Posted Mon 29 Jun 2009 5:35PM BST
Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis has said that he's happy to pay the
£3000 fine that will be enforced because of a broken curfew, because
the final minutes of Bruce Springsteen's over-running set at the
weekend's festival were worth it.
The 
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Mon 29 Jun 2009 5:32PM BST
What AEG have been more clear on is that everyone who had a ticket to one of Jacko's O2 gigs will get a refund. Details of how ticket buyers can get their money back are expected to be released this week, meanwhile the promoter has told fans to hold Posted Mon 29 Jun 2009 5:09PM BST
Back to the business dimension, and what about AEG Live, the
promoters of Jacko's O2 residency who had reportedly already shelled
out $40 million on the project, and who will now have to return the $80
million they had taken in ticket sales?
Posted Wed 24 Jun 2009 2:51PM BST
So, are you keeping up with this story? Here's a quick summary: Perez Hilton got punched by someone at the Cobra nightclub in Toronto after the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday. Hilton says it was Will.i.am. Will.i.am says it wasn't. After the attack Posted Wed 24 Jun 2009 2:35PM BST
Incarcerated former music producer Phil Spector has been assigned to a "sensitive needs facility" at California's Corcoran prison, which he was reportedly moved to on Monday. Spector is, of course, in jail after being found guilty of murdering actres Posted Mon 22 Jun 2009 3:39PM BST
An Italian judge has ordered that 2.4 million euros in frozen
assets belonging to alleged internet pirates be permanently seized, and
that servers belonging to the net operators be destroyed.
The
ruling related to a long running campaign by Posted Mon 22 Jun 2009 3:36PM BST
According to a report by The News Of The World, Amy Winehouse has applied to become a permanent resident of St Lucia. The singer has, as previously reported, been staying on the Caribbean island since the end of last year and apparently feels that be Posted Mon 22 Jun 2009 3:32PM BST
I think tour promoters might need to start adding a new line of
small print on the back of their tickets: "any promises made by artists
while on stage are not binding".
Noel
Gallagher has hit out at Oasis fans who are asking for their Posted Fri 19 Jun 2009 1:10PM BST
The collecting society that represents French independent labels,
SPPF, is suing YouTube because a hundred videos owned by its members
which it previously asked to be removed from the video website last
year have since reappeared on the Google-own Posted Fri 19 Jun 2009 1:07PM BST
Well, that all happened quick. A court in Minnesota yesterday ordered the much previously reported on Jammie Thomas to pay the record industry $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. That's over eight times more than first time round. Ouch. Stil | Select a Blog | Posts |
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