Open It Out

Well what can I say Open FM is going smoothly and looking great, all down to a fantastic team that I can happily say have given me the chance to get involved! So firstly let me introduce myself my name is Jill and I am starting a new career in the world of journalism! Currently I am working at everything I can possible do in 24 hours but loving it all the same and I feel Open FM is a great way to escape it all. My career path started and still is in the world of art, not an artists myself I never had the creative flair for it, I decided to get involved in the business side of it all. I studied for an MA in Art Business in London and also worked in different art organisations over there. I thought coming back to work in the arts sector in Ireland a year and a half ago was a brilliant idea.....little did I know like everyone else that the big 'R' word was looming in the distance and money and buyers became scarce in this sector. This led to one of the best moves I have ever m...

From the outset the opening premise was clear: what she wanted was love, what she desired was a guy and somehow it was to be kept a secret. The throbbing beat of the song kicks in much like a car backfiring followed by smoke escaping into the night sky which illuminates a revolving disco ball.  For gays, Donna Summers was that revolving disco ball centred just right in the tapestry of studio 54. Her music spoke to the gay audience like no other- it was by far gay people’s first encounter of music which spoke to them. “Among the most loyal members of Summer’s fan base were gays” says author of Popular Music in America: the beat goes on Michael Campbell. He accounts how Summer’s with her ‘wispy’ voice and her desire to explore new areas of music managed to bring home the ‘erotic dimension of love’ which compounded gay audiences across the globe.   Gay people took a particular liking to Summer’s style, innuendos and continuous search for forbidden love- the quest it seemed...