Photos from the Royal Melbourne Show.
Tomahawk tickets arn't selling as well for the second show. First show I bought our tickets 10 minutes after going on sale, I got tickets 55+. This time I was two days late and we get tickets 44+. Although I suspect many of the first show early numbered tickets were promos.
A friend Avril says I'm very passionate about music. I read this post and see it's all about music except the stuff about me (and some of that is music too). So.. um.. something not about music... um..
MONKEY!
How's that? Although they have just told Robbie Williams to please cut the bit in the video playing in the back of "Me & My Monkey" in his live shows with the chimp sticking a gun in it's mouth. So I guess that's music related too. Except a chimp is an ape.
Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape Ape...
Yes, I deliberately leave out the "e" in havn't and arn't. If it bugs you I couldn't be happier. I have no others comments on any other spoiling or grandma errors in this blog.
Looks like I'm at least partly right about The White Stripes recording methods:
The duo's new album, Elephant - the follow-up to the million-selling White Blood Cells - was written and recorded in less then two weeks."We recorded it in 10 days and also did three shows during that time," says Jack White.
"We put down about 18 songs in one day on the last day (of recording)."
And boy does it sound like it.
Some rearrangements at work this month. I'm going to have four day weekends for a few weeks. It'll be an interesting comparison. The one day on, one day off thing has been working out much better than I expected. I'll be full time again soon. I've done everything I wanted to do in the spare time (that is, bash out the latest set of demos and write some code for my websites, and go to the zoo).
Gig tonight at Cue on Brunswick street. Walken on around 11pm. Check out the fruits of the jams with Evan from ex-Photos of Being. Evan will be joining us as second guitar for four songs (including the much requested "Glory" for the first time in ages).
The Thursday show of Melbourne Tomahawk/Fantomas/Melvins show has sold out. Melbourne is the only Australian city with two shows. My Friday tickets havn't shown up yet ;/
aus.music rant about digital music download from Dick Smith (using WiredRecords). The public's view.
It still costs way too much and is way too hard.
The Chemical Brothers are lucky they don't get sued by The Beatles (see end of album Revolver). Thanks Dave.
Sounds like the Weird Al gig was... weird [aus.music fan review]. The thought of a costume change after every song makes me want to yell "get on with it!".
Registered more shareware software yesterday. Try before you buy works. So does really good shareware/registration protection.
Bit more info on Australia's only decent (as in, has major label content) online music store, WiredRecords.com. Soon to be rebranded as DestraMusic.com.au. Soon to be rereleased with "1000s of new tracks not available online in Australia before" (before Xmas). Soon to do a deal with EMI Music to pay $5 a month to access EMI's catalog and $1 per song to download/burn. At the moment they all still cost too much, and they've redesigned the site to use frames (possibly as a reaction to iTunes, although why bother because no-one is Aus can use iTunes and no-one out of Aus can use WiredRecords) and it's a bit nasty.
No one cares what label bands are on. No one pays just to access something they might buy.
The worst thing about this online store is the ease with which they can "delete" a release. They used to have the latest Powderfinger single up on the site but it's gone now. A search for Powderfinger brings up nothing. The thought of the ability of record labels to control to the second when a piece of music is available sends shivers down my spine. The BIGGEST thing causing piracy of music is record labels making music difficult to buy.
Old news on a record label, Magnatune, that is embracing try-before-you-buy, paid downloads and pay what you want models [Wired.com via ScriptingNews]. They make their money from paid downloads (WAV or high quality MP3) and licence deals ($5 for a wedding video, $2500+ for a worldwide distribution movie). Artists get half of all gross.
The company that created the lastest Audio CD DRM is suing the Princeton graduate that wrote a report on how to get around it. Their shares dropped 20% after the publication of the report. [all via Slashdot]
FYI, the DRM uses a driver which is installed by Windows' Autoplay technology. Once installed it stops you ripping the CD. As everyone has known since Windows 95, to stop Autoplay and any other already installed drivers from running you hold down SHIFT during boot. Put those two bits of information together and bang.
Napster returns as a pay-per-play service [via Slashdot]. Best guesses at the moment are it's just a rebranded PressPlay (and in theory, cheaper?).
But ignore that because iTunes is releasing a Windows version next week [via Slashdot].
And ignore it all anyway because it's all still USA only.
EMusic dumps their unlimited download subscription [rocknerd.org]. Broadband providers in the US to follow ;p
Someone pointed to this... cdbaby.com which seems to be a usual (indie only) CD store except they have 2 minute samples of at least half of every CD. Better than 30 seconds.