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- <b><font size=6>T</font>he gung-ho approach </b></font></font>
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- <b><font size=5>'T</font></b>he music industry was one of the first in 1995 to say en
- masse that we needed to get on the Internet,' explains
- Nicolson. 'It was driven by the artists
- rather than the accountants and it became a very fashionable
- thing to do in 1995. However, people then discovered that
- an Internet site was a lot of work.
- You had to give people a reason to come back and there was
- a sudden realisation that, having spent lots to set it up,
- it would cost even more to maintain.
- In the middle of 1995, the music industry interest levelled
- off and a lot of the gung-ho went out of the process.'
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- <font color="#aaoooo">Dodgy's Christmas party - <br>
- the grand-daddy of them all</td>
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- <b><font size=5>T</font></b>hat interest was revived in the latter part of 1996. Concerts
- broadcast over the Net last year ranged from the <a href="http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~jubbo/index.htm">Phoenix</a>
- Festival to <a href="http://www.oasisinet.com/">Oasis</a> at Loch Lomond. In
- December, the biggest of them all,
- <a href="http://www.dodgy.co.uk/">Dodgy's</a> Christmas Party,
- extended beyond the physical boundaries of London's Brixton
- Academy to 30 Internet cafΘs
- throughout the UK and any other surfers who tuned in.
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- <b><font size=5>'W</font></b>e'd looked at the existing Webcasts, which had been successful
- up to a point,' says Sam King of Net design company Palace
- of Vision, which set up the
- Dodgy Xmas Nets Up event. 'But there had been no event
- yet which showed the difference between the Internet and
- radio. We wanted to move the
- concept of Internet broadcasting to the next level.' The
- site was created with a message port and video, and the
- Brixton party became an interactive online
- event.
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- <b><font size=5>T</font></b>he move to improve content on sites is triggering the
- biggest change so far. 'Events such as this represent
- the way the Net is heading. It's no longer
- acceptable just to put up pages with a few links and hope
- that someone comes - you've got to have function and content,'
- says King.
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- <b><font size=5>F</font></b>ew sites are truly commercial. Most are used for relationship
- marketing and the commercial benefits appear elsewhere.
- 'Bands' sites will continue to
- develop the relationship with fans rather than offer their
- latest music,' says King. 'By this time next year you will
- be able to buy any kind of music direct to
- your home. Record companies want it to be like CD but it isn't
- - it will be a parallel medium where people choose to buy
- instead of rather than as well as.
- However, until the Internet can deliver CD quality, no-one
- will pay a penny and it will have to be used as a marketing
- tool.'
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