Gigwise reports on RATM and Susan Boyle.
“Frontman Zac De La Rocha said the group wanted Boyle to perform their chart-topper ‘Killing In The Name’ with them as a peace offering to Simon Cowell, who signed both artists.”
Since when did Simon Cowell sign RATM? Let us Google that for you, Gigwise.
My name is [Something], musician and songwriter from Italy.
I’m sorry for my insistence emails but I need an answer to organized the tour.
My band and me will be in London from May 1st to May 10th to promote my new album in english and italian lyrics and we are looking for gigs, venues and concerts around the town. We play songs of mine for a Brit Rock sound and cover about Beatles, Robbie Williams, Muse and Blur.
We want to play in London, we love London and will be really pleasure to play in the town where the Beatles began famous.
Firstly, The Cover Up’s website is currently over bandwidth. Hah.
We’d also like to think it was us who broke The Men From The Press, but it was probably The Grauniad, who ran a story on it the other day. Oh.
Never mind, eh.
Small victories and all that.
Sorry, nothing else to report today. As you were.
This particular SXSW venue (the wonderfully named Beerland) must have had a little bit of a bad week. Clicky for piccy.
(via Gawker)
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After receiving email number 12 from ‘jack kendall’ (five of those emails were received about his terrible covers bands last month), we got round to asking to be removed from his mailing list.
This was the response.
“alright prick, dont take that tone with me, i will remove you, dick, its a shit ole any way”
I’m sure this pathetic careerist bellhole, Jack Kendall, will go far. You can book his covers band for “only £250″. Go on, jump at this chance in a lifetime.
A major label A&R writes: “Here’s my personal best so far. This was sent to me (just a letter) a couple of months ago: (ALL typos and spelling are replicated exactly as in the letter) check the myspace as you read this. It’s mind blowing.”
Yes, make sure you do have a look all over his Myspace page.
“St Jack and john sully”
[Hand written in the top right hand corner – “Song 8 on the website is my ‘teen spirit’]
St.jack are a band from Islington north London and are doing urban indie rough-edged rock, it counteracts all that student crap of coldplay etc etc, we are like “the doors”, “the jam” and “nirvana”, if you look at the website the girls really like this band and the music and we already have a great british and worldwide following. “oasis” are finished and the public like the time before “nirvana” are dying for this great new rock, and it is coming out of London like punk in the late 70’s.we have over 100 songs and this could easily become a movement if you have the vision, john sully the singer and writer is goodlooking and could be the ultimate frontman and he writes songs like no other.our web address is www.myspace.com/xx66 and the phone is 0207 XXX XXXX, try e-mail at johnsully@xxx.xxx , hip hop and shiity r+b is a sick evil beast that needs to be put out of it’s misery. Just like nirvana shit on micheal Jackson in’91.wesetrn youth are literally dying for the new wine and I hope you have the vision to see this, you must ask yourself why all the girls across Europe are digging this band and site, some on and lets start the revolution that has been missing all this century, they reject the violent thugs of hip hop and the little schoolboys of boybanderry,
Stables full of shite mean nothing to British youth, they know a wrongen and they know the real thing.
John Sully
[then scrawled in ink at the bottom of the page]
1. Teardrop Explodes
2. The jam
3. Nirvana
4. The doors
5. More beautiful + more numbers of girls on my website than ‘Take That’s’ website
“A quick glance at the myspace easily answers the main question John seems to be posing. The “girls” who are so clearly “digging this band and site” are the sort of Tila Tequila wannabees that would add any and everyone. If that’s the future of Rock n Roll, well, I guess I’m done.”
More pretentious twaddle for your ‘amuse’.
Canterbury’s most turbulent rock n roll band. Probably Canterbury’s only rock n roll band. An unfortunate group of fumbling idiots prone to unaccountable bursts of self-confidence and wholly explainable bouts of self-flagellation. Itinerant, loathsome and loutish cads determined to fuck up or be fucked up. Imitators and thieves of genuine talent. Under-qualified borrowers from the holy pantheon of rock n roll music.
Notably, there is no music on their Myspace page.
UPDATE: MAR 5TH, 6.45pm. THE WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY OFFLINE.
UPDATE: Mar 8th. THE WEBSITE IS BACK WITH A NEW SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE AND THE ‘JOURNO’S AND PUB’S’ (SIC) PAGE REMOVED FROM THE MENU OPTIONS (ACTUALLY IT’S STILL THERE JUST THE NAME ‘SUBMISSION COSTS’). THE LINK POSTED BELOW, HOWEVER, STILL WORKS AND THEY’VE REMOVED THE JOURNALIST NAMES AND UPPED SOME OF THE PRICES. HOW VERY INTERESTING!
UPDATE: MAR 24TH. IN RECORD TIME, THE COMPANY HAS GONE UNDER. WE’LL KEEP THIS STORY UP FOR HISTORICAL REASONS THOUGH. ER, ENJOY?
There seems to be some confusion as to what this website actually does. Styling itself as an ‘alternative’ music PR site and using an excessive amount of exclamation marks on its “about us” page (which is the same as its “how it works” page), it describes itself as a “very low cost, modern and eco friendly, fully automated ‘one stop shop’ putting you in complete control of your releases and campaigns. You write your own press releases, you invite journalists to gigs, you can send a journalist one or multiple tracks in the same submission and for the same cost!!! Its very quick and easy to do…. All our journalists are well known and respected and write for all the top music publications as well as national papers and numerous other glossy magazines.”
Indeed, the rotating banners at the top of the page boast of a list of clients (or are they targets?) from NME to Loaded to Time Out to, uh, The London Paper (which went under last year).
Like using any PR company, a band is not guaranteed of receiving a review in any specific publication. What happens is that a journalist will receive payment from Men From The Press for giving a band feedback on their music. It’s up to the journo (well, let’s face it, in most cases it’s actually up to the journo’s editor) whether or not they’ll do anything more about it. Like giving them some press.
But what’s causing a ruckus is the newly introduced and irritatingly apostrophed “Journo’s And Pub’s” page, which lists journos and how much you, as a band, need to pay Men From The Music Press for their ‘feedback’, described by the site as “the submission fee we charge to cover admin and Journalist expenses.” We won’t be surprised if the journos start contacting them to take down their names, but at time of writing there’s an NME journo whose opinion is worth £15, an Observer journo who’s worth £8… and a writer for The Fly who is worth 10p. Indeed, the journo from Blowback magazine is worth more, at £6.50. Blowback went under in 2007.
Well, you have hand it to them for trying something new… haven’t you?
No, no you wouldn’t.
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From the same email author as this. Since September ’09, Jack Kendall has also emailled us about his other band Wellerman, “the essex’s most best and original paul weller and the jam band… THE BEST PARTY AROUND!!”, “The legendary Jack and Danny Chas & Dave Tribute Band”, and “The Commited”, whose marvellous poster you can see below.
Top journalism. [Contains GaGa]