Martyn Joseph Live Album
Feb 19 2007 -Martyn, currently on tour in the US has released the track listing for his forthcoming live album:
Some Of Us
Proud Valley Boy
How Did We End Up Here?
Six Sixty Six
Can't Breathe
I Will Follow
Wake Me Up
Good In Me Is Dead
Yet Still This Will Not Be
Turn Me Tender
Mr Robertson
He's also previewing material from his next studio album, to be released around september.
Martyn Joseph web site
Rock 'N Reel re-launch
Nov
27 2006 -The
sorely missed magazine has risen from the ashes! It returns in December
as a bi-monthly 140 page glossy with a free CD entitled 'Un-Herd',
Volume 1 includes music by Canned Heat, Ani DiFranco, Steve Hackett,
Eleanor McEvoy, Paul Lamb and The King Snakes, Colin Scot, Heartless
Bastards, Die Hunns, Luke Doucet, Denison Witmer and more
The first issue of the relaunched Rock’n’Reel includes
interviews with Shane MacGowan, Donovan, Paul Rodgers, Flogging
Molly, Christy Moore, Jacqui McShee, Arlo Guthrie, Andy Roberts, Dick
Gaughan, Legendary Shack Shakers, James Yorkston, Spiers & Boden,
Joe Brown, and features on Bob Dylan, Marc Bolan, Nick Drake, Arthur Lee
and Syd Barrett … plus all the usual CD, live, DVD, book
reviews and news
Read the full Rock 'n Reel story
No extension to copyright protection for performers
Nov 27 2006 -An
independant review commissioned by Gordon Brown's treasury is to recommend
that the 50 year copyright on sound recordings should not be extended.
Currently this stands at 50 years, whereas songwriters copyright lasts
70 years. In the US it stands at 95 years. This puts the British music
industry at a disadvantage, the BPI say "the US government effectively
increased the asset value of its recording industry when it increased
term of protection to 95 years."
Read the BPI's 5 Reasons to Support British Music at http://www.bpi.co.uk/pdf/BPI_Benefit_to_UK_in_extending_term.pdf
Martyn Joseph UK tour March 2007
Nov 27 2006 -Martyn
has announced a ten date tour in the new year with special guest Martin
Sexton. Dates on Martyn's site at
http://www.piperecords.co.uk/martynj/tour%20dates.htm
He's also appearing at Celtic Connections in Glasgow
http://www.celticconnections.com/celtic/index.cfm
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007 - nominations
Nov 23 2006 -The
nominations are in for this years Folk Awards, the biggest awards for
the folk scene in the country (hang on, it's the only awards thing...).
It's all chosen by around 150 people involved in folk music,
not musicians but the businesses around them like broadcasters, promoters,
journo's etc. There is a category that the public can vote for each year,
this year it's your 'favourite folk track of all
time'.
The nominations can be viewed on the awards micro
site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folkawards2007/nominations.shtml
And cast your vote!
Roll over Francis Drake and Agatha Christie
Nov 20 2006 - In
a poll organised by Devon County Council to find the 'Greatest Devonian'
Show Of Hands have won with over a third of the five thousand votes.
This did come across as a bit of a PR exercise on behalf of Devon, comparing
modern musicians such as Coldplay, Joss Stone, Muse and SOH with the
likes of Sir Francis Drake, Agatha Christie Sir Joshua Reynolds and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge comes across as a bit
contrived.However, it does showcase the past and present talent of Devon
rather well.
We had this response from the
Devon CC Press Officer on Friday 24 Nov:
"I would just like to take the opportunity
to clarify your assertion that it was 'a PR exercise on behalf of Devon'
which was 'a bit contrived'. The twelve 'finalists' in the poll were
those nominated by the most people in an initial poll amongst members of the
public. In other words, Devon County Council had no hand in putting
forward any name at all. Similarly, the final vote was amongst members of the
public - who clearly voted for Show of Hands as runaway winners. The entire process
was down to public opinion - opinion that roundly supported Steve and
Phil! They are thoroughly deserving winners and great ambassadors for our county."
The significant thing from a musical perspective
is that SOH polled more than their contemporaries. The irony of the vote
wasn't lost on the band, Steve says "We’re both flattered
and a little bemused to have won this popular vote. We are self evidently
not the greatest ever Devonians, but we are perhaps the most active currently
promoting, through our music, the landscape, people and issues that face
the region as a whole and the county in particular. If Devonians feel
that our songs give a voice to those issues, celebrate the county's landscape
and heritage, or just connect with them on some level that's great."
www.showofhands.co.uk
Show Of Hands new song for Poppy
Day
Nov 07 2006 - Show
of Hands will showcase a new song at their Warwick University gig this
Remembrance Sunday. Entitled 'Poppy Day' it deals with the double meaning
inherent within the flowers role as symbol of remembrance and as the
source of heroin from the poppy fields of Afghanistan.
In the final verse, the song says that our soldiers
in Afghanistan “…are walking through Flanders fields/Since
the opium farmers have tripled their yields.” Says Steve: It’s
a work in progress but I hope, especially around this time of year, it
might make people think.” The Warwick Arts Centre gig forms part
of the band’s final tour before their much-heralded third “Big
Gig” at the Royal Albert Hall in Easter 2007.
www.showofhands.co.uk
The Reveal Records Christmas gig
Nov 06 2006 - There's Lau, Rachel
Unthank
& The Winterset and Jon
Redfern playing at the Assembly Rooms, Derby, Sat December 2nd.
Tickets are a measly £12 in advance so get down there and show your
support, you even get a seat for that. Profits are going to Amnesty International.
Tickets from Reveal Records shop, 63 Peters
St, Derby DE1 2AB or the Assembly Rooms box office on 01332 255800
www.revealrecords.com
www.assemblyrooms-derby.co.uk
Sellaband, a new way of financing music?
Nov 06 2006 - Fancy investing in hot new talent? Amsterdam
based site Sellaband are allowing you to do just that in an innovative way
of financing new music. You can invest in unsigned acts in $10 chunks as
a 'believer'. When an act reaches $50,000 they get their album recorded and
marketed. The investors get a cut of the sales of the album an a cut in the
advertising revenue of the site. It launched in august '06 and the first
act 'Nemesea' have got to the magic $50,000 mark. The site allows artists
to set up a page with music samples and bio, and of course a tally of the
investment so far.
They have an impressive list of industry professionals
involved, a notable producer is Tony Platt who described the Sellaband
concept as "It's finding a way that artists don't have to go the route
of having to sell millions and millions of records, and hopefully will
show that there are other ways of financing music and getting it out to
people."
Whether it works in the long term waits to be seen,
but it's an exciting way of reinventing the business, and of creating a
site with real 'buzz'. We'll be highlighting acts we like in the weeks
to come.
Net 'Levy' to prop up falling CD sales?
Nov 03 2006 - The International Music Managers' Forum
are proposing a levy be applied to broadband and mobile phone services to
make up for the near collapse in CD sales. The chairman of Sony BMG reckons
that CD sales will halve in the next three years, and that online digital
sales will fail to make up the shortfall
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9071-2437695.html
