Wednesday 29 September 2010, 11:28 | By CMU Editorial

Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame shortlist out

Awards

The short list is out for the next batch of inductees into the US’s Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame. And on it are Alice Cooper, Beastie Boys, Bon Jovi, Chic, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Dr John, J Gelis Band, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Tom Waits and Chuck Willis.

The five actually getting inducted will be announced in December with the induction ceremony taking place in New York on 14 Mar 2011.

Tinchy Stryder gives away free EP

Releases

Ahead of the release of his third album, ‘Third Strike’, on 8 Nov, Tynchy Stryder has made a seven-track EP, entitled ‘III’, available to fans for free online.

Download ‘III’ here.

Tracklist

Champions (feat Ruff Sqwad)
Famous
Closing In
Up In Flames
Barclays Freestyle (Silencer)
Once Again
Salute Me

Jamie XX to release solo single

Releases

The xx’s Jamie Smith is to release a solo single next month, he has revealed. Entitled ‘Far Nearer’, the track will be released by Glasgow electronic label Numbers, which has also put out music by the likes of Hudson Mowhawke, Rustie and Redinho. It was premiered on John Kennedy’s Xfm X-Posure show last night.

Smith told Xfm: “It’s a tune I made on one of our short breaks from touring and I was eager to make some new music. I got a steel pan and made this track and it is coming out on Numbers Records in about a month or so”.

The exact release date for the single has not yet been announced.

Die Antwoord announce UK show

Gigs & Festivals

Die Antwoord will perform a one-off show in London on 14 Nov at The Scala, it has been announced.

The South African hip hop crew will also release their debut single, ‘Enter The Ninja’, on 11 Oct, ahead of the album, ‘$O$’. Surely everyone has seen the video for the track by now. Still, it’s always worth watching again.

Tickets for the show go on sale on Friday.

Becks give away the tunes

Brands & Merch

Beer brand Becks, which has undertaken a number of music-based marketing partnerships in recent years, has announced a new promotion with Play.com which will see branded bottles of the beer offering drinkers free musical downloads.

The promotional bottles have designer labels on which there is a code that can redeemed for some free music on the Play.com website. A mere 25 million free tracks are available – which is an awful lot of tunes. Though after 25 million bottles of Becks I’m not sure you’d be in much of a position to enjoy them.

Anyway, here’s what Becks Marketing Director Fabienne Rollet said to Marketing Magazine: “This promotion builds on a unique association between Beck’s and art and music stretching back more than 20 years”. So that’s nice.

Animal Collective give away free tape compilation with shoes

Brands & Merch

Animal Collective have designed several exclusive pairs of trainers for Keep Shoes, which will come with a free compilation of unreleased material by the band on audio cassette.

This is exactly the sort of thing people invent when they want to make jokes about hipsters.

Each member of the band has designed their own pair of trainers, which will go on sale in March next year, with proceeds donated to the Socorro Island Conservation Fund which funds conservation projects in the Revillagigedo Archipelago near Mexico.

The band’s Brian Geltz, aka Geologist, said: “After much discussion we decided we wanted to give money to a small under-funded organisation to which we felt a personal connection. Josh [Dibb, aka Deakin] and I have been scuba diving together for a number of years and the Revillagigedos was one of the most amazing places I have ever seen. Hopefully this project will protect the animals of the Revillagigedos through at least one more fishing season and draw more attention to the global problem of illegal fishing”.

For more information, pictures and to pre-order the shoes, go to: www.keepcompany.com/ac/

Andy Ashton returns to Xfm

Media

Xfm is going back in time, people. Andy Ashton, Programme Director there between 2003 and 2006, is returning to the very same role at the Global Radio-owned alternative rock station. Boy, has that place changed since he was last in charge.

The PD role at Xfm became vacant last month when Paul Jackson announced he was stepping down from the top programming job at sister station Capital FM. Jackson also oversaw Xfm in that role.

Since leaving Xfm in 2006 Ashton has worked for Irish radio firm Communicorp on various projects and stations, most recently Dublin’s Spin 103.8. Meanwhile his old station back in London (and Manchester) has seriously downsized its workforce, both on air and behind the scenes. It has also gained and lost Scottish and Welsh outputs.

