Given my current very minor involvement in the music industry, I find it interesting to see how bands are getting music out to the public when they either can't get or don't want major label involvement.
Jake Shillingford, ex of My Life Story for example, asks fans to donate money via his webpage in order to fund his recording projects, and then is able to return this capital once the album has sold a minimum number of copies. My Life Story were a great band btw. She prefers the night to daaaayyyyy.
Meanwhile, Harvey Danger (who recorded the absolutely fantastic Flagpole Sitta some years back) have just made their new album available totally free for download either direct from their website or via Bit Torrent (links also on the website). I downloaded it this morning and am listening now. It's good. Sounds, strangely, a little like Shed Seven. I mean that in a good way... I like Shed Seven.
And of course you can follow the route taken by FDH (and other bands in the past - The Delgados being a good example) and just set up your own actual record label. At least that way if your label drops you know it means you must be really shit.
Anyway, the main point of this post was: Go and download the Harvey Danger album. It's good. And it feels bad to do it, even though it's not. Like stealing matches from bars even when they're free. I like doing that.
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I always thought Mr Shillingford and his then girlfriend must have a very odd relationship.
E.g. - "3 - motorcycle riding to the south." How exactly can the direction in which a motorcycle's going affect how he felt about her? If the motorcyclist turns left, needs to stop for petrol, or the road bends, do Jake and his partner suddenly have a big fight then split up?
And does it need to be a particular motorcyclist, or will anyone do? (And if it's anyone, surely there will always be a motorcycle riding to the south somewhere in the world.)
Or is it perhaps a motorcyle that's to the south of him when he sees it, but riding in some other direction? It can be parsed in a variety of ways.
I always preferred "Can't Uneat The Apple" and "Sparkle" off that album. Maybe because they didn't lead to so many existential questions.
Agreed re Apple and Sparkle.
I think with the motorcycle thing, she lived to the north of him and would ride down on her bike to seem him each weekend. He loved her because she travelled so far. 104 miles!
Or something.
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