Fripp: I Didn't Leak Bowie Album
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Jan 18, 2013
One of the sites reporting "Robert Fripp Leaked Bowie Secret" is today carrying a correction. Check it out here. 

Fripp Didn't Leak Bowie Secret
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 17, 2013
Robert Fripp has commented upon the recent news stories circulating on the internet about his supposed leaking of that David Bowie was working on a new album. You can read Robert's response here. 

NYCNY Live
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jan 17, 2013
My thanks to Wilbert and Spingere who point out that there's a cracking version of NYCNY by Daryl Hall and Seattle outfit, Minus The Bear in the current episode of Live From Daryl's House. The track was featured on Hall's Fripp-produced debut solo album, Sacred Songs but, as Hall explains in the episode, has never been performed live. You can see the whole thing here. 

The Great Deceiver Circle
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 15, 2013
On their recent European jaunt earlier this week The Guitar Circle of Europe performed several KC tracks. This is their interpretation of The Great Deceiver. 

Brian Eno Talks
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jan 15, 2013
Here's an interesting video wherein Brian Eno talks about creativity and how if you wait for inspiration you might well miss the boat. 

Crimson Kick Off In Canada
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
The opening date in King Crimson's last North American tour of 1984 has just been made available for download. You grab it here.

The Universal Symphony
:: Posted by David S on Mon., Jan 14, 2013

As Sid has already announced, The Vicar and Punk Sanderson have joined DGM’s ongoing campaign against UMG’s many violations of the King Crimson catalogue (all too familiar to all diary readers).

Punk has taken the "Universal Symphony" emanating from DGMHQ and (with apologies to Monty Python and Bob Dylan) used it as the soundtrack for an unlikely protest video.

Please share with your enemies and even your friends. Perhaps a Youtube hit is what it takes.

FART FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

Record company breaks contract
Artist breaks wind

How can one small, mobile and not-very-intelligent unit fight the blast-door of lawyers that protect the world’s largest media company?

Many musicians and artists have faced the same problem, but few have worked their butts off quite like this to find a solution - fart outside the offices of their nemesis and post the video on YouTube.

Punk Sanderson, author of a series of semi-fictional exposes of the music industry, has filmed his protest: Fart For Your Rights! 

Punk Sanderson, author of a series of semi-fictional exposes of the music industry, has filmed his protest: Fart For Your Rights! “It’s like the Occupy Movement, only smellier. We’ve called bankers, politicians and ‘phone-hackers to account – now it’s time for major record labels. They trample over musicians’ rights and rather than owning up and offering fair settlement, reach for expensive lawyers. It would cost over £300,000 to fight them in the courts – who’s got that kind of money?

So, armed with a battery of slogans - “Fart For Farts Sake,” “All You Need Is Wind,” “With A Little Fart From Your Friends” - the intention is to encourage Dinosaur Inc to own up, get ethical and improve business practices.

“The major record labels are happy enough chasing college kids who infringe their own copyrights. This campaign blows them towards taking their own copyright abuse seriously. Any artist can join the protest, get the iFart app on their ‘phone, and blast away in meetings with their record label. Or just trigger it anyway. We are on the scent of something big.

All Punk’s found-sounds are of organic origin.

Fart For Your Rights!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
The Vicar has more information about the latest video addition to the website. 

Important Mail Order News
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jan 14, 2013
Some changes have been made to the way mail order via the site is fulfilled. Burning Shed are now formally operating a European store for DGM releases, allowing Inner Knot to concentrate on their customers in the US.

Both companies are independent of DGM, and our aim is to co-ordinate worldwide pricing and release dates, avoiding problems we know customers have been having when hard-earned pay is prised from their grasp.

Happy Birthday King Crimson
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jan 13, 2013
On this date in 1969... There was much excitement in camp of the as yet unnamed King Crimson.  Why so?  Greg, Bob, Mike and Ian started their very first rehearsal in the basement of the Fulham Palace Road Café.  The venue had been found by Pete Sinfield, who turned up on the 13th with fellow KC roadie (and later tour manager) Dick Fraser at Ian McDonald’s place to collect Mike’s drums.  After that Dick, Pete, Bob and Greg returned to Ian’s to haul the Mellotron off to its new subterranean home and get their first rehearsal in their new space underway.  KC had truly become part of the underground scene!

And speaking of the underground...

In 2011 a Japanese film crew making a documentary about the song The Court Of The Crimson King chose to visit the site of the Fulham Palace Road Café as part of their show. You can read what happened over on the blog. Here's some snaps of the place as it is today. 

Helping celebrate King Crimson's 44th year are two feature articles in major magazine publications.

(thanks to Anthony V Hall for sending in this picture)

Mojo offers an 8-page feature written by Mike Barnes and covers Fripp's time in Crimson as well as his various collaborations.

Prog contains a one-page piece penned by Fripp himself which asks the question What Is King Crimson? This is followed by an 11-page feature written by yours truly and centered around an interview with Robert that  focuses on the years from Court up to Larks' and the creative processes that were at work at the time. You can see some of the magazine spread over on the blog. This is followed by a 4-page appraisal of Giles, Giles & Fripp's Cheerful Insanity album by Lin Bensley, with commentary from Mike and Peter Giles.

So raise a glass of your favourite tipple and toast to the King!