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Thursday 10 January 2008

Well, our house survived Tuesday night's storm, but now it's raining. A lot. I was going to run lots of errands on my bike today, but sitting at my desk working seems like a better option right now. And I have the current accumulation of dance band music notation printed out and put in a folder, so I'll play through some of that too.

Here's something very interesting to read (and listen to - the conversation between Byrne and Eno is great). As I'd spent a bit of time in commercial music before this group got going, I knew enough about contracts for us to hang on to the copyrights in most of our recordings: the exceptions are the John Clerk of Penicuik CD, which was funded by means too bizarre to recount here, and Mungrel Stuff which was bankrolled in the old-fashioned way by Linn. But how to use these copyrights now that CDs don't sell much, except at gigs? This question is now receiving some serious consideration.