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INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY with a London based charity, unpaid though travel and lunch expenses paid. This national employment charity is looking for a bright, enthusiastic graduate to intern with them for 3-6 months. You will be responsible for a research assignment for its regional operations. You will spend some time conducting desk research in London and the rest of the the time you will be making site visits to locations which include Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Plymouth, Bristol, Hastings and Brighton. Travel, lunch and accommodation expenses will be paid for those trips. You will conduct one-to-one interviews with key senior management and local operations staff and then prepare a first stage feedback paper per operational region to be used as the basis for the development of a business strategy. You will need plenty of common sense, confidence and the ability to deliver to deadlines. You should be prepared to work autonomously and have lots of get up and go. Reporting to the Marketing Director, you will be expected to have strong writing and research skills. This is a fabulous opportunity to gain experience at a national level in the charitable sector. To apply, send your CV and covering letter to [email protected] quoting reference SS64 -- INTERNSHIP AT UNLIMITED MEDIA UnLimited Media is seeking an intern to begin working with us this Spring/Summer. The successful candidate will work primarily on CMU projects, helping process and manage review CDs, update databases, expand the CMU Directory and assist on upcoming marketing programmes. These are unpaid positions, but interns will get an unrivalled introduction to the music and media businesses, editorial, administration and marketing experience, and the opportunity to make great contacts. To apply send a CV and a short note telling us what you'd like to get out of an internship to [email protected]. back to top |
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![]() INTRODUCING LEYLINE PUBLICITY Leyline Promotions - better known as one of the capital’s leading independent promoters (The Remix, Kill All Hippies, Insomniacs Ball, Twisted Licks, Breaking Ground) - have created a new publicity department headed up by Nick Bateson and Adrian Leigh. The pair have worked on major campaigns including a-ha, Glade Festival, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Standon Calling Festival and Hervé amongst others. In addition to their wealth of experience in the live arena, Leyline Publicity now specialise in bespoke PR services including online and offline music and lifestyle press, radio plugging, brand development, digital marketing and blogging. For further information please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] t: 020 7575 3285 -- DESK SPACE Leyline Promotions has two desk suites available in a well-appointed courtyard studio in Westbourne Studios, W10. Ideal for a small creative agency in a very friendly and professional environment. Rent includes: storage, broadband connections, business rates, insurance, 24 hr access, restaurant and bar, conference facilities, natural sunlight. 4 mins walk from Westbourne Park tube station. Call Adrian for more info on 07971 555 020 / [email protected] ADVERTISE WITH CMU - classifieds £120 per week, job ads £100 per week, banner ads £150 per week, leader box £200 per week - call 020 7099 9050 or email [email protected] for information or to book. back to top |
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FILE-SHARERS ALSO BUY MORE MUSIC, NEW RESEARCH SAYS This new survey on the matter is getting more press than most because it's come out so soon after the much reported ruling in The Pirate Bay case in Sweden, and it's written by Norwegian academics - Sweden, Norway, same thing really isn't it? The top line finding from the Norwegian School Of Management is that someone who downloads music illegally is, at the same time, ten times more likely to buy music. The implication, therefore, is that the record industry, instead of suing the likes of The Pirate Bay out of business, should support the providers of P2P services, because they have direct access to the best music consumers and, possibly, encourage those consumers to discover (for free) and then buy (for a fee) more music. The study questioned over 1900 internet users over 15 years old, examining those users' download habits - both how much music they downloaded illegally and, by checking their accounts with legit digital music providers, how much music they paid to download. They also checked how many CDs each user had bought. There was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a correlation - generally speaking those who download more tracks illegally also bought more music. Of course it stands to reason that people who dedicate large amounts of their time to downloading music via P2P are going to be music fans, people who are therefore likely to also spend a considerable amount of their expendable income on music products - whether that be on recordings (as this study suggests) or gig tickets or merchandise or whatever. It may also follow that by being able to experience new or unfamiliar music in a convenient way without financial risk, P2P users may discover artists or songs they wouldn't otherwise know they liked, and then buy that music from an a la carte download store. It has to be said that most studies that claim file-sharers buy more music, including this one, haven't really been able to say whether that's just because the