Confirming Ashton would return to X, Global’s Director Of Broadcasting Richard Park told reporters: “Andy’s knowledge and experience in music and broadcasting is widely respected. His appointment will bring fresh dimensions to the Xfm team, driving what is already a nationally-recognised and iconic radio brand to new heights”.

Ashton himself said: “I’m delighted to be joining Global Radio for the challenge ahead, building on one of the world’s great music brands in London, Manchester, across the UK on digital and around the world online”.

The rejig at Xfm also sees a promotion for the station’s much loved Head Of Music Mike Walsh, who will become Deputy Programme Controller. I can’t help thinking that an Ashton/Walsh led X could be something rather special providing Global don’t interfere or cut resources even further.

I wonder how quickly they can axe Richard Skinner from their DJ line-up? The morning host – Jackson’s big hire while in charge of the station – is at the very least an anomaly for the youth-orientated station, and has long been a cause of embarrassment for everyone else who works there.

AOL buy TechCrunch

Media

AOL has acquired leading tech news website TechCrunch, and its spin off enterprises CrunchGear, Mobile Crunch and TechCrunch TV.

It’s not known how much the web giant has paid for the media firm, though reports value the deal at anything between $25 million and $40 million. So, quite a lot.

Speculation had been rife for a few days that such a deal was close to being signed.

Neil and Osbourne exchange insults

And Finally Artist News Business News Industry People

Vince Neil and Sharon Osbourne are engaged in a little war of words at the moment after the Motley Crue man described the artist-manager-come-talent-show-judge as being “the most evil, shittiest woman I’ve ever met in my life” in his new autobiography ‘Tattoos & Tequila’, which was published last week.

Neil’s viewpoint of Sharon mainly stems from when Motley Crue toured the US with Ozzy Osbourne way back in 1984. The Motley man says Sharon ruled with an iron fist, stopping any of the talent on the tour from partying on the road. He writes: “She wouldn’t let us have any fun – no girls, no booze, no nothing”.

Osbourne has responded angrily, as you’d expect. She says that she enforced a no partying rule on that tour because of the death of Nicholas ‘Razzle’ Dingley, the British drummer with Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks who died in Neil’s car when the Motley Crue singer crashed it while drink driving. She didn’t want Ozzy or any of his crew to go the same way, she claims.

Says Sharon: “[Neil is] a pathetic 50 year old party boy who continues to put innocent people’s lives at risk by getting behind the wheel of his car and driving drunk and being arrested for assaulting women”.

But Neil has hit back, pointing out the crash in which Dingley died took place right at the end of 1984, after the Ozzy/Crue tour. Though Osbourne would presumably argue the tragedy was an accident waiting to happen to party man Neil, and her hardline rules just ensured none of her people were involved.

Indie types like Collins

And Finally

Not only is Phil Collins at the top of the UK albums chart this week doing his Motown thing, but now trendy indie types have been saying how much they admire the drumming pop man.

According to Undercover, members of Sleigh Bells, Yeasayer and Neon Indian have all appeared on a Norwegian TV show praising Collins and bigging up his music, especially the pop-era Genesis oeuvre. Collins, at least, had the decency to be confused by the compliments, telling the show: “It’s very flattering that some people making music now, something I did rubbed off on them. I don’t understand it, I’m fascinated with it and very flattered”.

Collins also told the show he feels his music career is now behind him and he probably won’t tour again or make any more albums. Though I’m sure he’s said that before and, like I say, here he is at the top of the charts with a new album.

Bieber toys planned

And Finally Brands & Merch Business News

Universal’s merchandising division Bravado has announced a partnership with a US company called Bridge Direct to manufacture Justin Bieber dolls ready for the Christmas market. They launch in the US on 4 Dec.

There’ll be a selection of dolls to choose from, including ‘Justin walks into a door’, ‘Justin fails to escape his fans on a Segway’ and ‘Justin gets hit by a bottle’. Some will also play 30 second clips of the Biebster’s songs, including ‘The Screechy One’, ‘The Sickly One’ and ‘The Other One’.

