good god.

really??? what the eff is with all the articles in the past 2 days??? :stunned:

it's actually kind of annoying me now.

when i first got home today and saw there were a bunch of articles i got excited, but now im just annoyed.

but really, im very surprised it's already in NME and Q

 

i agree with Aurelie that it was fun when they were kind of a secret, but like Denise said, we can say we were the first, most dedicated chicks!

i feel like we've single handedly gotten all this attention for them. i wonder if they've noticed.

someone should tweet them links to the articles :lol: and label it "proof that we're the most awesome chicks ever"

:P

For all the press fuss, don't forget they 're all recognized musicians in the music industry so they probably released a press release to the main music magazines. I work in the edition world and that's what we do. So they probably did the same, hence the mega fuss all at the same time...

I don't deny that our propaganda and Ian's post on CPing hadn't have an influence but I don't think it's all the fan's work (I include Mew and A-Ha fans in this).

Now even the National Post is running with it:

 

source

Apparatjik: Where Coldplay, Mew and a-ha intersect

Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:00 PM by Brad Frenette Music, Coldplay, BBC, Mew, A-ha

 

The very first Coldplay side project has a name: Apparatjik.

Consisting of the British band's bassist, Guy Barryman, as well as Magne Furuholmen from Norweigian alt-rockers a-ha, and Jonas Bjerre, singer/guitarist of Dane art-rockers Mew (whose latest album, No More Stories..., is among my albums of the year) and Martin Terefe, have announced that they will release their debut single, Electric Eye, on November 30. The band also report they are currently completing their debut full length.

Apparatjik previously contributed a song, Ferreting, for the BBC series Amazon by Bruce Parry. Listen to the track, was built around a sample from a tribe featured in the series.

 

 

And not so surprisingly, Chart Attack.

Now even the National Post is running with it:

 

source

 

 

 

And not so surprisingly, Chart Attack.

 

the Chart Attack one says the album is being released on the 30th :uhoh2:

that's not a fact. we have no idea when it's coming out, so I hope a bunch of people aren't let down that day when they go to Apparatjik.com and don't find the album.

Of course, it's a possibilty that they would debut it then, but it's highly unlikely. and they state it as if it's a fact. all that we know is coming out on the 30th is Electric Eye.

so they probably released a press release to the main music magazines.

 

I wondered about that as well, but to be honest all these articles seem to be full of stuff you could glean off the internet if you had a poke around and they mostly seem to be rewrites of the same info.

 

Maybe someone tipped off the big music mags but I don't think it was Apparatjik themselves. But then...what do I know.. :shrug:

the Chart Attack one says the album is being released on the 30th :uhoh2:

that's not a fact. we have no idea when it's coming out, so I hope a bunch of people aren't let down that day when they go to Apparatjik.com and don't find the album.

Of course, it's a possibilty that they would debut it then, but it's highly unlikely. and they state it as if it's a fact. all that we know is coming out on the 30th is Electric Eye.

No, it's just a factual transcription error. Chart Attack was quoting the Guardian. The Guardian said that a full release of Electric Eye would be on the 30th and that according to Coldplaying.com an album release was imminent. Whoever put the second article together must have misread it.

 

There has clearly been no press release. These articles have been spreading virally- if you look up the (English) articles based on when they came out, every new article quotes the one(s) that came before it. And because most of them say "so and so is reporting that..." they don't have to check for any facts or original sources. It means if someone screws up, the error will be repeated as fact by the next article.

 

A timeline:

Twenty-four bit picked up on the Coldplaying article Ian posted. That tipped off the Guardian who wrote their own article the next day. When the Guardian wrote about it, it went on all the big news wires or however it works.

 

The BBC wrote about it next and they may have asked a band source directly since they don't give one, but the article is so short and terse that they may have just pasted together commonly known facts.

 

Consequence of Sound wrote their piece next and say they took all their info directly from the 24bit article and the band's website.

 

Next Spinner took all their info from the Guardian article.

 

Flavorwire's blog shows up next. It sound like they got all their info from existing articles, the official website, and the fan statements on Coldplaying.

 

Strangeglue next- their info is from Coldplaying and the official site.

 

Limewire quotes Spinner and mentions the official site.

 

Exclaim.ca say their info came directly from Coldplaying as well as the official twitter.

 

Idolater.com are the first site to mention the album coming out on the same day as the single. It cites the Spinner article but doesn't give any sources otherwise. From the way they're saying certain things, I would guess they got the main part of their info either from 24bit or coldplaying.

 

Then there's Chart Attack misreading the Guardian article as their main source. In their defense, the Guardian article was very vaguely worded...

