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Neil Leyton ao vivo na Fábrica do Braço de Prata (16.07.2008)

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André Torgal
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É já amanhã, na Fábrica do Braço de Prata em Lisboa, que Neil Leyton se apresenta ao vivo, a solo, acústico.

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Neil Leyton

Luso-Canadiano fundador da etiqueta Fading Ways, parceiro da agência Two Many Idiots de Setúbal e pioneiro (há mais de 10 anos) de tudo o que é alternativa ao licenciamento tradicional em copyright.

Leyton toca a solo ou com uma das suas várias bandas de back-up: Os Suecos The Ghosts, The Leyton Rifles (com o baixista do Reino Unido Chris Mcdougall (Dave Kusworth, Darrell Bath, White Russians, ex-The Darkness), e outros colegas tais como Rich Jones (ex-Black Halos, ex-Amen, agora na nova banda The Loyalties) e Rich Ragany (ex-Madison Strays). O seus últimos albúns foram The Betrayal of the Self (2006), com os Ghosts, e a mais recente proposta a solo A Reckoning (2008).

Audio - Electric

Audio - Acoustic

Staring - You Tube

My New Soul - You Tube

Live in Germany - You Tube

Two Many Idiots

A Two Many Idiots é uma agência de música ao vivo formada em Setúbal no Verão de 2008 por Vítor Guerreiro e Neil Leyton. Representa artistas internacionais de rock, música alternativa, singer/songwriters, DJs e outros estilos, de alto nível, a grande maioria com contratos discográficos independentes e carreiras estabelecidas.

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

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André Torgal
on July 11, 2008
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against the one hour concert

Archive - Take my Head + Again

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on July 9, 2008
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Há fenómenos assim. Eu tenho 3 discos dos Archive e variam entre o mau, vulgar e o razoável. Também já tiveram várias mudanças no line-up e os vocalistas variam entre uma tipa espectacular e um outro muito fraco.

Dizem que os Archive são de Londres, que tocam trip-hop com muitas guitarras e momentos de post-rock e/ou progressivo. Mas para mim, ficarão sempre naquela lista… a das bandas que fizeram mais do que uma música que me arrepia das unhas dos pés até aos remoinhos do cabelo sempre que a oiço.

arrepio um

Na segunda metade dos 90, sempre que um disco que me deixasse a perguntar “rock ou electronica?” ainda tinha um certo factor surpresa… mas passados 10 anos esse efeito está completamente esbatido… e os Archive continuam por aí a fazer bem pior do que o seu ponto de partida.

Mas eu não faria aqui um post sobre uma banda, música ou video vulgar… o propósito é partilhar aqueles 321654238923 momentos já coleccionados e catalogados de “único” e/ou “especial”.

Lembro-me de estar na Fnac em 99 a ouvir o “Take My Head” de 1999, na altura em que o ponto de escuta da FNAC era a minha forma preferida de explorar nova música. Estava com o CD na mão, um brilhante trabalho gráfico e fotográfico com aquele poder de nos transmitir uma nostalgia de algo que nem sequer vivemos. Talvez naquele momento eu já estivesse mesmo sentado num qualquer banco à porta de uma estação do London Underground. Ela dizia “make me think, take my head” e foi aí que tudo começou… o insight, a comichão no couro cabeludo, o arrepio.

arrepio dois


Archive - Again

Quanto ao video: não é um AMV, não é um fan-video. É mesmo o video original da música “Again” que teve algum (mínimo) tempo de MTV. Este foi o segundo momento em que os Archive me tiraram do sério, again.

Se quiserem comparar com a origem dos Archive vejam o video de “Nothing Else” do Album Londinium de 1997, com uma voz feminina muito trip-hop, muito actual para a altura.

Ironias de uma petição à Voda-iPhone

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André Torgal
on July 8, 2008
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Este artigo não é acerca da polémica dos tarifários iPhone em Portugal. Não tenho nada a acrescentar ao que já foi escrito.

É apenas para atestar novamente a genialidade do sistema Ads by Google. Já o tinha feito antes num antigo blog que mantinha, acerca de street-art/graffiti, onde o anunciante com lugar cativo era uma empresa de limpezas e remoção de graffiti.