sorts of people who file-share are also the sorts of people who buy music, or whether the discovery of new music via P2P actually leads to extra music sales. Either way, it seems fair to say that the 'file-sharing community' has in it many of the biggest music fans and biggest music consumers (especially within the youth demographic), and that, of course, has always been the biggest challenge for the record industry with regards the file-sharing issue - taking legal action against file-sharing, especially against individual file-sharers directly, invariably means suing some of your best customers. Meeting that challenge doesn't necessarily mean turning a blind eye to all illegal file-sharing, nor letting P2P software makers and BitTorrent trackers build their businesses by providing the tools that enable piracy. However, automatically suing all major file-sharers and providers of file-sharing services - which was certainly major label policy for a time, in the US at least - isn't a clever way to meet the challenge either, there must be opportunities for the record industry out there in P2P land, if only someone could figure out what they were and how to capitalise on them. Perhaps some university could try figuring that out, rather than contributing to the pile of reports on the links, or not, between illegal file-sharing and legit digital music consumption. C-MURDER TO LOSE LAWYER BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL TROUBLE As previously reported, C-Murder, born Corey Miller and these days more usually known as C-Miller, was convicted of the killing of sixteen year old Steve Thomas during a 2002 altercation in a Louisiana club and sentenced to life in prison. It was Rakosky who successfully got that conviction overturned in March of 2006, after proving that prosecutors has expunged the record of some of their witnesses to boost their credibility. But now the lawyer says he's owed monies dating back three years and has, as a result, asked the court to remove him from the second murder trial, which is scheduled to begin on 3 Aug. Reports suggest that Miller's need for cash may also get him sent back to prison, as prosecutors claim that his fund-raising website proclaims his innocence, which he's not allowed to do, according to a gag order. Miller writes on www.coreymillerinnocencefund.com: "Let me finally take a moment to personally thank all of you for the outpour of love and support you have given me in the past seven difficult years, due to postponements and red tape. When justice is delayed, then justice has been denied. Had this faulty justice system been as slow arresting me as they have been in validating my innocence, it would've known they had 'the wrong man'. As the evidence shows, ' I am innocent!...As my day in court approaches, my family and I pray and are confident I will be acquitted and cleared of all alleged incidents. When that day finally comes, we'll be looking forward to celebrating with you in prayer". IVOR NOVELLO NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED The band's songwriter, Nick Hemming, who juggles his music career with a job in a fabric factory, told the BBC: "It hadn't even crossed my mind [to enter the awards] - so I sent it [his entry] in literally a couple of days before the closing date and never thought about it again until a couple of weeks ago. When I got the letter through the door, I thought it was some kind of wind up - in fact even my mum thought it was a hoax". However, he added, he did know that the song had something special about it. "As soon as we started playing this one at gigs, we'd get women coming up in tears afterwards", he said. "You know you've done something that's affecting people and people are taking it to their hearts". Here are the nominations in full: Best Song Musically & Lyrically: Best Contemporary Song: Best Original Film Score: Best Television Soundtrack PRS For Music Most Performed Work Best Selling British Song Album Award: BRITNEY TOPS POP TWITTER POLL 1. Britney Spears (995,807) I'm not sure what constitutes 'pop star' for the BigChampagne team, because Nine Inch Nails man Trent Reznor has 357,334 followers, which would put him at number seven, and 50 Cent has 450,680 followers, which would put him fifth, and while Reznor isn't really pop, I'm not sure why Fiddy would be excluded if Diddy and Soulja Boy are in. Perhaps he was excluded for admitting he had an assistant post his updates. In case you're wondering who the hell Heidi Montag is, well she's one of the people featured on MTV reality show 'The Hills' who has been trying to get a pop career off the ground for two years now and who has, I think, finally got a deal with Warner Music, which is why she appears on the pop Tweet list. Digital Music News reckons she's only got so many followers because her boyfriend, 'The Hills' co-star Spencer Pratt, has been telling the media how he plans to get more Twitter friends than the aforementioned Kutcher, and that he and Montag have been winning new followers as a result. So there you go. Have we ever mentioned the CMU Twitter feed in the Daily? I think we keep meaning too but never quite got around to it. Well, go follow www.twitter.com/cmu people. We'll let you know the big music news stories as they break. OASIS TO TAKE FIVE YEAR BREAK Noel told Q: "He's never seen my little lad, just pictures. To a stranger it sounds ludicrous, but you wouldn't have him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family. He's rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He's the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup". He added that he's also still annoyed that Liam skipped out on recording sessions for the band's recent album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', to marry his then girlfriend Nicole Appleton in a secret Valentine's Day ceremony last year. "There's two great tracks lying there not finished from the last record, because Liam fucked off to get married", he said. "That annoys the fuck out of me. We've got a 50-piece choir on both, they're enormous. There's no talking to be done. Maybe that's the problem - there's no fall-out from it. I never said to him, 'What are you doing, you dick?'