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Eager

2 April 2007

Normally I would probably write at length about the EMI/Apple announcement, but to be honest I’m not sure if there’s much more to discuss.

Yes, it’s a good thing.

Yes, Apple is smart by tying this in to both a price rise and a audio-format quality change.

No, it’s not the end of DRM (yet).

I think the most interesting thing is that the album prices are the same for the DRM versions and the non-DRM versions – there’s now much more reason to buy the full album. No doubt this is an effort to try and combat the album’s current failure to be relevant digitally. It would be also interesting to know if the price rise is down to Apple trying to make more money, coupled with higher distribution costs for the larger files, or whether EMI demanded a higher per-track rate then before, to offset the lack of DRM.

Anyway, that’s quite enough of that.

At the weekend I went to see the rather wonderful To My Boy and Cajun Dance Party. The gig mostly notable for the age of the audience – this was an all ages show, and the average age was probably about 15.

I felt really quite old.

What amazed me most, though, was how enthusiastic they were – they went absolutely nuts at the DJ between songs, let alone the bands that came on. Makes a nice change to most of the gigs I go to where everybody is trying very hard to look cool. Here’s some pictures – including some of aforementioned mental crowd:

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2 April 2007