If yr bitching about not being paid as an "underling" original band to support a well known act, you're in the music game for the wrong reason, IMO.
All promoters and venues are obliged to pay Live Performance royalties directly to APRA, which is then paid back to the bands when they submit their LPR's. Not all venues/promoters do, but generally those are the places you'd not wanna play anyways.
>> That one of their members is an ex-Feeler is a definite turn-off though.
Well, THERE'S a reason to dislike a band, then...sheesh...
And when is the time and place, assuming that the band doesn't have radio/television/sandwich-board-gimps to do it for them? It's often the perfect situation - the crowd is fired up on the live show, why not plug the new single/album/video/groupie? Yes, there can be overkill...
I'm surprised that RG keeps him around...it's starting to say alot about the (ine)quality of the mag.
>> The forcefed chicken has had its wings clipped and is told what to eat. Its usually some artificial pre-packaged ready to eat thing. The free range chicken can do what it wants and usually seeks out more natural food courses (like insects) upon with to nourish itself.
What hole do you have your head down? Mainstream does not = artificial pre-fab. Sure, it does exist (that Spears chick, etc) but by-and-large most people link the two together.
Mainstream means exactly that - music that has made it into the "main stream" of popular culture. If the band can retain artistic integrity and be true to themselves (of course there is some "massaging" at that level by record companies, etc) then nothing has changed - except the narrow-minded views of some of the public. eg after Sonic Youth went "mainstream" (well, DGC but at the time it was a move) a number of people cast them in a different light, even though (to me) they were still pushing the envelope artistically and musically.
The cool bands are not necessarily the one's your mates haven't heard of yet. That's purely wank.
Yr all a bunch of waaaannnkkkerrrs!
The PC bar - where all tension is relieved and all fights averted.
We are the meat packers...we pack MEAT!
yeah...pity D'Ath has gone, he was a real visionary
You definitely DON'T have to be a muso to critique music - in actual fact it does help if you are NOT a musician, that way you review as a punter, without critiquing from a musician-point-of-view (which most of the public don't know or care about).
I dunno anything about Hollis, but Mr Grieve's review just wasn't a review. A review should take into account the music; Duncan's really did not. In the end they were a couple of columns that ultimately said nothing.
Critique good or critique bad, but at least say *something*...
Skeptics - Affco. No other band in the world could've made such a brutally effective video to such a brutally effective song.
Dimmer - Seed. Go Gary!
I'm always a fan of anything Chris Knox has done, too...
"It's a free ride for them, they're basically free-loading, and the price is paid by consumers."
OUCH...that's truely a naive view on things in this country.
Whether NZ music is played on alt.radio, AOR/MOR commercial radio, or whereever, it's good. Regardless of the genre being represented, it's good.
The general public are apathetic to local music (esp. live)...how do you shift the focus back?
I lament a bit about their passing (and SPUD), but I guess they had their time, and it's time to move on...
You probably wouldn't have Dimmer like they are if SGH was still around...
Listen to something like Atomizer by Big Black, or Blood Guts & Pussy by Dwarves. That's punk. Punk was then, this is now - I can't even think of a recent "punk" band that even comes close to the angst and sheer ferocity of the real deal.
Oh, and synchronised jumping ain't punk, even if some bands (eg A Simple Plan) do it well.