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Lorry fuel tax protest hits roads

27 Tuesday May 2008

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Protests over fuel prices are starting to kick in again, with a number of convoys around the country on a go slow impacting traffic.  More details at BBC NEWS.  According to the BBC …

Treasury spokesman said the government understood business and families were “feeling the pressure from high fuel prices”.

But they said the “immediate priority” was to encourage oil-producing countries to increase output, that a 2p-per-litre fuel duty increase had been put back from April to October and fuel duty was “still 11% below its 1999 level, in real terms”.

The fact that the prices are 11% less in real terms, is misses the most crucial the point, which is the rate of change that is the problem, and that if fuel prices are to rapidly correct based on that real terms figures is going to really hit inflation.

 

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Record results for music royalties in 2007

27 Tuesday May 2008

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The UK organisations responsible for collecting music royalties have reported here that they have had a record year in collected royalties. Although royalties from physical media sales have dropped by 10% everything else (e.g. public performance, downloads and so on) have been increasing in or near double digit rates giving an overall growth of 3%.  The report says …

For the first time, income from broadcasting and online out-performed that of recorded physical product. Online royalties, although still a small proportion of the overall whole (at £10m), grew significantly by 54% year-on-year, largely due to the growth in the legal online music market led by iTunes.

A picture that isn’t too gloomy given the current global economic down turn, although this is only really good news for the artists and composers rather than the record labels themselves.

 

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Hotel Chelsea NYC, Rock’s Vortex Of ‘Death and Destruction’

27 Tuesday May 2008

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  Wired.com have got a neat little article here about the Hotel Chelsea in NYC.  This notorious venue perhaps most famous as the location where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, but also the home for a raft of other sordid stories (and a few less sordid such as Arthur C Clarke’s writing of 2001).  The hotel is now the subject to a documentary film and photo essay book.

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Jesse Malin – another live album

23 Friday May 2008

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Having only recently released his covers album – “On Your Sleeve“, Jesse Malin is now putting out another live album on June 3rd called “Mercury Retrograde“.  The album is getting a limited CD release, and will be generally available through iTunes. The album has 16 tracks recorded Christmas last year at New York’s Mercury Lounge.

 

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Telegraph to get a ‘Fair Deal for Drivers’ – postpone October 2p fuel price rise

21 Wednesday May 2008

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The Telegraph a running a campaign with a petition to get the 2p price rise scheduled for October on fuels stopped, and to take actions to slow the rate that fuel prices are increasing. As you’ll have seen by my previous posts fuel costs are increasing at whole percentage points per month (rather than per year) at the moment. PetrolPrices.com have a range of figures reporting fuel prices as high as £1.37 per litre in parts of the country. Although the principal to slowly increase taxation on fuel to help fund public transport and encourage green activity maybe fun, the current rate of change is starting to make a notable impact on inflation, sufficiently so that it has the Mervyn King the head of the Bank of England has identified it as a factor on any number of occasions now.

The campaign includes a petition here which you may wish to sign.

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Peter Gabriel supports Bowers & Wilkins music club

21 Wednesday May 2008

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Peter Gabriel is a busy man, quietly helping music in the world of technology, with his work with OD2 (On Demand 2), We7 and now Bowers & Wilkins music club.  Bowers & Wilkins are a audiophile speaker manufacturer and wither Peter have indicated that sharing music using MP3s results in a loss of quality.  So they have set up a music club through which you can buy high quality music recordings (in the Apple’s loss less audio file format as used in the recording studio) recorded at Peter’s state of the art Real World recording studios.  Although not explicitly stated, the indications are from the website’s information is that the music is DRM free. The club costs £33.95 per year for which you get a free album to download  every month.  You don’t get to choose the artist or album, but initial indications that the artists involved so far are both interesting and diverse in styles so within a year you should get to hear a couple of albums that will appeal to your musical palate, unless you’re exclusively a Spice Girls and Sugababes fan. So far albums have been recorded with blues artist Little Axe (aka Skip MacDonald), Grindhouse and Gwyneth Herbert.

 

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next Peter Gabriel album

20 Tuesday May 2008

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The next Peter Gabriel release isn’t looking like it will be a new solo album as hoped, but the compilation of a ‘recording week’ sessions over the last 15 years at his Real World recording studios in Box, Wiltshire, England.  The album Big Blue Ball (so called because of who the Earth appears from space) gas got some teaser material here. 

The recording weeks at the Realworld studios have been like super charged jam sessions with lots of Real World artists past and present such as Peter along with Joseph Arthur, Karl Wallinger and a host of other famous, and not so famous names.

 

Although we’d hope for a follow on to Up, Big Blue Ball should still prove to be very interesting listening given the names that will appear on the album. But like all Gabriel fans we’re wondering when he’ll get onto the next solo outing.

 

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Delays – Southampton Guildhall 17-05-08

19 Monday May 2008

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Delays – Southampton Guildhall 17-05-08

We managed to catch the Delays performing their home town gig on Saturday. Some photos of taken with my camera phone are available on our flickr site – http://photos.mp3monster.org

 

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Thea Gilmore – Liejacker

19 Monday May 2008

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Thea Gilmore’s new album, Liejacker is available from today, and is getting good reviews with five stars from the Guardian yesterday. Thea’s website gives some background to the inspiration to the album here.  This is an album I’ll be checking out.

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Eels Live Album

16 Friday May 2008

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The EELS LIVE AND IN PERSON! London 2006 live CD & DVD package previously only available at the Eel’s 2008 concerts is now available exclusively at the band’s online store (here). It’s a limited edition two disc package containing a CD and a DVD priced at £12.

 

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