Category: Audio
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DAB “worse than old FM”
I know some people see this as old news, and it’s certainly true that it’s nothing new, but it’s still the case that DAB isn’t exactly everything that it could be. This report is from today’s Telegraph. I have less issue with the BBC than some of the local commercial multiplexes, which is why it’s…
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Music Industry Eating Itself
The next time record companies are bemoaning the fact that piracy is killing the industry, blah, blah, blah… just think about this: “record firms are vying to get ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ housemate Chantelle to record the song that she pretended had been a hit when she had to fool other contestants into thinking she was…
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The Bigger DAB Picture
Dissent is beginning to well and truly break out in the radio world with, broadly speaking, Gcap set against the rest as it opposes Ofcom’s announcement before Christmas that it will indeed be inviting applications to run a second national commercial DAB multiplex. Essentially GCap’s Ralph Bernard believes that GWR was awarded the sole national…
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Radio Update
Listening to Andy Kershaw talking about what he’d do with Radio 4, following the announcement that Home Truths was being cancelled, has been entertaining. Warming to his theme, he contributed this in Friday’s Guardian. And he’s followed up with an interview in today’s Indpendent (read it now before it’s subscription only), in which he lets…
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Holding On
I’ve just listened to a remarkable documentary about a competition that took place in an East Texas town earlier this autumn. A few years ago Channel 5 (as was) ran a seemingly bizarre reality series called Touching The Truck presented by Dale Winton. A large 4×4 was parked in Lakeside, or somewhere similar, and the…
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Why I Hate Music Download Sites #31
Some of these places just drive me mad. Earlier this year I got loads of free credit from Mycokemusic, the music download site. As a rule, I hate downloads. You’re effectively leasing rather than owning the music and with DRM it’s just a total pain. However I accrued a bit of virtual money and got…
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Alanis Morrisette
Madonna wasn’t the only artist playing a “secret” gig last night. Alanis Morrisette was playing the intimate confines of the Kings College London Student Union in a one-off gig to promote the recently released “Best Of” (or rather “Collection”). All good fun with all your favourites, although the annoying idiot near me who kept shouting…
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Newsnight/Gattaca
Someone in a Newsnight editing booth has obviously been to see Michael Nyman recently because Susan Watts’ piece on nanotechnology this evening was packed full of Gatacca music. Fantastic.
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Beethoven Downloads
This article (free subs. reqd.) about the BBC’s Beethoven downloads really annoys me. Not the article itself, but the words and thoughts of John Whittingdale of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. It seems that the record companies are still annoyed that the BBC actually gave away some music free. These were recordings of…
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Free Cowboy Junkies Music
Salon have a free download of a track from the latest Cowboy Junkies album available. You will have to watch an ad if you’re not a subscriber. Uncut magazine also has a track from the same new album cover-mounted this month. But not having the CD with me, I can’t tell you whether it’s the…
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Raiding The Twentieth Century
Since I downloaded this on Friday, it’s barely been off my mp3 player if you see what I mean? (Via Boing Boing)
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DAB Radio
Radio professionals need to be careful about what they claim, if the Advertising Standards Authority are to be kept happy (PDF).
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Chart
While watching part 2 of the Dylan documentary, there was a brief sequence showing the position of Like A Rolling Stone in the charts. I’m pretty sure that the top four entries of that chart read: 1. Help – The Beatles 2. Like A Rolling Stone – The Beatles 3. Unchained Melody – (Unsure exactly…