03 Monday Mar 2008
Posted in Music
A little while ago I blogged about the forthcoming album by Kathryn Williams (see the entry here). Well the album is now out and available as they say in all good record shops and iTunes. The important point I’d like to make though are great reviews that the album is getting, links to a few of these reviews can be found here. My favourite quote so far is “Drowned In Sound say the album “shits all over plant and krauss”… t-shirt anyne?”
03 Monday Mar 2008
Posted in Music
An interesting approach to recording live sessions has been taking place in London – the Black Cab Sessions – simple idea use the back of a famous London cab to record a session which is then captured on camera and in audio. The sessions have been largely adopted with artists with a more indie spirit such as Stephen Fretwell, The Kooks and so on. A lot of these artists are the sort I would expect to see show up on Later with Jools Holland.
The company behind the idea (Just So) have been gaining a lot of attention from the UK media (BBC and Channel 4 airing recordings). Checkout their site for more Black Cab Sessions.
29 Friday Feb 2008
Posted in General
Looks like monster has been moonlighting as a model again, this time for Tesco’s as you can see in the picture.
Last photo shoot I know of … 
28 Thursday Feb 2008
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A former colleague of mine added a Recommendation to my LinkedIn profile today that is very pleasing to read. It is always pleasing to read that a former member a team you’ve run thinks you’ve done a good job.
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
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The comedian Lenny Henry is on classic form with a new Radio 4 comedy called “Rudy’s Rare Records” (listen to it from the BBC here). The premise of the show is that Lenny plays a classical record shop owner in London, however when his father reportedly has a heart attack he is drawn back to Birmingham with his son to help his father Rudy, and run Rudy’s Reggae record shop.
Lenny’s character (Adam) is almost an inversion of his late 80s Delbert Wilkins with a dose of his Chief character from the 90s comedy – completely obsessive to the point of being anal about classical music, a completely elitist thinker. At the same time his son (Richie) is very much an updated Delbert.
If the first episode is anything to go by the next four Tuesdays will be very funny after the news.
For the BBC page on the series go here and Lenny’s own site here.
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
I’ve just read about an interesting pricing strategy on Digital Music News for an online store (article here). Amie Street sell their downloads with a price based upon the demand ranging from free to 98-cents. This is great for new artists, have a better chance at attracting sales than say on iTunes.
We just have to wait and see if it can develop by getting deals made with some of the major labels (currently only deals with significant indie labels) and come to the UK.
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
The PR for Duffy must be in overdrive. There is no doubting that she has a good voice, but before her debut album is out she’s clocked up performances on Later with Jools Holland, a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and a iTunes Live In London Session.
I hope that the album (due out next week) lives up to all of this.
22 Friday Feb 2008
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I had the chance to have a chat with Tom Baeyens, the lead for JBoss’ jBPM development programme who has a blog at Process Developments. He has recently blogged, giving SeeWhy a little mention as a result of our conversation.
22 Friday Feb 2008
Posted in General
A slightly different Top 10 to the usual ones when it comes to music, the Top 10 soundtracks can be found at SoundtrackNet : Top 10 of 2007.
22 Friday Feb 2008
Posted in Music
Another year, and another Brits award, and yet another farce. A few years back the Brits showed signs of becoming credible by acknowledging new artists and new music. But this years’ Brits giving awards to Arctic Monkeys (3rd year running), Take That (just for doing a comeback tour) seems a little retrenchment to say the least. This sort of thinking contributes to the death of the UK music scene. Reading the Guardian blog shows that I’m not the only one holding this view. The only success is that the Osbournes did a relatively reasonable job of hosting the show.
You can see the results from the awards at http://www.brits.co.uk/
