That Sony Meeting
Well because of the intervention of Homegame this post has been somewhat delayed, so apologies for that, so here we go.
Firstly a brief description of the circumstances. A little while ago, London-based Winston’s Zen was the victim of another of those DMCA take-down hits. Due to connections he was able to actually get through to the label at the source, Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, and they invited him in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday myself, Winston himself, Jamila from Fucking Dance and Tim from The Blue Walrus went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour.
And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really. We chatted, but I am not sure either side had much of a concrete idea of what we wanted to get out of the meeting, so it was little more than a start, I’d say. Some thoughts, though: Read the rest of this entry »
