EIREWAVE
The best of British and Irish Pop-Rock. 24/7
History
Picture the scene: it’s 1992 and the crowd is going wild in Paris as Bono and his bandmates take to the stage. U2, the Irish rock band that skyrocketed to international success, are performing their ZOO TV Tour. Olivier Mauxion, founder of Eirewave, is in the audience. For Olivier, the show was a performance of sheer delight, opening with “Zoo Station” and closing with “Love is Blindness”. But it wasn’t just a performance, it was a spectacle, a piece of art that went beyond pure melody. Inspired by this experience, Olivier attended Genesis’ We Can’t Dance tour in July, and Rory Gallagher’s performance in December. It was a seminal year for Olivier. He discovered the joys of British and Irish Pop Rock, and music became fresh, exciting, and inspiring. 18 years later, with Pop Rock still music to his ears, Olivier left France and dropped his luggage in Ireland, immersing himself in the vibrant culture that had produced some of his favourite musicians.
Olivier is a British and Irish Pop Rock enthusiast. From Snow Patrol and Sam Fender to Coldplay and Keane, you name it, he’s listening to it. He’s also a radio fanatic, a former presenter of a national rock radio station in France and a global radio program consultant with 25 years of experience under his belt. But even this music aficionado struggled to find a service that streamed his favourite tunes in a format that would work for him and the millions of other fans around the globe. Yet rather than accept defeat and settle for a subpar listening experience, Olivier took on this musical lack as a new adventure. With the help of his friends, radio consultants, sound engineers and imaging producers from across the world, Olivier created Eirewave.