. If albums mean that little to him, I don't want to argue. He can fuck off as far as I'm concerned. By the time we make another record we'll be five years older". -------------------------------------------------- GERRY MARSDEN GETS FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL Marsden said: "It is a thrill and an honour to be receiving the freedom of the city - and what better way to receive it than on Liverpool's most famous ferry. I am delighted to be awarded this honour in the city that I love. Everyone knows that I'm extremely proud of Liverpool and this really is the icing on the cake for me. I am especially honoured that the freedom is being awarded by my fellow Liverpudlians for my charity work". SMASHING PUMPKINS TO FLOG HALF-FINISHED TRACKS The official Smashing Pumpkins website announced on Monday that plans are under way to launch a paid subscription service which will give fans access to videos and photographs "detailing the creative process within the studio" over twelve weeks. The site proclaims that "subscribers will be able to watch the next era of Smashing Pumpkins music take shape" in an effort to make it sound like something worth paying for. The service will cost $40 and fans are guaranteed at least five updates per week and all videos will be at least five minutes long. The content will later be made into an "art film", although the site doesn't say if subscribers will receive this as part of the package or if they'll have to fork out more to get hold of it. However, this is not about making money, says Corgan. It's about, er, inspiration, or something. Here's what Billy says: "The goal is to create a working model that is not profit motivated but rather information and access motivated. In exchange for a fixed resource base fans will be let inside in an unprecedented way to the creative process of preparing to make the next SP album while also inspiring an inter-active dialogue that will help shape the work. Because of the open window, further efforts will be made to provide content so that anyone participating can more readily follow the arc over the twelve weeks, with unprecedented access to lyrical and musical content". He adds: "I am excited to make this offer to anyone who might be interested what goes on behind the wizard's curtain. It is my goal to far exceed the normal documentary process and use the moment to create something that invokes synchronicity, electricity, and faith into a moment that is ever unfolding". And though this is definitely not about making money, the site does state: "If we don't find that there is enough demand for this, the project will be set aside for a future time". That's right, Smashing Pumpkins fans, it'll all be your fault! NIRVANA READING SET TO BE RELEASED ON DVD Well, fans of Nirvana, you don't have much longer to wait. A DVD of the full show, entitled 'Life Takes No Prisoners', will be released on 4 May. -------------------------------------------------- PIXIES CONFIRM BOX SET RELEASE -------------------------------------------------- WEEZER MAN TO RELEASE DVD ![]() FALL OUT BOY FORCED TO RELOCATE GIG The band were originally set to play Boca Raton's Mizner Park Amphitheatre, but the venue decided against allowing the concert to take place there. A spokesperson is quoted as saying: "There have been known disturbances associated with Fall Out Boy. We anticipate that the concert will generate security challenges". The band's manager Bob McLynn retorted: "I'm not sure what these 'challenges' are that they are speaking of. The town said that if we tried to keep the show on we would have to pay an extraordinary amount of money in extra costs". The band will now play at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, eight or nine miles south of the original venue. -------------------------------------------------- BADDIES GIGS 23 Apr: New Slang (with Art Brut) Kingston, London -------------------------------------------------- DIZZEE RASCAL ANNOUNCES OCTOBER TOUR Tour dates: 6 Oct: Newcastle, O2 Academy DOWNLOAD, Donington Park, Castle Donington, 12-14 Jun: Hatebreed, Suicide Silence, In This Moment, A Day To Remember and God Forbid have been confirmed for the second stage at this year's Download. Therapy?, Backyard Babies, Hostile and Middle Class Rut have also been confirmed and are set to play the Tuborg Stage, with We Are The Ocean, Turbowolf, Sylosis and No Americana confirmed for the third stage. www.downloadfestival.co.uk SOMERSET HOUSE SERIES, Somerset House, Central London, 9-18 Jul: Grace Jones, Lily Allen, Pendulum, Athlete and The Ting Tings have all been announced to perform at this year's Somerset House Series. www.somersethouse.org.uk/music LATITUDE, Southwold, Suffolk, 16-19 Jul: Regina Spektor and Passion Pit are the latest to be confirmed for this year's Latitude, joining previously announced headliners Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. www.latitudefestival.co.uk THE BIG CHILL, Eastnor Castle. Herefordshire, 7-9 Aug: