Porcupine Tree DVD/Blue Ray/2 CD Special
Porcupine Tree have a new film package due out in early May 2010. It consists of 130 minute DVD and Blue Ray versions of their concert in Tilburg, Holland in October 2008 along with a double-CD of the soundtrack.
Steve Wilson & Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree’s lead man has a new solo album coming soon. Very tasty.
But there’s more at the end! Watch them all then bugger off down the music store and buy some. Good music is so rare these days.
More Beethoven
OK then folks. Symphony No 6 is available as of today. Symphonies 7, 8 and 9 will each become available over the next 3 days and all 4 will only be available for 1 week from the day they are released so go and get them. Symphony No 6 is the “Pastoral” and you will probably know the main theme from the first movement.
Free Music
The Beethoven downloads that I posted about last have been doing great apparently. Something like 600,000 plus requests for download. Can’t be bad methinks. But others are moaning about it. Some commercial commentators are complaining about the BBC giving away classical music for free. The BBC countermand this by explaining that this is just an experiment and not something they intend to do on a permanent basis.
Why not say I? It occurs to me that copyright only lasts for 50 years and, let’s be frank, most classical composers have been dead a hell of a lot longer than that. So why shouldn’t it be free?
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