The rise of the internet has left many major labels scrambling for a foothold in the music industry.

LiveWeb- Stars, a live music website, hopes to benefit from this uncertainty. The company is the brainchild of Fergus Kennedy and JP Reddington, who have known each other for over ten years.

"We did an IT course in GTI [the Galway Technical Institute, on Fr Griffin Road]," Fergus explains. "We always said we'd go into business together if we ever came up with a good enough idea."

The concept for this internet channel LiveWebStars came to Loughrea native Fergus while he was doing a part-time business degree course. "I was doing research on new technology," he recalls. "I came across the live-casting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were doing. They started their campaign that way. [Conservative leader] David Cameron did a 'day in the life' sort of deal. If you took this idea to music then bands could show the entire creative process. That was the seed for the idea."

Fergus told Dunmore man JP Reddington about his plans. JP was just finishing a four year stint in London as IT project manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "It was coming towards an end so I was looking for a new project," he says.

"Fergus approached me about this. It was at the end of October that the project started in earnest. We created a business model that we thought would work and then we got another guy involved that I worked with in London, Robert Story. He's a specialist in the IT trade and embraced the whole streaming technology."

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