The Bravado/Bridge Direct partnership will also create and sell Bieber-branded microphones that play more clips of his songs, and a teddy bear that wears clothes like what Justin wears.

The teddy bears will be the cheapest bit of Bieber tat, retailing at a mere eight dollars. The singing dolls will set you back $28. Fashion conscious teddy bears and dolls that squeak like pop teens – ladies and gentlemen, this is the future of the music industry.

Q&A: Steve Ignorant

Artist Interviews

Steve Ignorant formed anarcho-punk band Crass with drummer Penny Rimbaud in 1977. Before the band split (as planned) in 1984, they’d been investigated by the police, had their phones tapped and had questions raised out them in parliament. Plus, they’d released some great music. Their debut album, ‘The Feeding Of The 5000’, has just been re-issued, and Steve is currently taking his ‘Last Supper’ tour around Europe, with UK shows this weekend, playing Crass songs live for the final time. Meanwhile, his autobiography, ‘The Rest Is Propaganda’, was also published this month. Steve did the SSQ.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
When I really started making music was when I met Penny Rimbaud, the drummer from Crass. I started off shouting down the microphone while he would bang the drums and we took it from there. Gradually, I started to learn how to play guitar and piano to an extent, but later on I could always pass that over to someone else to play so that I could focus on the singing.

Q2 What inspired ‘The Feeding Of The 5000’?
For me, firstly it was seeing other punk bands like The Clash and being inspired by what they were doing. Secondly, it was at last a chance for me to air my opinion in a way I knew how, from standing in the football tiers – all of it is very chanty.

Q3 How do you go about creating a track?
It definitely varies, and I write a lot differently now than how I used to. For example, when I was in Schwarzeneggar I was writing very differently to how I had been in Crass, I was trying to be more poetic and musical. I was really into Joni Mitchell’s ‘Hejira’ album and looked at the way the lyrics were written, which was almost like a poem. In fact, one of the songs I wrote in Schwartzeneggar, ‘Child Of The Times’, was based and written around a Joni Mitchell song.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Nowadays I’m influenced by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and obviously Joni Mitchell. I still regularly go back and listen to old David Bowie, the Ziggy Stardust kind of era. I’ve always listened to and been influenced by Bert Bacharach, even before it was cool to like him. The first single I bought was ‘Close To You’ by The Carpenters, and I’m very much into Motown and ska. Bands that influenced me when I started out making music were definitely The Clash and Sex Pistols.

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
I would say give it a chance, if you don’t like the music then read the words. If you don’t like it still, then melt down the CD and use it as a bird scarer, or if it’s on vinyl use it as an ashtray.

Q6 What are your ambitions for the ‘Feeding Of The 500’ re-issue, and for the future?
My ambitions for the record are that hopefully people will like the re-issue and that it sells well, and also that it gets through to people who are learning about Crass for the first time. My personal ambitions for the future are for the rest of the tour to go well, and to carry on working with the Independent Lifeboat Crew. I’d also like to do a lot more spoken word.

MORE>> www.steveignorant.co.uk

Approved: To All My Friends

CMU Approved

Cast your minds back to last week’s CMU Weekly, when I first told you about Torpedo, subsequently the first of our Reeperbahn Festival-related Approveds here in the Daily this week. I described how, when they played the opening night of the Hamburg fest, they did so on a makeshift stage in front of the Molotow bar’s front window, meaning their backdrop was a window full of awe-struck tourists looking in.

Well, on Saturday night Team CMU formed part of that very same backdrop but for another act, when we sat on a bench just outside the packed Molotow bar to watch Swedish folk duo To All My Friends, aka Tove Möller and Frida Fralk, unable to actually get into the venue. It’s kind of weird watching a band from behind, desperately trying not to make eye contact with their audience.

Not a million miles away in sound from fellow Swedes First Aid Kit, this duo released their eponymous debut album last month (it’s available through iTunes in the UK). The standout tracks are those written about animals. ‘Fish’, which they felt worth noting at the show was their first animal-based song of the night, sees the duo wishing they were fish, while ‘Polar Bear’, looks at global warming through the eyes of a polar bear in a manner that can only be described as ‘cute’.

www.myspace.com/tamfmusic

Album Review: Commix – ReCall To Mind (Metalheadz)

Album Reviews

The original version of this album from Commix, aka duo George Levings and Guy Brewer, was released by Goldie’s Metalheadz label three years ago. The accompanying remix project incurred some serious delays, but finally the remixed album is with us. The original was a good drum n bass affair with some nods towards techno, but this bears little resemblance to it, with mixed results.

