Gavin On Letterman
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Aug 24, 2011
Gavin Harrison was whacking the tubs on last night's Letterman TV show. You can find out more and see the man himself in action here. 

King Crimson To Die For
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Aug 23, 2011
My thanks to Cole for sending me this link to an interview with Today Is The Day's Steve Austin who chooses a piece of KC to be played at his funeral. 

Slick Improvs
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Aug 23, 2011
Julie and Eric Slick joined forces with guitarist Tim Motzer to produce some fiery improvisation in a live webcast last night. If you missed it worry not. You can watch/listen to the whole thing here. A free sign-up is required but if you like your music adventurous and intuitive then it's well worth it. 

Can't Stop The Music
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Aug 22, 2011
My thanks to Klunk for letting me know about yet another artist engaged in a copyright battle.

King Crimson Reissues Nominated For Classic Rock Mag Poll
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Aug 21, 2011
What’s been your favourite reissues of the last 12 months? Hopefully, you’ll say "Why the King Crimson 40th Anniversary Edition series, of course!"  If that’s the case then please go and vote for Crimson in the Reissue Of The Year part of Classic Rock magazine’s annual poll. It's step 3 of 5 in the voting process.

You can vote here or by hitting the newly installed banner above. It’d be great to see the KC catalogue in the winner’s section.

 

And The Winner Is...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Aug 20, 2011
My thanks to Dave Owen for sending me a picture of himself and his signed copy of Stick Men's Absalom, which he won in our recent competition.

Tim's Troubles With Royalties
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Aug 19, 2011
Tim Bowness has updated his blog wherein he discusses No-Man's early career and in the comments section talks about the vexed question of companies whose accounting might not be as prompt as you'd like. 

Bill's Box Competition
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Aug 19, 2011
If you head over to Bill Bruford's website you can find out more details about how to enter a competition to be at the exclusive invite-only launch of the special edition of Bill's biography by Foruli.

Hammill's Character
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Aug 18, 2011
Peter Hammill's latest blog update details some problems he's been having in getting royalty payments from an indie label character who will be known to long-term readers of RF's diary.

After reading Peter's commentary, RF writes "we dealt with BC's threat of libel with a senior partner of Carter Ruck: he actually used a junior at the firm who had no authority to even reply to our letters. which she / they / he didn't. and we have not heard from him since."

Muir On Rubbish
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Aug 18, 2011
Here’s a link to an article by drummer and writer, Mark Nauseef, which quotes Jamie Muir on his approach to percussion.