living?

Or do you subscribe to the idea that some managers have - ie musicians should do it for free, but I should be paid.

I'm a journalist.... When you finish your two year course in music management are you hoping to earn a living from it? Or are you going to give your services to musicians for free?

Most of them just love music and like the idea of doing it all the time, despite the fact they're not going to make a fortune. Other people prefer to do a dayjob and produce music in their spare time. Each to their own. And Stephenoblunt I apologise for my weird metaphor - yours is much...

What the fuck is "the industry"?

I'm interested in the whole "no-one can own music" argument. Out of curiosity can the people who're saying this tell me what sort of things you can "own"?

I know people who make a living (barely) as classical musicians (mainly because most of them couldnt conceive of doing a gig for nothing), and I know several people who make a living from being in covers bands, lecturing in music or being sound engineers (and many who do all three). I also know...

Oh there's nothing like that sobring moment when your realise that one of your songs is a bit of a fool. I remember many days eightracking, grooming and meticulously arranging some freshly laid turd that I thought was the son of God. I tend to give songs a bit of space now before working really...

Cool. A topic that I can be self obsessed about has got me posting on thumped again. Do you write songs? Yes How often do you write? Most weeks I finish a couple of songs. How do you write? Arsing around on a guitar or piano or singing to myself. When something starts to work it might...

Yeah, McDowell is strangely well liked. I even met a labour politician who said he votes for him. Although he lost his seat a couple of elections ago... Now much as I hate the PDs selfish petty policies, the depressing reason they never really do well is that is that Irish people hate parties...

They also have Colm O'Gorman from 1 in 4 running for them, and Jane Mullins founder of Positive Action, the group for women infected with Hepatitus C. There was even talk of Eddie Hobbs joining up at one point. Some of the people they have running for them are really weird and not people I would...

I also liked the bad Mick Jagger impersonation!