As the year moves on we start to find more press releases and desperatre calls for publicity masquerading as music news stories.
A case in point? "Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh 'at war' after arguing over X Factor acts". Now war is an interesting use of words. To me war is two or more large countries disagreeing over political policies, leading to conflict, weapons and death. I don't find many countries have gone to war over whether people can sing or not. Neither do I expect Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh to be launching homing missiles at each other across the desk. Though that would be interesting to watch, especially as it will take out everyone else and all the untalented individuals wandering onto stage.
The best line is "Gary is incandescent after Louis appeared to pass acts who cant sing even accusing him of undermining the shows integrity."
The show has integrity? That's news to me. I thought it was a shameless cash-in to make a certain record company lots of money by exploiting artists who can't be arsed to do the usual route of becoming a musician - years of struggle.
Then again, Take That is a manufactured band, though I do want to go on record and say I do like them as a band.
And with the case of 'Oasis vs Oasis' rolling on here is the next chapter title: "Noel Gallagher: My night on the booze with Paul Gascoigne and his parrot."
You couldn't make it up.
He does mention that a swimming pool was involved. He did say Gazza and not Barrymore?
But these two stories show that any publicity is good publicity.
Saturday 20 August 2011
Ah, the publicity machine takes over the music news
Posted on 02:32 by Unknown
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