I visited the Utrecht edition of the Muzikantendag and like previous years it was veeery interesting, especially when you don’t have the stress of dropping demo’s and just enjoying the lectures. The opening by veteran Henk Westbroek was inspiring and funny, much more so that I had suspected. It’s obvious he’s very used to the [...]
Wow. Just wow. Never seen so many classic synths in one video: No Casios though or did I blink? I blinked. I saw a Casio. :D Like this? Buy me a drink!
I attended the EHPO Jongerendag, by Dutch blogger/music professional Niels Aalberts. The event was both intended as lecture on how to promote your band and also a launch event for his book Doorbraak. I got quite few good ideas from it and if anything it was entertaining at least to hear all the people struggling [...]
I spoke too soon in my previous post. I said: “This means the crazy situation arises that tickets for a festival like Lowlands held at the end of August 2011, might likely be sold out already before half December“. I got it wrong. When 45000 tickets went on sale today at 11:00, they were sold [...]
The current Dutch government is going to increase the VAT-tax rate (in Dutch: BTW) for performing arts in the Netherlands from 6 to 19%, starting 2011. As a result of this, there have been many protests. One of the more prominent protesters, concert organiser Mojo Concerts has been very vocal about opposing this. And for [...]
What happened after quit MySpace day.
It’s time to quit MySpace. Here’s reasons why and how to do it.
B-sting is at the Muzikantendag 2010 and gives a quick overview of what went on.
Excellent metaphor that compares the art world to the music industry and shoots holes in the ‘theft’-argument so frequently abused by copyright organisations.
A study quoted by TorrentFreak says the music industry is not declining, but growing. But is the TorrentFreak not exaggerating a little?
