Articoli

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Catfish vs. pigeon

Concerts:

10cc

Afrob
Äl Jawala
Alexandar Stoyanov (2x) ²
Alias Caylon ¹
Alison Moyet
Anti-Flag
Arkells
Atsuko Matsuzaki ³

Bela B.
Billy Talent
blink-182
Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar
Bonnie Tyler

Captain Capa
Chico & The Gypsies
Christian Brüggemann (2x) ²
Christoph Eschenbach ¹
Crazy Noize ²

Daniel Karasek (2x) ²
De Freesen Trummler ²
Deep Purple
Dennis DeYoung ¹
Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
Die Ärzte (2x)
Die Fantastischen Vier (2x)
Die Warschauer Sinfoniker ¹
Div4s (2x)
DJ Replay ¹
Dj ROMAVILO ²
Donots (2x)

Electric band (4x) ¹
Elia Fabbian (2x) ²
Eri Ishiodori ³

Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fiddler's Green (2x)
Fine Fleur (4x) ¹

Georg Fritzsch (2x) ^[1]
Giacomo Puccini (2x)
Guildo Horn & Die Orthopädischen Strümpfe

Hans Zimmer
Harlem Gospel Choir ¹
Hawk Eyes
Herr Paschulke

Igudesman & Joo
Ike Turner & Lyrica Garrett
Il Novecento (4x)
I Muvrini

Jesus Garcia (2x) ¹
Jethro Tull
John Miles (3x)

Kaiser Chiefs
Kakkmaddafakka
Kim Wilde
Klaus Badelt
Kopek

LaBrassBanda (2x)
Laith Al-Deen
Lang Lang ¹
Leningrad Cowboys (2x)
Lions Of Nebraska
Loui Vetton

Mad Caddies
Mad Monks
Madrigalchor Kiel ¹
Marek Wojciechowski (2x) ²
Marko Gebbert & Band ²
Marteria
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
Mellow & Pyro
Mestizo Sound System ²
Mike Oldfield
Miriam Stockley
Mousse T.

NDR Sinfonieorchester
Nile Rodgers & CHIC
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

One Fine Day
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (2x)

Paul Carrack
Peter Schilling
Pickers
P.O.BOX
P.P. Michiels ¹
PUR

Raffaella Angeletti (2x) ¹
Rainer Michael Munz ³
Rantanplan
Rie Goji ³
Rise Against
Robin Gibb
Roby Lakatos
Royal Republic (3x)

Salamanda ¹
Seal
Skankshot
Slaw Koroliuk (2x) ²
Soulsister
Stanfour
Striving Vines ¹
Sunrise Avenue
Superscar ¹

Tears for Fears
Tequila & The Sunrise Gang (6x)
The Cure
The Dubliners
The Floor Is made Of Lava
The Gaslight Anthem
The Kooks
The Prosecution
The Stone Roses
The Subways
The xx
Three Chord Society
Tomohiro Takada ³
Tony Henry
Transfer
Tribes
Turbowolf (2x)

United Four (5x) ¹

Warm Tape ¹
Wisecräcker
W:O:A Firefighters ¹

Yahiko Nishiura ³
Yamato
Yoonki Baek (2x) ²
Yuko Umino ³

Zebrahead
Zico

Musicals, Operas, Festivals etc.:

Aida Night of the Proms 2011
Cabaret
Die Dreigroschenoper
Hurricane Festival 2012
Kieler Woche 1998 - 2011
Lord of the Dance
Michael Flatley's Feet Of Flames
Nokia Night of the Proms 2006, 2007 & 2008
Riverdance
Tosca (2x)
Viva Con Ska Punk! 2012
West Side Story

Remarks:
¹ No scobbles by me.
² No tracks on the artists page, includes ^1
3 No artist page, includes ¹ and ²


Revision 2013-05-20

To be continued....

20 Jan 2012 - Yesterday I found myself as a top listener of DJ Lerby – Redemption. I wonder how many artists and tracks will see me as a top listener. So I'm making a list:

Artist
A.K.A. Lurholm
Boxing Fox
Contratempo
Cumshot
DJ Lerby
Kaso Perdido
Kvantor Trekk
Lions Of Nebraska
La Raíz
Made of Koncentrate
Piper Davis
Ratatouille
Spithead
Tequila & The Sunrise Gang
Tony Bravo
WestBam & The Love Committee

