Friday, April 28, 2006
Once again I'm going to try updating more regularly
I imagine I'll fail again, but I'm going to try.
I have a CD + other information winging my way to me from a Dutch guy in a band. As Martin suggested in his comment the other day it is proving quite hard to find decent Dutch bands. My approach so far has been mainly internet based. When I used to try this kind of thing looking for bands to gig swap with in other towns in the UK it was really easy. On the other hand, I can read the English equivalents of Josaka in other towns, because they aren't in Dutch. Hmm.
Trawling MySpace for Dutch bands is a bit of a thankless task. When I find one that sounds good it turns out they are signed, quite big and touring. There was some small controversy on Berkshire Live recently after Linda from BBC Berkshire posted the link to Colin Murray's comments on unsigned bands. I thought a lot of what he said was very true, and some was lighthearted (it's definitely worth listening to the full audio version of the interview). Amongst his comments was "There's no such thing as an unsigned band who are brilliant - the brilliant ones get signed." There's definitely some truth in that in the UK (although some brilliant bands aren't signed, yet) but in The Netherlands it seems that there's no such thing as a decent unsigned band, all the decent ones are signed.
Don't worry though, when I find one I'll be telling you they are the best thing ever!
And now it's bank holiday weekend so probably no update until Tuesday. Already I have failed my new resolution.
I have a CD + other information winging my way to me from a Dutch guy in a band. As Martin suggested in his comment the other day it is proving quite hard to find decent Dutch bands. My approach so far has been mainly internet based. When I used to try this kind of thing looking for bands to gig swap with in other towns in the UK it was really easy. On the other hand, I can read the English equivalents of Josaka in other towns, because they aren't in Dutch. Hmm.
Trawling MySpace for Dutch bands is a bit of a thankless task. When I find one that sounds good it turns out they are signed, quite big and touring. There was some small controversy on Berkshire Live recently after Linda from BBC Berkshire posted the link to Colin Murray's comments on unsigned bands. I thought a lot of what he said was very true, and some was lighthearted (it's definitely worth listening to the full audio version of the interview). Amongst his comments was "There's no such thing as an unsigned band who are brilliant - the brilliant ones get signed." There's definitely some truth in that in the UK (although some brilliant bands aren't signed, yet) but in The Netherlands it seems that there's no such thing as a decent unsigned band, all the decent ones are signed.
Don't worry though, when I find one I'll be telling you they are the best thing ever!
And now it's bank holiday weekend so probably no update until Tuesday. Already I have failed my new resolution.
# posted by Mike @ 11:03 
