Copyright – Some Developments

You know on the back of our last two CDs where it says that we waive the right to prevent you copying the data to your computer? That’s because it has always been illegal for you to do so – if you owned an Indelicates CD and lots of others and had copied the music to an mp3 player, all of the music on your mp3 player except ours was illegal. Well, finally today Vince Cable announced that the law will be changed – you should now feel free to copy your asinine, meaningless landfill of a record collection to your iPod without fear of legal sanction. He also announced that a parody exception will be introduced into copyright law – this means that songs like this:

from our groundbreaking, lauded and previously legally dubious Book of Job: The Musical are now legally justifiable.

(You should, incidentally BUY THE MUSICAL NOW)

There’s also good news about dropping some of the stupid site blocking stuff that had been planned and a general shift away from the uber-stupidity of last year. Of course, the rubbish Digital Economy Act with its threats of disconnection etc are still in place – and we are still subject to an industry that happily encourages and profits from young people taking drugs until they die while demanding cash from young people who share things they like with their friends – but hey, you can’t have everything (for some stupid reason).

read more:
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vince-cable-talks-copyright/
http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/files/2011/07/Consumer-Focus-Parody-briefing.pdf

I Am Koresh – Acoustic Live In A Cambridge Living Room

This is from the Super Special Edition in Cambridge – which you can buy – along with the rest of the gig – from its rightful rightsholders here:
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/Darren+Skates/The+Indelicates+Super+Special+Live+Cambridge/

If you fancy buying your own limited-edition-of-one, fully-rights-transferred acoustic special edition of Songs For Swinging Lovers with similarly unique bonus tracks which you too can sell on Corporate Records or even just place on a USB stick with heavy encryption so that no one else can hear it ever – you can do so in the bottom right of here:

http://corporaterecords.co.uk/Indelicates_Store/special.html

anwyay – David Koresh Superstar – get excited, yeah?

Digital Economy Act – The Past and Present State of Things

You should go read this from the Open Rights Group. It matters.

http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2011/spinners-and-scaremongers

FAN MEDIA – A CALL FOR MOAR Pr0nZ

I want to put a proper fan media section up there on the right and need awesome stuff to link to…

I have a few things, but if there’s anything else you’ve made, seen, want to make or caused to exist by an act of the will – PLEASE can you link it in the comments here.

THANX
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Danke Schön, Deutschland!

Writing backstage in Magdeburg waiting to go out and play our last show of the tour – wanted to say a big thank you to all of those who’ve put us on, paid us, bought our wares, come to shows or otherwise made this Hunteresque nightmare spiral into insanity bearable. It seems to have gone quite well, really –  so yay. Frohliche Weinachten zu alles.

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Hello Daddy, Hello Mom – We’re B-B-B-B-B-B-Back.

…but we’re very sleepy, we’ll start posting awesome DKS and special edition updates, corporate records epicness, photos, new video, pleas for pornography and more very shortly, but for now, I can’t form sentences but did just watch the runaways movie on a plane so here, watch Cherry Bomb while I sleep:

Night.

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Corporate Records Update – August 2010

As company directors, Julia and I deserve your goddamned respect goddamnit: so we assume that you will take these recommendations as they are intended – as orders – and immediately go and pay money to own these hot new slices of boss tuneage that have cropped up on Corporate Records recently.

Incidentally, if you’re in a band or are a singer/songwriter or a not-really-a-singer/songwriter or a guttural-wailer/songwriter or are a performance poet or a reader-out-of-odd-little-stories then we’ll be writing and promoting these roundups on a fairly regular basis – if you think we’d like what you’re doing, please use the site and send us the link somewhere (facebook/twitter/skywriting) and we’ll give it a listen.

So first up, released today is this Song Of The South tinged oddity from Laurence Owen from his six tracked ‘Yarnripper’ E.P.

