International Paul Haig Day (Bloggers of the World Unite!)

(Photo of Paul Haig @ the Edinburgh Festival 2008 by Sara Simmons.)

Blogs have been receiving ever more frequent DMCA take down notices from record industry bodies that clearly have no idea what they are doing.
Last year this blog had two posts taken down that in both cases linked to music at the archive.org where the music is legitimately available for free download.
Google themselves have said "that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims. "
Recently 'The Vinyl Villian' (see here) in Glasgow had a post pulled that contained a track by Paul Haig.
The artist and his management were appalled that it had been pulled from the blog as they see this as a legitimate way of Paul's music getting heard by more people.

PRESS RELEASE FROM PAUL HAIG'S MANAGEMENT
From: evanj.henderson@blueyonder.co.uk
To: thevinylvillain@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Paul Haig Day April 6
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:12:01 +0100

Basic premise: Blogs being targetted randomly by ISP’s to take down music where artists are happy about receiving the extra coverage. Paul Haig gave a free track ‘Reason’ to the vinyl villain to give away in support of the bloggers network and to test his theory abut random notices being served.

In thanks the bloggers have agreed to make April 6 Paul Haig Day. As many bloggers will make ‘Reason’ available on their blogs as possible.

Blogs are essential promo tools for all artists as music comes recommended.

Most artists express the view that as many people should be able to hear their music as possible by whatever means. The fan will then go to a concert or buy back catalogue get the vinyl or even the new cd. The Internet is just like radio was 20 years ago…kind of!

If you have a great track the best method of getting it heard is over the net – where word is spread by the real music fans - Hearing new music is based on recommendation not by mass advertising budgets….unless you are U2, blogs or free music on the net has got to be the future…

Evan Label Manager ROLinc

It has therefore been decided that today will see blogs around the world offer some music from Paul Haig (and if you don't know who he is, then please investigate Josef K or other work that Paul has done solo or with both Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine (from The Associates) or other collaborations with members of New Order, A Certain Ratio and Cabaret Voltaire.
For more information do check out the 'Vinyl Villian' and see how the day progresses.

AUDIO:
'REASON' by PAUL HAIG.
HERE.
This song is (c) Paul Haig and he is allowing anyone who wants to post this to do so.
Now let's see if any DMCA notices are issued!

Other blogs taking part today include:

The Vinyl Villian
Condemned To Rock'n'Roll

Tracklister
The World According To Davenelli
Acid Ted
Across The Kitchen Table
17 Seconds
Flippin Kids
Love Shack, Baby
Castles In Space
Blogger's Delite
How Does That One Go Again?
Aye Tunes
Sexy Loser
Armagideon Time
A Sweet Unrest
The Songs That People Sing
Sunset Over Slawit
Manic Pop Thrills
Song, By Toad
London Cafe : The Best Of UK Indie
Helpless Dancer
Jock'n'Roll
Scenesters & Mirror Kisses
The Hangover-Helper
Chicago is Mildly Interesting

Paul Haig - Reason

Last Exit - Destination Out (Live 1986)

"...a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame." (Greg Kot)
Last Exit were one of the greatest bands ever.
No competition!
Bill Laswell on bass. Peter Brötzmann on sax. The incomparable Sonny Sharrock on guitar and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums.
Brad Nelson has put it better than I ever could here.

"It's the one to have when you are having more than one!"

70's beer advert with moog synthesizer.
Thanx to 'Boingboing'.

Still in the hunt

Fulham 0 VS Liverpool 1
Full story from the 'BBC' here.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Blogs have been receiving ever more frequent DMCA take down notices from record industry bodies that clearly have no idea what they are doing.
Just last week 'The Vinyl Villian' in Glasgow had a post pulled that contained a track by Paul Haig.
The track in question however was in this case owned by the artist and both him and his management were appalled that it had been pulled from the blog as they see this as a legitimate way of Paul's music getting heard by more people.
It has therefore been

Just what the world needs

A NEW BLOG!

(SON OF) EXILE ON MOAN STREET

First up is a couple of Bill Laswell related albums that I haven't seen in the blogosphere before.
'Operazone - The Redesign'
&
Russian Chants (The Ambient Mix) by Boris Feokistov and Bill Laswell.
I will be posting albums that I like regardless of their style on a semi regular basis.
Hope to see you there.

Will Oldham's double chocolate chess pie recipe

"… it’s beyond description. When you take a bite of it, it’s like… how you know… it helps you recognize how omnipotent and indescribable God is. Because this food, you know, goes beyond, and obviously God, you know, God would go beyond anything a Pope could tell you, or an imam could say about, or rabbis, you know? They can pretend that they can tell you about God, but it’s way fucking beyond their comprehension, no matter how many books they read or how much they whip their back or do whatever they do. It’s the same thing with the pies when you realize that the way things work is way beyond anything you could comprehend. We can put [the ingredients] together, but we can’t explain why, when you put them together, why they do what they do."

From 'Arthur Magazine' via 'When you Awake' here.

SPANK!!! (Update)

From 'Feasting On Roadkill' here.
UPDATE:
'The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster'
Go to 'Secret Identity' here.

Coming Soon: Bruno

"Can you tell me where we can find a locksmith?"

To see the trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie go here.

Most anticipated new release

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Absolutely the worst album I have heard for years

I can't stand 'Sgt. Peppers'. Don't understand why it is often (still) voted the best album of all time. Twee sentimentality, cod mysticism, music hall numbers and Ringo Starr. Jesus, I would have left home too.
So now the Easy Star All Stars (after full reggae versions of 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'OK Computer') have turned to this. Despite the calibre of some of the artists involved: Michael Rose, The Mighty Diamonds, Luciano, Max Romeo etc. this is just a complete aural abortion. And why do I find it hard to picture any of the artists rolling up a large number and settling down to listen to Sgt. Peppers at the end of a hard day in the studio?

So this begs the question who is this designed for? Blokes in their sixties who still think that punk was the end of good music or young college kids just discovering the joys of dope and how well reggae and it go together. There is some great reggae music out there but this is certainly not an example of it.

As for the Easy Star All Stars, 'Dub Side of the Moon' sort of worked and I am afraid I am not a fan of the original version of that either. It always struck me as the perfect album for the time as stereo moved into more and more homes. I feel that the Floyd worked more on the FX and stereo separation than the words and tunes of the songs, which I was under the impression had been more important until then.

'Radiodread', sort of OK. White guys with dreads who go to college probably like it much more than me!

The Easy Star All Stars are playing at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on April 11. I won't be there.

What's moving my world a quarter of the way into the year

Bill Laswell on Miles Davis (en Francais)

Why was this never released in the UK?

(French release)

(American release)

Material
"I'm The One" (12" Remix)

1982

Bass - Bill Laswell
Guitar - Nile Rodgers
Bongos - Daniel Ponce
Drums - Tony Thompson
Engineer [Remix] - Jay Mark
Producer - Material
Remix - John Luongo
Synthesizer - Michael Beinhorn
Written-By - B. Laswell/M. Beinhorn

Never released in the UK and only available on import costing a fiver, at the time that a new release album was £3:99!
More than I could afford.
Very kindly submitted by JoshR, who had seen my request for this song at other blogs as well as it being a reward for liking my 'Sting is Dead' April Fool's joke earlier today.
PS: Does anyone have the B side?

Breaking News - Sting dies in tragic helicopter accident in Southampton

Full story here.