Month: August 2007
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Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
I’ve just been listening to an amazing concert that I’m really annoyed I didn’t go to. I’m talking about the appearance of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela under its 26 year old conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Now before you go scooting on believing that I’m getting all high falootin’ talking about classical music, you…
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Pirate Internet Radio
A couple of great posts about internet radio revenues in the UK, from James (late of these parts) and Kevin Coy. While I might rail on incessently about record companies desperately trying to extend copyright periods for no good reason, I passionately believe that performers and artists deserve a fair remuneration for the broadcast of…
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Apple Offer Something To Watch
It’s interesting to see that iTunes in the UK is now finally offering some TV programmes for anyone with a video iPod to actually watch. More to the point, there might actually be a reason to get an Apple TV now (although I suspect that an Xbox 360 might be slightly wiser). Previously there was…
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Last.fm and Future Music
There was much excitement recently, when it was announced that a revamped Music Week would include a chart from Last.fm. This is the site, we’re told, that really discovered the Arctic Monkeys and so on. Now I must admit that I’ve never really persevered with Last.fm to the extent of using it properly. It might…
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When Is A Download Not A Download?
A company called Lionsgate Films has been advertising recently on the tube as well as in newspapers such as today’s Metro (Note: I saw the ad over somebody’s shoulder – I still don’t read Metro). Here’s a copy of the ad: Lionsgate seems to specialise in offering recent US TV fare on DVD. Now none…
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Charting Again
Do you follow the charts? No, me neither. But I couldn’t help noticing that Elvis is having something of a resurgence. Currently there are three singles in the Top 40: Blue Suede Shoes is a “new” entry at no. 13. My Baby Left Me is a “new” entry at no. 19. Suspicious Minds is at…
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Will the Standard Survive
In today’s Media Guardian, Alan Ruddock ponders whether the venerable London Evening Standard will survive the onslaught that has been News International’s London Paper and Associated’s very own London Lite. It has been a year since the two free papers launched, and neither of them are yet profitable. The Standard has unsurprisingly taken something of…
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A Trip Around Dorset
Since Saturday was lovely, but I was indoors for too much of it, I though that some outdoor adventure would be an idea. I quite fancied the beach, but it was blindingly obvious that thousands of others would also be heading beachwards, so I was going to have to be quite careful about where I…
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Still on the Payroll
Via Roy Greenslade’s blog come this link to a story about a mythical Fleet Street feature writer. Wonderful stuff!
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State of the TV Nation
Over on the BBC’s Editors’ Blog, Newsnight Editor Peter Barron invites readers to post their thoughts on the current state of British television. He’s one of the organisers of the Edinburgh Television Festival and he’s planning on putting the comments on both the festival website and the walls of the conference centre (I assume they’ll…
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A Couple of Thoughts on Hurricane Dean Coverage
Obviously this is an ongoing story, and since I’ve spent the whole weekend in a field outside of Chelmsford, I’m basing this on Monday evening’s coverage. I noticed that the BBC had relatively few pictures on News 24 for their “B-roll” of Jamaica post the hurricane’s passing. But it wasn’t nearly as bad as the…
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