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I always want to blog while I’m going to conferences but more realistically I will give my report on Midem next week when I’m back in London. Things just get too hectic for me to be able to sit down for a moment and write a few words. I am told there are less people going this year but my schedule is now full. I know already I’m going to regret having booked too many meeting.

I will leave you with with a video from one of my favourite bands of the moment, Frightened Rabbit (found this via nomnomnom). Awesome stuff.

Frightened Rabbit “I Feel Better” from Sam Molleur on Vimeo.

If you can get your hand on the latest copy of Billboard (10th January it says on the cover) make sure you read the Opinion piece on page 4. In addition to giving a good pitch, Lala.com‘s Bill Nguyen wrote a short and well formulated article on listening to music online and business behind it. My favourite quote:

“The web is home to more new music each year than was released in many previous decades. Critics say the music is mostly junk – but the same could have been said for the Web before Google made the knowledge there accessible.”

I couldn’t agree more.

I found this via Anthony: I played Little Boots on my show before as she seemed talented and there was quite a buzz going on around here already. In fact she is the only act I put forward to the BBC Sound of 2009 that actually made it into the Top 15. (No one else for Frightened Rabbit?)

Then I found the video below and was blown away. She is gorgeous and being a geek I love that she is using the Tenori-On live on the Jools Holland show.

After finding his presentation on the TED site (see below) I’ve read Richard St. John’s ‘8 To Be Great‘ over the holidays. He might not be the best writer and most of his points seem quite obvious at first but he summarizes his findings in a clever way and I found this short read very inspirational. Recommended!

Found this yesterday on Silicon Alley Insider and thought this fits in nicely here. “THE INTERNET!”  

A lot of people have asked us if we will organize another OpenMusicMedia Meet this year and Dave and I felt that we can’t let 2008 end without without getting together one more time. Join us next Tuesday (2nd December) in London at the Williams IV – we won’t be having a guest speaker this time so we’ll be sticking to good conversation in addition to food and drinks.

We’ll be meeting at the usual place, usual time, which means upstairs at the William IV pub after work from 6pm till kicking out time. For those who haven’t been already the William IV is just round the corner from Old St. Hope to see you all down there!

More info on times, venues, etc here and please RSVP if you can.

I would love to play this song on my show but I can find the mp3 so I just post it here instead: be sure to check out the video below – the song is called ‘September’ by Tvärvägen, a “one-man-orchestra, consisting of Henrik Öhberg”.

Just beautiful stuff. You’re suppose to be able to download this track here but it didn’t work for me today.

Tvärvägen – September from Henrik Ohberg on Vimeo.