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- From: hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)
- Newsgroups: aus.music
- Subject: Re: bloody record companies( was Re: Headless Chickens support Poppies!
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 10:16:16 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- stuarth@csis.dit.csiro.au (Stuart Hungerford) writes:
-
- > "research" on the Hummingbirds and concluded that indie or non-mainstream
- > bands are every bit as packaged, sanitised, and manipulated as mainstream
- > bands.
-
- Of course they are! There's money to be made from all walks of musical
- life, and the non-mainstream bands signed either directly to major
- labels or to smaller labels licencing to the majors are groomed for
- stardom almost as much as your Euphorias or your Melissas. Think of some
- of the current indie successes - the Clouds (Polydor) Underground Lovers
- (Polydor), Frente (Mushroom), Def FX (EMI), etc etc etc...
-
- Take the case of Def FX in particular; a band that, while ostensibly
- signed to an independant and releasing EPs through MDS, was all the
- while actually signed to EMI, who happily paid all recording and
- promotional costs while the band gained "indie cred" by not sharing
- record labels with Slim Dusty. The album then appears and all of a
- sudden in interviews Fiona Horne is happily announcing that since
- signing to EMI she's found that there IS artistic freedom at the
- majors...! :-)
-
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- (@) (@) | Anthony Horan
- UU | Melbourne Australia
- //////// | "Alas, poor kcirroY...
- hamster@werple.apana.org.au | I knew him backwards!"
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