Irish owned start-up company ‘WholeWorldBand’, which is the work of Kevin Godley, has been chosen as one of the eight finalists in the prestigious SXSW Music Technologies Accelerator Award.
The event takes place on Wednesday 13th March as part of the festival and has been whittled down to eight from more than five hundred companies. They will present their application to the judging panel and a live audience on the day.
WholeWorldBand has already signed a diverse group of International and Irish musicians to create new and unique tracks for fans to interact with, including Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Danny O’Reilly (The Coronas), Gemma Hayes, Cathy Davey, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Mik Pyro (Republic of Loose), Declan O’Rourke, Julie Feeney, Mundy, Jack L, Delorentos and The Riptide Movement.
WholeWorldBand Creative Director, Kevin Godley explained “WholeWorldBand is a platform where anyone can earn money by recording their own music, or adding to someone else’s in sound and vision. It’s a new music platform and one antidote to the current state of the music recording industry. It’s based around an advanced audio – visual recording tool that captures lightning in a bottle…the lightning being you. Imagine a 24/7 song writing/recording session plus cameras, with some big name artists and lots of new ones, where anyone can drop in and re-jig the building blocks of the session or take it somewhere new by adding their own talent and you’ll get a sense of what WholeWorldBand is about”.