| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
nekokate
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Location: West Yorkshire, UK
|
 Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
|
|
| This is obscene! I'm so angry, yet so unsurprised. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Sheffman
Joined: 05 Feb 2007
Location: Sheffield via London
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| faceless wrote: | | Quote: | | The BBC, in their infinite rubberiness, have decided to ban it, fearing that its antiwar message will offend the government. |
What the hell? That's really saying something about how the BBC work. Are they going to ban all other satire as well? |
I had a dream last night that we were living under the rule of Mao Tse Dung, ... do you think my dream is coming true !!??
... I just hope GG slams into the BBC on his show tonight. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
til661
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Just when you think the beeb can't stoop any lower, they do this. Moral cowardice of the highest order. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Salim201
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
|
| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| he's going to speak to parliament about this, does anyone know when this will be? Someone ask him on the show tonight...! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
faceless
admin
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| so the official outcome is that the song got to number 21 - "somebody's out to get us" is the comment from Galloway about it... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Comsatangel
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| I worked in music retail in the 80s in a chart return store (i.e. one of the shops where the sales volumes would directly influence the following week's chart placings) and you wouldn't believe the corruption that went on. Record companies despatching minions to buy multiple copies of certain singles, freebies, bribes, backhanders, you name it. I doubt any chart in the last 20 years accurately reflects the tastes of the public. I think it's much fairer now that downloads are included. Perhaps the BBC ban will do for "War" what it did for Frankie Goes To Hollywood (who also did a cover of "War" as I seem to remember. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Brown Sauce
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Ya never know, maybe someone will do a cover of Independence Day  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
faceless
admin
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
I just read somewhere that Ugly Rumours have achieved the record for the highest position ever achieved in a first week appearance in the charts by an unsigned band on downloads.
Hardly earth-shattering, but you'd think it would have been reported further... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Karl
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
Location: Tottenham
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| i had a look at todays top 75 and cannot find it anywhere does anyone know what happened? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Comsatangel
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Looks like it's dropped out, or been pushed. Shame. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Mandy
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
Unsure what happened this week .. but have you seen yesterday's report on
http://www.georgegalloway.com/
Chart cheat
Our 'stop the war' single, War, was actually a Top 20 entrant last Sunday - but due to an accounting error by the download company it was denied that official placing.
Because of a software error 7 Digital, the company which handled the sales and reports figures to the Official Charts Company, failed to report over 2500 sales of the record. As a result last Sunday's chart show on Radio had War and Ugly Rumours at 21. In fact, had these sales been reported, the single would have debuted at Number 18!
To be fair to 7 Digital they immediately owned up to their mistake and wrote to Music Week and the OCC admitting their error. Click here to read the letter
http://www.georgegalloway.com/images/Ugly_Rumours_Letter_8th_March%202007.pdf
Thanks to everyone who bought the record and made it a huge hit.
There is now US interest in the single and it will shortly be released in the States, along with a new video. We may even re-title the band the Bushwhackers! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