The Instra:mental rework of ‘Japanese Electronics’ sets us off well, it being a spacious bleepy number. The ‘How You Gonna Feel’ remix by Pangaea starts brilliantly before pounding your head with some killer tribal beats and then moving onto a dubstep sound.

Talking of which, UK dubstep leader Burial remixes ‘Be True’ and creates an awesome minimal moody track. Meanwhile the highlight of the package is Two Armadillos version of ‘Spectacle’, which takes their house sound into a deeper Kevin Yost styled affair. Really top notch.

But there are duds, too. Sigha She’s ‘Emily’s Smile’ remix is bland, dBridge’s take on ‘Belleview’ is overly mechanistic, and the UR remix of ‘Satellite Song’ is, shockingly, a total miss, and the nadir on this LP.

Not standard Metalheadz fare by any means, but, despite the weaker tracks, it’s great they allowed the duo full creative license to produce what is, at least, an interesting sonic outing. PV

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File-sharing law firm could be fined half a million for alleged data protection failures after 4chan attack

Business News Legal Top Stories

ACS:Law, the London-based legal firm that has been much criticised for its work in the sue-the-fans anti-file-sharing domain, could face a fine from the Information Commissioner after hackers were able to acquire and publish a list of thousands of Sky web users (reports say between 4000 and 5000) and the porn they were accused of illegally accessing via P2P networks.

Which? magazine raised concerns about ACS:Law earlier this year after various web users argued they had been falsely accused of infringing the copyrights of the content owners represented by the legal firm. Because the lawyers represent a number of porn companies, some accused the legal men of basically intimidating people into out of court settlements even when the case for infringement was weak, because those targeted would be nervous of going to court given the nature of the content they were accused of accessing.

Such claims may have been unfair, though according to the BBC the Solicitors Regulation Authority is reviewing ACS’s letter-sending activity. Either way, ACS and the company’s main man Andrew Crossley have been unrepentant about their strategy of profiting from the sort of file-sharing litigation that has been widely disregarded by the mainstream music industry which sees it as a costly, time consuming and inefficient way of dealing with the file-sharing problem. It’s not clear if ACS represents any music companies.

It was Crossley’s public advocacy for sue-the-fans litigation that made him enemy number one among the ever proactive pro-file-sharing community, and which has led to ACS’s current woes. Users of the previously reported 4chan community made the legal firm’s website and servers a target for their latest cyber attack, and it was as a result of that attack that a stack of very confidential lists – seemingly including names, contact and credit card information, and details of the porn users were accused of accessing – got published onto the net.

Although ACS is, in effect, the victim in this story, the organisation could still feel the wrath of the regulator if it’s shown that a slack approach to data protection enabled the hackers to gain sensitive information. Campaign group Privacy International has said that under the Data Protection Act such sensitive data should never have been stored on a public-facing server.

The BBC quote UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, who says: “The question we will be asking is how secure was this information and how it was so easily accessed from outside. We’ll be asking about the adequacy of encryption, the firewall, the training of staff and why that information was so public-facing”.

He continued: “The Information Commissioner has significant power to take action and I can levy fine of up to half a million pounds on companies that flout the Data Protection Act. I can’t put ACS:Law out of business, but a company that is hit by a fine of up to half a million pounds sufferers real reputation damage”.

Crossley has given only brief comment to reporters about the data leak, saying he can’t discuss the case in detail for legal reasons, but confirming that he has informed the police about the hack and has spoken to the Information Commissioner’s office. In the meantime, he told journalists, “it’s business as usual at ACS:Law”.

ACS’s woes do not affect the music industry directly, given we don’t know of any music companies hiring their services. But given privacy concerns are often given (albeit not always entirely convincingly) by the net sector as a reason for resisting calls to be more proactive in the battle against file-sharing, the fact one legal firm has managed to leak the details of so many Sky customers will provide more ammunition for the Talk Talks of this world as to why they should not have to participate in any new anti-piracy initiatives, include three-strikes.

