People in Planes
Casbah - San Diego, CA
9/29/2008

Gareth Jones - Vocals
Peter Roberts - Guitar
Kris Blight - Bass
John Maloney - Drums
Ian Russell - Keyboard

Gareth Jones

People in Planes is out touring in support of their September release of Beyond the Horizon off Wind-Up Records. Beyond the Horizon is their 3rd album with two tracks written, “Better Than Life” and “Lay in the Road” with Natasha Schneider and Alan Johannes. Check out their song “Pretty Planes”, my favorite off the album so far.

The five members of People in Planes are from Wales. People in Planes is the band’s current name, though hardcore fans may also know the band as Tetra Splendour. I am going to go out on a limb and say it’s Welsh. Not sure of a translation there. I am sure someone out there will leave it in the comments. Hint Hint. they also went by Robots in the Sky. I enjoy People in Planes myself.

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All 19 Tracks Available For File Sharing Beginning September 10

Los Angeles, CA (September 10, 2008) – Today, Marillion become the first band anywhere in the world to release their new album, Happiness Is the Road, legally using P2P (Peer to Peer) internet networks for distribution.

Widely recognized as the first band to truly embrace the internet’s potential to interact with fans since circa 1996, Marillion have taken the step of partnering with internet technology company, Music Glue, to harness the legal use of P2P sites and release their 15th studio album, Happiness Is The Road.

With more than 90% of all acquired music in the UK being downloaded or shared via P2P websites according to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), Music Glue’s technology creates a unique interactive band-to-fan interface mechanism that does not normally exist at the point of download.

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Sounds odd,but yes, Pearl Jam has a bootleg program. My question is, is it really a bootleg when the band records it for the fans? I digress, each show in 2008 will be available for high quality downloads and burn to order cds through the Ten Club, which is Pearl Jam’s Fan Club.

They have also teamed up with Verizon Wireless and releasing 3 mobile bootleg tracks available at www.pearljamconcerts.com.

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I had Scott over at Mythermos.com send me an email about this site a couple months back. I am finding out how useful it is right now as we track artists on tour or just to find out what tour dates are listed for select artists. The site is called Songkick. They have many many artists listed and those on tour have (on Tour) denoted next to the artist’s name. If you click on an artist that is on tour it recommends other artists like them, besides giving the tour dates for that specified artists.

They are also creating widgets for blogs like The Dead Hub. For instance, their widget will list all the artists that are mentioned in the blog and the tour dates. Plus if you are not a blogger, you can download the “Songkicker” that is a plug-in that tracks the tours on artists in your music library.

Pretty nifty for someone like me who needs to know who’s on tour and where they are playing.

I read a comment on Myspace today and had a really great laugh. This is what happens when people don’t A) Proofread B) Use Spell check C) and make up their own words: Read Carefully! Who can find the mistake?

“I’ve been doing some analization lately, not only on myself but on my friends as well.”

No lie, really pulled it off Myspace. I hope you all have a great night and please don’t over Analize this.

I spent the backend of last week in Palo Alto pitching Live Hub. I was sitting in a hotel and realized the differences between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. I didn’t know if I was going to post these then I told my photographer about the list I created and she said I just had to.

Here it is:

You know You are in Silicon Valley when…

1. The hotel maid steals your business plan and leaves your $2,000 laptop behind.

2. 8 out of 10 cars are Hybrid Priuses and the other 2 are porches with vanity plates “Minez Bigger.”

3. You can shake a stick and hit an entrepreneur.

4. You shake the stick and hit an entrepreneur then realize his lawyer is on speed dial.

5. You wear a suit and you are considered “overdressed.”

I’ll leave you with that.

Some of you know already that we are a start-up company (Live Hub and The Dead Hub) and as part of my job running the company, I am the one who is raising our rounds of financing in order to get the company off the ground and growing.

On Saturday I was priveledged to take part in the Women 2.0 and Stanford Women in Business event that embrassed Women starting companies and innovating. I met with lots of great and intellegent women who are all successful in their own right.

Live Hub entered the competition to win prizes and meetings, but what I wanted from the event was to network with people and bring light to Live Hub and the Dead Hub. A.K.A. The Hubs. I believe I was successful in doing so, because a friend in San Fran emailed me with “Isn’t this your company’s logo?” It scared me because I thought someone stole the logo then realized it was from the event on Saturday and Chris Shipley took a picture of the back of our napkin and posted on her site Guidewire.

Here is the napkin that we submitted for the competition. Of course you can only see on side of it.

Thanks to Women 2.0 and SWIB for throughing the event! It was a great experience and success!

As some of you already know, I am not a big Facebook fan. It’s for many reasons but one is the great deal of widgets or applications that are on Facebook. I currently have 90+ requests from people to use applications. I am over the zombies and the Christmas tree applications. I feel like I am continually bombarded with quizzes and trivia.

I am more of a Myspace fan myself, I see the use in Myspace at least from a marketing standpoint. Now that they have allowed an open platform for applications I am scared. I have a bulletin from Shania Twain:

From: Shania Twain

Date: Apr 29, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Pets and gifts
Body: Hi, Shania Fans!

Hope your spring time is going smoothly!

Respectfully, we have to request that you please stop the “pet” and “human gift” requests (new MySpace applications that you download). They are getting out of control and filling up the inbox by the THOUSANDS.

Shania greatly appreciates your continued love and support!

Take care!

When are the useless applications going to stop? Let me know, or pass it along, when someone has a more practical app like “finding the cheapest gas station near you” widget.

Please don’t get me wrong, I love my friends on the social networks, but Respectfully, I have a request that you please stop sending me “zombie” and “trivia” requests. But please feel free to send me a round of drinks!

I recently received an email from my friend LJ Rich in London. She said that she participated in a flash mob in London. Everyone there got Rick Rolled…watch it and you will know what I am talking about!

Thank you LJ for uploading this to youtube!

This particular flash mob was so large and eventful that it made the London news!

If you don’t know Ms. LJ Rich also writes for Virgin Media as their Technology/gadgets guru. She’s Fabulous!

For all of our readers with our RSS feed you may be receiving this post twice. My apologies.

I throw this terminology around and some people look at me with the cocked puppy dog head. B&P means “blanks and postage”. Why is this even relevant you many ask? B&P trading is the way live shows have been traded for quite a long time. It has died down a bit with digital trading, but not everybody trades their shows digitally.

There are people who go to shows and record the show in audio and/or video with some of the top portable recording equipment. If you have been to an outdoor Dave Matthews concert you know what I am talking about. These fans are hard-core and have a hobby of trading the shows they record with other tappers or newbies that want a copy.

The bands can even be hard-core about their fans recording the shows. As mentioned above, Dave Matthews actually has “tapper sections” at their outdoor shows. This is an awesome site to see if you haven’t seen it before. In the front middle section of the lawn seating would be a roped off section for tappers and all that can be seen are “boomers,” mics with on the rods with the fuzzy covers, and audio equipment.

Getting started in B&P trading wasn’t easy. I had to find people that had B&P trading posts online for shows that I wanted. Then I had to make sure that the particular B&P post for a trade were current because a lot of them weren’t, but when I found current posts to trade with other fans it was awesome. I could get some really great shows from my favorite bands.

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