Meteor Awards

PaulBrewer

I still think the whole thing is a load of arse - but Best of Luck !

fitz

Thanks for the kind words Paul.

old gregg

PaulBrewer wrote: »

I still think the whole thing is a load of arse - but Best of Luck !

Paul needs to go home, put on some Janis Ian and soak in a nice warm, fragrant bubble bath to help bring back some of that lost emotional sensitivity

PaulBrewer

old gregg wrote: »

Paul needs to go home, put on some Janis Ian and soak in a nice warm, fragrant bubble bath to help bring back some of that lost emotional sensitivity

It's arse no matter how much Radox is in the bath !


However I do, of course, acknowledge that others are welcome to differing views .

old gregg

PaulBrewer wrote: »

It's arse no matter how much Radox is in the bath !

ZV Yoda

Hey Fitz... don't mind Victor "Brewer" Meldrew... for me, "Spinning Top" was the best single (and video) by an Irish newcomer, so it gets my vote. Also, one of the hest Oxegen gigs of 2009, so Susis Soho gets my vote. Who needs awards anyway?

fitz

No-one needs 'em, but that doesn't mean it ain't nice to get one, or be put forward for one.

PaulBrewer

ZV Yoda wrote: »

Who needs awards anyway?

That's my point exactly !

woodsdenis

fitz wrote: »

No-one needs 'em, but that doesn't mean it ain't nice to get one, or be put forward for one.

Well done and best of luck.

Rockshamrover

Congrats Fitz, that must have put a big smile on your face. Well done.

Anyone else we know (virtually) in the top ten?

It's actually top five per the Meteor site.

PaulBrewer

Brian Boyd says it so much better than I in today's Irish Times The Ticket ....

fitz

Made some good points about the industry, but made connections between those points that I don't think stand up.

Labels don't always run these awards or make up the entire selection/judging panel, nor do they necessarily have any connection with some of the nominees, so saying they're pushing the new artists for awards is just faulty logic. And an act not having an album finished prior to getting an award, particularly in a "new act" category, is largely irrelevant. They get nominated/win and award, with album recording sessions timetabled for the following month, an a release schedule planned out...why shouldn't the receive recognition ahead of someone who's also new but has their album done?

This isn't the problem with labels.
The problem with labels is that they have no idea about how to use the internet to make money. They're sticking to traditional revenue streams and see the internet only as a marketting tool on the positive side, or a cause of lost revenue due to file sharing, etc.

Been saying it for ages...if they labels had focused the last ten years on how to make money through web community building and connecting with people, instead of spending time, money and effort coming up with ways to stop file sharing, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in now.

Labels could be making money today out of providing digital distribution and marketing services to artists. Give the artists a platform and infrastructure to sell direct, and charge them for how many of the labels services they consume to do so. If they did something like this, they only have to built the service provision infrastructure once, then it's money for old rope. They've a solid revenue stream, and they've a platform that then automatically does their A&R for them, with successful acts being likely candidates for investment/signing.

This is just one idea of an approach they could have taken. I'm sure plenty of smarter people than me have better ideas. I think I'd look at the lack of inovation in these areas by the labels as a cause for their problems before I'd try to make a connection between their financial woes and their involvement with awards shows.

BumbleB

The girl singer in the band who won the most promising new act is a qualified sound engineer and a great singer.I have a friend who recorded a demo of her a few years ago.