Congrats to Meebar for scoring support for Magic Dirt in Hobart on October 14th and 15th. See their website (warning, massive images) for details.

Happened to catch this in the paper today, I assume we'll see more about it.

“Live Music Week is our annual Christmas gift to our listeners, subscribers and sponsors. During the week all our listeners across Melbourne are invited to come on down to the station at 47 Easey Street Collingwood to see the live bands in action– it’s a real party atmosphere and a celebration of all the types of music we broadcast : jazz, hip-hop, roots and blues, hardcore, punk, metal, soul, world, country, latin and indie to name a few. ”

Live Music Week is from Friday, 2 December to Thursday, 8 December.

Studio 5 live schedule
Show specials

No artists have been announced yet but we can assume lots of Aussie talent (some Regurgitator would be nice). Hopefully a big selection of (not crap) Melbourne bands too.

Idea for a website:

• Lazy guitarists (or any musician) like me create riffs, or chunks of songs
• They create a demo and upload it
• Other more enthusiastic artists listen to riffs and make complete songs from those riffs
• Can riffs be used in multiple songs?
• Any songs created from stealmyriff.com riffs must provide some kind of credit for the riff, either by just naming the creator or by % of royalties depending how much of the riff is used

That last point is where it gets sticky although I'm sure the Creative Commons has all sorts of clauses for this sort of thing.

For guitarists who like their riffs but are too lazy to compose and would like to hear them in a song.

I think it would work better if the riff could be used any way anyone liked in multiple songs. It would be fun to hear a metal riff used in a bad folk song or in a metal song or in a dance song.

And it has the nice side effect of deliberately diluting the music market with the same riffs, instead of pretending they're new like the record companies currently do.

Fits in with another idea I had for "check my riff" where guitarists could make up a riff and upload it and everyone could write in an say "that riff rips off this song" and save you the stress of discovering this $3000 into a recording studio session.

Both ideas also set you up for a third party "me first" proof should someone decide to take someone else to court for stealing riffs.

As pathetic as that is.