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Been snapped with the Bay City Rollers on your iPhone? Got photographic proof of your promotions chief slaying the karaoke machine? Swimming the Bristol Channel for charity and want the industry to rally round? Tell us all about it. And we’ll tell everyone else. Send your out-of-hours snaps and stories to
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CREATING A STIR The Creative Industries event at the Royal Academy in London last
Monday was a star-studded affair, with the likes of PM David Cameron, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in attendance. There were also a few more rock and roll types who turned up – like the trio pictured here: Sex Pistol Paul Cook, The Who's Roger Daltrey and Outside Organisation man Alan Edwards.
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF
LEE MORRISON
Head of Sales & New Business, Believe Digital
WHAT THE WORLD WAS WAITING FOR Okay, so Universal digital kingpin Paul Smernicki's pic with gold
medallist Bradley Wiggins and, erm, gold vocalist Ian Brown was technically taken before the Olympics. But so what? Smernicki re- posted it on his Twitter last week, and who could blame him? You don't get much more legend in a single image than this.
First record you remember buying? Adam and the Ants - King of the Wild Frontier. I was a near child when this came out and saved my pocket money for weeks paying off the local electrical shop before I was allowed it...
Favourite artist meeting of your life so far? I know he works with us, and I know it sound crap, but James Vincent McMorrow, quite possibly one of the nicest guys in the industry.
Pic: Jeni Cook ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK August 6th, 2005
Virgin Retail has set up an online face-off with HMV by cueing its new digital service for launch just days ahead of its rival’s offering. Virgins marketing and e-commerce director Steve Kincaid says the clash will be a good thing: “it creates more noise and awareness about digital”…T-Mobile is helping to launch Robbie Williams sixth album by giving customers access to exclusive content, ringtones, wallpaper and logos…Woolworths has told the City that, while sales are down for the first half of the year, there are reasons for optimism following a store refurbishment programme…Independent label pioneer Iain McNay has reignited the 50-year recording copyright rule. He proposes the creation of a fund into which record companies can pay royalties for reissues to older artists who may have fallen on hard times…Crazy Frog is the highest new entry on the chart at number five – leagues ahead of competitors Alanis Morissette and Editors.
NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 06.08.05
MCFLY I’ll Be OK SUPERGRASS Road To Rouen I’ll Be OK by McFly is Single Of The Week. Still “heavily in debt to any number of Sixties beat groups”, they now seem less of a “Busted clone” than a “junior Oasis”. Album Of The Week goes to Road to Rouen by Supergrass, which
takes a breather from their usual “hi-octane pop romps”. The record sees a noticeably “relaxed, inventive atmosphere and maturity” that looks likely to cause a “positive shift” in their audience demographic.
SINGLES TOP 5 26.08.05 POS ARTIST
SINGLE 1 JAMES BLUNT 2 DANIEL POWTER You’re Beautiful Bad Day
3 2PAC FEAT. ELTON JOHN Ghetto Gospel 4 EMINEM
Ass Like That 5 MARIAH CAREY We Belong Together © Official Charts Company
ALBUMS TOP 5 26.08.05 POS ARTIST
ALBUM 1 JAMES BLUNT 2 COLDPLAY Back To Bedlam X&Y
3 FAITHLESS Forever Faithless – Greatest Hits 4 KAISER CHIEFS
Employment 5 CRAZY FROG Crazy Hits
Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard... Lucky Jim - You’re Lovely to me. This is on the Our Trouble End Tonight Album, released in 2004 I think on Skint Records. The record is amazing and I still listen to it on my train journeys to work...
© Official Charts Company
What's your favourite single/track of all time? That is the impossible question, there are far too many. Coming from a dance background there have been so many classics. If I really have to choose one it would be Donna Summer - I Feel Love, as a tribute to her and what she did for dance music. Still sounds fresh even to this day.
Which track would you like played at your funeral? I am not going to die, I am going to be frozen before that so I can come back later. Music I would have to ease me into freezing would probably be Blue Monday by New Order, definitely nothing sombre and downbeat.
Which song was (or would be) the 'first dance' at your wedding? Without a doubt James Vincent McMorrow's version of Higher Love, I actually had it planned for my wedding in August but postponed the big day until I am a millionaire...
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