Interview: Electric Soft Parade get home-grown
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- Interview: Electric Soft Parade get home-grown
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Interview: Electric Soft Parade get home-grown
Soundgenerator.com – Jul 20, 2007
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Jul 20 2007 10:14 BST
Interview: Electric Soft Parade get home-grown
“We can record for nothing, we can tour for nothing, make a video for nothing, but STILL play on that stage next to a band spending £500,000 on an album campaign, which is hilarious to me. ”
By: News Desk
15 floors above the streets, looking out over Central London, Sound Generator had a chat with Alex White of Brighton’s Electric Soft Parade. The perils of major labels, the freedom of beloved Truck records and stories from his most recent tour with Brakes came up over a pleasant cup of coffee. Well, you’ve been busy, between Electric Soft Parade and Brakes, how have things been going?
We’ve been all over, been to Glastonbury, been to America, just basically touring for three years straight. We’ve been doing stuff as Brakes for a while now and it’s time to start getting the Electric Soft Parade machine rolling again, it’s been pretty good man!
Is it tough to make the change from Brakes to Electric Soft Parade?
It’s a lot easier than you’d think man… don’t seem to understand that when you spend that money it’s not yours to spend. You get to a point where you’ve got to sell half a million records just to get to zero so the label say ‘Right, that’s it, we’re dropping you’. So you’re enjoying the most home-grown spirit of your new stuff?
It’s good doing it ourselves, getting in the studio and taking good songs and just getting them down. we engineered the whole thing ourselves. We’ve got no money doing it this way, but we didn’t have much before. We were smart pretty early on; we got our advance when we first signed to BMG and just got a set up where we got a little bit of money every week, and we’ve been able to live on that for a few years, rather than do what bands do with it – put it up your nose and stuff like that. We bought a van, so now when do we do want to do something with truck BOSH – we can record for nothing, we can tour for nothing, make a video for nothing, but STILL play on that stage next to a band spending £500,000 on an album campaign, which is hilarious to me.
CM OFFCUTS: Home grown talent.
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SABC launches channel amid bias furore
Independent Online – Jul 20, 2007
But the launch comes as SABC, once the mouthpiece of the apartheid government, faces criticism about its editorial independence after it allegedly banned programmes and commentators critical of the ANC government. Some media commentators say SABC International risks promoting pro-government bias on a continent already struggling with limited media freedom. “In principle it’s important to have home-grown news organisations telling the African story. but Rome is burning at the SABC and they are expanding their empire at a time when they have serious editorial problems,” Jane Duncan, head of South Africa’s Freedom of Expression Institute, told Reuters. The SABC has ignited controversy by dropping documentaries about Mbeki, and several high-profile journalists quit after the broadcaster allegedly blacklisted political commentators critical of the president… but Rome is burning at the SABC and they are expanding their empire at a time when they have serious editorial problems,” Jane Duncan, head of South Africa’s Freedom of Expression Institute, told Reuters. The SABC has ignited controversy by dropping documentaries about Mbeki, and several high-profile journalists quit after the broadcaster allegedly blacklisted political commentators critical of the president. The SABC has denied such a blacklist exists and took out a full-page advertisements in Sunday newspapers last year to counter charges of government interference in editorial operations. The broadcaster says it wants to highlight stories of growth and progress in Africa and to promote the continent’s home-grown economic recovery programme, NEPAD. But many commentators say the SABC is too soft on African leaders, particularly South Africa’s own, and say it lacks the critical edge of independent competitor eTV.
Moreau Dashes French Hopes at Tour
ABC News – Jul 20, 2007
But that hope was dealt a serious setback in Thursday’s 11th stage, when Moreau was dropped behind by a pack that was speeding like a runaway train and led by stage winner Robert Hunter of South Africa. Overall leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark kept up with the pack and his advantage didn’t change against his main rivals except Moreau, who dropped to 14th place from sixth and whose deficit nearly doubled, to 6 minutes, 38 seconds. “I think he definitely lost his chance of winning the Tour today,” Rasmussen said of Moreau, almost gleeful over having one less challenger. Hunter became the first South African to win a stage at the Tour, winning Thursday’s sprint finish after the 113.
Gretzky’s LA stage different than Beckham’s – NHL
ESPN – Jul 20, 2007
The league he is joining isn’t anywhere close to the best in the world, but it also has a constituency that too often has been afforded little respect by the mainstream media. And now that Beckham has signed on, there have been the new wave of 3,248 columns and monologues about how the sport is too boring for Americans and why, if it’s so great, all these kids who have played it in the past three decades haven’t grow up to break down the box-office doors?After all these years, after fits and spurts, MLS still is fighting the same credibility battles. I also think part of the problem is it’s still in the battle for self-identity: Do you retrench, play up the home-grown talent even more, rather than leave the uninitiated among us trying to figure out how good that guy from Argentina really is?That’s where hockey has it all over MLS. Not only has the internationalization of the talent pool improved the sport, it has been pervasive and (mostly) accepted. As Gretzky starred in Los Angeles, he was playing with and against the best players in the world, from around the world. Now I’m going back to working on my latest screenplay. “Wraparound Like Gretzky.