Hi Everyone,
This week’s newsletter is mainly centred around releases for Friday the 31st of October.
Warner have the new DAMIEN RICE album, his third, out on that day.
Damien is certainly not prolific with his records but ( in my opinion) the last two were excellent.
Is it three albums in 12 years, was “O” released in 2002….
Damien seems to be his own man in the music industry ( met him and the boys from Bell X 1 maybe 15 years or more ago when there then band Juniper were in one of the Golden Discs for a signing, quite fella is my only memory to be honest)
I think it was the Polygram label who had signed Juniper on a six album deal,( i remember huge talk about them in the industry at the time, next U2 and all that usual blah) im sure they only released a couple of singles though and Damien wanted to release a certain single and the record company said no way Jose, were the boss of you now, so Damien said im gone lads and left the band.
He released “O” on his own label, which was a bold step at the time especially in Ireland. ( the catologue number on the side of the album is DRMOO2CD….Damien Rice Music)
He then sold the album to a distribuator, reaping a lot more financial rewards plus having total control….2 MILLION COPIES of “ 0” sold globally….id say the boy done well out of it, no need to slave after that.
If you can do it on your own label, it is a good way to go if you want to reap some benefits from selling the music, but you must have a key ingredient , you must be really really good.
First two albums were on his own label, he is signed to Atlantic now through Warner….probably was offered a nice chunk of change and full control.
Anyways, the new album is out on the 31st, the Music Zone corporation will be retailing the CD at 15 euro and the LP at 23 euro whereas our little friends Amazon are 12 and 22 sterling…..# supportlocal…….blatant sales pitch!!
Warner also for the 31st have the new NEIL YOUNG CD “ STORYTONE”, the LP is not out till the 15th of December.
I know you think i’ve being on your case brother recently, but you are still one of the all time greats.
The new one is with a 92 piece orchestra, juries out for me for now on this until i hear a bit more.
Sad to hear yourself and Croz still not getting on to well….he claims your hanging out now with “ a purely poisonous predator” and talk is you are done with him forever.
Speaking of juries, Led Zeppelin are finally going to be sued ( being accused for years) by the band Spirit whom Zeppelin supported for a while in the late sixties.
Spirit claim that Jimmy Page took a big axe to their track “taurus” and brought it home for himself and put it as the intro to “stairway to heaven”
Stairway is one of the biggest songs in history, the songs net worth estimated at 360 million dollars, being played over 3 and a half million times on the radio…..if you put it on now for that amount of plays, it would be over in 2045!!
All musicians take bits from other musicians but when there worth 360 mill !!!…..” theres a pagey who knows, all that…”
Warner also have a new ROLLING STONES reissue “ hampton coliseum live 1981” across 4 formats and DVDs by ERIC CLAPTON and GENESIS.
Sony have the BOB DYLAN and THE BAND complete “ basement tapes” for Friday the 31st also.
Some would say these recordings changed the face of popular music forever , originally released 8 years after they were recorded in 1967 soon after Bob fell off his bike and was recuperating!!
Not a huge Dylan fan myself, but do really like some stuff including this…..the band were just great.
See the link below for more info and a class song….
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/bob-dylan-the-band-dress-it-up
We are 75 euro for the LP set, 20 for the double CD and 120 for the CD box set………..
SONY also has a debut album by ASH front man TIM WHEELER and a live CD/DVD from Garth Brooks (is it to soon to mention the war?)….there’s more from GARTH in the next week or two.
Universal for 31 October has a new SIMPLE MINDS album, a few WINGS reissues “at the speed of sound” and “Venus and mars” and a GUNS N ROSES 3D concert “appetite for democracy” across four formats.
Universal also have the new ANDRE RIEU CD/DVD BOX SET PACK………15 euro.
Mr. Rieu is a money making machine, grossing on average 70 million dollars a year over the last six years from concerts , merch, CDs and DVD’S.( BONO would be proud of that!!)
Bit of a fun link next sent to me from one of ye guys to share with the rest of ye like…
I’ll say very little except Christ man you got rid of some great records….enjoy.
PIAS have the new MACHINE HEAD album “BLOODSTONE AND DIAMONDS” for the 7th November as well as the some brilliant reissues by THE SMALL FACES.
MUSIC ON VINYL have the expanded RORY GALLAGHER 3LP “ IRISH TOUR” for late November as well as DYLAN’S “ MODERN TIMES” and an ANIMALS “ COMPLETE” 3 LP set.
ESSENTIAL has the new and final?? ROYSKOPP album “the inevitable end” on November 7.
If you are not one of the cherished few who receive this newsletter via email every week and are reading this elsewhere pop me an email raymusiczone@gmail.com if you would like to receive it.
Lastly, if any of ye have 5 minutes to spare, says he at 2.21, the lads and ladies from CIT marketing are doing a project on the shop and the whole music retail game and would really appreciate some quick feedback, so if you can spare a few minutes it would be great, if you could answer the linked survey….big thanks to those who can.
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sin e for this week,
thanks for reading,
Ray.