Monday, November 7, 2011

Black Book v2.0

I recently posed a question on the official Facebook page asking for advice on a quandary I'm in right now: I've been waiting on more shows from friends to add to the book for a while now, and I want to make sure the book isn't necessarily held up because of it. The question I asked is, should I wait or finish it up (mainly formatting and edits) and release it sooner rather than later. The general consensus seems to be to wait until at least the new year and assess at that point. I think that's good advice, advice I will follow.

What does everyone think? Please leave comments and suggestions!

Also, if you have any recordings of live shows or ticket stub scans, please contact me, I'll get it into the book between now and 2012.

7 comments:

  1. Go ahead and finish her up! I have to pick up my copy of the first edition, unfortunately. Gotta have a complete collection ;)

    Cant wait!

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  2. Thanks for the kind words of encouragement!!! Hope you like v 1.0 :-)

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  3. hey mr blur... i'm in awe of your knowledgge.. i was kind of wondering if you have by any chance a few archived audios with stephen street where he breaks down the songs on parklife... i remember him pointing out how graham was essencial for the blur sound and all... i've tried it to find it online, but i never did. do you have it? thanks in advance. xx

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  4. Hi there, thanks for the kind words! Do you mean the mini-documentary type footage where Street discusses the Parklife sessions and shows rare footage of them in the studio recording?

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  5. I have an almost 7min clip from Youtube with in intro by Stephen Street followed by studio footage, Magic America etc..Could that be it?

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  6. sorry for the late reply, but i got so caught up with work that i forgot to check back here. anyway, it was a radio show with stephen street (no video as far as i know) in which he highlighted certain studio moments. i remember him giving graham special props for the 'blur sound' mentioning something like harmonies, things that usually go unnoticed but in the end are very important. to exemplify this he got parklife (i think) and broke the song down, showing us the 'oooooh parklife' bit with graham, this is all i can remember. i think this was a new-ish intervew with street... done in the last 3 years or so.

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  7. Yes I think that's the one I'm thinking of. Shame there isn't more of that sort of stuff around...I'd love to see it!

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