Chasing music

John Cooper Clarke via last.fm

There I was all set and ready to get some writing done. I decided to just catch up with someone on facebook and three hours later I still hadn't started writing what I had intended.

First of all there was something on Joy Division, which led to a youtube video of an old clip of Joy Division which happened to have as the intro and outro a poem by John Cooper Clark. A great punk poet, which of course meant I had to go and find out if he was still about. This led to a few more videos and then time to find some of the genre, which of course didn't quite go according to plan as I saw a link to a new online audio mixing tool, which necessitated my joining the site and having to play with that for a while.

I can't believe I only wasted three hours, but was it wasted?

No, I came back to write, energised and enthusiastic, managing to get four articles written in short shrift.

Chasing music can be good for you.

Do what?

This video has been doing the rounds and I am as flumoxed as many by why this video was ever made.

The message is don't copy software, delivered by a klingon???

Currently No1 in the list of worst anti-piracy videos ever made or not?

Paper airplanes

Some days just don't get going as they are expected and today has been one of those days.

I know this as I ended up watching a video about how to make a paper airplane. At least I haven't made it ...... yet. But who knows on a day like today.

Just in case you wondered how to make the world record breaking paper plane, here goes...

The video plays after the advertising message.

Strictly come dancing launch date

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As I think I mentioned in the last article, I have one or two interests and as a result of another blog I was contacted about an event coming up.

Well, one thing led to another and so I have some information about a Strictly Come Dancing, which I am passing on.

The first episode of Strictly Come Dancing will be on 18th September starting at 20:00 and finishing at 22:30.

The non competing celebrities will be dancing a Mambo, choreographed by Shelley Ballas.

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The image at the head of the article of the celebrities, isn't widely available just yet and was kindly sent over to me by HeadStream PR.

Desire and complacency

Sometimes my spectrum of every day life does wander towards more serious issues. I wondered about posting this on a different blog, but it just seemed right here.

As some of the 'oddments in a vacuum' readers know, I have political blogs, news blogs and tech blogs in addition to this one, but I also have a myriad of other stuff on the web ranging from trees, art deco, collecting, guest writing, muscle development, internet marketing and so the list goes on and something I did five years ago then dropped, but have now restarted with a completely fresh start: music, well to be more specific, indi

Image by kimberlyfaye via Flickr

e bands of whatever style. That is in addition to consultancy, so you will guess that sometimes my 'oddments' cross my life as I come across a myriad of people with different interests.

But it is the Indie Bands that has drawn me to write this article. I set myself a goal on oddments of not being angered but reflective, which is why I struggled as to where to write this article.

I will skip the tutorial, but when I start something new, I like to market myself and I do this under many different guises, not to be secretive, but does someone who is interested in the latest beauty industry news, necessarily have any interest in my views on police abuse of power?

Anyway, enough of the intro..... This new blog, which is focused mainly on new and emerging bands....

I made some attempt to find out about some bands and listened to what they were doing and made contact, I also offer on the blog a way to contact me. Of 115 UK, US and South African bands that I was interested in writing about and contacted, a grand total of 6 responded, of whom only 1 could be bothered to answer my queries. I have however been contacted by 8 PR firms about UK bands or events they are promoting. Off their own bat I have been contacted by 37 bands from South America, 6 from Europe and 4 from Asia.

Are what I will loosely term 'English speaking bands' more complacent? Do these bands employ PR agents and Managers so they can ignore direct contact?

Without trying to get in to a political agenda, I have noticed a stark contrast between those who have English as a second language and make contact with those who have are natively English/American speaker and who appear to just expect everything to fall in place.

I was about to type a statement of contempt, but it wouldn't help. I am saddened by this stark contrast and I wish it wasn't so.

Update.... I have received an email query as to why I didn't link to my blog.
A. The post wasn't to promote the blog but to express how my life makes me tick, no still no link