I suppose we all have our own ways of looking at life. In general,
each and every one of us look at virtually everything from a different perspective.
When I was a child, I had a really difficult time working out whether other people
could see what I saw in the same way. You know... this question... "Is the orange coloured cow on this page really "orange"... or, does the person next to me see something purple...is what I call purple..maybe.. orange to him..?? Do you see what i mean. This whole thing about what we are taught versus what we percieve...well, it used to drive me bonkers.
I used to lose a lot of sleep at night over this kind of 'worry' (well, for lack of a better word... ha ha...perhaps I'll find the right word for tomorrow's "word of the day"). Anyway, I vividly remember contemplating the idea of "perception". When I was little, it simply seemed to make sense. Somehow, I thought that since we all look different, we all must 'feel' different as well... and since we all have somewhat 'different' opinions... then, therefore... we all must 'see' life (and therefore even colors and sounds..) well... differently...
If you don't understand me..or if you think I'm on some sort of drug... here it is put simply:
Ok, just .. Imagine: example: I hold up a blue card with a smuf on it... the couleur you see is in my mind iswhat you call 'orange'... however, we both call it "blue".. even though we both see a different color... what we both agree is... that the smurf..is.. well "blue".
In fact, this isn't very far from what we all encounter from day to day. I honestly believe that we all see life from completely different perspectives. If this is the case.. then, in our journey to be 'serious' and 'adult-like'... somehow, I've come to the conclusion that a good many of us try to take life a wee bit, well, too seriously....
(yes, this is a ramble...so, feel free to click elsewhere if you are bored...)
In general, this is why art & music are considered "relative" or simply why all art and musical taste very simply "subjective".....
Which leads me to one final point... since art and music are very "subjective".. and have less definition than "black & white" or "blue & orange."... sometimes I wonder why there is so much debate about these "artistic endeavours..." which makes me, in turn, wonder why "people".. sometimes... take art & music so "seriously".... since art and music are expository and meant to be 'enjoyed and deliberated" rather than "confused or denigrated.".......
what do you think?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
music....
just thought I'd add some music to the page ;)
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
THE MOST TERRIFYING VIDEO YOU WILL EVER SEE......
THIS IS DEFINITELY WORTH WATCHING.......AND REACTING TO.....:)
X indiana
X indiana
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
hellooooooo.....
Well, we just got back from doing a radio session with Revival Radio (Glasgow). It was a lot of fun :)
The single is out this week "One of Us". .. So, go check it out on itunes:) x indiana gregg
The single is out this week "One of Us". .. So, go check it out on itunes:) x indiana gregg
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Save Music....Save The World.....Piracy is Just Too Darn Easy
The wild-west of the internet seems to be getting seriously out of hand and I've been wondering if and when the Internet Police will come and sort it all out. I mean… this is the new wild west…
We've all heard and read every form of complaint about the internet. From cyber-bullying, to child pornography sites, to the copyright theft in the form of 'file-sharing'.
Imagine….What if the internet had 'frontiers'. Why can we go all over the world on the internet without a Passport? Why are cybernauts allowed to steal goods from the store 'shelves' and 'shop windows' and justify it as 'sharing'? Since the birth of the internet, people have been hacking software,stealing music, books, films, television shows, credit card numbers, ebay accounts, IP addresses... you name it, if it's out there and can be downloaded, it's being virtually stolen from under your nose.
So, why is this wild west so hard to monitor? Why are people up in arms and waiving their guns wildly… … Are these new pirate ships sharing other people's goods for gold? Of course they are… yes, I'm speaking about the torrent sites… and all the other sites who are making money on other people's back…
Is the internet really that much 'bigger' than the 'real' world? I think not. I believe that in the near future, we will all be using our internet passports. If the government can do it in the real world, what's stopping them from monitoring this new 'wild west' phenomenon of the internet in every town, city, state and country. I mean… Don't we have just as much right as citizens to be protected on the internet as we would be anywhere else. And really, the only people who would disagree with this idea are people who either are engaging in illegal activity or people who claim 'civil liberty and freedom of speech' on the internet (but remember guys, those freedoms are only good until you begin to harm other people. You don't have freedom to shout at the rooftops at 3am outside your neighbor's house.... and it's certainly not your civil right to steal from your local baker and share his cream puffs outside his shop window…either, is it?) Allow me to explain.
