Dark Villager on Deluxe FM tonight, edited version.

Dark Villager on Deluxe FM tonight, edited version.

15 Years of Deluxe FM

Hosted by Matthias Volta on Ems Vechte Welle radio ( Germany)

This special anniversary show will be aired on 24th November

It will feature one of my tracks ( The last Dawn I think ) and also a musical anniversary greeting for the show written by myself.

The show is normally broadcast on regional FM and also streamed online but as a one off treat it will also be broadcast on the following frequencies / times:

You may be able to pick it up with good weather in the uk, particularly on the shortwave so dig out your old radio and give it a go!

UK times: (on 24th November)

14:00 - 15:00 MW 1.593 khz
15:00 - 16:00 KW 6.085 khz (49m)
14:00 - 17:00 KW 6.005 khz (49m)
17:00 - 18:00 KW 3.955 khz (75m)
17:03 - 20:00 FM 95.2 / 95.6 mhz / 99.3 mhz

If you can't pick it up, don't panic! It will be streamed online 17:03 - 20:00 at:
http://www.emsvechtewelle.de/

Enjoy the show!

-Ant / DV

A You Tube Tale

A You Tube Tale

Oh dear oh dear, what a musical mess I made
I totally stuck a spanner in the digital works
How to confuse 4 parties at the same time when nothing was wrong in the first place
(sounds just like something I'd do......,oh wait, I just did)

This may be of use to know for anyone who releases music through any form of digital media management / royalty collection agency:

(so that you don't make a mess of it like I just did!)

Today, I noticed on my 'folk/instrumental' you tube page :  
Ant Nottingham You Tube Page
that 'Hereward the wake' had been marked as a copyright infringement and own by someone else.

Obviously I was a bit annoyed at this as I wrote , played and filmed everything myself so I filed a dispute.

A bit later I logged into my pop / electronic you tube page :  
Dark Villager - You Tube Page
and to my horror noticed that over 20 of my original videos there were also under dispute of ownership / copyright. 

I was not pleased! I was livid! I was distraught ! ( ok exageration, I was mildly annoyed )

Apart from 'pride' and honesty of having made 100% of all the disputed videos myself, It also meant that any ( very little ) revenue generated from video plays (literally a few pence a month , but still it's mine! ) would not go to me but to you tube or to the claimant.

So I got to work filing 20 more claims to get ownership of my own work back!

I then wrote to the two companies that were making claim on them (cdbaby and rumblefish)  and asked them to give me my videos back!

With Cdbaby I could understand how there could be a link as I release through them, but rumblefish meant little to me so was confused by that one....

Basically I assumed someone had detected the track / video with the same name /title as ones owned by me and released through them but had not realised I was one and the same person as the one uploading on the YouTube channel ( or the computer system did not realise this)  , especially as I have 2 YouTube pages.

CDBaby wrote fairly swiftly back in their usual apologetic and humerous and helpful style.... and I went DOH!!!!!! PLONKER!!!! and bashed my head on the mouse several times. 

What had happened was this:

Basically, at some point, I had chosen to opt in (or not opt out of) having my youtube revenue (if any) collected through cdbaby, via rumblefish. They mark them as their ownership, and collect the revenue (if any) and pass it back to me. 

So I now have 20+ youtube videos marked for contesting ownership when there was nothing wrong! and of course youtube are impossible to contact and you can't withdraw a contension of rights claim!!

ak well, serves me right for not investigation further 1st and jumping to false conclusions.

I guess one of the following will happen:

a) nothing

b) youtube will follow up all my claims (unlikely) only to find out that there is nothing to contest and be very confused.

c) youtube will actually read my 'legal dept' email and cancel the claims (very unlikely!)

d) you tube will be annoyed at 20+ claims and close my account just for hasstling them and wasting their time (possible!)

e) you tube will give the rights back to me

f) you tube will write a nice reply and immediately sort it out (impossible)

g) rumblefish will get confused and send the police after me (joke, i hope)

h) I will get a massive surge in views as agents from 101 departments chase after the copyright thief

i) I get hit on the head by a piece of mouldy cheese

j) all my videos go viral and I get rich overnight and retire (yeah, sure space boy)

there, all sorted (maybe)

If you tube now confuse things further,  I'll post a continuation of the story here... hopefully it will all be fine!

Ant

continuation!...
a reply from You tube (in itself a miracle)
however they did not read my problem correctly and gave me how to proceed in solving a different problem to the one I asked about!
I guess that's nearest to situation b) !
I have replied and explained again....
tbc.....
 

Tragedy for the music world

Tragedy for the music world

Tragedy has struck the music world today. There has been dismay and utter disbelief at the headlines this morning.

 The music world is in total shock after discovering today that the kind is dead. Yes, Elvis has been found dead. I know it’s hard to believe;  a man at the peak of his career and physical fitness. His healthy diet and strict fitness regime kept him is perfect shape as he danced like wind over a desert across the stage.  The cause of death is as of yet unknown but police have released a statement saying there was a suspicious sausage protruding from his left ear.

What is even more unbelievable is that on this terrible day, his son was also found dead. Michael Jackson, the son of Elvis was found in his kitchen later this afternoon. It is believed that upon hearing the news of his father’s death, he shed a large tear and his face exploded.

The latest news is that this has now become a triple tragedy of terrible termoil. We have just heard that Elvis’s illegitimate love child, Jimmi Hendrix upon hearing the terrible news, just had a fit of rage on stage, spun his guitar around his head with such force that it chopped it off. Police are still searching for his head. It was last seen being carried away in the direction of the buffet.

