In jan 2003 i did a 10 day on site medical trial. the basis was they were tesing a drug using cannaboids to be used in serious head traumas - the idea was that the drug helped stop inflammation of "something/insert medical term" and healing of the cells around the injury (something like that)
when they said i'd be paid 60quid a day, with all food, sat tv, pool table (able to smoke) and about 6 guys having a laugh with the nurses, and to do with cannaboids helping medicine i could hardly say no!.
i cant b arsed to think of a subject to the chumba
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wot a load of psuedo/psychobabble/marketing tosh..
hats off though i spose to bigchampagne for getting paid to tell a bunch of idiots what they should be getting paid for knowing in the first place - anyone with half a brain could tell you that
btw - word to the wise..
chumbas have been around for 20 odd years
chumbas signed to emi germany to get the (then) new album done
radio1 (uk) picked up on the single not realising who the band was (cue - er am i really hearing chumbas on radio 1, have i really heard mike scott say please do the radio bank holiday beach thing ?)
chumbas soak prescott at brit awards therby getting more press
tubthumping then gets worldwide play from bizarre places like canadian hockey games et al - (if youve ever seen the chumabas play at the islington rocket club (a pub really) you really do sit back and wonder what the f**k is going on but laugh at the same time)
i guess its very easy to label this a chumbawumba thing but then it would surely be more honest to label this a "i heard the single of [insert most bands this year] i liked it, bought it, but having listened to the rest of the album its er not quite like the fantastic single i heard on the radio and i wish i hadnt bought the album"
labels killed this and brought this whole thing on when they started doing advance radio play of album tracks before the album was out
how can you complain that ppl are d/ling and not buying when a week before album release you are giving listeners the chance to hear the friggin thing!!
however after that rant i still think that the more "music" is in the press, papers etc etc the more ppl will maybe find an interest and get invovled - and maybe buy more ipods, subscribe to ridiculous online d/load attempts etc etc
if anyone knows where this [free data] is going to go you'll make a fortune...
what makes me laugh about this whole thing is that the USA seems to think that the internet, p2p etc etc is just er the USA
there are something like 120? other countries other than the usa - and believe it or not they (some) have phones and they also believe it or not have access to the internet and funnily enough quite a few have broadband (uk users are the highest d/loaders of tv)
the sc, riaa,mpaa can quite frankly do what the f**k it likes - its not going to make the slightest bit of difference to any other country oustide of the usa
whats that sound?
its the sound of u.s. websites moving abroad
now what are the riaa, mpaa going to do then ?
the bottom line is that the labels and the studios have to be seen to do something but basically we all know that nothing is going to change
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In jan 2003 i did a 10 day on site medical trial. the basis was they were tesing a drug using cannaboids to be used in serious head traumas - the idea was that the drug helped stop inflammation of "something/insert medical term" and healing of the cells around the injury (something like that) when they said i'd be paid 60quid a day, with all food, sat tv, pool table (able to smoke) and about 6 guys having a laugh with the nurses, and to do with cannaboids helping medicine i could hardly say no!.
wot a load of psuedo/psychobabble/marketing tosh.. hats off though i spose to bigchampagne for getting paid to tell a bunch of idiots what they should be getting paid for knowing in the first place - anyone with half a brain could tell you that btw - word to the wise.. chumbas have been around for 20 odd years chumbas signed to emi germany to get the (then) new album done radio1 (uk) picked up on the single not realising who the band was (cue - er am i really hearing chumbas on radio 1, have i really heard mike scott say please do the radio bank holiday beach thing ?) chumbas soak prescott at brit awards therby getting more press tubthumping then gets worldwide play from bizarre places like canadian hockey games et al - (if youve ever seen the chumabas play at the islington rocket club (a pub really) you really do sit back and wonder what the f**k is going on but laugh at the same time) i guess its very easy to label this a chumbawumba thing but then it would surely be more honest to label this a "i heard the single of [insert most bands this year] i liked it, bought it, but having listened to the rest of the album its er not quite like the fantastic single i heard on the radio and i wish i hadnt bought the album" labels killed this and brought this whole thing on when they started doing advance radio play of album tracks before the album was out how can you complain that ppl are d/ling and not buying when a week before album release you are giving listeners the chance to hear the friggin thing!! however after that rant i still think that the more "music" is in the press, papers etc etc the more ppl will maybe find an interest and get invovled - and maybe buy more ipods, subscribe to ridiculous online d/load attempts etc etc if anyone knows where this [free data] is going to go you'll make a fortune...
there are something like 120? other countries other than the usa - and believe it or not they (some) have phones and they also believe it or not have access to the internet and funnily enough quite a few have broadband (uk users are the highest d/loaders of tv)
the sc, riaa,mpaa can quite frankly do what the f**k it likes - its not going to make the slightest bit of difference to any other country oustide of the usa
whats that sound?
its the sound of u.s. websites moving abroad
now what are the riaa, mpaa going to do then ?
the bottom line is that the labels and the studios have to be seen to do something but basically we all know that nothing is going to change
i read that the uk *and* us record industry had its best year ever - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/415 0747.stm/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/404 4303.stm/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/359 0912.stm/
im sure theres a report somewhere on how the movie industry is doing ;)
its not going to go away - deal with it (ps. the right to bear arms? what a joke)