Not too minutes ago in the town my friends and I were hounded in the street by people fund raising for the latest tsunami survivors of whoever asking for money, this is never fun. If you twin that with the fact that people like you and me always want something for free, people giving out flyers and postcards are still proving to be a great way to promote upcoming gigs and performances at local bars, festivals, nightclubs, theatres or even shopping malls, things even the mighty interwebs will never be able to do. Having a quick blast around the internet for something that was reasonable in price and convenient for both huge super groups, just-starting-out bans or any buisness at all for that matter. I bumped into nextdayflyers.com.
Next Day Flyers will print promotional/club flyers and marketing postcards in a wide variety of sizes from 1/8 of a page to full page (A4).
Tickets for performances can also be custom printed with the date and time of the concert, this I thought would give any local bands that extra push on other local acts to look that bit more professional. Paper options include a thick durable card stock which can have a glossy or matte finish, that seems to be the most serviceable as a gig poster as well as a 100 lb glossy paper. Your own designs can be customized by a nice easy-to-use user friendly graphic design tool on-site and uploaded directly to the Next Day Flyers site, alternatively there is an option to create your layouts using an array of defult templates in the ‘Online Design Center’. All these little easy to use helpful bits have made nextdayflyers.com RouteNote’s weapon of choice.
The turnaround on printed materials is quick and items can be ready as early as the same day. The website is user friendly, offering helpful tools such as online chat and instructional videos, naturally a customer service representative can also be reached by phone.
RouteNote enjoys being involved in all things music, both superb and tragic. I’ve decided to throw out a weekly video (where it can be found) of awful tunes that could arguably be cult favourite’s for a giggle.
This tragic attempt at something to do with signing is from The Hoff. Scouring YouTube and the Hoffs own site, I Couldn’t find the proper video. It Turns out the song has become “Unavailable. Embedding disabled by request”. Probably for the best. One of the best move’s Hoff ever made next to Bay-watch of course.
ooh, jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
jump in my car, it’s too far to walk on your ow-own
jump in my car, I wanna ta-ake you home
C’mon and jump in my car, it’s way too far to walk on your ow-own
Well maybe I wi-ill
Ah, that’s better now, your talkin’ sense
But you best keep still
Well, if you like I’ll just put up a fence
No need to get smart
Well alright we’ll soon be on our way
We better start
What for?
Because it’s such a long way
Why, where d’you live?
I live down south, it’s roughly eighty-four miles
Hey slow down, you must be jokin’ there behind that cute smile
Oh, no I’m not
Well, if you’re not there’s only one thing to say
And what’s that?
Get out the car, get on your way
Get out of my car
But you just said that you’d take me home
it’s just too far
But there’s no way that I can get there alone
I couldn’t care less
Maybe I could see you next week
But you look a mess
But look who’s talkin’, you’ve got no right to speak
Get out of my car
You told me that you were a really nice guy
Well I aint
yeah,Get out of my car
Get out
Get out of my car
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Limewire, one of the internets most popular file-sharing websites, has finally been shut down after along dispute with the RIAA.
The US district court has issued an injunction which effectively ends a four-year dispute between Lime Group and the Recording Industry Association of America.
Strictly, its complete closure isn’t quite true, but the company has been told to disable its search, download and upload functions, which for a file-sharing site, is certain doom.
On top of this, the company has finally admitted what we were all thinking and confessed to being illegal. A message on Limewire.com states: “This is an official notice that LimeWire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorisation is illegal.”
A Lime Group spokeswoman acknowledged that the company was now “out” of the file-sharing business. But she added that they were working on alternative ideas that adhere to copyright laws.
Michael Jackson’s hit ‘Thriller’ is to be turned into a movie, according to reports. Several Hollywood studios are said to be interested in adapting Jackson’s classic 1982 single. Deadline reports that choreographer Kenny Ortega is expected to direct, while The Hangover’s Jeremy Garelick will write the screenplay. The plot will apparently focus on the song’s history, including the childhood of Vincent Price, who raps the track’s voice-over.
Any film will be subject to the agreement of Michael Jackson’s estate of course. There has already been one Jackson film since his death. This Is It charted the making of his ill-fated comeback gigs.