Playing a rare festival date, Norwegian producer Lindstrom has been confirmed to play The Big Chill this summer. Kim Hiorthroy, The Juan Maclean, Tim Goldsworthy and TimSweeney are also set to perform, alongside Greg Wilson, Annie Nightingale, Metro Area, Daddy G, Queen Bee and Mr Benn. www.bigchill.net CITY SHOWCASE WORKSHOP LINE UP The workshops will take place at the Apple Store on Regent Street, and among the people due to offer advice are singer songwriters Chris Difford and Judie Tzuke; artist managers Brian Message, Chris Morrison and Seven Webster; the boss of concert promoters Kilimanjaro Stuart Galbraith; trade body types Jon Webster (MMF), Patrick Rackow (British Academy) and Nigel McCune (MU); media types Mark Sutherland (Billboard), Darren Saddler (Rocksound) and Matt Priest (NME Radio); music publishing experts Sean Devine and David Stark; plus Guy Lowman of Fierca Panda and Paul Brown, the new UK chief of Spotify. All events are free, though you need a wristband to get in. Details of specific events and how to get said wrist band can be found at www.cityshowcase.co.uk. City Showcase takes place in venues around central London from 7-9 May, with the workshop type events running alongside a whole load of artist and band showcases. ALBUM REVIEW: Caspa - Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening (Fabric/Subsoldiers) Buy from iTunes ANOTHER EMI DIGITAL EXEC GOES The major says Paris-based Boury's departure has come about as a result of the closure of Merrill's digital unit. At the time of Merrill's somewhat sudden departure it was explained that digital had become such an important part of EMI's day to day operations in the last year that it no longer made sense having a separate digital unit and that, instead, digital distribution and marketing would be integrated with physical product distribution and marketing departments. Boury's responsibilities in the EMEA region will be assumed by New York-based Mark Piibe in his role as Global Head Of Business Development. -------------------------------------------------- IMAGEM BUY THE RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN ORGANISATION The deal will see Imagem take ownership of both the Rodgers & Hammerstein catalogues, and its New York based business operations. The publisher's existing management team, including President Theodore S Chapin, will continue to run the company. Confirming the deal, Imagem top man André de Raaff told reporters: "Our purchase of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organisation is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire the publishing and theatrical rights of some of the most beloved shows and songs ever written. We are also delighted to have the benefit of the knowledge and expertise of Ted Chapin and the RHO staff within the Imagem Music Group and I see great synergy opportunities with our Boosey & Hawkes organisation. I personally believe that the world of musicals in which RHO is a leading player will grow further on a worldwide basis and we look forward to adding value to these rights through long term cultivation and development". Representatives of the Rodgers and Hammerstein families both welcomed the deal. Rodger's daughter Mary Rodgers Guettel said: "My father always believed in moving forward. This is a big and wonderful step, and I am thrilled by the new opportunities that André and his team bring to my father's songs and shows. The Rodgers family is committed to this phenomenal organisation, which will continue to [also] represent the shows my father wrote with Larry Hart, as well as a few shows I wrote, and my son Adam's shows". Meanwhile, Hammerstein's daughter, Alice Hammerstein Mathia, said: "The collaboration between my father and Richard Rodgers was extraordinary. That they kept everything together, including the management of their copyrights, is a testament to their shared vision, and now that vision will be continued in this promising new venture". Aside from the many songs and musicals the R&H Organisation has acquired over the years, the late Rodgers and Hammerstein's own musical collaborations continue to generate much interest and income, of course, aided in the UK by the recent Lloyd Webber/BBC initiated revival of 'The Sound Of Music', not to mention the continued popularity of the sing-a-long version of that musical's film adaptation. Though if they want a post takeover royalties boost, perhaps Imagem could persuade Simon Cowell to get showtune loving Susan Boyle to sing 'You Never Walk Alone' when she next appears on 'Britain's Got Talent'. Get Ashton and Demi tweeting and earn some YouTube cash. Though not via PRS. They probably ought do their own deal with Google first. MUZU SIGN NEW DEALS APLENTY That means they now have access to the same amount of premium music video content that YouTube did before their much publicised dispute with PRS For Music which led to a lot of that content being blocked, of course. And while YouTube's owners Google continue to argue PRS's royalty demands are just too high to make their business work, MUZU make much of the fact that their business model accommodates the collecting society's rates, by separating premium from user generated content which, they say, makes their product more attractive to advertisers who foot the royalty bill. Taking a further step towards becoming the music video streamer of choice, MUZU has also announced that it is now powering all of Sony Music's video content on Bebo and is also the official partner on Michael Jackson's UK & Ireland website. -------------------------------------------------- MORE