A Year In Pop: 46

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another slowish week and the charts are starting to silt up a bit - labels holding fire on new releases in the run up to Christmas I guess. Some interest this week though: 1. Niche! 2. Has that Spice single not had a physical release yet or is it genuinely a huge flop - first time I can remember a Children In Need track going DOWN in charity week!

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In other news: huge apologies for the continuing non-appearance of the Pop Open. My home internet was down last night though I should of course have done it earlier. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Comments

Re: Brief Round-Up - Lahayna

[bigdave33.livejournal.com]

I posted this msg below as well but felt the need to do the same here about Lahayna.

I feel the need to interject here, I've seen these guys live recently in Shoreditch and thought they were amazing! The gig that Radio 1 plugged when they got in the charts. I did a bit of research on them and saw a few posts here on these guys. I think you're being a bit unfair though. I saw the you tube clip you were on about and yeah I agree thats a bit weak, but have you read up about them? They got in the charts without a record label!!! They went out on the streets with their mp3 players after registering their tracks and people downloaded the tracks! How many bands would put that kind of effort in, certainly not a lot of the ones I know! Fair play to them I say and good luck! p.s they do have a new video up now if you search on you tube, again its not gonna blow you away but what do you expect form a hard working band on a budget. I think the labels should sit up and take notice. :P