Are you ready? Are you ready for the darkside? It's been a long time coming but we Negativ Magick have finally released their second mix 'Dark Pool'. Their finest collage of sounds yet. Negativ Magick - Dark Pool Mix Tracklist: 1. Psyche — Dark Pool 2. Throbbing Gristle — 20 Jazz Funk Greats 3. Jaki Liebezeit — Nervous Breakdown (Negativ Magick Edit) 4. Sisterhood — Giving Ground 5. Death in June — Foretold (Negativ Magick Edit) [...]
I've been a bad, bad blogger. You may remember that last year BIYL participated in a little event called Paul Haig Day . The idea was born out of a little conflict with the RIAA. You see, a fellow named JC who runs this really brilliant blog posted a song by former Josef K frontman Paul Haig. He actually had Paul's blessing to do so, and since Paul owns the rights to his own solo work, you'd think this would simply be another pleasant day in blogville. Oh, but you'd be wrong my friends! Some [...]
Back for 24hrs with two anniversaries to celebate. First, Paul Haig Day II - a remarkable blogger collaboration organised by the inestimable JC of The Vinyl Villain . What?: Let TVV explain "On 6th April 2009, a fair few bloggers from all around the world agreed to be part of Paul Haig Day. This was in response to a plea that I had put out over the internet as a thank you to Paul and his manager for offering tremendous great support to TVV and other bloggers in the face of determined [...]
It is with thanks (once again) to The Vinyl Villain for partly being the inspiration for me to start this Football and Music website, for posting some great music that I missed the first time around, and for the PAUL HAIG DAY II event. It is also thanks to Pat Nevin for giving me a fitba & music connection so I could take part in this day. Plus it gives me an additional excuse to post more about the man and his excellent taste in music. [...]
Relieve mp3 Relive Paul Haig .... buy it! Paul Haig , former singer of Josef K, and current songwriter/singer of wonderful music all his own, has been a blogger's best friend. Last year when Blogger (the company) and google went berserk and began deleting people's posts and making a general bully of themselves, Paul got involved. He got involved because the dear Vinyl Villain posted a track of his around this time and it was snatched down, supposedly due to copyright infringement. [...]
First of all, why Paul Haig Day? Over to JC of The Vinyl Villain , the originator of the idea, to explain. "For those of you who don't know why a number of us are doing all of this today, it has its genesis in some unhappy times back in Spring 2009 when this and many other blogs were being bombarded with all sorts of DMCA notices that led to postings and accompanying mp3s being removed without warning. One such incident on The Vinyl Villain involved a Paul Haig posting and a few days later, [...]
JC over at the Vinyl Villain has proposed another Paul Haig Day for April 6. Blogger friends, join in! I'm simply cutting and pasting JC's post here. You can please go over to his blog and sign in on his comment section to let him know you want to be a part of it. Paul Haig came to bloggers' defense in a very personal way when they were threatened. He speaks out intelligently about online music journalism and recognizes those of us who promote new music. As an artist, his perspective and support is [...]
It's the most wonderful time of the year! And since you've all been such good ghouls and boys, I'm handing out my biggest bag of treats yet. I've added to last year's Halloween mix, and it is now a lurching monster of 66 tracks. You can download the entire mix as a zip file at the bottom of the list. I will be attending my fair share of Halloweeny events this year (I already went to a book launch dressed as Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, but that's a surreal story for another time), including a Neil [...]
The main idea when I started this thing up back in September 2006 was to bring folks' attention to long-forgotten/long-lost stuff, often only available in vinyl, that for years sat pining for attention in a cupboard in Villain Towers awaiting the invention of affordable USB Turntables. Its been a few months since Paul Haig last featured on these pages, so I thought it would be a good idea to delve into the cupboard and pull out one of his 12" singles [...]
We All Want Someone To Shout for was started on googles free blog program blogger. It is free, easy to use, and a program that has gotten tons of great blogs out there. As a result of blogger and the blogs, many artists have seen an increase in popularity. However, recently blogger has become one of the most restricting programs for a music blogger to use. Confused? Well blogger has been removing posts from honest music bloggers like the wounderful Muruch causing her to actually move her blog losing tons of traffic, which she is still rebuilding! These [...]
