From: Sue Cavendish [suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 28 June 2009 00:07
Subject: NetRhythms - a Jacko free zone tonight

Hello Everyone - Welcome back to NetRhythms,

www.netrhythms.com

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In need of comfy seats and air-conditioning? Then this is for you:
The WITCHSEASON WEEKENDER, July 18 & 19 at the Barbican

A celebration of the Witchseason label and the man who did so much to support and promote the British folk-rock scene in the extraordinarily creative years of the late 1960s, Boston-born producer and label boss Joe Boyd and curated by Boyd himself.
Saturday 18 July 7.30pm - An All-star Fairport Convention Concert
A reunion of this folk-rock supergroup, to play the music from the first five - classic albums, including Liege And Lief. The line-up for the Barbican Concert will be combinations of Simon Nicol, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Iain Matthews, Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson - and an array of guest singers.
Sunday 19 July 7.30pm - Very Cellular Songs: The Music Of The Incredible String Band
The legendary duo of Mike Heron and Robin Williamson, who played more than 30 instruments between them, inspired a cult following in the late 1960s. For this special concert, Mike Heron will be joined by an array of guests including Clive Palmer, Richard Thompson, Danny Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Dr Strangely Strange, Alasdair Roberts, Trembling Bells and many more to be announced.
Concerts at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Box Office: 0845 120 7550
www.barbican.org.uk

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More wonderful music reviewed for you.
www.netrhythms.co.uk/reviews.html

The Latest Album Reviews - late JUNE 2009

Indigo Girls - Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (IG) Lemonheads - Varshons (Cooking Vinyl) Magnolia Summer - Lines From The Frame (Undertow) Leeroy Stagger - Everything is Real (Blue Rose) Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire (Zedtone) Tommy Sands - Let The Circle Be Wide (Appleseed) Mamer - The Eagle (Real World Records) Thea Gilmore - Recorded Delivery (Fullfill) Lorelei Loveridge - Bakhoor (Orderly Bazaar) Melissa McClelland - Victoria Day (Six Shooter) Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings (One Little Indian) Cass McCombs - Catacombs (Domino) Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin (Island) Howard Elliot Payne - Bright Light Ballads (Move City Records) Blind Blake and the Royal Victoria Hotel Calypsos - Bahamian Songs (Megaphone)
Gemma Garmeson - Stalking For Dummies (A to B) Katy Moffatt - Trilogy (Retroworld/Floating World) Greg Brown - Dream City (Red House Records) Jim Byrnes - My Walking Stick (Black Hen Music) Chuck Mead - Journeyman's Wager (Continental Song City) Edward Mikalski - Gypsies And Lullabies (Own Label) Jessica Clemons - Permanent (Johnny Boy Records) Various Artists - Shivering Sands & Scavenging Birds: Songs & Tunes From The Leigh Folk Festival 2009 (Thames Delta Recording Company) Rachel Hair - The Lucky Smile (March Hair Records) Sam Shinazzi - Then I Held My Breath (Black Lodge Audio) LightGarden - Travelling Light (LightGarden) Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller - In A Bleeze (Greentrax) Will Duke - Out Of The Box (Country Branch) Rick Hayward - Rick Hayward (Sunbeam) The McCalmans - Live: Coming Home (Greentrax) Solas - For Love And Laughter (Compass) Archie Fisher - Windward Away (Greentrax) The Habibiyya - If Man But Knew (Sunbeam) Various Artists - A Celebration Of The Music Of Gordon Duncan (Greentrax) Beoga - The Incident (Compass) 3 Daft Monkeys - Social Vertigo (Own Label) The Bittersweets - Goodnight, San Francisco (Compass) Alison Brown - The Company You Keep (Compass) Calum Stewart - Early Wood (Earlywood Music) Lee Harvey Osmond - A Quiet Evil (Latent Recordings) Kate Purcell - Independent Soul (Dream Records) Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City) Malinky - Flower And Iron (Greentrax) Sonny Landreth - Outward Bound / South of I-10 (SPV) Sean Taylor - Calcutta Grove (Own Label) Bearfoot - Doors And Windows (Compass) Tony McManus - The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions) (Greentrax) J.J. Light - Heya! (Sunbeam) String Driven - Songs From Another Country (Backshop Records) Celtic Fiddle Festival - Équinoxe (Loftus Music)
All reviews are linked to the artist or the label - and if we have tour dates for them you'll find them on our LISTINGS www.netrhythms.co.uk/listings.html
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Take care and have a wonderful week

Love, Sue
Sue Cavendish, Editor
www.netrhythms.com


PS. Reading CMU is one of life's highlights. Back in January CMU Daily explained the disruption of the global economy in easy to understand terms - see below. Thank you CMU. CMU Daily is a free daily e-bulletin for people working in the music industry and music media, delivered direct to your PC each morning. To receive it yourself email your name, company, job title and email to subscribe_at_cmudaily_dot_co_dot_uk
"GLOBAL RECESSION LINKED TO DAVID BOWIE
David Bowie has been accused of causing the current recession by being one of the first to adopt a means of borrowing known as 'securitisation'.
"Okay, stick with me here. As previously reported, back in 1997 Bowie realised that he was missing out on a whole load of money that was rightfully his - all the money he hadn't made yet. So, he came up with the idea of "Bowie Bonds", which saw the singer sell off the projected royalties from his first 25 albums for $55 million to the Prudential Insurance Company. So far, so good. Bowie has a big stack of cash, which he used to buy the publishing rights to his entire catalogue, and The Pru has a steady income from now until the end of time (or until sales of recorded music start to tail off, but that'll probably never happen, right?).
"So successful was the idea, that artists including James Brown and The Isley Brothers followed suit. As did banks. Although the banks weren't selling on future revenues from songs they recorded, they were selling on future revenues from mortgages, which is all well and good until large amounts of people start defaulting on those loans, leaving the new owners of the loans suddenly out of pocket in a big way. As we have now seen, this leads to what is now known as a credit crunch, where people realise all of that pretend money they bought isn't actually worth anything.
"So, if you're feeling the squeeze at the moment, you know who to blame. Bloody David Bowie. If it weren't for him, banks would be the ethical institutions we always knew them to be. They're just easily led astray, is all. Although, I should probably point out, it was a banker who originally suggested the bonds idea to Bowie."