I’m annoyed. I’m annoyed with YouTube, and I’m annoyed with Warner-Chappell, and I’m annoyed with a music industry made up of frakking corporate troglodytes. A while back I got a message from YouTube telling me that a couple of my videos had been flagged by their clever-dick system as containing copyright material. On...
No, not jam made with monkeys specialising in deadly unseen martial arts … or maybe it is; just not on toast. I was visited recently by half of the excellent New Zealand band Ninja Monkeys. While they were here (and in-between drinking coffee) Owen Vickers and I recorded a quick “jam”. I use the...
I’m faintly put out. Google have a new clever-dick system on YouTube that analyses your videos and compares them to reference recordings to try to determine whether you’ve uploaded something copyright. Now, all I upload are videos of me playing guitar. Some of those are cover versions, true, but I’m certainly not uploading other...
I love these guys. I’ve only recently heard of them, and every time I listen to them I find myself breaking into a grin from ear to ear. It’s just so fun and cool. The Baseballs are a German band who have the greaser look down pat and the 50s rockabilly...