 

Finally there's the Post article, which doesn't give sources, but sounds like a collection of facts from all the other articles. Although they do say the band have announced. But that could be quoting Coldplaying. If the band announced to you guys, it still would have counted as an announcement.

 

 

 

 

SO. Sorry for the length of that, watching viral stories grow like that is sort of a hobby of mine. Journalists for the most part are a very lazy group. It's amazing the crap that gets whitewashed into supposedly legitimate facts by passing through a few different papers. Remember. Always, always, always check the original source. Most good articles will cite one or else specifically say that they themselves got the quote directly from the person or the person's PR department. Sometimes you have to go through 4 or 5 different articles to find out which one started it. And by that time there are usually factual errors.

 

(I once heard of a guy who wrote a poem in the style of a certain poet on the day of the poet's death, and posted it on the poet's Wikipedia page to see if anyone would take the bait. That fake poem ended up in obituaries in major respected papers the world over. To this day the fake poem is still attributed to that poet, always citing the obituaries.)

No, it's just a factual transcription error. Chart Attack was quoting the Guardian. The Guardian said that a full release of Electric Eye would be on the 30th and that according to Coldplaying.com an album release was imminent. Whoever put the second article together must have misread it.

 

There has clearly been no press release. These articles have been spreading virally- if you look up the (English) articles based on when they came out, every new article quotes the one(s) that came before it. And because most of them say "so and so is reporting that..." they don't have to check for any facts or original sources. It means if someone screws up, the error will be repeated as fact by the next article.

 

A timeline:

Twenty-four bit picked up on the Coldplaying article Ian posted. That tipped off the Guardian who wrote their own article the next day. When the Guardian wrote about it, it went on all the big news wires or however it works.

 

The BBC wrote about it next and they may have asked a band source directly since they don't give one, but the article is so short and terse that they may have just pasted together commonly known facts.

 

Consequence of Sound wrote their piece next and say they took all their info directly from the 24bit article and the band's website.

 

Next Spinner took all their info from the Guardian article.

 

Flavorwire's blog shows up next. It sound like they got all their info from existing articles, the official website, and the fan statements on Coldplaying.

 

Strangeglue next- their info is from Coldplaying and the official site.

 

Limewire quotes Spinner and mentions the official site.

 

Exclaim.ca say their info came directly from Coldplaying as well as the official twitter.

 

Idolater.com are the first site to mention the album coming out on the same day as the single. It cites the Spinner article but doesn't give any sources otherwise. From the way they're saying certain things, I would guess they got the main part of their info either from 24bit or coldplaying.

 

Then there's Chart Attack misreading the Guardian article as their main source. In their defense, the Guardian article was very vaguely worded...

 

Finally there's the Post article, which doesn't give sources, but sounds like a collection of facts from all the other articles. Although they do say the band have announced. But that could be quoting Coldplaying. If the band announced to you guys, it still would have counted as an announcement.

 

 

 

 

SO. Sorry for the length of that, watching viral stories grow like that is sort of a hobby of mine. Journalists for the most part are a very lazy group. It's amazing the crap that gets whitewashed into supposedly legitimate facts by passing through a few different papers. Remember. Always, always, always check the original source. Most good articles will cite one or else specifically say that they themselves got the quote directly from the person or the person's PR department. Sometimes you have to go through 4 or 5 different articles to find out which one started it. And by that time there are usually factual errors.

 

(I once heard of a guy who wrote a poem in the style of a certain poet on the day of the poet's death, and posted it on the poet's Wikipedia page to see if anyone would take the bait. That fake poem ended up in obituaries in major respected papers the world over. To this day the fake poem is still attributed to that poet, always citing the obituaries.)

 

wow. You're amazing. Thanks, that was really helpful :D

^Good. :nice: Yeah, I've been doing that since early 1999 when I used to sort through filming set reports on the Lord of the Rings movies. I've had a bit of practice since then. ;)

 

Oh, forgot to say (In the name of citing my own source) I based all this on the times that Google News gives. The articles could actually have been written or posted earlier than that if it took a while for Google to pick the article up.

No, it's just a factual transcription error. Chart Attack was quoting the Guardian. The Guardian said that a full release of Electric Eye would be on the 30th and that according to Coldplaying.com an album release was imminent. Whoever put the second article together must have misread it.

 

There has clearly been no press release. These articles have been spreading virally- if you look up the (English) articles based on when they came out, every new article quotes the one(s) that came before it. And because most of them say "so and so is reporting that..." they don't have to check for any facts or original sources. It means if someone screws up, the error will be repeated as fact by the next article.

