Tom Ewing in NZ Herald?!

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Since it's about a year after the fact, the New Zealand Herald has decided to run a piece on bootlegs, which includes these lines...

"You listen to them a few times because of the funny recognition factor but then something odd happens," writes British music journalist Tom Ewing in praise of one of the most successful recent bootlegs... (quote continues for two more paragraphs)

Sound familiar? Some of you may remember this from here.

― B:Rad (Brad), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The FT juggernaut's quest for global omnipotence continues! Has an ILM consortium secretly bought out NZ's biggest newspaper? Or have hack journalists just found a new source of better copy than they can provide?

― B:Rad (Brad), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Makes a change from getting quoted about broadband take-up rates I suppose.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually a "editor of Internet music zine Freaky Trigger" or something like that might have been nice. Hmph. I'm really out of touch w/the world of bootlegs now cos for one thing it all seems to have gone a bit kid606 and for another my work puter wont download things off boomselection any more :(

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

it all seems to have gone a bit...

the old build 'em up, knock 'em down routine?
ah for the eternal cusp...

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I'm sure the scene's v.healthy but the only ones I seem to hear about are bogus 'glitch' reworkings. More pop less 'subversion' please!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, there are the pop kind out there, trust me. Get in touch with me (you know my real e-mail address, right?), and I'll hook you up.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 14 September 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Great article, Tom. I hadn't seen that before.

Somebody straighten a couple things out for me, please: a bootleg refers to a sort of illegal remix, right? And a mashup combines two songs, often in a "vocals from A/backing from B" fashion? So a mashup is a bootleg, but a bootleg need not be a mashup? Am I getting this right?

― charlie va, Saturday, 14 September 2002 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(didn't want this to drop off bottom of new answers too soon heh heh heh)

― zebedee, Monday, 16 September 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, funny you should mention that, in the paper I work at in Brighton, The Argus tomorrow there is a very short article about Broadband take-up which concludes with:

Analyst Tom Ewing said: "Broadband is growing in this country but the government's target of being the G7 leader in broadband connectivity by 2005 is absurd if you set it against current rates of growth"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes thats the bunny. I was getting plagued by phonecalls all week thanks to that press release, which at least the Argus is having the decency to reprint without bothering me any more. I can give you the exciting HOT TIP that it's online travel next week.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Keeping a future eye out as we speak.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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