Should YouTube be paying royalties to music creators?
Google are not happy paying creators of music for their content that is viewed on YouTube... They are making money from advertisers as a result of the viewing figures for the content... so why shouldn't they pass some of that money back to the musicians who write the stuff!
...and maybe they should be paying something for the content on Myspace too... after all most people on Myspace music are starting out and could do with some 'pin money' to help them along.
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Who i'd like to meet:
Anyone who can give me a decent stage to perform on!
Like this one at the Rotterdam Bar....
You can buy a copy of the track 'Let Go' by clicking this link... this counts towards the Irish charts!!
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The following video was taken during the Indie Summer Festival in Carrick on Shannon last summer... it was organised by Johnny from downloadmusic.ie - An excellent job too!!
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Just before the Rotterdam sunday gig we were in the beer garden chillin with Roy Lindsay III (New Orleans harmonica player) When all of a sudden this happened...
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Sea Nomad live at The Strand Bar, Strandhill county Sligo - Saturday 3rd March 2007
Thanks Doug!
American Girl - Ludwig & Julie Mack rehearsal (Tom Petty cover)
This was the day of the Rotterdam gig - we decided to go over a couple of songs... i just switched on the vid on my phone and caught a nice moment with two very lovely friends.
There's only me here..
But I do have a dream band.
Until then i am ably assisted by some fine friends when they are free to do so. Contributors so far have been Ali Mackenzie on bass (The Bush Turkeys, Reeferadio, Jim Armstrong band, Jim Gilchrist.) Ruby Colley on violin (Cava).
I hope to benifit from the input of a number of other wonderfully talented musicians as I move from the EP recordings to commence work on my debut solo album.
Jenny performing fire poi at the Ludwig/Sara Petite gig - Rotterdam Bar 3rd feb 07
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I HAVE A NEW SONG IN THE AIIRADIO CHARTS!!
It's called HOLD ME TONIGHT
I NEED YOU ALL TO VOTE AGAIN AND KEEP IT GOING TO GET THE NUMBER ONE SLOT FOR ME!!
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I really hope you can all get the time to send in a vote... aiiradio.net is a superb spot for indies to get a leg up and some decent airplay... I always notice a few extra hits on myspace when i get played on aiiradio...
Go to www.aiiradio.net and check out their chatroom, even submit a song of your own... you'll be looked after by all the superb presenters and friends in the aiiradio community.
Thank you all for your votes for SEA NOMAD - i couldn't have done it without all of you! :)
Don't forget to listen to the shows on aiiradio... SOME GREAT NEW SOUNDS ARE SHOWCASING OVER THERE! You do need realplayer - but most machines can run it ok)
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LUDWIG O'NEILL - THE BEDROOM SESSIONS
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The following are a selection of video performances from The Purple Room Acoustic Sessions, Drogheda, Ireland
Hold me tonight - Live at The Purple Room
Let go - Live at The Purple Room
How do you feel? - Live at The Purple Room
Sea Nomad - Live at The Purple Room
Rosey Black & me - Live at The Purple Room
A massive thank you to Gerry and Aidan for these great videos!
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Ludwig O'Neill - Who is he?
Sometimes, forbidden fruits are the sweetest of them all...
At the tender age of 6, Davy O'Neill wasn't allowed to play with his older brother’s guitar, so he stole moments with it when he could, adding the craft of guitar to his growing passion for the harmonica. He was a natural, always playing by ear - the art came to him with little effort. In earlier times, they'd have said this was a child ‘kissed by the muses’. But Belfast of the early 1970's was a bleak place of constant death and mayhem, and not a place any self-respecting muse would find herself if she could help it.
Daily violence and uncertainty dominated most people's lives back in that bad time. However, the young Davy O'Neill found that he could escape into the music that seemed to be all around him. He buried himself in the soundtrack of the era: Radio Caroline drifting on the waves, the little red transistor radio beneath his sleepy pillow, ebbing and flowing, crackling out Led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, Meatloaf, America, Pink Floyd and beyond… this was the only place where he could block out the fear and misery that surrounded him on Belfast’s dark unwelcoming streets. Sometimes it is the desert of the soul that creates the most powerful artist.
So, why the name Ludwig? One evening Davy had the choice of running with his mates in the streets of North Belfast, or working on a song he was writing - he chose the music. Kids being kids taunted him with 'Look!… there goes ‘effin’ Ludwig the composer'.. Adopting that name became a title of honour for the 15-year-old musician - the ultimate two fingers to his tormentors.
Ludwig has played the local music scene for the last 15 years in various bands, with some measure of success, the most notable of these outfits being The Bush Turkeys in the early to mid nineties. However, in recent years, a creative ‘sea change’ had begun to occur. A desire to create a deeper, darker form of music, with all the pain and passion of the true Celtic heart had emerged in the more mature artist. In some ways these new 'dark still water' sounds wouldn't have found a niche in the bands that Ludwig was currently working with; ReefeRadio, a rock/blues outfit and Apartment, a jazz/soul band. Something had to give.
All musicians should evolve as life changes and creates new nuances in their own lives - the evolution of Ludwig was already well under way.
He found that the only course of action was to give in to this new creative impetus and exciting new musical direction - accepting that challenge was always going to be the easy bit. In the last two years the songs have grown and become crafted into a very heady mix of raw emotion and tempered rage against the tribulations and trials that humanity shares, universally. Real songs about real issues that touch us all.
