Posts by Simon Grigg
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nope.....
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Recording contracts usually have a territory by territory time option in them...ie if the label in a certain territory doesn't exercise a right by a certain time then the rights revert to the artist to sell as they can.
I added Digital as one of those territories in a contract I helped a band write recently and, to my surprise, the record company bought it......then again many acts have vinyl rights thus nominated
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We were talking about the prospect of the Pin Group being on emusic. Well, guess what. Siltbreeze have issued a retrospective
well, there you go..., that's really very cool, and hopefully there will be a few buyers, especially as you've pointed out, with the site's rather user friendly business model.
And it's slightly surprising how much has been able to be added by the US indies who have licensed local releases, including some Nun stuff. Hopefully that will act as a prompt to get some more of the Nun catalogue up where it belongs.
I think very little of the FN catalogue is actually owned by FN / Bronfman anywhere in the world, simply licensed. I remember a conversation years ago with the Australian FMR business affairs woman who was tearing her hair out at the lack of contractual paperwork with even the bigger acts. Then that's the way with much of the indie world. Most of the FN acts can do what they like with their masters (and indeed their publishing) and there would be little Warners could do.
I like Neil Finn in that NZ punk listing....
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I'm not sure which CNN channels SKY NZ shows
CNN International...I don't think they get that same level of cats stuck in a tree in Wisconsin-ism that CNN Headline News and CNN Domestic has, but it still offers a world view that includes Wolf Blitzer looking adoringly into Cheney's eyes; or a weather woman saying to the audience as a humourous (non American spelling intended) aside "who knows where Russia is?"
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9. Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most English-speaking users are American.
if one assumes that a third of India's one billion have some sort of net access, and that many, if not most, Europeans have English as a second language; and it is the primary language of internet discourse in most non- English speaking nations (which it is) then this must be regarded as the myopic garbage that it is.
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I'm willing to be told I'm wrong, but isn't it true that Knox used to self-harm whilst on stage around that sort of time?
for dramatic effect, yes, quite often.....indeed, that's how he survived the first Enemy gig in Ak, at Zwines...the skinhead element were going to beat the crap out of these hippies from Dunedin until Chris' show stopping antics during "Iggy" caused them to rethink.....
I used to like the gaffer taping of the audience more, or the mike leads tied around the front few rows at the Windsor, and the smashing of watermelons on head was a visually more pleasant that the blood.....
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Dance vinyl has an inherently better dynamic range than CDs.
Absolutely true, and those of us with rooms of the stuff are happy to shout that out as often as possible. Plus a 12" slab of vinyl cannot help but look vastly cooler than a silly small silver disc. And you can read the liner notes without upgrading your glasses. Vinyl still rules...
Incidentally, the 70's vinyl LP was typically a particularly poor effort
Not everywhere, but NZ and Austarlia were particularly badly served by pressing plants and appalling mastering. The PolyGram plant in Wellington was atrocious, with muddled, muddied pressings often taken from a well played sample copy of the LP sent from head office, copied via a cheap domestic stereo, with a shitty, well used, stylus. The sleeves were as often as not done by photographing the US or UK sample, focus not being important, with letraset or twink used to localise the copyright and cat number information. The other plants, EMI & PYE, were little better.
CBS borrowed a UK copy of an album by The Only Ones off me in 79 because they'd lost theirs, and you can, on the back sleeve, still see my name twinked out!
Festival used to lose the back cover on most releases until 1979/80 and replace it with advertising for other albums in their catalogue, Shirley Bassey being a favourite.
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Does anyone know SKY TV's reasoning behind giving us Fox News (the propaganda arm of the US Republican party) over Al Jazeera - other than the Murdoch connection?
The Murdoch connection is the obvious overriding reason..Sky is Murdoch, and he sees Fox as a competitor for CNN & the BBC, and indeed, there are many who see it as the voice of reason. I had that conversation with a Canadian guy, US based, in the weekend who insisted they were the only network giving balance.
That CNN is seen by the likes of him as screamingly lefty seems to me to be an indication how far to the right the centre is in the US of A these days.
We have Al Jazzera in English too, and it's this lefties news channel of choice, being largely staffed by frustrated ex BBC sorts (although I do have problems with the Click-Online guy analysing news..), and seems to have the balance (and the access, which is the crucial part) that most of the others simply lack. Plus they maintain permanent staffs in many of the places where the BBC and CNN use freelancers.
They had a crew on the ground at the Jogja airport fireball yesterday before the rest were reporting it (and even then CNN were only able to take a feed from Metro TV, the local news channel).
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This was the point of the column I mentioned in the original blog post: Warners is hobbling itself because it won't put the back catalogue in the place where it has a shot at an audience.
And you are spot on Russell, there is no excuse to keep this stuff in the dark in 2007...technology has removed the financial barrier to keeping complete back catalogues like FN available and has added an almost moral obligation to the artists, for the caretakers of such that to have them available.
Emusic is perfect for that purpose. And, yeah, I like the recommendations there too...
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There is a difference: pop-ups are actively intrusive.
I think we all agree on that but I was just trying to find out James' position on those, and I think he has the same position on blocking them as he does on banner advertising...
but kept the ad-blocker as an extension that users had to seek out.
And millions seemed to have done so...the Firefox pages indicate that over 15 million had done so to date (of the two most popular extensions) overwhelmingly the most applied extension..somebody must be using them
I doubt it. The Vodafone banner did about 12,400 impressions yesterday, so clearly someone's loading the pages.
which makes it worthwhile for Vodafone. But I would still suspect that, of the contributors to these forums, Adblocking software is likely to be widely applied....of course I say that without any real evidence beyond a gut feel. And those are not the sort of people a site like this would want to block.
I know, that overwhelmingly casual viewers (especially those of an IE bent) do see the advertising, thus making it worthy, and I thoroughly support your placing of such to cover your bills, but I just as strongly feel that I have a right to exercise my option to place an adblocker on my browser, especially, as I do, having a data cap on my rather primitive and expensive Balinese "broadband".