Ok I have a myspace page which acts as a bulletin board for bands from or working in Liverpool. The site started as a bit of catching up with the music of the City but keeps evolving and changing - the only constant is it features anyone on the player that asks to go on - no editorial bias on it.
My latest thing is I've been asked to provide some bands for a gig as part of a Fringe festival ahead of the actual Festival in Leeds. The bands are being given some cash for petrol as the door is going to charity but it seems a good opportunity to provide a sampler album/cd of the bands taking part - a 4 EP's thing each band 3 or 4 songs. It will provide some publicity before hand and maybe some more cash for the bands and maybe the charity.
So any suggestions of where and how to get the dupliction done and any pitfalls you've come across that I may not be pondering!!
cheers
Tony
www.myspace.com/liverpoolbandsfriends or www.facebook.com/liverpoolbands or even twitter.com/LiverpoolBands

Been asked to curate a Liverpool Bands night later in the year in Leeds - as part of the deal for the unsigned bands the promoter is going to help sign the bands up for PRS, "pubsandclubs" scheme. The way he describes it is a no brainer but how does it work??

At work the radio has been knackered for a while so someone has brought in compilations CD's of dubious origins of many current pop hits and radio friendly tunes. BUT its only when the sixties stuff comes on that everyone starts singing including our large Polish contingent.
So my question is when the computers crash and wipe all the digital songs and they can't play CDs/vinyl anymore - which song will you be able to add to the guys coming round to record the old songs for posterity? I realised I can't - the odd verse and many choruses but not whole songs.

Just posted a comment and there was a math's test - do they get harder the more complex the thread????? - Does it mean those with Math Phd's get to comment more?

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and Great New Year to come. Got sent this Kevin Coyne cover by John Howard which is earmarked for a forth coming album. It was intended for a Kevin Coyne tribute album that has been postponed due to this reissue programme which starts in January (Pere Ubu cover Turpentine!!).
The link is here www.myspace.com/kevincoynebookscom . What is normally a very sparse arrangement is given the heavenly choir teatment which hides the sadness of the lyrics.

Myspace has just launched its own free streaming service what does the massive think of it???
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101...

New series about choosing some artists to work in a studio for 10 weeks - as an intro to modern art I found it quite fasinating - and gained some respect for Tracey Emmin. But Saatchi being referred to as King Maker and the last bit of stirring music was a bit OTT.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4gq5/School_of_Saatchi_Episode_...

I know there are some who like Kevin's stuff and particularly Marjory Razorblade which is getting the 2 CD treatment and 4 CD anthology. Tracklisting in Comments to save the rest of you.

Some lyrics given to Hunter Davies when interviewing The Beatles have now been dusted off and shaped into a song by Dean Johnson- full story here -
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/11/02/wirr...

And a film of the first broadcast on Spencer Leigh's Radio Merseyside show who suggested the collaboration.

Discovered the Windows Movie Maker and have used it to make a couple of slide shows to illustrate some songs (I'm sad like that) but is there a way of capturing You Tube vidoes and editing them? Movie Maker accepts videos but short of turning into an actual fimmaker I want to start small.

Guy at work always plays Led Zep so I took in the Plant/Page album for a change - "ah but the voice is not the same".
But I think sometimes they get better....

..Bailiffs.