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  GOOD MUSIC February 5, 2006
Written by txerren59
I can’t believe King Crimson’s fans can say this is bad music. I think it’s very good. Litsen to it carefully, please. Maybe it’s not as good as Cadence And Cascade. But, please, listen to it again! It’s very good!!
Reviews December 21, 2005
Written by The Vicar
Toady at the Vicarage ; The Betsy
My thanks to those who have fired their shotguns at the Tall Pointy One in the review section. After several hundred more sharpened knives directed at his "appalling ditties" and "unmusical tunes", the boy wonder will have served his apprenticeship.
Whether the music is good or bad, it is certainly recognizable. Matt, from Akymbo, phoned DGM today to say that he had the song on Talk Radio, and was just thinking that "it sounds like the sort of song David would write", when the DJ duly announced that it was indeed his handiwork.
Having started sales on the most local level possible - The Broad Chalke village shop - the song is slowly spreading outwards, with misguided shopkeepers throughout the area asking to have boxes. The leap from regional to national is in the hands of others - with DGMLive contributing 57 international sales at the last time of looking.
My thanks to one and all. Just another £399,000 to go.
Raising Awareness December 21, 2005
Written by sazerac
I’d like to congratulate you and everyone involved on the result of your effort, Where’s the Money, Mr. Blair? I expected some pointed/clever writing, but was happy to hear the quality of the song as a piece of music to be in my estimation, exceptional. That’s a rather convoluted way of saying, "Well done, Vicar. I love the song."
I find the chorus sticks with me throughout the day, which can only be a good thing - especially in the context of a song intended to raise awareness. Another sign of quality is that the instrumental mix also stands on it’s own - the orchestration feels particularly British (from this American’s perspective) and reveals a commitment to quality not usually present in activist endeavors.
Raising awareness requires the broadest of audiences - so it would be folly to employ a musical style that generally appeals to a specialized musical pallette; it would be unreasonable for the listener to have an expectation of a Crimson-esque composition. In terms of musical style, I think the song is strategically, as well as musically, sound.
Simply unbearable. December 20, 2005
Written by sonnenberg
Sorry, Vic. It’s not the music media’s fault this time. I haven’t so viscerally (Vicarally?) reached for the ’stop’ button in ages. Maybe he’ll send the money just to end the suffering inflicted by this appalling ditty. Eeew. Eeew.
Paul Sonnenberg
Austin, TX
Where's the money Mr Blair December 7, 2005
Written by meinirjane
Well done!
25 years on December 6, 2005
Written by ptrsingleton
Nice idea, doubt you’ll get the money. But I have donated my bit. As for the music, OK, so its not Paul McCartney, but then it was never going to be. Hope the kids enjoyed it, and maybe even learnt something!
Admirable but. . . December 5, 2005
Written by YorkshireSquare
Admirable intentions.
However this is the most unmusical tune I have ever heard. Awful!
where's the money Mr. Blair December 4, 2005
Written by donbledore
Dear Vicar, I have followed and waited for your music for 5
years with great anticipation...you have surpassed my expectations with
tremendous bravdo!!! sublime arrangements coupled with incredible
production...well done, look forward to seeing you soon, Donbledore
Downloads December 3, 2005
Written by The Vicar
Today at the Vicarage : The Vicarage.
Excitements, excitements! It is wonderful to see a simple song recorded in deepest Wiltshire having a resonance in Florida. The real power of the internet. My thanks to those with the twitchy fingers, and to those about twitch. Your purchases and comments have a resonance far beyond the simple $2 that is added to the total.
For example - at 14.30 on Friday, David Pointy Singleton and his child chorus were photographed for the Daily Express - which will hopefully be singing his praises, if not his wonderful song, in their Monday edition. He has worked tirelessly, if a little madly, to make this song all it should be. It will be interesting to see where it may end.
The next step is to find a champion on the radio, who will get that infernally catchy refrain, brainwashing the listening nation.
Onward
A Challenge December 2, 2005
Written by punkster
Where’s the money, Mr Bush? Tell us Mr Bush? Mr Bush, tell us? There
are the new lyrics (at least some of them), and the backing track is
free download. So who’s going to make the US version on this English
classic.
EduKcation? December 1, 2005
Written by barrystock
We face a similar situation, I believe, here in Florida, USA, ranked somewhere between "boiled peanuts and fried catfish"
in the national ratings. Our governor, the president’s brother -- his
policies -- are responsible for my mother retiring early from public
education after 30+ years, saying "I just can’t take it any more". It
is quite common for teachers to spend a portion of their pay providing
missing supplies to their class, and the entire breadth and width of
the educational spectrum (esp. the liberal arts) has been subverted to
the almighty FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test), from which
-- conveniently -- Degas, Shakespeare, and Shostakovich are
absent. The state lottery program, voted in two decades ago, was to
have supplemented the state’s education budget. Instead, once the
lottery funds were in place, the state education budget was slashed,
and the status quo was maintained, excepting that the lottery is mainly
played by the poor. Most school playgrounds are now a tight grid of
portable units.
"Where’s the Money, Mr. Blair?"
We Americans know where the money is.
Here’s
hoping this song’s pointed message, direct from the headquarters of one
of his favorite bands, heightens awareness on the east side of the
Atlantic Channel.
Cheers!
-bs
Wonderfully English December 1, 2005
Written by junklight
Pipe organ, horns, strings, children singing - its got it all. And its for a good cause. What more could you want?
Where's the money, Mr Blair? November 30, 2005
Written by The Vicar
Today at the Vicarage : The Vicarage.
22.04. "Where The Money, Mr Blair?" has landed in the backend of the DGMlive site. Whether this song will deign to appear on the main pages, and prostrate itself before the buying public remains to be seen.
I trust the DGM customers will look kindly upon our pitiful charitable offering, and support it with their dollars.
Although it has been diversion from my recent work with the Tall Pointy Singleton - it has both been humbling to work with the Broadchalke school and the teachers, and rewarding in bringing a first part of the puzzle to completion. This site makes it real.
Less rewarding has been the need to seek mainstream press publicity (boo hiss spit spit). Punk & David have been emailing contacts all day (well, Punk has been oggling Kelly Brook’s amply displayed bosoms on the pages of the Daily Star, Daily Mirror and The Sun, while claiming to be researching journalists’ names). I find it depressingly unlikely that any of these people will respond to unsolicited emails. Yet maybe. Just maybe, the resonance from this site will reach out and touch their blighted souls (except the nice kind journalists, of course, who have my everlasting thanks and admiration).
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