Track
Armin van Buuren – Never Say Never (Myon And Shane 54 Remix Ft. Jacqueline Govaert)
ATB – Behind (Edxs Ibiza Sunrise Radio Mix) (Pres. Flanders)
beatsquad – Hospital
Big Country – Over The Border
Blu Cantrell – Hit Em Up
Depeche Mode – Only When I Lose Myself (Did I Need To Sell My Soul For This Mix)
DJ Avi Levi – Like A Prayer (New Age Dance RMX Vs. Madonna)
DJ Lerby – Redemption
Gary D. - (Easy) Just Move Some (Club Mix) (Ft. 2000: Canarias)
Jacob Groth – Forgiveness (Ft. Misen)
Lord Humungus – View to a Kill (Zorin Max mix)
Marxman – Ship Ahoy (Acoustic Mix ft. Sinéad O'Connor)
Shakira – Hips Don't Lie (Pt. 1) (Ft. Wyclef Jean)
Tony Bravo – Do You Feel The Same Way (Club Mix ft. Treib-House)
Vespa - Tadzio
WestBam & The Love Committee – Love Is Everywhere

Remarks:
I know, that I'm probably a top listener only for a short period of time.

To be continued...


Edition 2013-05-16

Thu 6 Sep – Blood Brothers

This was a secret gig by The Mission under their Blood Brothers pseudonym.As the show this night was by one of my favourite live bands at one of my favourite small venues,with the whole show to themselves and no support act, then it would've been hard for it not to have been a fantastic evening-and it was a fantastic evening.
There were a few new tracks in amongst the better known material and Sacrilege,Tower Of Strength and Kingdom Come were some of the highlights of the evening for me.As I wasn't able to see them withThe Cult this year AND I had to sacrifice seeing then at Download in order to catchMetallica,seeing them here has made my year!

Peter Steele
Another soul the world misses that left us too soon..



Birth name Peter Thomas Ratajczyk
Also known as Peter Steele; Pete Steele; Lord Petrus Steele
Born January 4, 1962
Origin Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died April 14, 2010 (aged 48)
Genres Gothic metal, doom metal, thrash metal
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards
Years active 1979–2010
Labels Roadrunner, SPV America
Associated acts Type O Negative, Carnivore, Fallout
Website typeonegative.net

“I’ve always been a very depressed person, but that’s only one side of me, you know. It makes me feel better when I can express my depression, my anger, my frustration through music...sonic therapy.”

In April 2007, Steele revealed that he began identifying himself as Roman Catholic in recent years, after decades of self-professed atheism.[11] In an interview with Decibel magazine, Steele explained:

“There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what’s after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it’s a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can’t believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.”

Death

Peter Steele died of heart failure on April 14, 2010 at the age of 48.

Prior to his death, Steele had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music.[59] His wake was held at Byrnes Funeral Home in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, and he is buried at Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island. On November 21, 2011, an oak tree was planted in Prospect Park to commemorate Steele.

There seems to be some confusion, as to which webcast radio, music hosting and on demand radio services are actually legal on the web. Many listeners may not realize, these services must ascribe to specific broadcast and performance licenses. Much of these licenses require individual aquisitions of said licenses for each and every country on Earth. Some music licenses are very relaxed, while others are bogged down in multiple restrictions and costly aquisition fees. After much research, this is what I have discovered to be the facts, concerning ten of our presently available music services, thrice in the USA, Canada and in Europe.

Grooveshark: Legal or illegal? 90% illegal and currently dealing with lawsuits from EMI records and many others. Grooveshark is in complete violation in all European countries, as well as Canada. They have some legal permissions in the USA, but this is very little and only covers two major record labels, out of the dozens that are somehow available on Grooveshark. Grooveshark calls itself a radio streaming service, of course, it's not. It's an on-demand service, which makes it more like Spotify than Pandora.

Spotify: Legal or illegal? Spotify are 100% legal and have been so, since their very beginnings. Spotify carry an "On Demand" streaming license. This is a costly venture and is the main reason for so much advertising support on Spotify - they must have it, or otherwise would go bankrupt. Although Spotify kept costs down, by limiting legal service to the United Kingdom, they have recently became available legally, in the USA.

Pandora: Legal or illegal? Again 100% legal, but only available in the USA, as this is the cheapest licensing and royalty percentage on Earth, for random streaming radio services like Pandora. Pandora allows us to create up to 100 unique radio stations, that will randomly play our selected favorite tunes. Pandora is not an On Demand service and also put limits on track skipping monthly, to keep licensing costs down. Pandora has been forced to limit users’ free streaming capabilities to 40 hours per month, after which users have to pay $0.99 monthly for unlimited access to song streaming.

Jango: Legal or illegal? 100% legal random radio streaming service. Jango is completely advertising supported and have a global blanket license. This means anyone on Earth should be able to use Jango Radio, barring dictatorial government intrusions in some countries. We can skip tracks as much as we like with Jango, while every so many skips will cause some advertising to interupt your listening experience. Jango recently stated in an e-mail to me, they have no plans for offering an ad free streaming service at the present time.

Playofday: Legal or illegal? Hosting our playlists, this site is new and may be legal, as they are only part responsible for users hosting content. They are protected in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Not only can the site itself be sued or taken down indefinitely, if they do not comply with the DMCA and police their own site regularly, performance rights groups and the RIAA can come after them, as well as the sites users in kind.