Let's take one of the major forces on the internet for example. Let's look at all of the big Music content sites (such as Myspace, Yahoo Music, etc)who seem to be huge driving swarms of traffic on the internet. When you see the amount of advertisements per page and click, you know can almost hear the 'kerching'. These sites are like interstate junctions at rush hour (24 hours a day) so to speak. Torrents are no different…. Kerching kerching… They are giving away things like films, music, tv programs, software…. If it can be downloaded, it can be found… for free…
Thousands upon thousands of websites, sharing sites, and torrent sites exist. These websites are making a constant steady flow of income by using other people's goods...they are pointing people to the goods (music) for free and selling masses of advertisement because people come to 'leech' the goods...these sites are basically allowing people to steal and destroy the music industry (which is in fact like shooting themselves in their own foot… ). The sites themselves claim to be 'legal'. It is the user's responsibility not to share copyrighted files. So, you'd be silly to think that the internet police are not planning on coming. How easy would it be to simply find all these people who are illegally 'sharing' and slap a lawsuit on them. They can do that with a virtual push of a button… how hard do you think it will be for the ISP's to hand over your Internet Passport over to the new frontier police. They can see how much you've 'shared' and potentially fine every single torrent user. I bet the torrent sites wouldn't like that very much. Suddenly all their users disappear.
Last year, in an article on Sky News, I read that a woman was fined a massive fine for file sharing on the Kazaa network. I thought, great! The police are coming.Then my husband sent me a link to another article titled "Should You Pay For Music?". I instantly thought....eh? Has the world gone mad? It's like saying "Should you pay for petrol?"or "Should you pay for bread?"..... hey, maybe I was being too 'traditional'? I guess you could compare it to you, yourself working all week long. You go to the bank and cash your check, and the banker takes your money without putting it into your account.
But, it's much deeper than this. Whether or not the public is offered music for free or at a cost is not the real issue. The real problem lies in the fact that 'share' sites are making money by pointing to 'other people's copyrighted content'... The end user gets it for free… the torrents make money…. And the musicians and artists?? Well, they get to live off of 'fresh air'. Put simply, musicians will not be able to exist financially in order to create music if income streams are cut off (whether or not a record label comes to play).
And this is exactly what is happening.
As a musician and an independent record-label, I see my livelihood being sucked away everyday through file-sharing and torrent sites which are allowing copyright material flow in and out of their sites. All they have to do is claim that it's the 'user's' responsibility to make sure the content they are sharing is not copyright protected material. Last year, in a period of two weeks, we tracked and found over 100,000 leechers of my album alone. ...since then, we've found about 150,000 more (of which, the artist, who put my heart and soul, time and sweat into an album and raising money to market that album... hasn't received a dime...not one red cent.) ..Full torrent files of a complete album! Since it's so easy to 'share' the music....
In the real world, if everyone walked into HMV and took as many albums as they like... and said they were 'sharing'...errr... shoplifting? I really don't see how people think they can give music or any other form of media for 'free' without it hurting the livelihoods of the musician's. Sharing of copyright protected material is 100% illegal. However, since it's not being regulated, it's as if all of us musician's have just left the shop door open so that anybody can lift our guitars and gear out on the street and drive off with it. (Because, isn't that what's happening? If you can't make a dime from that album you just spent all your money, time and effort on because everyone is 'sharing' it... then, how are you going to buy your guitar strings, pay your landlord, or eat...you'll be selling your gear soon and asking the boss for overtime...right?.....
Torrent sites are claiming that they are creating 'free promotion' for musicians.... that's right.. they claim that by giving all these people the opportunity to "share" the music, they are doing all of us musicians a big huge favour. In fact, they think that musician's, songwriters, sound engineers, mastering companies, etc... should all live on 'pure fresh air'. They blatantly state that they think it should be enough for a musician to make music out of their 'passion' for music… and well, since it's 'art' it shouldn't have a price..... er, ok….. maybe we should go and see if Fender will start giving away free guitars? Free gear for everybody!!! yipppeee.... Free strings, free amplifiers, free microphones and drum kits......awww… how novel.
Here's another funny one…the torrent site's answer to how musician's are supposed to earn a living is: .. well, musician's will just need to go out and gig some more in order to make a living. Maybe the band can sell a few more T-shirts, etc. etc. They rationalize stealing by stating that they go to gigs and buy tickets…(or that they plan to do so if ever their favourite band can finally afford to come and do a tour in their country). They claim that by allowing sharing, they are 'leveling the playing field.'