ON UNIVERSAL'S VEVO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOOGLE The major recently confirmed the YouTube tie up we first reported on in early March, and Google's Director Of Video Partnerships Patrick Walker has confirmed to Music Ally that, as expected, it will be the major that controls both content and advertising on the new service, and that Universal hope to licence music from other record companies making it a one-stop music video platform and not just a window for promoting their own releases. YouTube's role is as technology provider - providing streaming and advert delivery services. Walker told Music Ally: "Vevo will be run by Universal Music, but we are providing the technology and sales capabilities. Their aspirations are beyond their own content, but they will drive the business terms and relationships". Universal's control of Vevo is what distinguishes the planned new service from, say, Universal's official channel on YouTube. On the YouTube channel, Google sells advertising and pays the major a royalty for the use of their content. On Vevo, Universal will sell the advertising, and pay Google a fee for delivering the content and advertising. If successful, the partnership could lead to a reworking of Google's ambitions for YouTube outside the user-generated content domain. Rather than trying, with mixed success, to enter into licensing deals with content owners so that it can host and sell advertising around their music and videos, it might adopt a take it or leave it approach, offering its video delivery systems ad free for a fee, letting content owners worry about how to monetise their online video content. ALEX ZANE LEAVES XFM Although Zane was suspended from the station for a week last year after playing a spoof song which seemed to make light of rape, his departure is seemingly uncontroversial - he is leaving via something lacking in that controversial rape song, "mutual consent". It's thought the presenter's contract was up for renewal and he decided not to renew. A spokesman for the station told reporters: "Alex Zane is a busy man right now and by mutual agreement he is moving on to do other things. We wish him every success for the future". Despite the busy-ness, it's thought Zane will still find time to do some radio, with a show on BBC 6Music being tipped. -------------------------------------------------- THE LIPSTER TO CLOSE Explaining the reasons for the closure in an article for Media Guardian, the site's co-editor, Rebecca Nicholson, thinks that "in the current online market, editorial-based music sites (or at least those run as any sort of business) seem out of date; what matters is functionality". She suggests that those wanting to make a living out of running music websites are better off developing effective aggregators that make it easier for music fans to navigate the plethora of music content that already exists on the net, rather than adding to that, erm, pleth. Citing Gigulate as a good example of that kind of site, she continues: "Real innovation is happening with sites that aggregate music content. Simply put, Gigulate brings everything from reviews to news to gig listings into one place. It tells you which acts are getting the most online buzz. Crucially, it is functional". She also quotes the boss of the aforementioned Drowned In Sound, Sean Adams, who observes "There's no real business model for starting a music editorial magazine online. It needs to be viewed like fanzines were. Anyone who thinks they can do it for a living without spending three years living off baked beans is delusional. Sites like Mog [another aggregator] and Gigulate are much better business ideas than trying to start an editorial music site. Unless you're reaching half a million people it's near impossible to make any real money from a website". So there you go, cheerful thoughts for your Wednesday morning. Especially for all those nutters running editorial-based online music services like, oh. Hmm. That's depressing. I know what will cheer me up, Miley Cyrus' thoughts on gay marriage. But first, a chart. MTV2/MYSPACE CHART 1. [1] Elliot Minor - Discover Meanwhile, added to the list for viewer voting this week are... Ebony Bones - The Muzik More at www.myspace.com/mtvtwo MILEY CYRUS DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE Hilton has since been lobbying various celebrities for their own thoughts on the issue, and staunch Christian Miley Cyrus is one of those. Responding via her Twitter.com account, she wrote, "Jesus loves you AND your partner and wants you to know how much he cares! thats like a daddy not loving his lil boy cuz hes gay and that is WRONG and very sad! like i said everyone deserves to be happy". All the mistakes (grammatical I mean, not theological) are hers. -------------------------------------------------- GROHL IS A DAD AGAIN -------------------------------------------------- CHRIS AND RIHANNA MIGHT BE BACK ON But before we get on to those tenuous rumours, let's just tell you that Chris and Rihanna are definitely back together. According to Heat, Chris checked out of an LA hotel he was staying in recently and went over to Rihanna's house, where he stayed until the following day. He was later seen buying chocolates. Now for those tenuous rumours. Erm, Rihanna is quitting music and opening a fish and chip takeaway. Chris Brown will catch the fish using a big boat he just bought - given his recent fist throwing performances, possibly employing the fish catching method recently illustrated in TV show 'The Inbetweeners'. |
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