Banton drugs case declared a mistrial

Legal

The court hearing considering the drugs charges made against reggae star Buju Banton has been declared a mistrial after jurors could not agree on whether or not the reggae star was guilty or innocent.

As previously reported, Banton was arrested in Florida last December on suspicion of attempting to buy five kilos of cocaine, which police claim he intended to re-sell. He says he was tricked by a cocaine smuggler who had avoided prison for his own drugs crimes by becoming a police informant. The reggae man’s trial began earlier this month, but after four days of argument and three days of deliberation the jury could not agree on a verdict, leading the judge to declare a mistrial. A retrial won’t happen now before December at the earliest.

Banton has been in prison ever since his arrest. He would face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty of the charges against him.

Kid Cudi gets community service for drugs charge

Legal

Elsewhere in the American pop drug courts, Kid Cudi has been sentenced to two days community service after pleading guilty to possessing liquid cocaine. As previously reported, the rapper was arrested in June in New York after kicking in the door of an unnamed woman, who turned out to be an ex-girlfriend. He later admitted to having a coke addiction, but recently told Complex magazine he had kicked the drug and now only smokes marijuana.

According to TMZ, having addressed his drug problem the New York court was rather lenient, giving the hip hopper two days community service and six months probation.

Wyclef Jean hospitalised due to stress

Artist News

A rep for Wyclef Jean has confirmed reports that the musician and would-be politician has been admitted to hospital due to “stress and fatigue”.

Marian Salzman told Associated Press: “[Jean is] suffering from stress and fatigue based on the gruelling eight weeks he’s had [and] plans to take it easy”.

Last week Jean officially withdrew from the Haitian presidential election, though it had been several weeks since it was decided that he was ineligible by the country’s electoral council. In a statement, he said: “After weeks of quiet but painstaking reflection with my wife and daughter, I have chosen to end my bid for the presidency of Haiti”.

He is due to be discharged from hospital later this week.

Dave Most dies

Business News Obituaries

Dave Most, brother of RAK Records founder Mickie Most, has died at his home in Ascot from a suspected heart attack.

Dave played an active part in his brother’s music business, overseeing its successful music publishing division during its seventies heyday, and handling promotions for a number of RAK’s biggest artists, including Hot Chocolate and Suzi Quatro. After Mickie sold the record label side of the enterprise to EMI in the mid-eighties, RAK Publishing remained an independent concern alongside the company’s studio complex. Mickie died in 2003.

Paying tribute to Dave, music industry PR man Gary Farrow, who knew Most in the seventies while working at EMI, told Music Week yesterday: “I remember him as probably the best promotions man there ever was”.

West signs Def

Business News Deals Labels & Publishers

According to XXL magazine, Kanye West has signed Mos Def to his GOOD Music label.

An article in the latest issue of the magazine, which is dedicated entirely to West, claims: “Just as Kanye returned to his roots to scoop up Common, he recently recruited his buddy Brooklyn rapper/singer/actor Mos Def into the GOOD Music fold”.

The two rappers have collaborated before. Mos Def appeared on ‘Two Words’ on West’s debut album ‘The College Dropout’, and on ‘Drunk And Hot Girls’ on the 2007 follow-up, ‘Graduation’. He’s also on the latest track in West’s GOOD Fridays free download series, ‘Lord Lord Lord’.

Metallica working on new material

Artist News

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has confirmed that the band are working on new material for their next album, the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Death Magnetic’.

Hetfield told New Zealand’s 3 News: “All of ‘Death Magnetic’ was written on the [2003 album] ‘St Anger’ tour in a [backstage] room like this, on the road, and we’ve been kind of doing the same thing on this tour. I mean, we won’t get together and go, ‘Hey, OK. Ready? Let’s write’, [but I’ll be] jamming and all of a sudden you’ve got a great sound and ‘Whoa!’, a riff just appears. There’s a vibe”.

