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If you didn't hear about it, Quit Myspace Day came into being with this superb article written last year by music industry academic Andrew Dubber. In it he outlines the root cause of the one thing about Myspace on which everyone can agree – it's a bit rubbish. He also gave them a year to clean their act up, failing which, he declared that there should be a Quit Myspace Day where we all up and leave.

Due to the flocking nature of social networking, Myspace has, as Dubber puts it, every fricking band on the planet, to say nothing of a large proportion of the promoters, studios, merchandisers and other ancillary music types. With the right strategy it could be the best music site in the world, both for musicians and music fans. But it is not.

WEAK13 – PROUDER THAN U 2
WEAK13 Music video directed by Martyn Kilvert.

Zero budget and shot in one day, Newspaper man terrorized the streets proclaiming that he 'is the news!'.
Freaking people out is fun.

http://www.myspace.com/weak13music
http://weak13.site4fans.com

A new CD from these anarcho dub punkers from London with the live from 97 "escape from new cross" and mini album "enter the dragon" + 2 more songs taken from EP's before the new album! All the classics songs for this band who turn all over Europe with and light fire with there nice music for fighting and dancing!

01. Human Sheep
02. Party On
03. The Journey
04. The Cause
05. Criminals
06. Middle Oak
07. Earth Must
08. Heartbeat
09. White Nightmare
10. 1066
11. Name Of The Father
12. Enter The Dragon
13. Noah's Farce (5'04 – 4.109 ko)
14. 1066
15. The Cause
16. Guns Of Brixton

Dufus: Eth
NEW CD 2010

After almost 13 years and 10 full length recordings, Dufus is putting out our final album. This album’s production includes Seth Faergolzia’s voice and compositional wizardry, a horn section, two drummers, violin, a choir, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, toy piano, accordion, flute, and circuit bent noise instruments. It is our most grandiose and well plotted production. The content addresses a number of ideas including the importance of silence, long time friends, post-child breakups, love, schizophrenia, and profound dream stories.

1. silence
2. dastard
3. life is empty
4. feed the baby
5. knock around
6. old friends
7. gracious host
8. bcuz
9. purple baby
10. elephants and whales
11. aren't happy
12. tina
13. ease your mind

The Music Network is open to all on Thursday 28th September 2010 The Meeting will be lead this month by Andy Derrick and Mark Badger from 4pm til 6pm at Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG

The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, for the benefit of music related businesses in the West Midlands region. If you have any involvement in music, come and talk about what you’re up to and meet some new people. These Networking events are about all things music in the region. They’re about helping you to teach yourself how to do it, by yourself, for yourself and encourages you to share the knowledge with others so they can do the same. If you are a musician, a student, someone who works with musicians, represents musicians, has involvement with the music industry, or are looking to make new contacts…..the meeting will be useful.

Here is something that raises some interesting issues, what do you make of it all?

Why #quitmyspace day is pointless
Posted on October 24, 2010 by Andy Derrick

Read this:
http://www.newmusicstrategies.com/2010/10/23/the-time-has-come-its-quit-myspace-day/

Andrew Dubber, a lecturer in Birmingham and speaker on issues connected with the music industry has decided he really doesn’t like myspace.

His argument includes opinion that the interface and public side of the pages aren’t very nice (I agree) although he is fairly quiet on the grey issue of rights for music uploaded to the site.

However the arrogance that he thinks he has the influence to exact a massive blow to this huge site is ridiculous.

Your comments please…..