 

A timeline:

Twenty-four bit picked up on the Coldplaying article Ian posted. That tipped off the Guardian who wrote their own article the next day. When the Guardian wrote about it, it went on all the big news wires or however it works.

 

The BBC wrote about it next and they may have asked a band source directly since they don't give one, but the article is so short and terse that they may have just pasted together commonly known facts.

 

Consequence of Sound wrote their piece next and say they took all their info directly from the 24bit article and the band's website.

 

Next Spinner took all their info from the Guardian article.

 

Flavorwire's blog shows up next. It sound like they got all their info from existing articles, the official website, and the fan statements on Coldplaying.

 

Strangeglue next- their info is from Coldplaying and the official site.

 

Limewire quotes Spinner and mentions the official site.

 

Exclaim.ca say their info came directly from Coldplaying as well as the official twitter.

 

Idolater.com are the first site to mention the album coming out on the same day as the single. It cites the Spinner article but doesn't give any sources otherwise. From the way they're saying certain things, I would guess they got the main part of their info either from 24bit or coldplaying.

 

Then there's Chart Attack misreading the Guardian article as their main source. In their defense, the Guardian article was very vaguely worded...

 

Finally there's the Post article, which doesn't give sources, but sounds like a collection of facts from all the other articles. Although they do say the band have announced. But that could be quoting Coldplaying. If the band announced to you guys, it still would have counted as an announcement.

 

 

 

 

SO. Sorry for the length of that, watching viral stories grow like that is sort of a hobby of mine. Journalists for the most part are a very lazy group. It's amazing the crap that gets whitewashed into supposedly legitimate facts by passing through a few different papers. Remember. Always, always, always check the original source. Most good articles will cite one or else specifically say that they themselves got the quote directly from the person or the person's PR department. Sometimes you have to go through 4 or 5 different articles to find out which one started it. And by that time there are usually factual errors.

 

(I once heard of a guy who wrote a poem in the style of a certain poet on the day of the poet's death, and posted it on the poet's Wikipedia page to see if anyone would take the bait. That fake poem ended up in obituaries in major respected papers the world over. To this day the fake poem is still attributed to that poet, always citing the obituaries.)

 

 

:stunned: thanks for following all of that!

that's exactly what it felt like, they were just feeding off of each others articles.. lazy journalism is right!

 

 

 

and this pretty much sums up how i feel when small bands i love turn big all the sudden... not like i want to kill Apparatjik though... :uhoh:

:P

:stunned: thanks for following all of that!

that's exactly what it felt like, they were just feeding off of each others articles.. lazy journalism is right!

 

 

 

and this pretty much sums up how i feel when small bands i love turn big all the sudden... not like i want to kill Apparatjik though... :uhoh:

:P

 

:lol:

and this pretty much sums up how i feel when small bands i love turn big all the sudden... not like i want to kill Apparatjik though... :uhoh:

:P

 

:laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3:

 

+1

Paula, what's wrong with the apparatchick forum? :wtf:

 

edit: nevermind, it wasn't working for a minute, but now it is.

Paula, what's wrong with the apparatchick forum? :wtf:

 

edit: nevermind, it wasn't working for a minute, but now it is.

 

The Apparatchick forum is bugging sometimes but it come back quickly!

yeah, it gets hacked by Tachyons sometimes.. :P

SO. (...) It's amazing the crap that gets whitewashed into supposedly legitimate facts by passing through a few different papers. Remember. Always, always, always check the original source. Most good articles will cite one or else specifically say that they themselves got the quote directly from the person or the person's PR department. Sometimes you have to go through 4 or 5 different articles to find out which one started it. And by that time there are usually factual errors.

Spot on! It even happens in science and I hate it; scientists should know better. :veryangry2:

I have been a bad apparatchick, hello guys :P

Stop drooling over Guy and that dude from Mew and nominate!

 

 

http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64440

His name is Jonas :snobby:

 

*nominates*

ahahah

 

Sorry Jonas.

I didn't even know he was in Apparatijik until last week when I saw a picture of him. No wonder Mew is so popular on here now haha

My love for Mew has nothing to do with Apparatjik :charming:

 

Though my love for Apparatjik might have something to do with Mew :P

 

And Coldplay of course :lol:

haha yeah. I could see how those two bands could influence that.

 

I haven't listened to much Mew for a long time. I had a bunch of songs on my old computer. I really liked the song Special.

I think Special and Zookeepers Boy are what got me into Mew, and the only songs by them I listened to for the first month :P

Apparatjik > Mew > Coldplay :P

Because Apparatjik has the best of both worlds :P

Apparatjik > Mew = Coldplay :D

That's my version.