Well, torrent sites are absolutely NOT leveling the playing field. They are just moving the field and reaping the benefits due to a temporary loophole in the law. I'll bet that when all their users get slapped a fine for 'sharing' in their respective countries.. the torrent sites won't be there to support them. I doubt that they are planning to send all their users a bunch of 'gold' off of their pirate ship…( So far, there have only been a few 'examples' made with users being slapped heavy fines… I have a hunch that this will CHANGE)…
Aww, now there's a word "CHANGE".
Well, let's talk about CHANGE for a moment. The torrent people even go as far as to quote Charles Darwin in an effort to justify theft…
"In nature, it's not the strongest nor the most intelligent who survives. It's the most adaptable to change" ( a quote from a torrent fanatic referring to Darwins theory).
Hmmm………..well, I assume that the torrent sites are planning
to be adaptable pretty soon then considering the number of pending lawsuits from pretty strong and intelligent companies who have not only proven their adaptability to change, but have changed the world as we know it (companies like Microsoft, for example).
Please.. spare us this kind of rhetoric guys. With the likes of Microsoft, Prince, and the IFPI going after you, any outsider might begin to wonder when YOU plan to adapt to 'change'. It's becoming evident that your business model is a sinking ship. Pretty soon, your users will be slapped with fines and more big companies will be slapping on lawsuits. Why not just sink your ship yourselves..eh? That's really what you're doing.. Your resistence to 'change' is in complete conflict with your very survival… Oh the irony. "Let's have all our users quote Darwin".
"Sharing is 'caring", so they say. Torrent sites are promoting the idea that if people are taking the time to 'share' other peoples copyright material… it means they care. So, what's stopping the torrent pirates from 'sharing' the revenue from the advertising on their sites? (Funny how it's ok for musicians to live off of 'fresh air'. But, these pirates are meanwhile filling their boat with loot on the backs of other people's hard work.) let's see how adaptable to 'change' they decide to become… and put their Darwin theory where their mouth is….
Free promotion? Basically, torrents are promoting music that has 'already been promoted', so it's not 'free promotion'. There will be a small percentage of people who go through the millions of songs that are being seeded and perhaps discover something new because they searched for something they had already heard about. So, torrents are not only 'moving' the playing field.. they are, in reality, making the playing field so un-even that bands are going to be the new "Sysiphus's" trying to roll a ball uphill for eternity if this continue although they would like to fool us all into believing otherwise.
We've all heard and read every form of complaint about the internet. From cyber-bullying, to child pornography sites, to the copyright theft in the form of 'file-sharing'.
Imagine….What if the internet had 'frontiers'. Why can we go all over the world on the internet without a Passport? Why are cybernauts allowed to steal goods from the store 'shelves' and 'shop windows' and justify it as 'sharing'? Since the birth of the internet, people have been hacking software,stealing music, books, films, television shows, credit card numbers, ebay accounts, IP addresses... you name it, if it's out there and can be downloaded, it's being virtually stolen from under your nose.
So, why is this wild west so hard to monitor? Why are people up in arms and waiving their guns wildly… … Are these new pirate ships sharing other people's goods for gold? Of course they are… yes, I'm speaking about the torrent sites… and all the other sites who are making money on other people's back…
Is the internet really that much 'bigger' than the 'real' world? I think not. I believe that in the near future, we will all be using our internet passports. If the government can do it in the real world, what's stopping them from monitoring this new 'wild west' phenomenon of the internet in every town, city, state and country. I mean… Don't we have just as much right as citizens to be protected on the internet as we would be anywhere else. And really, the only people who would disagree with this idea are people who either are engaging in illegal activity or people who claim 'civil liberty and freedom of speech' on the internet (but remember guys, those freedoms are only good until you begin to harm other people. You don't have freedom to shout at the rooftops at 3am outside your neighbor's house.... and it's certainly not your civil right to steal from your local baker and share his cream puffs outside his shop window…either, is it?) Allow me to explain.
