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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/myspace_music_antitrust/

The Stones didn't exactly sell many copies of their new albums, did they? They make their money from live gigs.

I remember Jamie Hince fronting the first band on (Scarfo) at the first Reading Festival I ever went to... I don't want to think about how long ago that was...

think this is one of my least favourite tracks off the new album. Hey ho.

is the best thing they've done since Internal Wrangler.

it does seem like a bit of an old-fashioned release campaign overall; tour to promote the album rather than album to promote the tour etc.

(IMHO)

I have a lot of sympathy for that point of view. However, I think Portishead themselves probably won't do as badly out of this as perhaps they fear, not least because:
i) the album's so good
ii) many of Portishead's fans are slightly older and thus the sort of people who still buy CDs.

(though more likely they sold them to a publisher) but the recordings do not.

and I'm certainly buying it anyway, I just wanted to get used to the songs before I see them on tour. Whether I'm a typical downloader I'm not sure, though, so I can see why he might be worried.

unless he's rallying troops, which seems unlikely.

i) although Bob Mould is one of my guitar heroes, I've seen him live a couple of times before and he's been rubbish on both occasions. Which seems particularly annoying given how good this sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQock7Oncg

ii) Koko.

according to SeeTickets.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/3787

given that I remember seeing them in 2002, and I'm fairly sure they had an album out around that time.

because it's a pun on The Ronettes and the phrase "Rave On", isn't it?

Ouch.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/the-donnas/bitchin.htm

make those of UMG pale in comparison. Not least because they're so much bigger. And the entertainment corps mainly stick to exploiting people in the developed world, who in the grand scheme of things are already rich anyway.

They do sell packs of Fair Trade beans in their stores, and you may even be able to buy *filter* coffee which is Fair Trade from time to time - they use this to claim that they are one of the biggest retailers of Fair Trade coffee. However, the stuff they use to make espresso isn't Fair Trade. Of the high street stores, I think Costa will make espresso with Fair Trade if you ask for it (they keep a special supply), and AMT Espresso use only Fair Trade.

as I pointed out in a different thread over the weekend, Starbucks (or any of the big coffee chains - they almost all buy their coffee via Nestle, Kraft, Procter & Gamble and Sara Lee) is not just any old big corporation to sell out to. There are some serious issues with trade ethics that are specific to mass market coffee:

http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/

but now he's bored and old

just saying...

with Experimental Jet Set...

... it's all gone a bit Matt Tong.

*abandon reply*

What he said.

Live, though, Corgan's voice is terrible. And I say that as a Smashing Pumpkins fanatic.

The sound limiter is for "parental control". But the absolute maximum that European iPods go to is less than that for US iPods, if I remember correctly.

My iPod Nano has health warnings on the back in French and German - presumably required by law - but not in English.

Some other related research:

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10328-volume-risks-of-mp3-players-sounded-out.html

Unfortunately these are only preliminary data so it's difficult to see what the studies are really getting at.

In Europe they do - I can't remember what the limit is but it's around 100 dB SPL. In the States the maximum volume is much higher.

TV advertising is licensed differently to public performance. In effect playing music at the Tory party conference is just like playing music (e.g. sticking the radio on) in a shop - you don't have to ask permission first.

Impressively, Pete Townshend said something similar in The Observer over the weekend.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1871523,00.html

"Townshend, and probably Daltrey as well, have come to recognise that rock bands have a certain natural life, and their survival beyond that depends on an acceptance that its most creative and famous days may be over, and should be celebrated."

Does anyone know what the actual running order is for the Turnmills gig? I'm sure I read somewhere that The Strange Death of Liberal England were playing too, but I could be making that up...

The Cokemachineglow review of their new album said much the same:

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/reviews/doncab_world2006.html

Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia... are also on this compilation.

Maybe he's suing the band because he's talking about the advance for the album, which has presumably already been paid to the band, but some of which will be sitting in an account run by their manager (or something).

A bassist who plays only the root note of whatever chords the guitarist/keyboardist is playing.

Isn't it the 1st and 2nd of December rather than the 2nd and 3rd? That's what it said in the email I got from SeeTickets.

I was at that gig too!

Nooooooooo!

The promoter released some tickets back to the venue today so I've got one in the end. Thanks for the tip though.

I tried to buy some tickets (in person) from the Astoria box office earlier today and they told me it was sold out...

But the sound has been rubbish for 4/5 times I've seen them (the only exception being the gig at the Zodiac just recently). Perhaps they could never afford a good sound engineer.

I saw them play The Point in Oxford back in 2000, and spent years afterwards trying to play guitar like Carrie. *sniff*

Probably my favourite gig of theirs was the 2003 one at Mean Fiddler - that was awesome.

I was wondering the same thing. Neither the Fabric website nor the Ticketweb listing actually say DJ Shadow is playing, but it is listed on his website, so... don't know...

presumably they want to get some radioplay?

Sadly I'm resident in the East End of London Town, so it'd be a bit of a trek, but thanks for the tip re Tigers!

I saw them at the same gig Mike Diver did (supporting Joeyfat) and, actually, on that occasion was more impressed with them than the 'fat. Though that's not a fair comparison because Eiger had the advantage of surprise.

Anyway, they're very good... They're in vaguely the same area as Joeyfat - maybe a bit more metal? - but the lyrics are different as they're almost a commentary on what's going on onstage. Very meta.

Ennio Morricone! yay!

£50? boo!

Didn't mean to sound like I was getting at you - when I first read the press articles I thought it was pretty uninteresting too (and I'm a mad scientist by training), but luckily I work somewhere where I can read the original.