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[burntcopper]

The problem with listening to the folk music strand : lots of gaelic, fiddles, mournful, lost love... and then occasionally you get blindsided by the utter filth. Dear Corries, I did not need to have 'Maids when you're young' (live version) hit me in the middle of checking an article on cancer. Innappropriate giggle fits much?

Discovered I have very fucking low tolerance for American groups singing stuff about the black and tans (pov of either side) and anything that encourages uprising. Irish, no problem. Guess it's the whole 'Do you have any fucking idea what you're talking about? Do you live in the British Isles? No? Then you can fuck right off.' leftover from the Troubles. Which has probably caused my knee-jerk reaction whenever anyone's shilling for various causes that involve arms and bombing like Palestine, because you have no bloody idea where the money's going. or the details of the various sides. (excuse me, semi-rant over)

Out of curiosity, I was wondering about last.fm's licensing of music - do they pay fees like a normal radio station? (Alasdair, any idea from your musician mate if this is included in the 'ways of making money as an artist that don't require a major label'?

Hee. Just got put onto Fluke : Atom Bomb. Oh, early teens memories - used to come back from diving lessons, watch the rest of Live and Kicking, then switch to ITV's Chart show, dad playing on the computer in the background. This came on, with an amazing video game anime video. Monday, I bought it after school, put it on to listen to. Dad walks in. And then sheepishly produces the single from his briefcase. (different variant mixes, it turned out, so we could tell whose was whose) I'm never sure if that was a hit or not.

Gah. must bring in the wrist warmers. draft + keyboard use = necessary.

Comments

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

I don't know precise details of cash, or if it's paid as per a "normal" radio station, but they offer this: http://blog.last.fm/2008/07/09/calling-all-musicians so I assume that they do indeed pay out to anyone that registers.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

So who has your ding-doorum, then?

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

There was a bloke in Melbourne who performed some folk songs. One was called something like "The Bonny Black Hare" and he had to bleep out half of one verse because there were minors in the audience.