James Cameron, British loser and leader called President Obama, leader of the world a few minutes ago. Cameron reportedly said ‘ Yo Obama my man, we finally dumped those spawn of Satan, we can now focus on taking over the galaxy whilst destroying humanity with no interruption’. Obama apparently replied, ‘not yet my arrogant idiot friend, that is just the tip of the iceberg, we still have Elton, Cliff and Paul to kill off…. Bwahahahahaha’. 

He is currently not available to make comment as he is still chuckling evil laughter around the pentagon, where he has almost completed his green laser xray death ray as started by Reagan and his wife, Maggie Thatcher in the 80’s.

Late news just in; Roy Orbison has just formed a gangster rap group. With his blood in the hood – Bob Dylan.  They are planning on fighting the oppression with depression.  16 people have already jumped out of their windows and they haven’t even made a track yet.  Madonna reacted to this by saying ‘ I think I’ll take ALL my clothes of in the next video, Granny power to the max’.  Nearby press blew chunks and several bits of Madonna melted.

Kraftwerk have boarded Thunderbird 2 and are on their way to the  batcave to prevent any further substandard films being made that  attempt to mash up marvel and dc comic heroes. They are armed with phasers made from tin foil and knitting needles. In a statement made to CNN they explained their plan saying ‘ist nacht van death bosh audi vw zat ist de master plan bmw clop sis ist nein van Beethoven!’ No one in Germany was able to translate.

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Duran Duran Olympics 2012

Controversial decision!

Duran Duran chosen as the band to headline and ‘open’ the 2012 Olympic games in London

Representing the England team and the opening concert co-indices with the opening of the games – Hyde park to mark the opening

 “Duran Duran are to head the line-up of a major Olympic Games opening concert - but their inclusion has prompted bemusement from some music fans.”

Novelist and broadcaster Tony Parsons wrote: "Duran Duran to headline Olympic gig. Who is running the 1500 metres - Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett?"

One (fan) wrote: "Duran Duran to headline Olympics gig? Which Olympics - 1982?" Another said: "Duran Duran to headline the Olympic gig and a manager whose last title was in 1988 gets the England job. What next? Leg warmers & Rubik’s cubes?"

above quotes taken from msn. link HERE

Calvin Harris will be replacing Duran Duran’s appearence at the uk V music festival

Some Twitter / Msn comments:

Who says the Olympics is solely for the young? You'll find the reason Duran Duran have been chosen is because they span all ages. 

I was at Manchester Arena last December on their UK leg of the recent tour and the audience age was a mixture of young and old. They are a band that everyone can listen to and sing along to, I couldn't even tell you a One Direction song let alone sing one!

Instead of all this petty minded poll nonsense, why doesn't the British press and media get behind the band or just put up and shut up.

So my opinion?

Go for it Duran Duran!

Their fan base is massive; they represent both the current and the older generations. Their music never dates. They are English

The bands chosen to represent Scotland, Irelend and Wales are pretty good choices too. Not recently formed teeny bop bands. If we use One Direction as some people seem to suggest we should have done (msn you nutters) that would mean Ireland should have JEDWARD!!!

Yes, I could think of plenty of other bands that could have been chosen instead but can’t think of any band that stands out as any more obvious or relevant than Duran Duran. 

Some of the other suggestions people have made are equally if not more obscure. You can’t base a choice on your own likes and dislikes. The choice was made as a representative of a country, not a Genre or individuals opinion. They are still a massive touring band and are still producing great albums which still sell in the top end of the charts. 

Saying they have only had 2 top 10 hits in the last 20 years doesn’t mean anything. The music singles chart died out years ago.. hmm let me see… YES about 20 years ago, what a surprise!!!! No one cares about singles charts anymore, it’s about videos, live performances, tours, merchandise and albums. All of which the Duran’s are still doing at the highest level. 

They get my vote.

I Can’t wait to see this concert, along with some other great bands, as well as the opening of the games itself.

Hopefully England will stand proud and not fall flat on its face tit’s up like an inflatable banana with a leak

One final comment – please let’s hope no one does anything stupid and responds physically to the Argentinian athletes because of their governments’ insanely stupid Olympic Games promotional TV advert. It is what they are hoping we will do as it will give them a reason to retaliate, if anyone so much as sneezes on an Argie they will jump on it. 

The video can be viewed on you tube HERE

Be nice to them, get them drunk and leave them choke on their own vomit. Job done.

101 Things I hate!

101 things that annoy the dark villager

No.1

 

Corny headlines involving music

‘So and so HITS THE RIGHT NOTE’

AGAIN

And AGAIN

And AGAIN

In every newspaper

In every magazine

In the Cambs times, in the Peterborough Telegraph

In the Whittlesey magazine

In the church times newsletter

In the school bulletin

Every time there is anything or anyone doing anything good involving music it 100% starts ‘so and so HITS THE RIGHT NOTE’

ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

It’s corny, please stop!!!!

It’s not clever and it’s not funny

It’s a phrase based on a very weak musical analogy that should be used rarely and in its right place in situations NOT directly musical i.e. like a simile like: it’s greener than grass sort of thing

You don’t say it’s greener than grass ABOUT GRASS!!!!!!!

PLEASE PLEASE STOP DOING IT!!!!!

On a lighter note: Joke of the day:

What do a Vacuum vleaner and an electric guitar have in common?

Both suck when you plug them in :-)