Sarabeth Tucek works with Sonic Cathedral in the UK and she plays live in May throughout our fair land.

GYEO

We’ve always thought the secondary ticketing market is bollocks, a “legitimised” corporate version of ticket touting or more to the point the excessive exploitation of gig goers by a few techies and some sharp businessmen. The story has been featured in much of the media we consume and this whole conversation about applying parameters in which a gig ticket can be re-sold for is about fucking time! We all hope that this thing stands and becomes law in this land real soon.

The primary provider of the gig should through sensible evaluation of the demand be able to price a ticket for a gig correctly, rewarding loyalty and maintaining the respect of their core audience, namely the hardcore gig goers. Why should some fucker be able to buy to sell immediately with the sole objective of excessive profit outweighing the fair and moral way that tickets for gigs should be sold?

Of course every necessary stakeholder makes a profit so why should a new leech be able to make life more expensive for the man and woman in the street. The simple answer is they shouldn’t. YES we know how the stock exchange works but when it comes to our world and live music we should not allow this shit to happen.

Hopefully YOU WILL NOTE we don’t use any secondary ticketing provider feed to create our gig data, we only work with the primary ticketing provider as we won’t put any of our users into a bunch of c***s like ViaGogo, Seatwave etc…

Word.

GYEO

The night is FREE with a first come first served basis and a chance to model for the clothes brand should you have a face that fits as they are also on the hunt for new models for next seasons clothes.

The bands showcasing tonight: Orphan Boy, Boy Mandeville, Daytona Lights, Brilliant Mind & The Wild Mercury Sound.

Doors open at 7pm with free drinks until 8pm. Open to 3am. Go see.

GYEO

…and we like the sound of that venue in Leeds….and Bob who - collects glasses for bitter there. Hardcore Bob. Hardcore. Burgundy carpet too.

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Nice harmonies and an interesting use of a can of guiness as percussion too. King of Rome. We like…hope you do too.

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Check out ‘Dry River’ too………and the dream live line up don’t sound too bad either - ‘Cash and Hendrix’ on the same bill. Nice.

GYEO

King Blues talk ’squat’ gigs, tell some porkies and chat about bands that are ‘off the radar’….EXCELLENT!!

Off the radar = Lets assume everyone reads the NME and listens to Radio 1 eh? NOT.

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So just a quick heads up to let those interested know that our band interviews and a few ’spur of the moment’ performances will be uploaded to our You Tube channel over the next two weeks or so.

One of the reasons for a slight delay is that we’re off to Standon Calling Festival this weekend so all in all we shoudl have another 30+ band and artist interviews to go up very soon, stay tuned as they say!

GYEO

…anyways no doubt a hotbed of white rap talent yet another gem is hitting that video jukebox we call YouTube.

Check it.

WORD TO YO MOTHER.

GYEO

…their ‘hmv digital’ music proposition is re-vamped and without DRM, it talks to iTunes and Windows players and apparently will be supported more keenly by lots of labels too. The new shop which has a 7 digital backbone (HMV own some of 7 digital anyway) should be slicker, better and hopefully a rival to iTunes.

As punters we have no problem with iTunes it works wonderfully but we are cute enough to see that one dominant e-tailer isn’t great for new music - and so the more established music/entertainment brands that can match the level of service & usability that Apple offer is a surely a good thing? If they can eat some of the massive market share enjoyed by iTunes in the UK it should get really interesting.

The difference we see is that HMV have fingers in very useful pies when you’re looking at ‘nailing’ the music consumer not just online but at gig with their MAMA Group venues and on the high street too. Talk of exclusive content is also interesting too and HMV should be able to offer something really tangible and attractive to real music lovers like you very shortly.

GYEO