International Music Summit, Ibiza videos finally online

After FIVE months the IMS have finally put up videos of most of the panels at the international music summit in Ibiza back in May. After 4 months of saying that you’d have to pay for them and 4 months of me whinging to them about that and when are they going to go up, surprisingly theyve actually put them up for free.

Unfortunately they havent used current techniques to make them available for easy download – ie using bit torrent – so you would normally have to sit there while 100mb to 240mb flv files stream to your pc or mac but with a little knowledge you can download them to your mac or pc so you can watch them when you want to. So i dug into the source code and produced these links – its not hard…

Strangley though, arguably the most attended, lively and interesting panel footage is not available – namely the clubs panel where all the main clubs and a representative of the government met for the first time in public… wonder why ? I’ve got the video footage and the audio of the club panel so maybe i’ll stick it up as they obviously can’t or won’t.

right click and “save as” or “save target as” on the following links to save them to your hard drive. You can get a free FLV player here.

IMS:08 Key Note: Andrew Keen
HOW TO SAVE THE MUSIC BUSINESS BY AUTHOR OF CULT OF THE AMATEUR – 112MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/cultoftheamateur/CultOfTheAmateur.flv

IMS:08 Key Note: Francois Kevorkian
HOW TO STAY ON THE CUTTING EDGE AFTER 25 YEARS IN DANCE MUSIC – 166MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/25years/25Years.flv

IMS:08 Q&A: David Glick, Edge
INNOVATIONS IN INVESTMENT – 189.5MB
(Interviewed by Pete Tong)
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/edge/Edge.flv

IMS:08 Q&A: Jonas Tempel, Beatport
DIGITAL LIFELINE – 134.5MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/beatport/BeatPort.flv

IMS:08 Key Note: Sarah Tinsley, Natasha Kizzie & Dan O’Neill. Bacardi / KLP / Groove Armada.
HOW GROOVE ARMADA AND BACARDI CHANGED THE MUSIC PARTNERSHIP LAMDSCAPE – 184.8MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/groovearmada/GrooveArmada.flv

DIGITAL: DIGITAL DARWINISM? – 231.2MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/digitaldarwinism/DigitalDarwinism.flv

SYNCH: SYNCH OR SWIM? HOW TO REVOLUTIONISE YOUR BUSINESS VIA SYNCHRONISATION – 242.MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/sinkorswim/SinkOrSwim.flv

DJ MAG TOP 100: BELIEVE THE HYPE? – 199.7MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/top100/Top100.flv

TOM MIDDLETION CREATES THE IMS:08 ANTHEM – 193.4MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/antham/Antham.flv
(yes that is how they’ve spelt anthem… ps they may rename it)

SOUL AVENGERZ TO REMIX THE IMS:08 ANTHEM – 89.6MB
http://internationalmusicsummit.com/html/ppv/remix/Remix.flv

only in america

there’s a chance that proposition 8 could overturn the legalisation of gay marriage – where in america is the last place you’d think this law would be overturned ?

california – unbelievable….

i give up – ish…

i wish nme radio would play stuff during the day that theyve played the past 3 hours – but then as i type this the playlist has come back in and i could be listening at any time during the day and hear that b-line track

and now the cure track that’s obviously on the playlist

its 1am and i hear playlist ???

guns n roses – chinese democracy

i have to admit that the track is growing on me….

so sue me…

not normally a big fan of this but…

but i love this:

mongrel – the menace

http://audiotube.com/file/4335-mongrel-the-menace.html

nme and scary song for halloween

nme radio are doing a poll for scariest song for halloween tomorrow – the problem is that people are just taking song titles rather than actual songs

here’s my one:

i fully expect it to win

dur

i just sent an email to nme radio complaining because it seems that out of a stones catalogue of what 40 years they only ever seem to play the same song:

“you cant always get what you want”

then i laughed at what i’d done…

ross and brand shitstorm pt 2 – the resolution

much like the previous blog about this i read someone elses take on it and figured – theres no point in me re-writing someone elses words – i basically agree with it – why not just copy and paste them and share them:

(although i did agree with another article i read yesterday or this morning where the writer was basically saying this whole shit was exactly what the daily mail had been looking for – oh and whats the gossip now about sachs grandaughter employing max clifford and selling her story to the sun??? – bet the daily mail havent been looking too far into miss hard done by innocent grandaughters life…. that would sort of er… make their fist shaking, middle england pomposity look like the bollocks it is)

from janine gibson, guardian media

After a week of madness, finally a shockingly sensible response from the BBC.

A 12-week suspension for Jonathan Ross feels, oddly, about right. Suspension without pay actually claws back some of the BBC licence fee money the nation is constantly asked to be outraged about paying him.

He gets to lie low and stay out of trouble but can’t go and work for any other broadcaster. He can come back after Christmas and, you never know, we might be a bit more grateful to have him back.

Will the BBC be renewing his contract at anything like the same level next year? No.

Ross survives on “a final warning”. He’s not only too expensive to sack, he’s too valuable to every rival the BBC has.

Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas is sacrificed, despite Russell Brand’s best attempts to take one for the team by resigning himself, yesterday.

Finally, light dawns and we can understand the justification for those inflated BBC executive salaries: the job is actually considerably more perilous than it appears. Prior to Hutton, the catchphrase at the corporation was “deputy heads will roll”.

However, it’s as if, since Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke had to leave over a row with Alastair Campbell, all sense of proportion has been lost and any incident must be accompanied by at least one resignation to have any impact whatsoever.

And Douglas, genuinely a very talented executive who has run a largely successful station – the most listened to in the UK – has resigned to protect her programming teams.

On Friday we will find out exactly who listened to what when and ticked which box, but Mark Thompson admitted on BBC News channel that Douglas had not personally heard the show before the broadcast.

We all know what she’s done – she’s resigned to save that 25-year-old producer, the senior compliance officer and the head of programmes who’ve been pictured in every paper for the past three days. It’s still surprising and always worth noting and admiring when executives do the right thing.

Losing Douglas is a flesh wound to the corporation on a par with the departure of Peter Fincham – the controller of BBC1 who fell on his sword out of a similar sense of responsibility for the output of his network.

On this evidence, being a successful network controller is a far riskier business than, say, a more senior executive responsible for the channels. Douglas will doubtless do very well and earn buckets of cash elsewhere but she has been robbed of a station she cherished, as head of programmes and then controller, for eight years. She will be greatly missed.

ibiza winter tourism

with ryan air now flying to ibiza during the winter ibizaa-z.com have soft launched www.ibizawinter.com.

It’ll have details of “all” the hotels that will be open over the winter and it will be the only place that actually lists them all. After speaking to the president of the hoteliers association he told ibiza now magazine which ones were open (a couple on his list aren’t in fact open and was also incomplete) – also after speaking to ryan air, their website is incomplete and wrong and they’ve asked ibiza now to pass on the details.

they’ll also be listing activities, restaurants and everything you can do if you come over for a break.

the weather is great in the winter and as i’ve blogged before – i much prefer the winter to the madness of the summer.

that brand and ross shitstorm

this says it better than i could:

http://whyohwhyohwhy.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/off-with-their-heads/