Jenjie

if that's the only people i need to worry about, my holiday request will go in first thing tomorrow morning :D

Killers to headline V Festival Mar 1 2009 by Ben Goldby, Sunday Mercury AMERICAN rock superstars The Killers are set to headline this year’s V Festival in Staffordshire. Although organisers have yet to finalise the list of band’s playing at Weston Park in August, the Las Vegas chart-toppers have confirmed they will be topping the bill. The news follows The Killers’ two sell-out nights at Birmingham’s LG Arena last week, reviewed on Page 8 of today’s Preview pullout. “We’ve come a long way since we played the Academy in Birmingham,” said frontman Brandon Flowers. The V Festival annuals attracts tens of thousands of fans from all round the world, and this year runs on August 22 and 23. The full line-up is expected to be announced tomorrow and is likely to include superband Coldplay, the reunion of Britpop legends Blur, Leicester stadium rockers Kasabian, and Scottish indie favourites Franz Ferdinand. Tickets go on sale from 10am next Friday. http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/03/01/killers-to-headline-v-festival-66331-23035481/

For those of you who aren't twittered up yet, here's some of the comments: teodiomio: @coldplay why are you trying to grab fotographers copyright? its 'our' work, you have no rights. we will boycot your gigs if you persist WillStrange: @coldplay: Why are you ripping photographers off? How would you feel if I demanded copyright to your creations? Pack it in. Will

I love it. Learnt all about soil in Delamere Forest for my A-Levels :D

so who's glad I didn't see this til fri night and I'm working all next week so won't get there? :P

There are a 4 train stations in Manchester City Centre - Victoria, Piccadilly, Oxford Road & Deansgate. If you want to hang out in town your best bet is Victoria or Piccadilly. Train tickets are valid on the tram in the city centre zone, so you can get the tram right into the middle (Market Street or Moseley Street stops) Best way to LCCC is tram from town to Old Trafford (any Altrincham-bound tram is best).

If you want to try & co-ordinate, and people are happy for me to do so, we can add hotels next to names on the who's going list

they did them outside at the BBC gig last June, so no excuses :D

Coldplay is claiming the copyright of concert pictures taken by professional photographers, demanding complete ownership of the images, according to WebVivant, a British freelance photography site based in France. They write: ------------------------------------------------------------- Rock band Coldplay is claiming the copyright of concert pictures taken by professional photographers. Just how rich do these guys need to be? This is becoming all too common. Coldplay is just the latest in the line of high-profile bands who want to grab the rights to pictures taken of them in concert. If you're a professional photographer, you won't get a pass to take pictures of the band during their gigs unless you are accredited to a magazine. And even then, you'll need to sign an agreement that forces you to give away your pictures. This is a portion of the contract that Coldplay's management is insisting photographers sign: 1. The photographs taken by you of the Artist ("the Photographs") shall only be taken during songs 2,3,4 performed by the Artist at the Event and shall only be taken without flash. The Photographs are approved for publication once in the following publications only; ................... [NAME(S) OF PUBLICATION(S)] Or for syndication as agreed by us or your agency; ................... [NAME (S) OF AGENCY 2. You hereby transfer and assign to us with full title guarantee the entire copyright and all extensions and renewals throughout the world (including by way of present assignment of future rights) and all rights of a similar nature in the Photographs. 3. You warrant and undertake that the Photographs (in whole or in part) shall not form, either directly or indirectly, the content of any publication other than the Publication(s), whether published by the above publication(s) (including in any associated publication of such publication(s) listed above) or by any third party (i.e. no syndication rights are granted). In case you hadn't noticed, most rock photographers aren't exactly rich. The fees they get for attending and photographing gigs are mostly risible. The only reason it's worthwhile is because they can resell the images later as stock photos. In this case, Coldplay wants that revenue for itself. It wants to profit from the skill and talent of the photographers. Just how rich do these guys need to be? This is part of a larger trend, one that involves no small amount of hypocrisy. One the one hand, photographers' clients are reducing fees, using amateurs (so-called citizen journalists, micro-stock etc). There's a strong implication that the skills and artistic talent of photographers isn't worth much - certainly not as much as it used to be. On the other hand, they're going for massive rights grabs, demanding complete ownership of the images. Why? Because they know that this intellectual property is actually worth rather a lot. They can make money from it. Any self-respecting photographer is going to tell Coldplay, and their ilk, to shove this contract up their over-rated arses. Alas, there are bound to be some newbies or wannabes or innocents who just won't realise to what extent the band is ripping them off. This is shameful exploitation. By steve http://www.webvivant.com/coldplay-copyright-grab.html

nope, we've not got one yet. the old cafepress one is still open at the moment. I like your spreadshirt site :) is it a free or premium one?

