Does Snoopy get Paid?
20.08.09
In this weeks online poll we're asking Do you think it is fair that a business must pay royalties to have the right to play music?
The NZ Herald has run three stories this week concerned with the License Fees some businesses are required to pay so they have the right to play music in their place of business.
Do you think it fair that they have to pay for this right?
From the Herald:
Gyms fight to keep music playing
Music royalty review has cafes and bars fearing big bills
Investigator tunes in to make music-players pay
Have you say in our poll (found on the homepage)
Meanwhile as we near September has anyone heard Snoopy's Christmas in a mall or store yet?
Release Of The Day
Hannah Curwood - The Blind Love EP
Hannah packed her suitcase, packed Tom Healy as well and drove down the entire length of NZ. With a car full of musical instruments and musical ideas she was driving back to Dunedin to meet her friend for three days of recording for The Blind Love EP.
Hannah's friends and collaborators met her at Dale Cotton's recording studio (Audioworkshop), idyllically situated in the most sublime and beautiful of locations; St. Leonards in Dunedin. Hannah and Tom were joined by Darren Stedman on drums and enjoyed the recorded performances of Graeme Downes, Dale Cotton and the wonderful girls from Dunedin sensation, Haunted Love, Rainy McMaster and Geva Downey.
The Blind Love EP unfolds and unfurls like smoke. Delicately but deliberately, the songs were given space to have lives of their own; they developed and grew organically in the studio. Curwood's sensual, eerie and ethereal voice nestles comfortably amongst lush, layered backing vocals.
Graceful, poetic and poignant songwriting is complimented by fiercely melodic guitar, piano, glockenspiel and an enigmatic musical saw.
Have a great day.
Ed
