- 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
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- 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 2010After 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 DerrickRead 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…..
The Music Network is open to all on Thursday 28th October 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.
If you have news to report, a presentation to give, an event to promote, any new points for discussion, a pitch to make, business cards or flyers to hand round, an appeal for help, advice or guidance or even if you just want the free tea and biscuits and some serious discussion…you are invited.
You can also post in by email any news or gig dates or press release information for inclusion on the website and for distribution through the mailing list and RSS feed. More details on the website.
There will be luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks too. Please pass this invite on to Musicians you know or anyone else who you think may benefit.
https://birminghammusicnetwork.com Come and Join us.
About Andy Derrick:
Andy is an independent freelance musician based in Birmingham, UK and works as a teacher, conductor, composer and performer
As a performer Andy has worked all over the UK and in Europe and for many different projects from school bands to the West End and from home studios to BBC Radio. Andy won the Best Trombonist award at the 2005 BBC Big Band Contest and arranges and composes music for all situations including educational beginner music, advanced solo works and music for diverse ensembles from salsa and function bands to orchestras and school groups. Andy has worked on the current Bass Trombone syllabus Grade 6 and 7 for the ABRSM.
Andy greatly enjoys conducting and is currently musical director of the Sandwell Youth Jazz Orchestra. Teaching music performance and composition is a passion that sees him working with pupils of all ages and standards across the Midlands.
About Mark Badger:
Mark runs Iron Man Records, based in Birmingham England. The record label has been running since 1996 and in 2000 he set up Birmingham Music Network which is also known as just The Music Network.
Mark has organised more than 1000 gigs in and around Birmingham since 1994 using many different identities but most of them used the name Badger Promotions until 2002.
Mark plays in a band called Last Under The Sun and another called Police Bastard. He works as a tour manager and driver helping bands out on the live circuit and when he finds time he writes and maintains several music related blogs. Mark has assembled simple online strategies for established bands, like the The Orb, and countless other new bands who have asked for help.
Mark has done some lecturing at Birmingham City University as part of their Music Business degree course, and bits and pieces for the Musicians Union, Birmingham City Council, Learning and Skills Council and Advantage West Midlands.
Mark also operates a shop on ebay selling all sorts of good alternative music on cd or vinyl.
- The Nightmare before Crustmas
Saturday 11 December 2010Agathocles, Krush, Kasatka, Last Under The Sun, Mucus, LAST LEGION ALIVE, Fokkum, Goat Vomit, The League of Mental Men and days of desolation
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