However, he added that what’s been written so far is not anywhere near becoming what you could call an album: “We’ve got lots of material, [but] we don’t dare start going through it, because that just starts the unravelling of it all – it’s like, ‘OK, which is the best riff? We start with that one’, and blah blah blah. We want to get to a place of rest and chill after the tour and then we start [properly] writing”.

MGMT listening to label for next album

Artist News

Record companies get a lot of flack, especially the majors, for meddling with the creative process, but MGMT have recognised that what might be seen as label interference could actually be helpful. The band have decided to rescind as much creative control as they possibly can while working on their next album, lest they make another ‘Congratulations’.

Andrew Van Wyngarden told The Daily Record: “We have some ideas and have been talking about possible directions of where to go next. We are just in much more positive mental states than when we wrote ‘Congratulations’. We’re less anxious. We’ve been looking at relationships with the label during the recording process and it’s quite different this time. They’ll be more involved and not give us as much freedom”.

Fingers crossed, if they can make album number three as good as album number one, fans may be less likely to throw piss at the band. Drummer Will Berman understandably stormed off stage at a Manchester gig this weekend after a “glass of urine” was thrown in his direction. The rest of the band, seemingly confused as to Berman’s sudden departure from the stage (having not seen the ‘pissile’ land), played on without drums but chose not to return for an encore.

Mind you, if Van Wyngarden keeps going round talking about a future collaboration with Jedward – as he did in some interviews last week – the band might have to accept having things worse than urine thrown at them in the future.

Blonde Redhead to compile alternate versions of new album

Artist News

Blonde Redhead frontwoman Kazu Makino has revealed that the band are hoping to release several versions of their new album, ‘Penny Sparkle’.

Makino told Spinner that recording sessions for the follow-up to 2007’s ’23’ resulted in several versions of each song being recorded. She said: “We ended up having many different versions. We’re going to have a couple more albums of the same songs, I think. A lot of the versions that we didn’t choose are the one’s that sound more like us. They’re good, but we ended up choosing ones that were out of our comfort zone. The whole thing was pretty uncomfortable – in a good way. We have something here, even if we fail miserably. I get some satisfaction out of some of these [other] versions. Some of them I really loved and I didn’t want them to stay with me. I want people to hear them”.

Blonde Redhead are due to play a one-off show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire tomorrow night.

Daft Punk’s TRON soundtrack gets release date

Releases

Daft Punk’s much talked about soundtrack from the upcoming movie ‘TRON: Legacy’ has been given a release date. It will emerge via Walt Disney Records on 6 Dec.

Earlier this year, a number of tracks purporting to be taken from the soundtrack were leaked online, though many were dismissed as fakes. Still, there is much interest in what Daft Punk have come up with for the slightly controversial (amongst people who think the original ‘TRON’ is some kind of sacred masterpiece) movie sequel.

To see the movie itself, you’ll have to wait until Boxing Day.

The Temper Trap announce remix album

Releases

The Temper Trap have announced that they will release a compilation of remixed versions of tracks from their debut album, ‘Conditions’, on 1 Nov. Meanwhile, the band are working on their second studio album as we speak and will be on tour in the British Isles later this year.

You can download a track from ‘Conditions: Remixed’, a remix of ‘Drum Song’ by the previously CMU Approved Breton, for free now:

Tracklist:

Love Lost (Sister Bliss and Rollo Mix)
Rest (Three Trapped Tigers Remix)
Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Mix)
Down River (Fool’s Gold Remix)
Soldier On (Rusko’s F’kin Seagull Remix)
Fader (Adam Freeland Remix)
Fools (Peter, Bjorn & John Hortlax Cobra Remix)
Resurrection (Penguin Prison Remix)
Science Of Fear (The Count ‘Medusa’ Remix)
Drum Song (BretonLabs Remix feat Kate Tempest)

Jesus & Mary Chain announce best of

Releases

The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced that they will release a compilation of what has been decided are their best songs on 15 Nov. Some have already noted the omission of certain song, though with the compilation spread over two discs and more than 40 songs, the chances that a good percentage of your favourites are on there are reasonably high.

