
via Staszek Wróbel
"Przez jakiś czas jeszcze będziemy się jarać teledyskiem do "Fast Cars", który jest kawałkiem z EP-ki "Funny Worries" otwierającej nam drogę do klubów, ale już po nowym roku rzucimy garść informacji na temat debiutanckiego albumu. Chwilowo milczymy na ten temat, bo lubimy się chwalić jak już jest wszystko dopięte. Nigdy nie kumałem dlaczego premiery płyt są tak odwlekane, a powód jest prosty, komuś puszczają nerwy i zamiast dopracować sprawę wysyła informacje przed czasem i potem już lawinowo się sypie. Niech tylko nikt nie myśli, że nie jesteśmy podekscytowani. Jesteśmy, tylko zachowujemy to dla siebie."
FIFTY YEARS OF POPULAR SONGS CONDENSED INTO SINGLE SENTENCES
BY MARC HAYNES
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The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
I want to do it with you.
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Marvin Gaye, “Let’s Get It On”
I want to do it with you.
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Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
I want to do it with you.
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James Blunt, “You’re Beautiful”
I want to do it with you.
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Sir Mix-a-Lot, “Baby Got Back”
I want to do it.
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Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog”
You’re doing it with everyone.
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R. Kelly, “I Believe I Can Fly”
I believe I want to do it with you.
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Patsy Cline, “Crazy”
I want to do it with you so much I’m going fucking nuts.
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Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night”
I’m drunk and I want to do it with you.
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The White Stripes, “My Doorbell”
Using metaphor, I want to do it with you.
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Little Richard, “Good Golly Miss Molly”
I’m doing it with Miss Molly, and she’s totally into it.
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Duran Duran, “Rio”
I’d love to do that chick dancing on the sand.
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The Beatles, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”
I’d like to do it with you right now.
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Carly Simon, “You’re So Vain”
We used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I’m not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.
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Pulp, “Common People”
I once met a stuck-up European who wanted to do it with me.
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Radiohead, “Creep”
I’m filled with self-loathing, and, though outwardly I hate everything you represent, I want to do it with you.
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Kate Bush, “Wuthering Heights”
I’m an 18th-century fictional character and I want to do it with another 18th-century fictional character.
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Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
The Man is currently doing it to you.
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Elvis Presley, “Jailhouse Rock”
Incarcerated men will on occasion do it with each other.
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Meat Loaf, “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
Hey! You won’t believe what this one chick said while I was doing it with her!
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Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
I did it with you, and now it hurts when I pee.
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Céline Dion, “My Heart Will Go On”
Even your death has not stopped me wanting to do it with you.
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AC/DC, “You Shook Me All Night Long”
We did it yesterday.
"Materiał ukazał się 11 listopada 2011 roku w sieci i jest dostępny do ściągnięcia za darmo. Album był nagrywany na sprzęcie i w miejscu, które jest ogólnodostępne dla każdego za darmo. Rejestrowany był na darmowych programach od czerwca do końca października 2011r. w Krakowie. Styl muzyki, z racji metod rejestracji to dziadostwo rock, lub dziadostwo surf, lub też surfrock małopolski. Wszystkie utwory oprócz jednego są instrumentalne. Są głośne. Większość krótkie, mniej długich. Trochę utworów z żywą perkusją, trochę z automatem, dwa bez bita w ogóle."
Czy kobiety rozumieją muzykę inaczej niż mężczyźni?
Skąd bierze się przewaga facetów w branży?
Jakie jest podejście muzyków do koleżanek po fachu?
Czy wygląd ma dla kobiety w branży większe znaczenie niż dla mężczyzny?
Czy dyskryminacja stanowi poważny problem?
Jak będąc kobietą rozsądnie kierować swoją karierą w świecie muzyki?
Ever wonder why your band only ever plays shitty gigs? It's because you keep saying yes to shitty gigs.
Let me rewind.
I was in a band from the age of 18-24, and during that time we were trying to "make it". We said yes to everything. Gigs, record deals, putting on gigs for other people, the list goes on. I can't think of one single instance where we said no.
You want to know where that got us? Nowhere. Worse than that, it cost us easily £1000+ in travelling costs for gigs, and specifically £1500 (naively) paid to a record label to fund the "manufacturing" of 500 CDs on a "pressing and distribution" deal. I could write a book on the utter bullshit involved in that deal, which was effectively a scam aimed to take money from young bands, lots of them, for about 5 years. The label in question is now under new management, and I have no idea if the practice still takes place, so I won't name them.
But I digress. Saying 'Yes' all the time got us precisely shit all. In fact, it directly led to us splitting up. (...)
The point is this. If you agree to everything you are offered, then you are devaluing what you do. You are a musician who is pouring your life in to your music. If somebody wants to do something with that music then they should damn well have to convince you that it is in your best interests before you agree.
You don't have to be a dick about it either. You have the right to ask questions and be honest with the people that you are talking to. If they don't respect that then you were right to ask those questions and they should be avoided like the plague.
Change your default setting to 'no'. Wait to be convinced. Do things on your terms.