I'd pay for Noel Gallagher's hands to be broken beyond repair. Then his mouth.

Same goes for Paul Weller, too.

I'd pay for Amy Winehouse to get cleaned up and sorted out head-wise.
I'd pay for Carl Barat to never write another song again.
I'd pay for the Runaways to reform (there'd be enough money to bring their drummer Sandy West back to life).
I'd pay for Bono, Michael Stipe, Annie Lennox, Bob Geldof and the rest of the rock world's earnest and worthy tossers to be dumped into a Kinshasa slum, with no return ticket.

I doubt it.
You'll have to join with me and melly to raise funds for their asassination.:D

Toby Driver is actually doing a donation thing to get a new maudlin of the Well album recorded (pieces he composed but never played/recorded)

Hah.

Serious question:
Do you think Toby has fucked Mia?

Whatever happened to just recording an album when you have enough songs to do so? I don't know this sounds pretty dumb.

probably.

he's a lucky guy if he has.

True.

I can see the logic - £100,000 might seem like a lot, but for a five-piece band that translates to £20,000 each. Following this, presumably the shareholders amount for up to 49% of the shares (couldn't be more or they could buy out the band) and it's unlikely the company itself would take less than 30%, leaving the band, hypothetically, with 20% of themselves. Split five ways, that means the band own only 4% of themselves.

You can see the logic if you have the potential to make money back. Presumably the bonds only apply to certain aspects of the band - the record itself and the profits thereof. So the band make their living on merchanise, tossing out a shit free EP of covers of Waterloo Sunset for the morons who subsidise them.

I think it's a wishy-washy idea, and will only work for artists that are 'investible'. Anyone remember Popex? It's basically that idea, but with real money. I can't see why it wouldn't work, but I'd be surprised if a decent enough band that weren't potentially 'big' profitable wouldn't persist down the complete control indie route so as to keep all profits to themselves.

Isn't this exactly the same as Sellaband?

Sounds like that Pete and Pete episode where little Pete's band starts broadcasting requests over Wart radio for 5 dollars a song so they can pay the electric bill that their constant practicing demanded.

If I was in his position then I definitely would...

Serious question # 2:
Do you think it was kinky?

Did he dowse her copper tongue with his anemone?

all you need to record an album is $10 for a shit ass tape recorder

I like the idea of bands that use the labels funds for recording to make a studio/rehearsal room rather than go into a studio.

the brian jonestown massacre did that, sort of
the record company fronted them the money to rent a house and build anton a studio in it
this was some years ago though, they don't live there any more.

Yeah.

The Dandy Warhols built their Odditorum too. They put all their film clips/studio money etc etc, into making their rehearsal room/studio in this old church or something, and then rehears, recorded, and shot their clips in it. Now they're not on that label anymore and they still have their odditorium.

yeah but all they did was basically build their version of the factory. the concept is great but the fact that it's them...

bjm >>>>>>> dandies

Ugh, the Dandy Warhols - don't get me started on those creeps....

I recall that Royal Trux used one of their advance payments from Virgin to build their own studio, which I think Neil Haggerty now uses for his Howling Hex stuff.

The Neubauten "supporters" idea is a great one - I've bought a couple of things from them that way.

I prefer the Dandies. like BJM too. just something about the Dandies I like more. probably Courtney Taylor-Taylor.