It’s here

It’s here, yes we’ve been offline for a few days now, withdrawal symptoms were only just starting to clear up and here you are again – back for your fresh fix.

We’ve been feverishly working away on the next iteration of GoldenPlec over the last 11 months. Why so long? Well, we wanted to get it right.

There was a lot to do, a lot to change and a lot of things we wanted to improve about the existing site to make it work better for you; our readers.

We’re back and we want to be your number one music site in Ireland. The number one place to go for finding all the latest music news, reviews, interviews and feature content, oh and of course, some freebies to all the great music shows.

All the content you expect of GoldenPlec but given far more love and attention and framed in this brand-spanking-new site.

What’s Changed

Well – lots. We’ve worked hard to get the right blend of design and flow to put the focus on imagery. We have the most talented and prolific music photography teams in Ireland and we wanted to put their images at the forefront of the new site. For that reason the new GoldenPlec is massively image led.

Responsive

About time says you!

Yes, if you’re reading GoldenPlec on your mobile phone, this should be looking slick and sexy and most importantly; fit perfectly to your screen. It was terrible that we haven’t had a responsive site up until now, but it’s here and you can get your music fix on your phone, tablet, desktop, at home, on the bus or on a WiFi enabled airplane.

Events

This was one thing always bugged us about the previous site. We were first with all this great music news, but once it was a day or so old, it became harder to find. So when you wanted to know what gigs were happening tonight, this week, next week, next month, next year even! It was impossible to use the great information we had added to our database to find the gigs you wanted to see.

Now we have a fully-fledged events section. In here, we will be adding all the latest gigs in our new unique listing format. We will be building this out from now to try encompass more and more venues nationwide and YES, if you’re a venue and want to get your gigs fully listed on GoldenPlec, please get in touch.

We now have venue sections and band sections where you can see the latest events and content happening in each venue or written about each band.

Check out events here.

The Team

We have one of the best teams of writers and photographers in Ireland. They are passionate about music and they are the driving force behind GoldenPlec. They make it what it is, they produce the content you read every day and without them, we wouldn’t be still going.

We wanted to give them a place on the site that really spoke to their personality and showcased their work. With this, we now have the GoldenPlec Team page.

Check out the team page here.

Quick Consumption

With Competitions and Video posts, we often got asked if there was a way to navigate through them more quickly. We had a look at this and now we have added a nice layered listing of the video and competitions posts, You can navigate through each post quickly and easily and enter lots of competitions at the same time.

New Logo / Branding

We felt the old one was looking a little dated and with help from our talented designer David Dooley, we have a brand new logo to lead the new website’s launch. You’ll be seeing it everywhere on video content, ads, photos, on our socials and on the #GoldenBeck gig posters. Orange is the new Plec.

How We Got Here

With a lot of hard work. We have to massively thank the Arthur Guinness Projects for their support in this. Having been chosen as a winner of the music section, we were given financial support to realise a new vision for the site and better place ourselves as a platform for supporting music in Ireland and also supporting journalism and photography – two of our key elements.

Along the way, the support from AGP has been second to none and they provided training in skills for progressing the site in other terms than just the technical. Unwavering support and enthusiasm from Angela Smith of Diageo helped to drive us to this point and we really have to thank her and the AGP massively.

Acknowledgements

The site you are looking at was built with a lot of effort to make everything work as bug-free as possible. With such a massive content base of 11,000+
posts to deal with (and not lose), we had to really dig deep to get all the little issues just right. Thanks go to Ros Madigan, Kieran Frost, Sean Smyth, Karl Crowley, many freelancers across Europe for fixing those tough smaller issues we had and bringing the site to its launching point – now! We’re very proud of getting it this far and we hope you enjoy using it.

Thanks also to our amazing team who have helped us test, debug, find issues and solve them. There was also the small issue of moving our massive content database (11,000+ posts) around into its lovely new sections. They worked for hours and hours on making this new site format work with our existing content and will be part of making the new site content going forward. Amazing individuals, one and all.

Feedback

We’re on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and we’d love to hear what you think of our new site.

Please do get in touch and give us your feedback on our lovely new site.

It’s Here

Welcome to your new home for music in Ireland.

GoldenPlec. Music Covered.