New Order Fallout: 'Like A Fat Blur And Oasis', Says Peter Hook

I worked for a major label for over four years as a field marketing rep. The label had no regard for its artists or for developing talent, all they cared about was how much a record sold. If a band with a certain sound got popular, they would sign ten crap bands that sounded the same and if nothing sold, drop all of them.

Oh, and they laid of myself and the majority of my staff without any sort ot forwarning, or severance pay.

Fuck 'em.

The internet and new technology makes it so much easier for an artist to get their music heard and sold.

I am an uber geek in Ohio with no label or management of any kind, or band really, I am a one man band.

I sell lots and lots of copies of my first record and new single to people all over the US and in Europe thru the internet, and I don't even have my stuff on Itunes yet.

Point being, the game is changing, and the majors can go to hell. Soon no one will need them.

Zachery Starkey wrote: I worked for a major label for over four years as a field marketing rep. The label had no regard for its artists or for developing talent, all they cared about was how much a record sold. If a band with a certain sound got popular, they would sign ten crap bands that sounded the same and if nothing sold, drop all of them.

Oh, and they laid of myself and the majority of my staff without any sort ot forwarning, or severance pay.

Fuck 'em.

The internet and new technology makes it so much easier for an artist to get their music heard and sold.

I am an uber geek in Ohio with no label or management of any kind, or band really, I am a one man band.

I sell lots and lots of copies of my first record and new single to people all over the US and in Europe thru the internet, and I don't even have my stuff on Itunes yet.

Point being, the game is changing, and the majors can go to hell. Soon no one will need them.

yet am sure you're still waiting for someone to 'discover' you and that big pay-out and break, right? paaaaaaaaaaaaa-lease!...

BillONdollar wrote:

Zachery Starkey wrote: I worked for a major label for over four years as a field marketing rep. The label had no regard for its artists or for developing talent, all they cared about was how much a record sold. If a band with a certain sound got popular, they would sign ten crap bands that sounded the same and if nothing sold, drop all of them.

Oh, and they laid of myself and the majority of my staff without any sort ot forwarning, or severance pay.

Fuck 'em.

The internet and new technology makes it so much easier for an artist to get their music heard and sold.

I am an uber geek in Ohio with no label or management of any kind, or band really, I am a one man band.

I sell lots and lots of copies of my first record and new single to people all over the US and in Europe thru the internet, and I don't even have my stuff on Itunes yet.

Point being, the game is changing, and the majors can go to hell. Soon no one will need them.

yet am sure you're still waiting for someone to 'discover' you and that big pay-out and break, right? paaaaaaaaaaaaa-lease!...

No, Twatbag. I am quite content to work a normal job and have a normal life. I make music because I enjoy it. If others like it, cool. If not, also fine. And what does that have to do with the point of my post, which was about the failures of major labels, a subject that just about everyone here agrees on.

Zachery Starkey wrote:

BillONdollar wrote:

Zachery Starkey wrote: I worked for a major label for over four years as a field marketing rep. The label had no regard for its artists or for developing talent, all they cared about was how much a record sold. If a band with a certain sound got popular, they would sign ten crap bands that sounded the same and if nothing sold, drop all of them.

Oh, and they laid of myself and the majority of my staff without any sort ot forwarning, or severance pay.

Fuck 'em.

The internet and new technology makes it so much easier for an artist to get their music heard and sold.

I am an uber geek in Ohio with no label or management of any kind, or band really, I am a one man band.

I sell lots and lots of copies of my first record and new single to people all over the US and in Europe thru the internet, and I don't even have my stuff on Itunes yet.

Point being, the game is changing, and the majors can go to hell. Soon no one will need them.

yet am sure you're still waiting for someone to 'discover' you and that big pay-out and break, right? paaaaaaaaaaaaa-lease!...

No, Twatbag. I am quite content to work a normal job and have a normal life. I make music because I enjoy it. If others like it, cool. If not, also fine. And what does that have to do with the point of my post, which was about the failures of major labels, a subject that just about everyone here agrees on.

corporate (labels) sharks are there for a reason!

yes ASSWIPE, am sure you're CONTENT with your life! can't stand HYPOCRACY.

don't really care!

BillONdollar wrote:

Zachery Starkey wrote:

BillONdollar wrote:

Zachery Starkey wrote: I worked for a major label for over four years as a field marketing rep. The label had no regard for its artists or for developing talent, all they cared about was how much a record sold. If a band with a certain sound got popular, they would sign ten crap bands that sounded the same and if nothing sold, drop all of them.

Oh, and they laid of myself and the majority of my staff without any sort ot forwarning, or severance pay.

Fuck 'em.

The internet and new technology makes it so much easier for an artist to get their music heard and sold.

I am an uber geek in Ohio with no label or management of any kind, or band really, I am a one man band.

I sell lots and lots of copies of my first record and new single to people all over the US and in Europe thru the internet, and I don't even have my stuff on Itunes yet.

Point being, the game is changing, and the majors can go to hell. Soon no one will need them.

yet am sure you're still waiting for someone to 'discover' you and that big pay-out and break, right? paaaaaaaaaaaaa-lease!...

No, Twatbag. I am quite content to work a normal job and have a normal life. I make music because I enjoy it. If others like it, cool. If not, also fine. And what does that have to do with the point of my post, which was about the failures of major labels, a subject that just about everyone here agrees on.

corporate (labels) sharks are there for a reason!

yes ASSWIPE, am sure you're CONTENT with your life! can't stand HYPOCRACY.

don't really care!

Me neither.

anyways......the interview with Hooky was a good read.

Would that make freebass a band of has been bassists?

michael preda wrote: Would that make freebass a band of has been bassists?

Well, Mani's still in Primal Scream (Primal Scream are one of the more popular foreign bands here in Japan, by the way)...

i was realy guted that the great new order split up , and it seems to me that hookey had a big problem with bernard doing side projects, lets just hope in a few years they can get back together so we can here the great sound of new order again. i would like to know what other peopel think ?

It cannot go without comment that the chap from Ohio above responded to a jibe from another poster with a delightfully terse comeback, delivered with such deadpan panache and casually withering contempt that I almost cried.

"No, Twatbag"

Starkey rules!

Ah, well, thank you kindly! Praise from you two is indeed worthy! :)

leather_girl wrote:

michael preda wrote: Would that make freebass a band of has been bassists?

Well, Mani's still in Primal Scream (Primal Scream are one of the more popular foreign bands here in Japan, by the way)...

Thanks for the correction! So just one has been?