Media
Poll The People - Your Top 5 Lists
PollThePeople.com is a site set up by Glenn Cooper (head of Digital at Island Records UK) and his wife Kirsty, after an argument they had. The site encourages users to add lists of their ‘top 5′ albums, films, and books.
The site plays on people’s desire to list / tell everyone else their favourite things, and [...]
Introducing Jack McManus…
I’ve been working with Jack for a while now as he’s been preparing to release his debut album ‘Either Side of Midnight’ which is out on Polydor Records on May 5th and is preceded by debut single ‘Bang On The Piano’ on April 21st. Many people are comparing Jack to a young Billie Joel or [...]
Imogen Heap ‘more popular than UK Prime Minister’
Recognition is always nice, and working for myself whilst I am often thanked by the people I work with/for, it’s not as if I get an annual review or ‘employee of the month’ award, so I was very chuffed with myself when I stumbled upon an article about ‘QDOS’, a system that measures an individual’s [...]
Where did all the good music go?
This depresses me:
Today Syco Music (Simon Cowell’s label which is part of Sony BMG) are celebrating holding the No.1 spot in three of the UK sales charts. They have the top 3 albums in the artist album chart with Leona Lewis, Shayne Ward and Westlife. They are also numbers 1 and 3 in in the [...]
“Who let the stupid people on the net?”
“Why I should be made the Internet Tsar” by Charles Arthur of Guardian Unlimited is as good a reason as any for me to start blogging again.
Not only am I sealing my place in the blogosphere for another month (reference 1), but I’m also effectively “copying and pasting entire stories from mainstream news sites” (reference [...]