Let's take one of the major forces on the internet for example. Let's look at all of the big Music content sites (such as Myspace, Yahoo Music, etc)who seem to be huge driving swarms of traffic on the internet. When you see the amount of advertisements per page and click, you know can almost hear the 'kerching'. These sites are like interstate junctions at rush hour (24 hours a day) so to speak. Torrents are no different…. Kerching kerching… They are giving away things like films, music, tv programs, software…. If it can be downloaded, it can be found… for free…
Thousands upon thousands of websites, sharing sites, and torrent sites exist. These websites are making a constant steady flow of income by using other people's goods...they are pointing people to the goods (music) for free and selling masses of advertisement because people come to 'leech' the goods...these sites are basically allowing people to steal and destroy the music industry (which is in fact like shooting themselves in their own foot… ). The sites themselves claim to be 'legal'. It is the user's responsibility not to share copyrighted files. So, you'd be silly to think that the internet police are not planning on coming. How easy would it be to simply find all these people who are illegally 'sharing' and slap a lawsuit on them. They can do that with a virtual push of a button… how hard do you think it will be for the ISP's to hand over your Internet Passport over to the new frontier police. They can see how much you've 'shared' and potentially fine every single torrent user. I bet the torrent sites wouldn't like that very much. Suddenly all their users disappear.
Last year, in an article on Sky News, I read that a woman was fined a massive fine for file sharing on the Kazaa network. I thought, great! The police are coming.Then my husband sent me a link to another article titled "Should You Pay For Music?". I instantly thought....eh? Has the world gone mad? It's like saying "Should you pay for petrol?"or "Should you pay for bread?"..... hey, maybe I was being too 'traditional'? I guess you could compare it to you, yourself working all week long. You go to the bank and cash your check, and the banker takes your money without putting it into your account.
But, it's much deeper than this. Whether or not the public is offered music for free or at a cost is not the real issue. The real problem lies in the fact that 'share' sites are making money by pointing to 'other people's copyrighted content'... The end user gets it for free… the torrents make money…. And the musicians and artists?? Well, they get to live off of 'fresh air'. Put simply, musicians will not be able to exist financially in order to create music if income streams are cut off (whether or not a record label comes to play).
And this is exactly what is happening.
As a musician and an independent record-label, I see my livelihood being sucked away everyday through file-sharing and torrent sites which are allowing copyright material flow in and out of their sites. All they have to do is claim that it's the 'user's' responsibility to make sure the content they are sharing is not copyright protected material. Last year, in a period of two weeks, we tracked and found over 100,000 leechers of my album alone. ...since then, we've found about 150,000 more (of which, the artist, who put my heart and soul, time and sweat into an album and raising money to market that album... hasn't received a dime...not one red cent.) ..Full torrent files of a complete album! Since it's so easy to 'share' the music....
In the real world, if everyone walked into HMV and took as many albums as they like... and said they were 'sharing'...errr... shoplifting? I really don't see how people think they can give music or any other form of media for 'free' without it hurting the livelihoods of the musician's. Sharing of copyright protected material is 100% illegal. However, since it's not being regulated, it's as if all of us musician's have just left the shop door open so that anybody can lift our guitars and gear out on the street and drive off with it. (Because, isn't that what's happening? If you can't make a dime from that album you just spent all your money, time and effort on because everyone is 'sharing' it... then, how are you going to buy your guitar strings, pay your landlord, or eat...you'll be selling your gear soon and asking the boss for overtime...right?.....
Torrent sites are claiming that they are creating 'free promotion' for musicians.... that's right.. they claim that by giving all these people the opportunity to "share" the music, they are doing all of us musicians a big huge favour. In fact, they think that musician's, songwriters, sound engineers, mastering companies, etc... should all live on 'pure fresh air'. They blatantly state that they think it should be enough for a musician to make music out of their 'passion' for music… and well, since it's 'art' it shouldn't have a price..... er, ok….. maybe we should go and see if Fender will start giving away free guitars? Free gear for everybody!!! yipppeee.... Free strings, free amplifiers, free microphones and drum kits......awww… how novel.
Here's another funny one…the torrent site's answer to how musician's are supposed to earn a living is: .. well, musician's will just need to go out and gig some more in order to make a living. Maybe the band can sell a few more T-shirts, etc. etc. They rationalize stealing by stating that they go to gigs and buy tickets…(or that they plan to do so if ever their favourite band can finally afford to come and do a tour in their country). They claim that by allowing sharing, they are 'leveling the playing field.'
Well, torrent sites are absolutely NOT leveling the playing field. They are just moving the field and reaping the benefits due to a temporary loophole in the law. I'll bet that when all their users get slapped a fine for 'sharing' in their respective countries.. the torrent sites won't be there to support them. I doubt that they are planning to send all their users a bunch of 'gold' off of their pirate ship…( So far, there have only been a few 'examples' made with users being slapped heavy fines… I have a hunch that this will CHANGE)…
Aww, now there's a word "CHANGE".