Tracklist:

Disc 1:
Just Like Honey
April Skies
Blues From A Gun
Far Gone And Out
Some Candy Talking
Come On
Head On
I Love Rock N Roll
All Things Must Pass
Reverence
Sidewalking
Cracking Up
Upside Down
Never Understand
The Hardest Walk
Happy When It Rains
The Perfect Crime
Sometimes Always
Almost Gold
Darklands
45RPM
Head

Disc 2:
Half Way To Crazy
You Trip Me Up
Rollercoaster
Birthday
Happy Place
Something I Can’t Have
I Hate Rock N Roll
Tower Of Song
Vegetable Man
In A Hole
Kill Surf City
33 1/3
Cherry Came Too
Between Planets
Moe Tucker
Little Stars
God Help Me
New York City
Nine Million Rainy Days
Drop
Black
Psychocandy

Deftones add extra London date to UK tour

Gigs & Festivals

Having announced UK tour dates earlier this month, Deftones have now added a second night at Brixton Academy to cope with demand, which is nice of them. The band’s frontman, Chino Moreno told CMU: “We’re excited to be returning to the UK and Europe this fall for our first proper headline run for [new album] ‘Diamond Eyes’. The new stuff is sounding huge live and has been a blast to perform, as well as the oldies but goodies we plan to sneak in the sets. It’s gonna be rad!”

Reeperbahn Campus: Promoters won’t share sponsorship with GEMA

Business News Education & Events Labels & Publishers Live Business

There were plenty of bold statements made at the Reeperbahn Campus this year, which is what you want at your music business conventions I suppose. Following bold remarks made against YouTube and Spotify by Alexander Wolf of GEMA, the boss of the German association for concert promoters, BDV, had some pretty touch talking aimed at, well, GEMA.

Jens Michow was talking about moves by the German publishing collecting society to get a cut of the live sector’s sponsorship revenues in addition to a slice of ticket, catering and bar sales. The sponsorship share was part of a revamped live music license launched by GEMA earlier this year, though that actual part of the new license is currently on hold while the publishing and live industries hammer out how it might work.

Though given Michow’s comments at a meeting of the BDV at the Reeperbahn Festival last week, the consensus on the live side of the equation seems to be it can’t work. According to Billboard’s Berlin correspondent, Michow said: “We’ve had enough. We are not going to allow GEMA to earn even more from us. We need the money ourselves just to be able to finance our concerts. If things go on like this, small and medium-size concert promoters will no longer be able to organise large international concerts because GEMA is ruining profitability”. The remarks were applauded by Michow’s audience of promoters.

GEMA, who were not present at the BDV meeting, insist that the law is on their side because Germany’s collective licensing arbitration board, sort of the German equivalent of our Copyright Tribunal, accepted its demands for a cut of sponsorship money. But, according to Billboard, the promoters’ trade body says it is prepare to go legal if no agreement can be reached with the collecting society on this issue.

Is VEVO planning a TV channel?

Digital

Universal and Sony-owned video music service VEVO is planning future expansion that could include launching a conventional TV channel to rival MTV, according to the New York Post, who have been talking to the service’s top guy Rae Caraeff.

Talks are already underway to put a VEVO branded music video service on web-enabled TV sets, including those being made by Sony’s electronics business. Although talks have not begun with cable or satellite networks, it’s thought that VEVO bosses do see that as a future option.

That said, some are sceptical about VEVO’s bold expansion plans. While the Google-powered service has scored impressive viewing stats – mainly because views of Sony and Universal content on YouTube in the US count as VEVO views – it is not known how well advertising and sponsorship sales are going.

And even if they are going well, that doesn’t mean an ad-funded TV channel service could work. The Post quote a former exec at MTV owners Viacom who said VEVO TV couldn’t operated on ad revenue alone, adding that cable subscription revenue helped his former employer to succeed in the music telly domain.

Four times the Lennon in Q

Media

I often wonder whether this sort of thing actually works. Will people really buy the next edition of Q magazine four times because it is being made available with four different covers?

Or is it just a PR stunt to make people like me write about the fact the music monthly will be celebrating what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday with a selection of articles and exclusive photos in their next issue, out this week?

If it’s the latter, then I guess it’s job done. The different covers follow Lennon through his career from aspiring star in Hamburg to celebrity thinker in New York.

Wednesday 29 September 2010, 11:28 | By CMU Editorial

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