[LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Tim,

> Richard - it seems like you aren't all that familiar with *the music 
> industry*?

I have that honour. At least with the marketing. Am a dab hand with sound,
but that's another story, in a younger Richard whose hearing was still good
for something. 

"HOW'S THAT"
"YEAH MAN SOUNDS OKAY CAN WE HAVE A BIT MORE DRUMS ON THE LEFT"
"DON'T STOP UNTIL THE EARS BLEED"

I think the word is "tinnitis"...

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim O'Leary [mailto:oleary at alphalink.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:26
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: RE: [LINK] SMH: Radiohead and JJJ
> 
> 
> At 11:01 AM Thursday 4/3/03 +1000, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> >Interesting. If JJJ pays the normal royalty for playing a 
> song, I can't see
> >that it's broken copyright (although of course the pirate 
> who hosted the
> >site had done so).
> >What JJJ has done is stuffed up someone's marketing plan - 
> but that's not
> >illegal is it?
> 
> 
> I'd suggest that JJJ with its taxpayer funded national reach and yoof 
> demograf has just hugely assisted EMI's marketing plan or RADIOHEAD's 
> negotiations with EMI - or even more likely - both!
> 
> Richard - it seems like you aren't all that familiar with *the music 
> industry*? Check out launch / release dates below and tell me 
> it doesn't 
> fit in with a well orchestrated campaign for *street cred* 
> and considered 
> building a *vibe* about new album from a multimillion $ selling (now) 
> establishment group and multinational media industry group EMI.
> 
> 
> ==============
> From: http://www.ateaseweb.com/news/index.php
> 
> Radiohead announce LP6 tracklisting & title [24-03-03]
>   Radiohead will release their sixth album  'Hail To The Thief' on 
> Parlophone on June 9. This will be preceded by the single 
> 'There There' on 
> May 26. 'Hail To The Thief' features 14 tracks and was recorded in 
> Oxfordshire and Los Angeles. It was produced by Nigel Godrich and 
> Radiohead, and mixed by Nigel Godrich.
> 
> ===================
> 
> EMI on Triple J's album airplay [02-04-03]
>   From: http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/20030401_radiohead.html
> 
> Songs from the upcoming Radiohead album 'Hail To The Thief' 
> leaked from the 
> net yesterday and were splattered across radio in Australia 
> by Triple J.
> The leak took EMI by surprise. Director of Promotions Malcolm 
> Hill told 
> Undercover News "It is not something we had anything to do 
> with. It hasn't 
> come from the band or the record company. It is theft. It 
> must have been 
> stolen".
> 
> The entire album leaked online over the weekend.
> 
> Arnold Frolows, music director of Triple J says he phoned EMI before 
> playing the record. "First thing I did was phone the record 
> company and 
> there was enthusiasm to play it" he tells Undercover. "The 
> last time we did 
> this was with the new Nirvana single. Something popped up and 
> we played it 
> right away. We expected to hear from the record company but 
> they ignored it".
> 
> Even Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood is making also comments. "I 
> read Johnny 
> Greenwood from the band saying he was flattered people liked 
> it but that 
> this was too early" Hill says.
> 
> Downloading of songs from the internet and broadcasting them 
> is a breach of 
> copyright and both parties agree. "It is against the 
> broadcasting act PPCA" 
> says Hill. "It has a 'cease and desist' on it now because 
> they have the 
> copyright" says Frolows. "It is a fine line between finding 
> something and 
> playing it. There is an argument that playing it once is 
> letting people 
> know what it is like but it is theft. I suggested we would play a few 
> tracks and be done with it. It certainly wasn't a bad bit of PR".
> 
> Frolows says they won't be playing it again until it is 
> released. Hill says 
> EMI won't be taking any action against Triple J but agrees if the 
> commercial stations now follow suit it will be a major problem.
> 
> As to where the leak came from in the first place Frolows 
> says "it would 
> have to be pretty close to the band. I can't imagine the 
> record company 
> doing it. It doesn't help them at all. But we don't know what 
> is going on 
> between Radiohead and EMI."
> 
> As for listener reaction Frolows says there really hasn't 
> been any. "We 
> didn't pursue it far enough" he says. "There wasn't major 
> reaction. If we 
> kept playing it overnight and again today we would start 
> getting requests".
> 
> And his personal evaluation of the album? "The album is 
> fantastic. It is 
> what we have been waiting for the last few years. This is the 
> album we 
> wanted the last two albums to be" he says
> 
> The album 'Hail To The Thief' will be released officially on 
> June 9. The 
> single 'There There' will be out late May.
> By Paul Cashmere
> 
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