Flattery will get you...

on the front page!

... on the front page! How could I not run this?

Seeing as you are now officially the most influential person in the British Music Scene, what with the Darkness being at No1 in the album charts still and CTC entering the charts near to the top too (all due to Popex naturally) I thought you might be interested in another rising band heading your way.

The Birmingham based "intergalactic kung-fu rock'n'roll" band PLANETMAN are playing the Fusilier and Firkin on Fri the 19th of Sep as part of a four band line up (I think DIY cravings are headlining). Planetman are due to hit the stage at around 9:30 and happen to be GRATE!

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/389939/CamFly.gif

this is the now obligatory money off flyer and

http://way.to/planetman

is the website address for the band where you can download sample mp3s etc.

Anyway it'll be a nice Friday out if you've nothing else planned.

Heres to the great David Devant revival.

pauly :: 2003 :: Comment / reply

Take Down The Union Jack on May 20

Buy this single.

Three versions of the Billy Bragg and The Blokes UK
single Take Down The
Union Jack from the new album England, Half English, will
be released on
Cooking Vinyl on May 20. The price: £1.99 each.



Our aim? To launch the song to the top of the UK charts in
time for the
Queens Golden Jubilee at the start of June. All profits go
to the
not-for-profit organisation the Living Wage campaign in
London. The Living
Wage campaign took some of its inspiration from a similar
group in Los
Angeles, USA, LAANE.



Why should you get involved? If you are dismayed at all
the fawning and
grovelling surrounding the Jubilee celebrations and
wonder why almost no
dissenting view is heard, this campaign is for you.



If you are sick of pop impresarios using dubious
techniques to dominate
the singles charts, and just as importantly the radio waves,
to the
exclusion of anything else, then this campaign is for you [eh? is this irony?].



If you think the minimum wage is not enough and want to
help the Living
Wage campaign force big employers to pay proper rates
of pay for low- or
semi-skilled jobs, especially in expensive areas such as
cities, then this
campaign is for you.



Visit Billy Braggs web site to
read the
official press release issued on St Georges Day (April 23).



What are we asking you to do? Buy the CD as soon as
possible after launch
day on May 20 in order to try and force the single into the
UK pop charts.
If possible, go into your local independent record store
and try to
pre-order it NOW. Encourage as many people as possible
to buy the CD: tell
them via email, a personal web site, in conversation -
however you can. A
Take Down The Union Jack microsite will be launched
soon to help
concentrate everyones efforts. If you want to use any of
the images of the
single from the web site, or the press
release wording,
you dont need permission from us, just copy it and
circulate.



OUTSIDE THE UK?
If you are outside the UK and you want to get involved,
please ask a
friend or relative to buy the single for you in the UK.
Buying it over the
internet will NOT count towards UK chart figures. Already
regular visitors
to our web site Guestbook and Forum are working out
ways to buy the CD for
people outside the country. Spread the word, like a virus.

pauly :: 2002 :: Comment / reply

Really bad and sad news a

Really bad and sad news about Paul Hunter, he was only 27 and had just become a dad, should have known things were very serious when his ranking was frozen earlier this year, that's an unusual move, though we really thought and hoped he'd recover.

Also fairly bad news from East Asia, indeed how do you solve a problem like Korea?

Also my interview went quite well I think, afterwards I met Clare for a fairly rubbish lunch in a pub near her work, then I bumped into a friend in the park on the way home:


Bizarre one about Google buying YouTube, for about eight hundred million pounds... They've only been going less than two years I think, so even if the rumours were true about them spending a million dollars a day in bandidth costs for all of that time, they're still in profit. And they've had some investment in the mean time. Why did Google not buy popex? Seems someone's filling the gap left by popex's departure:

PRESS RELEASE | Official UK Charts Company to launch Fantasy Music Manager game

> Record industry vies for slice of booming interactive gaming market.

London, October 9 2006, 11.30am | The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) is to launch a new internet-based game which applies the successful Fantasy Football Manager formula to the fast-paced world of the UK music charts and offers £40,000 in prizes and tickets to The BRITs 2007.

The OCC - which is co-owned by the British recorded music trade association the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association - has linked up with commercial marketing agency Why Not! to create a Fantasy Music Manager game which will run over the eight weeks up to Christmas, culminating with the Christmas Number One.

The game, which allows players to select a roster of artists who then perform based on their week-by-week performance in the charts, is sponsored by Xbox 360 and will be promoted to a potential audience of 8.5m people through tie-ups with commercial radio's Hit 40 UK, games site Freeloader.com and youth web portal Xtaster amongst others.

The OCC says that music adds a new twist to the fast-growing £10m market for fantasy gaming.

2006 :: Comment / reply