I wasn’t having a pop at one writer, although I have to say I did have a good look around the site as you kindly suggested – I saw a review of the Oasis gig at Slane, my God it’s the first time I’ve cringed reading an online article, it’s just plain embarrassing and none of your pack mentality of stickin up for each other can deny that. I don’t know how you let your names be associated with such terrible “journalism” I mean Ireland is a small country. Then again, if only your friends are reading it, why should you care?

Unlike you, who are obviously well-versed in the musical history of every band on the planet, there are those who exist in this world who may not have heard of some of the bands that get mentioned in articles. With that in mind, Drop-d tries it’s hardest to provide 1 link per band mentioned in any article. This not only serves as an aid to readers who may not know a band, but also helps the band themselves in that, as I’m sure you know, the internet is built upon a series of interlinking connections. In other words, we link to band sites so that people can go straight from here to the source to compare what we’ve written to what they hear, rather than having to search for themselves, thereby improving the band’s own internet presence.

As for your claims re: proper music sites, I suggest if you feel that strongly about the matter that you head off and peddle your brand of irritable pedantry on one of them: we are as we are and always shall be. We care not who reads us or who does not. We care not who likes us and who does not. We care only to share and explore the myriad bounties of musical fruit that lay yet undiscovered and unharvested. We endeavour to educate and astound and confound in equal measure, each of us writing about those sounds that arise feelings of passion, be they positive or negative, in us. That is all we do, we make no claims to be journalists, or critics, or anything else. All we are is men and women who give of their own time freely to craft pieces of writing about music.

If you really are so interested in providing constructive criticism, as I’m sure you mean to do, you might take a gander round the site as Nay suggested to see what our other writers do. That way you might, heaven forbid, come to a more balanced conclusion about the quality of our work, rather than picking on one writer, or indeed taking exception to us commenting on each other’s work as you have done to this point.

Finally, we appreciate you taking the time to visit and to comment, and we hope you will continue to do so.

Best Wishes,

Liam.