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The festival came and went - phew - & we're now back to doing more mundance issues. New visa regulations in US to keep us on our toes.
Some of us at FTTS are PRS writer members but when we joined we had no idea what PRS do exactly. So we spoke to Barney Hooper head of PR at PRS for Music to find out.
What does the PRS do? PRS or PRS For Music as it is now licences music on behalf of its members. We ensure that any time it is played, performed or reproduced whether live or on record, PRS collects money for its members. So that includes live performances, radio stations, TV, online, DVD, CDs, other products. Its members are songwriters composers and music publishers.
Not when I buy a CD and play it at home? No – only outside the domestic environment – so any business using music has to pay royalties (click 'read more' to see full article).
Lee Brilleaux of Dr Feelgood once said that soundchecks were “for poofters and Mink de Ville.” They are generally regarded as a necessary evil to try and temper the godawful row that your band makes onstage, and to turn it into something that might be termed “entertainment”.
So here are a few tips and rules to try and make that pre-dinner chore more painless and less pointless.
1. Be organised - particularly if you are a support band and only have a short time to souncheck . And with that in mind...
Someone should be in charge of running the soundcheck. This would generally be the FOH (front of house) engineer but is sometimes the tour manager or production manager. Musicians should be waiting ready to play when asked and be quiet when asked, and should resist the temptation to twiddle about. Drummers, in particular, find this impossible.
A bag of goodies including gig tix, cd, dvd and t-shirt could be yours...Just send a web friendly jpeg of your favourite 2010 festival photo to us by the 30th September. Photo(s) to include a caption. The winning photo will be posted on the site Monday 4th October.
Some of us at FTTS are PRS writer members but when we joined we had no idea what PRS do exactly. So we spoke to Barney Hooper head of PR at PRS for Music to find out. 
generally regarded as a necessary evil to try and temper the godawful row that your band makes onstage, and to turn it into something that might be termed “entertainment”.
A bag of goodies including gig tix, cd, dvd and t-shirt could be yours...Just send a web friendly jpeg of your favourite 2010 festival photo to us by the 30th September. Photo(s) to include a caption. The winning photo will be posted on the site Monday 4th October.