Well, let's talk about CHANGE for a moment. The torrent people even go as far as to quote Charles Darwin in an effort to justify theft…
"In nature, it's not the strongest nor the most intelligent who survives. It's the most adaptable to change" ( a quote from a torrent fanatic referring to Darwins theory).
Hmmm………..well, I assume that the torrent sites are planning
to be adaptable pretty soon then considering the number of pending lawsuits from pretty strong and intelligent companies who have not only proven their adaptability to change, but have changed the world as we know it (companies like Microsoft, for example).
Please.. spare us this kind of rhetoric guys. With the likes of Microsoft, Prince, and the IFPI going after you, any outsider might begin to wonder when YOU plan to adapt to 'change'. It's becoming evident that your business model is a sinking ship. Pretty soon, your users will be slapped with fines and more big companies will be slapping on lawsuits. Why not just sink your ship yourselves..eh? That's really what you're doing.. Your resistence to 'change' is in complete conflict with your very survival… Oh the irony. "Let's have all our users quote Darwin".
"Sharing is 'caring", so they say. Torrent sites are promoting the idea that if people are taking the time to 'share' other peoples copyright material… it means they care. So, what's stopping the torrent pirates from 'sharing' the revenue from the advertising on their sites? (Funny how it's ok for musicians to live off of 'fresh air'. But, these pirates are meanwhile filling their boat with loot on the backs of other people's hard work.) let's see how adaptable to 'change' they decide to become… and put their Darwin theory where their mouth is….
Free promotion? Basically, torrents are promoting music that has 'already been promoted', so it's not 'free promotion'. There will be a small percentage of people who go through the millions of songs that are being seeded and perhaps discover something new because they searched for something they had already heard about. So, torrents are not only 'moving' the playing field.. they are, in reality, making the playing field so un-even that bands are going to be the new "Sysiphus's" trying to roll a ball uphill for eternity if this continue although they would like to fool us all into believing otherwise.
The Music Police are Coming!!!!
(From Sky News Today)
Illegal Music Downloader Pays Heavy Price
Updated: 09:11, Friday October 05, 2007
People who download music illegally may be feeling more nervous after an American woman was ordered to pay more than £100,000 in damages for file-sharing.
Crackdown on file sharing
Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $220,000 (£108,000) after six record companies sued her.
They said she shared 1,702 songs by downloading them without permission and then offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing acount.
Thomas had claimed that she did not have a Kazaa account.
She was fined $9,250 (£4,550) for each of 24 songs specified in the case - the lowest the jury could have awarded was $750 (£370) per song.
"This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK," said Richard Gabriel, the chief lawyer for the music companies.
Record companies have filed 26,000 lawsuits since 2003 over file-sharing, with many defendants settling out of court and illegal sharing dropping as a result.
Have you guys checked out the new Yahoo Music Beta?
It's pretty cool.
Anyway, it's raining again in Glasgow:) We're doing shows and radio sessions over the next
few weeks.... It's Friday and I'm anxious about the weekend..... I'm planning to make myself
go for a run or go to the gym.... (will have to flip a coin).
Hey, join my myspace page and help contribute to my 'weird' word collection...
I post a bulletin everyday with new weird and unusual words... check it out:
Illegal Music Downloader Pays Heavy Price
Updated: 09:11, Friday October 05, 2007
People who download music illegally may be feeling more nervous after an American woman was ordered to pay more than £100,000 in damages for file-sharing.
Crackdown on file sharing
Jammie Thomas was ordered to pay $220,000 (£108,000) after six record companies sued her.
They said she shared 1,702 songs by downloading them without permission and then offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing acount.
Thomas had claimed that she did not have a Kazaa account.
She was fined $9,250 (£4,550) for each of 24 songs specified in the case - the lowest the jury could have awarded was $750 (£370) per song.
"This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK," said Richard Gabriel, the chief lawyer for the music companies.
Record companies have filed 26,000 lawsuits since 2003 over file-sharing, with many defendants settling out of court and illegal sharing dropping as a result.
Have you guys checked out the new Yahoo Music Beta?
It's pretty cool.
Anyway, it's raining again in Glasgow:) We're doing shows and radio sessions over the next
few weeks.... It's Friday and I'm anxious about the weekend..... I'm planning to make myself
go for a run or go to the gym.... (will have to flip a coin).
Hey, join my myspace page and help contribute to my 'weird' word collection...
I post a bulletin everyday with new weird and unusual words... check it out:
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
This new Blog-world diary place.....