You know, it's fucking ridiculous, but I am not sure what the overwhelming emotion of this post is for me. It's either warm appreciation of Paul Haig for his support and attitude towards a good friend of mine, or it's sheer frustrated annoyance that this kind of thing is necessary in the first place. Sadly, I think it might be the latter. To explain, a while back my friend JC from the Vinyl Villain posted about Paul Haig, former Josef K frontman, and possibly the coolest individual from the last time Edinburgh [...]
Thanks to the efforts of JC from The Vinyl Villain and the cooperation from Paul Haig and his management, April 6 is Paul Haig Day in select parts of the blogosphere. There are over 20 of us across the world dedicating a post today to Paul Haig after the kerfuffle and hullabaloo over Blogger takedowns despite artist permission, Haig being one of the consenting, and publicity-deserving, artists, and JC being the one targetted by Blogger copyright Nazis. If you want a history of the man's career, pop over to The Vinyl Villain , where JC lays it out quite [...]
Who knew in this day and age we blog folk would be going 1969 on your ass and staging a sit-in? Let's pluck some flowers, get out the LSD and spread the free love, baby! Okay, perhaps we won't go that far. Allergies, day jobs, STDs and all that. Still, there are times when you need to make your voice heard loud and clear, regardless of whether anyone is listening. In this particular instance, we'd hope the record labels affiliated with the RIAA are listening, because whatever it was the RIAA was [...]
Download: Paul Haig - "Reason"I got a notice from Tarty Tart after she saw that Blogger took down my Elbo.ws post about how, today, April 6th, would be Paul Haig day. Why a specific day devoted to this specific songwriter? Behold: Bloggers have come under increasing attack in recent times, thanks to many in the music industry using the draconian measures of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (
Darlings, I have not yet addressed this issue as I have kept my head low and for one reason or another, or just plain luck, I have not yet been targeted. However, many if not most of my friends in the music blogging world have been victims to DMCA notices and have had their work stolen, not returned, with no explanation, all done by a system of anonymous complaint. The following words are from Paul Haig's label manager Evan, Rhythm of Live ROLinc [...]
As many of you will know, JC of the wonderful The Vinyl Villain has declared today "Paul Haig Day", following his recent troubles . This is my contribution. I know very little about Paul Haig, other than he was in Scottish post-punkers Josef K and I certainly didn't know his solo work. But following a quick scan of Wikipedia , I've got for you Paul's 1993 album "Coincidence Vs Fate", which seems to have the main dance influence. Real shades of Cabaret Voltaire's "Groovy, Laidback And Nasty" [...]
IN SUPPORT OF A MUSICIAN SUPPORTING MUSIC BLOGS Today is officially Paul Haig day. Never heard of Paul Haig? Well, I'll be honest with you; forty eight hours ago, neither had I. Then I recieved an email from one of my growing legion of internet friends this blog thing has rewarded me with. (You should go check out her shack actually it's - terribly sexy). Anyway, it seems Mr Haig and the good
I reckon most of you will know by now what today is all about. If not, please scroll down a few days and catch up on the tale of why Scotland's greatest musicians is being highlighted today by a number of bloggers from around the world.Paul Haig first came to prominence in late 1979 as the lead singer with Josef K, an Edinburgh-band that were signed to the legendary Glasgow-based label, Postcard
Those of you who followed the saga of the middle of last week when I was served a dmca notice to remove a posting that featured songs by Paul Haig and Hey! Elastica will know that I was fair cheered up by supporting words from both Paul and his manager Evan.They have very kindly given me full permission to bring you this single, which was released in 2007:-mp3 : Paul Haig - ReasonThis is a piece
I moved to live and work in Edinburgh in July 1985. Friends told me I was daft and that it wouldn't be long before I came back 45 miles west to the greatest city on the planet. As much as anything, they reckoned I would soon get bored with the non-existent music scene.It turned out that they were quite wrong....it would be almost 5 years before I headed back home, but even then there would be
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