My name is James Mawdsley, I am a final year student in TU983 Film and Broadcasting, specialising in Radio Production; Through the course I’ve had the pleasure of researching and producing radio documentary productions, with a view to highlighting the unsung projects of grassroots community organisation and construction in a changing social landscape. I have enjoyed developing communication, organisational and problem-solving skills throughout the course,
My final year major project seeks to address the issues of financial barriers to entry in the Irish music scene, and the potential solutions to such issues. More specifically, with the work done by the group Daylight Glasnevin, in the way they offer a space for performance, workshops and rehearsal, free of charge to the individuals or groups seeking the use of the space. Having worked on film and documentary sets in the first 2 years of the course, I have found great enjoyment in contributing to larger scale productions in any way I can, but most specifically in the recording and production of sound. I contributed sound recording and post-production sound to the Documentary production ELLIUS, which was screened as part of DIFF’s first frame in 2025
Where do we go from here is a radio documentary production, occupied with the DIY co-op venue Daylight Glasnevin. Where the staging of experimental or unusual live music has become prohibitively expensive to many artists, and where the pressures of profitability and marketability have pushed artists towards a musical and aesthetic uniformity, a space like Daylight may offer a solution. Operated out of an industrial unit and funded by five euro monthly membership fees from a few hundred members, Daylight eschews the traditional venue-promoter-artist relationship, which places the artist last in line for compensation. Made up of interviews with Musicians, the organisers behind daylight, and on the ground recordings of live performance and audience members, ‘Where do we go from here?’ seeks to explore alternatives to the stultifying approach currently adopted for staging live performance in Dublin.