Jampri: Legal or illegal? Jampri is exactly the same as Playofday site(immediately above), so be careful with using these type hosting sites.

Jamendo: Legal or illegal? Jamendo is 100% legal. We can build playlists of the sites avialable music artist and tracks. You won't find mainstream or major artists on Jamendo, as this site hosts tracks/albums from mostly DIY and independant artists who choose to offer their material for free streaming and even free downloading on Jamendo. Jamendo is a great site for discovering new and obscure music artists from around the world.

Lastfm: Legal or illegal? 100% legal and one of the cheapest subscription radio streaming services in the world. Lastfm is an excellent music discovery engine, offering a wide variety of free downloads, full stream sampling, direct from the artists, major music acts and unsigned artists alike, plus so much more. Lastfm is the largest music catalog on Earth for free or for a very small monthly subscription, of only $3.00 USD. They are licensed globally in all countries. Lastfm are also a music data collection service and music wikipedia, where listeners can help build the site, adding artists images, videos, biographies and their own personal listening statistics. Lastfm is also open source, so members can develop their own aps and offer those to other members of Lastfm. The various ways to stream personal radios on Lastfm, are quite vast and more varacious than any other music site on the web.

Reverb Nation: Legal or illegal? 100% legal, Reverb Nation hosts content, biographies and track streams, that are uploaded strictly by the music artists themselves. RN also offers helpful tools for the musicians to publicize themselves in the music market and to help find new fans, such as press kits, fan club and street team registrations.

Fizy: Legal or illegal? 50% illegal. Similar to the now defunct Seeqpod, Fizy is an extremely bare bones approach to streaming music with a simple search bar. Like Seeqpod, the site offers speedy music video results and audio results, and unfortunately, legally questionable content, so beware!

Top Five Legal Music Download Sites:

#1 - SuperPass
#2 - eMusic
#3 - Napster
#4 - Amazon MP3
#5 - iTunes

The music artists and myself are creating Custom Artist Tag Radios and then getting their fans to listen to those, instead of the not very similar, Similar Artist Radios on their music profiles. It does take alot of work and more than one person must use the same tag, in order to make it a Global tag and streamable within the website.

If you click one of these custom artist titled tags and stream that instead of Similar Artist Radio buttons, this will actually propagate the correct similar artists to the music artists profiles. This is mainly a priority for new music artists and not very well known yet.

I have a few more to create and wait for them to go global, which can take up to two weeks on LastFM, ugh! However, the artists are liking this creative work around, because it does work fairly well. I thought of doing it several months back and have been spreading the word around.

If you're a musician and think your Similar Artists on your LFM music profile are completely wrong, send me a PM and we will create a custom artist tag radio to fix that =)

What you need to do?

First, you want to tag your own artist page with the title of your band/artist and then tag each individual track with exactly the same tag. An example would be metallica tag on the band Metallica. You will want to tag your artist and every one of your tracks with genre tags - as many as are appropriate and possible. So a band named Metallica would be tagged everywhere possible with metallica<--(Insert your band name here), death metal, metal, thrash metal and heavy metal, at the very least.

Next, you will need to decide what other music artists, you feel are very similar to your artist. Go to their profile page and tag them with metallica<--(Insert your band name here), death metal, metal, thrash metal and heavy metal, at the very least. You should do this to at least 3 of these music artists tracks that are available for streaming on LastFM and also do this on/at the very least, 30 other similar music artists in total. This will give your new Artist Title Tag around 90 streamable tracks in it, plus all of yours you have available.

Third, you must find at least one other person, who can tag every single one of these same artists and their streamable tracks with metallica<--(Insert your band name here), death metal, metal, thrash metal and heavy metal, at the very least.

Finally, you can wait one to two weeks for this your new Artist Title Tag to go Global and be playable as a radio through the LastFM web page, Flash radio. However, you can play this immediately, if you install the LastFM Scrobbler Desktop Client and play tags directly through that from your desktop.

The more you, your friends and fans play this Artist Title Tag Radio, the faster your Similar Artists Radio will fill in with the music artists you really want to be there. This will also aid in adding your music artist to those other artists Similar artist radios and over time, this will get your music artist more and more royalty streams on radios at LastFM.

Here are some examples, that will take you to playable custom built Artist Title Tag Radio pages, which include some very nice artist stats as well:

Please click on these name tags and browse around ;-)

world versus me @ Lastfm (industrial, electronic rock, piano rock),

ellsbeth @ Lastfm (gothic metal, metal)

suicide sanctum @ Lastfm (gothic, darkwave)

dig jelly @ Lastfm (rapcore, crossover)

george ellias @ Lastfm (folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter)

starside casino @ Lastfm (techno, electronic)