If that (and indeed almost everything else) is a little too middle of the road for your taste - this offering from The Far Queue is awesome:

Wob has been producing fantastic impassioned anti-folk since long before anyone decided to dress it up in a floaty dress and brand it on the tube. There’s a whole back catalogue to explore on the site, but this – from 1996′s ‘Friends in the Night‘ EP and now reissued on Corporate Records – is as good a place to start as any:

Lastly – and belatedly, as we were too busy promoting ourselves to go on about her when she released it – if you haven’t bought Lily Rae’s album then you really really should because it’s fucking amazing:

Peace out kids. X.

Corporate Records Goes From Awesome To Awesome-r…

In case you didn’t know, when we released Songs For Swinging Lovers, we built a whole pay-what-you-like record company to do so and made it so that anyone else could release on it too. We’re not the only company offering this kind of service (to be needlessly honest) but we are the only ones who are doing it cool as fuck – so there. We’re not just about the online and the digital- like the Poltergeist who locked Sarah Greene in a cupboard in Ghostwatch, we are looking to move more into the physical realm soon and we have various plastic discs and books and novelties in the process of being imagined. In the meantime, Corporate Records is already packed full of some really special music. Here is some of it that you should listen to:

First, The Dirty North released their debut EP ‘Know What I Think‘ on 12/07/2010. They are genuinely, truly and without a hint of music industry hyperbole among the best bands we’ve ever seen live in this or any other country and this release is special. You should go and download it AT ONCE and FOR MONEY, because they could do with it and because the record is good enough. Then you should see them live and then you should download it again FOR MORE MONEY, because you will want to.

Next, you might have suspected from my previous over-excitement about the guest vocalists on the upcoming Indelicates Record ‘David Koresh Superstar’ that I love the work of David Devant and His Spirit Wife‘s frontman under any and all of his various names. It is very pleasing therefore that he’s decided to put his ‘Demonstration Songs‘ on the Corporate Site. From what I can gather, these are all works in progress and he’s intending to upload newer versions of the tracks as he works on them, which you can then download and compare – hopefully choosing at some point to pay him for them. Like everything Mikey does, the songs are ace and I’m skipping for joy at the novel way he’s using the site to sell them to you:

Rock Stone‘s Aug Stone can be seen playing an ill-advised Geisha in our upcoming (and utterly revolting) video for Europe, but when he’s not doing that, he does this and it is dead cosmic as I used to say when I was in primary school in the distant distant past.:

If Aug rocks too hard for you, Bedroomsound by the 10p Mixes released recently will make you feel better. It is adorably pretty, folky and bittersweet and everyone I know who is cool and has heard it says it’s amazing and so do I:

There is plenty more, much of which I haven’t gotten round to listening to myself yet, and it’s an increasing delight to click around the Artist section of the corporate site and find wonderful things to listen to. I’m going to be posting more updates like this, and we are putting together a Corporate Records podcast to play some tracks from the site and TALK AT YOU which we’ll have ready to go in the next few units of recorded time. Please: if you are amazing and want us to know, upload some music/spoken word/ambient ‘found’ audio and tell us about it on twitter or in the comments or with a skywriter above Lewes, East Sussex where we live and often look up.

Current mood: Delighted

Music: Good

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The Indelicates’ VERSIONS PROJECT IS ON!

The Indelicates VERSIONS PROJECT is in FULL SWING… SING ONE OF OUR SONGS RECORD IT
SEND IT TO US AND WE WILL PUT IT ON CORPORATE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.

Usually, the best Versions are those which play a song in a COMPLETELY different style to the original. Jerusalem as choir / Roses sung backwards / Be Afraid of Your Parents in the style of Jeff Wayne.

Send your finished Version to here: info at indelicates dot com.

COME SEE US IN CHESTER ON THURSDAY!

COME SEE US IN LONDON ON THE 8TH MAY!

GERMANS! WE WILL HAVE NEWS SOON!

And check out all the cool new music being uploaded and sold and downloaded free athttp://corporaterecords.co.uk