Irish music meets Italian passion
‘ONE MORE TUNE.” It’s not exactly the sort of phrase you could imagine a crowd of post-gig revellers in Naples, Rome or Milan chanting, but two Dublin-based Italians have adopted the mantra for their own purposes. Rossella Bottone and Luisella Mazza didn’t know each other before they moved to Dublin – but their common interest in music and media led them to establish Onemoretune.ie in 2008. The website documents the Irish music scene through a series of interviews, conducted with both native artists and international acts that pass through Dublin on their European tours.
Bottone, 35, initially unearthed a love for Irish music through her work for Italian magazine Jam. “It started with The Frames, Nina Hynes and Gemma Hayes in early 2000,” she says. “I was regularly checking what Road Records would suggest on their website, and my brother, who was – and still is – living in Dublin would buy me those records, which were impossible to find in Italy. As a journalist, I covered many Irish artists long before I moved here. I remember flying to Denmark and Germany to see The Frames play and review their concert, as they wouldn’t come to Italy at that time.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/0122/1224287756406.html
Bottone, 35, initially unearthed a love for Irish music through her work for Italian magazine Jam. “It started with The Frames, Nina Hynes and Gemma Hayes in early 2000,” she says. “I was regularly checking what Road Records would suggest on their website, and my brother, who was – and still is – living in Dublin would buy me those records, which were impossible to find in Italy. As a journalist, I covered many Irish artists long before I moved here. I remember flying to Denmark and Germany to see The Frames play and review their concert, as they wouldn’t come to Italy at that time.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/0122/1224287756406.html
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