heaven forbid I encourage anyone else, but someone on livejournal just recommended this site http://www.kempswoolshop.com/wool_specials.aspx their clearance prices are awesome if you can see something you'd like

yay!!! :D

gives me a brilliant idea for the Wembley queue though :D we can have a knitting session. lots of yellow wool and 100 of us knitting, we can make us a huge yellow knitted banner!!!

Another Twitter!! alanasays: Just saw Coldplay live. OMG amazing! Words cannot express how incredible they were. I'm still buzzing. Argh!! Awesome!!

whenever you can hun. we need you to be able to get to your next concert :D

yup, glad you're paying attention :P and you're the one who hasn't gone to be yet :laugh3:

next one is Tues :P

reverse striptease? :confused: :laugh3:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB4MHBUuQIw]YouTube - Coldplay in Perth 27/2/09- In My Place[/ame]

glad you enjoyed :D and welcome to the board :) you do better than me, its why I have to take Ian with me!!! we might just manage to wait that long :P :laugh3:

so that would make it : #[[Life In Technicolor]] #[[Violet Hill]] #[[in My Place]] #[[Clocks]] #[[Yellow]] #[[Cemeteries Of London]] #[[Chinese Sleep Chant]] #[[42]] #[[Fix You]] #[[strawberry Swing]] #[[God Put A Smile Upon Your Face|God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (partial techno remix)]] #[[Talk|Talk (partial techno remix)]] #[[The Hardest Part|The Hardest Part (Chris solo piano)]] #[[Postcards From Far Away|Postcards From Far Away (Chris solo piano)]] #[[Viva La Vida]] #[[Lost!]] #[[speed Of Sound|Speed Of Sound (acoustic)]] #[[Green Eyes|Green Eyes (acoustic)]] #[[Death Will Never Conquer|Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic, sung by Will)]] #[[Viva La Vida|Viva La Vida (remix interlude)]]<br>'''First Encore''' #[[Politik]] #[[Lovers In Japan]] #[[Death And All His Friends]]<br>'''Second Encore''' #[[The Scientist]] #[[Life In Technicolor ii]] #[[The Escapist|The Escapist (outro)]]

so very, very awesome :D very pleased for you, min :kiss: :dance:

Youtube has cranked into life :D [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQEQz-0Wgo]YouTube - The Scientist[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_QOJFt_XI]YouTube - God Put A Smile Upon Your FaceTalk[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrc7NYQI4s]YouTube - Clocks[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lS4_8Mlx3g]YouTube - Life In Technicolour ii[/ame]

updating first post with vids! found a few more vids: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKqNbnwNov8]YouTube - Viva La Vida Live - Coldplay (Perth)[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSssYaQX6Gk]YouTube - Coldplay - Perth 27 Feb 2008 - Burswood[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IAV7gICG0]YouTube - Viva La Vida - Coldplay - Perth 2009[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2smfaDdCp8]YouTube - Coldplay live in Perth - Viva la Vida[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so--mIRv6pA]YouTube - Coldplay: Concert Intro, Burswood, Perth {WA 27.02.09}[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzknL-pX32o]YouTube - Coldplay: In My Place / Yellow {Perth, WA 27.02.09}[/ame]

the people on brit_knits @ livejournal keep mentioning ravelry, but i haven't yet ventured over to see what its all about. maybe I ought to. sounds like the trip to the pub was awesome :D we used to hang out in a corner of Starbucks in our local Borders. I miss it sometimes :\ but find it difficult to go, as they meet every other thursday and with my shifts I struggle to make it.