Hello again, big yawn filled stretch before I get going. Hope your weekend was alright and that you have a job you go to that doesn’t eat your soul – I maintain that loving (or at least liking) what you do is the key to a healthy life…so do your best. I’ve got a lot to fill you up on today but wordpress (the blog program that I write upon) has been having issues all evening so I might curtail the length of this and continue tomorrow if need be.

Make sure you voted in the Clash Cup – match 2 is a lot more one sided than I expected but you’ve still got time to vote. There is a new Facebook page for Clash fans…I’m an equal opportunity Clash fan – so take a look but make sure you join my page first! (we’re approaching 300 fans!). I wrote the other day about the play now touring the UK “Meeting Joe Strummer” and I’m excited to share with you that BBC Six Music have a scheduled interview with the men behind the play this week. I’m not yet certain that it will get a replay slot on the website so here is the link to the schedule and also the Six Music homepage with the built in online player (top right corner to listen live). It might help if I say when also eh?

BBC Six Music – “Meeting Joe Strummer” interview – Friday Feb 26th – 3pm GMT (10am EST, 8am EST). I’ll do my very best to remember and let you know what you missed if you miss it.

You probably heard that the newest Julien Temple project is going to be a film about The Kinks. What you may not have heard is

Hello again, big yawn filled stretch before I get going. Hope your weekend was alright and that you have a job you go to that doesn’t eat your soul – I maintain that loving (or at least liking) what you do is the key to a healthy life…so do your best. I’ve got a lot to fill you up on today but wordpress (the blog program that I write upon) has been having issues all evening so I might curtail the length of this and continue tomorrow if need be.

Make sure you voted in the Clash Cup – match 2 is a lot more one sided than I expected but you’ve still got time to vote. There is a new Facebook page for Clash fans…I’m an equal opportunity Clash fan – so take a look but make sure you join my page first! (we’re approaching 300 fans!). I wrote the other day about the play now touring the UK “Meeting Joe Strummer” and I’m excited to share with you that BBC Six Music have a scheduled interview with the men behind the play this week. I’m not yet certain that it will get a replay slot on the website so here is the link to the schedule and also the Six Music homepage with the built in online player (top right corner to listen live). It might help if I say when also eh?

BBC Six Music – “Meeting Joe Strummer” interview – Friday Feb 26th – 3pm GMT (10am EST, 8am EST). I’ll do my very best to remember and let you know what you missed if you miss it.

You probably heard that the newest Julien Temple project is going to be a film about The Kinks. What you may not have heard is that apparently Paul Weller is going to be a major contributor to the documentary. This should be interesting to follow as The Kinks along with The Who are arguably the two archetypal London bands that preceded the Clash. Who has followed the Clash in that guise I wonder, I’d almost suggest Blur but they made London home rather than being a London band.

I stumbled upon this fascinating story the other day from Wired.Com about a lawsuit in the making that could forever change the concept of music copyrights as we currently know them. In short if successful the filing could return all ownership of recorded music and the associated rights to the original writers after a period of 35 years has elapsed. The ‘guinea pig’ trial is about the biggest guinea pig you could ask for as the incredibly tedious and wealthy band The Eagles are apparently looking to win full rights to all of their pre-1976 recordings. If this happens the labels would lose all benefits from the artists and the bands or their heirs would be free to sell all future music directly. The potential for change is quite remarkable – I need to read a bit more to understand in full but the potential for all of The Clash back catalog to be wrestled away from CBS/Sony over the next decade is at least possible – and maybe even likely. Wouldn’t that be lovely?

OK – I’ll get that global traffic info worked on for later this week,  more of the Clash Cup, two excellent interviews to announce and I need to know who might be going to Austin next month for SXSW as I’m not likely to be able to make it.

Cheers ~ Tim