Regardless of who you are and what sort of music genre we promise is our favourite, everyone has a personal favourite Jackson song, but i’m quite sure that, and for me this film is bordering on it, too many films about him are going to saturate the local cinema’s and quickly become made in bad taste. This is only loosely a film about Jackson. A film about the making of another film, that had him in it…Really, come on. I wonder Who will play John Landis.
Kings Of Leon have announced details of a UK stadium tour, which is due to take place next summer. The US band will play five shows, starting at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on May 30 in connection with their new number one album Come Around Sundown no doubt.
Other gigs in the short tour are scheduled for the Stadium Of Light in Sunderland on June 17 and Manchester’s County Cricket Ground on June 19. The band are also set to perform for the second year running at London’s Hyde Park on June 22.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (November 3) at 9am. For more details and to buy Kings Of Leon tickets, check out Gigwise Gig Tickets.
Kings Of Leon’s 2011 UK tour dates are:
Coventry, Ricoh Arena – May 30
Sunderland, Stadium of Light – June 17
Manchester, Lancashire County Cricket Ground – 19
London, Hyde Park – 22
Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium – 26
Frankie Laine with Percy Faith & His Orchestra collected 4 weeks at the number one slot with the famous “A Woman In Love” from the musical “Guys and Dolls” after Frank Sinatra turned it down.
The 1950′s Broadway musical Guys and Dolls was powered largely by Damon Runyon and his “gangster yarns” as well as the writing of famously bad tempered Frank Loessner.
Frank is the writer responsible for the song of topic. On the week beginning 19th October 1956 is exactly when the song went number one and the soundtrack of the by then long running Guys and Dolls was still very much a household name, anchored by a menagerie of famous faces. Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit and Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson. Brando’s number was eventually dropped from the plays bill as he couldn’t hit the big “Money Shot” note. Which is incidently our number one song.
Frankie Laine lost most of his appeal to the young audience during the rock and roll era, but he still enjoyed success with the TV series Rawhide which ran upto 1959, which was again revived with hilarious consequence by Jake and Elwood Blues, as well as being the mighty Tom Jones’ inspiration for signing at all.
Laine did continue to tour but was plagued by illness and had quadruple bypass in 1985. I did nothing to effect his performance though as he still favoured his signature big endings and celebrated his 91st and last birthday in 2004.
U2 appear to have hinted that they may be set to appear at next year’s Glastonbury festival in Somerset.
On Friday (October 1), the Irish band took the unusual step of informing fans on their website that tickets were set to go on sale for the event. The band added “Looking at the tour dates – there is a gap in the band’s schedule ahead of the East Lansing show on June 26th which would make the Friday night a possibility.”
This could be a possible upset again, with a too premature announcement for Glasto potentially upsetting fans again after U2 were due to headline this year’s festival but were forced to pull out when singer Bono injured his back during rehearsals. This is the Official reason that was released, quashing any rumours that the band had a hand in helping ticket sales increase by pulling out after pressure from the organiser’s because they were “struggling” to sell tickets in the volume they’re used to.
The band’s manager Paul McGuiness said: “We’re certainly excited about our plans for next year. Watch this space.”
Tickets for next year’s Glastonbury festival sold out in less than five hours on Sunday (October 3). The festival will take place from June 24-26. Without revealing the other potential head-liners event organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed that all have in fact been booked.
Weird Al Yankovic has announced details of his first ever UK tour. The comedy singer will play three dates on top of his stage appearance at one of this years “All Tomorrow’s Parties” venues in Minehead starting in Birmingham on December the 2nd.
Yankovic will also play in Manchester on December 3rd and London 6th in support of his forthcoming greatest hits album.
‘The Essential “Weird Al” Yankovic’, a greatest hits album, is said to be released on October 18, features 38 tracks, including his 1992 hit ‘Smells Like Nirvana’ and ‘White And Nerdy’.
The singer is also scheduled toappear at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehead on December 5.
Tickets go on sale on Friday (October 1) at 9am. For more details and to buy Weird Al Yankovic tickets, check out Gigwise Gig for tickets.
Weird Al Yankovic’s UK tour dates are:
Birmingham Academy – December 2nd
Manchester Academy – December 3rd
Minehead’s ATP (All Tomorrow’s Parties) – December 5th