After setting up this Blog page nearly a year ago, I must admit, I haven't spent a lot of time here. So, I guess I have a bit of catching up to do as far as going through the year to date. We'll see how faithful I am to writing something here on a daily, or even weekly basis. I've always wanted to keep a form of 'thought' diary, so, this might be a way of doing just that.
It's been a pretty busy year. We were busy finishing up the album and edits for videos and tv commercials in January and February. In March, we went on tour with Lemar throughout the UK and in June, we released the first single "Sweet Things" from the album "Woman At Work". I got married right in the middle of the tour (we had a day off in between the Glasgow gig at the Clyde auditorium, so, we drove to Gretna Green with all of our friends and family and got married there!!...was a really amazing day ... basically perfect. I think it's probably one of the only days in my life that went 'smoothly'...)
At the end of April through August, we were again all over the UK playing gigs in people's living rooms and doing regional radio sessions (and we're still doing that at the moment.) It was a great summer and we played quite a few festivals rain or shine!! (And, since I live in Scotland, it was a lot of rain!)
In the meanwhile, we've had all the extra work as well since we are an independent label. I'm not sure if very people realise that our record label basically consists of me, my husband, a guy called graham and a guy called Phil. Between us, we've done a load of work. Over this past year, I had been working with a web designer to build a new and very innovative music community which I'll tell you about in my future blogs. My husband has been working on the inventory side of it as well. So, not only have we been touring and releasing records and playing sessions, and recording songs and videos, we've been designing a kind of 'monster' which, I can't wait to tell all my musician friends and bands all about... (don't worry, non-musicians will be allowed to network there too... but, it's pretty cool!)
If you are reading this and want to join me on myspace, you'll probably find out more about this new community there via my bulletins and things (I also send out a 'word of the day' which is usually some ridiculously long and funny or awkward word that I or one of my friends chose for the day...)...
Anyway, Now, (September) with the release of the second single "One Of Us" we have a lot of radio sessions scheduled and more 'house' gigs! It's been a fun and rather jam-packed year. Here is the banner for the new single, you can click on it to preview/listen to it (It's a cover of the Eric Bazillian track "One of Us":
Copy this code to your website to display this banner!
I'm looking forward to this coming month of October because we're releasing in 9 countries in Scandanavia and the Baltic States, so, it's furry coats and insulated boots for a wee while! And well, that pretty much catches you up with my year so far!.....
:) x indiana gregg
It's been a pretty busy year. We were busy finishing up the album and edits for videos and tv commercials in January and February. In March, we went on tour with Lemar throughout the UK and in June, we released the first single "Sweet Things" from the album "Woman At Work". I got married right in the middle of the tour (we had a day off in between the Glasgow gig at the Clyde auditorium, so, we drove to Gretna Green with all of our friends and family and got married there!!...was a really amazing day ... basically perfect. I think it's probably one of the only days in my life that went 'smoothly'...)
At the end of April through August, we were again all over the UK playing gigs in people's living rooms and doing regional radio sessions (and we're still doing that at the moment.) It was a great summer and we played quite a few festivals rain or shine!! (And, since I live in Scotland, it was a lot of rain!)
In the meanwhile, we've had all the extra work as well since we are an independent label. I'm not sure if very people realise that our record label basically consists of me, my husband, a guy called graham and a guy called Phil. Between us, we've done a load of work. Over this past year, I had been working with a web designer to build a new and very innovative music community which I'll tell you about in my future blogs. My husband has been working on the inventory side of it as well. So, not only have we been touring and releasing records and playing sessions, and recording songs and videos, we've been designing a kind of 'monster' which, I can't wait to tell all my musician friends and bands all about... (don't worry, non-musicians will be allowed to network there too... but, it's pretty cool!)
If you are reading this and want to join me on myspace, you'll probably find out more about this new community there via my bulletins and things (I also send out a 'word of the day' which is usually some ridiculously long and funny or awkward word that I or one of my friends chose for the day...)...
Anyway, Now, (September) with the release of the second single "One Of Us" we have a lot of radio sessions scheduled and more 'house' gigs! It's been a fun and rather jam-packed year. Here is the banner for the new single, you can click on it to preview/listen to it (It's a cover of the Eric Bazillian track "One of Us":
Copy this code to your website to display this banner!
I'm looking forward to this coming month of October because we're releasing in 9 countries in Scandanavia and the Baltic States, so, it's furry coats and insulated boots for a wee while! And well, that pretty much catches you up with my year so far!.....
:) x indiana gregg
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
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