Ludwig’s music is the very heartbeat, the life soundtrack of Belfast, a Belfast changing now too… growing into something fine and new and full of hope. You wont find tales of murder and gunplay in Ludwig’s work, nor will you find anger and aggression – instead you will find a passion for truth and understanding similar to that found in the works of Joyce or Hewitt. Ludwig merges his poetry and ‘warmly intoxicating’ music in a way that pulls at the very souls of his audience on so many different levels.
Just as you turn a corner of North Belfast you find the surprising- the mild mannered clerk with the heart of a poet, the bank worker who creates sculpture, the housewife who creates graceful works of Celtic art, so too, Ludwig’s music is about the unseen, the overlooked - the love, the heartbreak, the pain, and ultimately the redemption of the soul through being true to itself.
This is the new Celtic heartbeat, the music of a city of saltwater and salty tears; of golden hills and grey estates. Relish the most sinister love song in years with the magnificent 'Let Go'… its dark passionate bass line, like a punch-drunk heartbeat; or the delicacy of ‘Sea Nomad’ - surely one of the most summery songs ever written. Then beware your own self-appraisal lurking behind his intimate, impassioned plea as he asks …’How do you feel??’
Already Ludwig’s back catalogue of songs is growing daily and as his writing form becomes more and more prolific, subsequent recordings are more than guaranteed.
A five track EP release is due in early 2009. Recorded at Bigspace Studio, Newry with producer Declan Legge, Both the EP and the subsequent full 14 track album will feature Ludwig’s most recent work and will be released on Folkwit Records (UK) http://www.myspace.com/folkwit
BR Maguire
Ludwig's Sunday Acoustic Sessions - solo acoustic set plus the finest guests from Ireland and beyond - THESE SESSIONS ARE ON HOLD FOR NOW... BUT THEY WILL RETURN BIGGER AND BETTER IN THE NEW YEAR
We've been in The Rotterdam, The Front Page and White's Tavern... maybe we are bound to a nomadic existance... aw well... next!?
Its been awhile since I said Hi so here I am on your page showing you I do think about you please stop by mine and say hello too!!!xxoo MicheleAnn/SRGT ROCK My band would like to rock all the military bases if you have any ideas how to make this happen please let me know, i guess we need a sponsor to do this, would have to be weekend gigs and dont know if the bases will allow it ether. Lets rock our military , MicheleAnn
Hey Guys, how are you?just a quick comment, 5 new tracks up on the myspace, check 'em out when u get a chance!!Leave some nice comments, tell your mates, all the regular hoola!Just started producing all my own stuff, total new musical sound!!Hope you are well!!Sarah-Louise x
sorry i only just noticed your comment! we aren't going anymore as my mate cancelled it, but you said you was comin over here anyway!!! when you comin?
whats up man? Miss ya like hell, never get to see enough of eachother anymore. Im really missin old times, im listening to the way it used to be an gettin all nostalgic haha. Im really missin one thing most of all here, but im not about to make that one public lol.
Ill be back from california early august so hopefully ill see you and emer in kelleys. Richie will be comin back i think a few days before me so all being well we both will be there.
Hows the gigs in the chester goin? Say hi to the family unit for me. Love ya bro, Matt
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Alright man, just been listening to yer new tracks (well new to me!) sounds brilliant, love Godspeed Hows things man you doin ok?? Im heading up through Belfast on saturday, have to call into bloody Ikea to buy a table and chairs on way to gig in Draperstown!! Go on the Skoda :)
HI Ludwig, Nice to hear from you and thanks for the kind words about the album - I see from your playlist I am in good company!! I hope things go well for Banbha. If there is anything we can do to help let us know. Have heard from Rena and she seems in much better form now.
Will get in touch next time I'm up North. Aw the best, A
You've got some great music and a great page here! Thanks for your friendship, and welcome aboard the Redline ship. Looking forward to sharing the journey ahead with you. Take Care, and thanks again. Peace,
Rhythm Festival 2009
21-23 August
Twinwood Arena, Clapham, Beds, MK41 6AB
The Proclaimers, Alabama 3, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Beat, Terry Reid, Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers, James Hunter, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Blow Monkeys, Pentangle, The Strawbs, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash and LOADS more...
http://www.rhythmfestival.net
hey you... im in Belfast at the end of July beginning of August - you gonna come and meet me - we can do a little gig ;) How's everyone, I hear Banbha has sprouted?! Msg back ye old fart! xxx
THANX 4 THE INQUIRY: THE MUSIC THAT U CAN HEAR ON THIS SITE IS NOT THE ONLY TYPE OF REGGAE U WILL HEAR. THERE R SO MANY TOPICS THAT TO JUS' SING ONE TOPIC ALTHOUGH IN PRAISE OF THE LORD WOULD NOT REACH AS MANY PPL AS IT SHOULD. MY ALBUM TOUCHES THOSE SUBJECTS CAH THAT IS LIFE AND I KEEP U INFORMED..../HOPE U ENJOY, FEEL FREE TO COMMENT......BLESS UP
Thanks Ludwig,enjoying your tunes ,the cd you gave me is tops. Have a good one at Warrenpoint and hopefully catch you playin soon.. Poker eh? there's a song in there somewhere! cheers,Mark B
Every time that we listen & write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... something is healing all over...
cada vez que escuchamos o escribimos musica... tocamos un instrumento... bailamos... o trabajamos en procesos de ingenieria de audio/imagen/video.... algo se sana por dentro...
Cuando lo compartimos con amigos... algo se sana en todas partes...
El Amor puede conducir... de manera simple... todo...