We the people - petição à vodafone sobre alteração do tráfego

A petição propriamente dita nem li. Aliás a simples noção de petição a um operador é no mínimo… err… estranha? Além do mais já li demasiadas coisas acerca do assunto e o veredicto é simplesmente f*it, f*iphone, f*em, f*3g. E claro f*pt.

Mas fiquei cativado pelo anúncio. E para lá da pertinência, a indecisão no que toca ao tratamento dado ao consumidor é bestial:

GANHA UM IPHONE [espere, desculpe, ãh.. perdão] Clique aqui.

Sobre a polémica propriamente dita.

Só tenho a dizer uma coisa:

É a nata, estúpido

Bons posts acerca dos tarifários iPhone (e não só) da Vodafone (e não só). Leiam que vale a pena.

Mesmo assim, a reacção ao infame programa Aqui e Agora da Sic foi bem mais vigorosa. Ainda bem.

Finalmente, um Project que é Open

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André Torgal
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Gostava de ouvir alguns amigos que usam o MSProject diariamente… que tal este?

Concerto dos Valient Thorr no Music Box

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Os Valient Thorr vêm da Carolina do Norte (mas a página da Wikipedia diz que vêm de Venus) e andaram a tocar pela Europa nos últimos tempos. Na sexta passada tocaram no MusicBox no Cais do Sodré e ninguém notou que a tour foi interrompida há menos de um mês para retirar um rim a Valient Himself para doar ao pai dele.

Os Valient são uma das bandas da Volcom Entertainment (outras: Year Long Disaster, ASG) e tocam um rock-roll com sotaque southern e com influências cruzadas de punk, metal, trash, …

Eu não costumo colocar aqui videos com menor qualidade de som, até porque a maior parte das vezes o que quero mesmo é partilhar a música. Portanto não coloco os vídeos do concerto de sexta, mas sim! estive lá! e ainda me dói o pescoço!

This goes for all you head-bangers out there:


Estes extra-terrestres são loucos.

A primeira parte esteve a cargo dos portugueses Men Eater que estiveram sempre bem. Faltou-lhes um bocadinho de sorte com o som, mas sobrou-lhes a vontade e a energia em palco e deu para ver que têm muito potencial.

Twitter’s expired and gone to meet his maker?

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Estava a dar uma vista de olhos pelo Developers Sapo quando me apercebi que têm um novo (renovado?) contributo do prt.screener Pedro Couto e Santos

especialsitas-twitter.jpg

Lembrei-me imediatamente do magnífico Norwegian Blue. Pollllllly! Se tivesse tempo (e jeito para essas coisas) fazia já um overdub to sketch trocando o Parrot pelo Twitter.

- ‘Ello, I wish to register a complaint. ‘Ello, Miss?

- What do you mean “miss”?

- I’m sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

- We’re closin’ for lunch.

- Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this service what I registered not half an hour ago with this very browser.

- Oh yes, … uh, Twitter…What’s,uh…What’s wrong with it?

- I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. ‘E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!

- No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s stressing.

- Look, matey, I know a dead service when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.

- No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s stressin’! Remarkable service, this Twitter, idn’it, ay? Beautiful web-design!

- The web-design don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.

- Nononono, no, no! ‘E’s stressing!

- All right then, if he’s stressin’, I’ll wake him up! ‘Ello, Mister Twitty Service! I’ve got a lovely fresh cuttle update for you if you show…

- There, he replied!

- No, he didn’t, that was you hitting the down arrow!

- I never!!

- Yes, you did!

- I never, never did anything…

- ‘ELLO TWITTY!!!!! Update! Update! Update! Update! This is my nine o’clock twitt update! … Now that’s what I call a dead service.

- No, no…..No, ‘e’s undergoin maintenance!

- UNDERGOING MAINTENACE?!?

- Yeah! You stressed him, just as he was replying! Services stress easily, major.

- Um…now look…now look, mate, I’ve definitely ‘ad enough of this. That service is definitely deceased, and when I registered it not ‘alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of responsiveness was due to it bein’ tired and shagged out following a global event.

- Well, he’s…he’s, ah…probably pining for the queries.

- PININ’ for the QUERIES?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did it stop answering the moment I started following my friends?

- Twitter prefers kippin’ on it’s back! Remarkable service, id’nit, squire? Lovely web-design!

- Look, I took the liberty of examining that service when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been replying in the first place was that it was serving a CACHED page.

- Well, o’course it was a cached page! If we weren’t serving a cached page it would have nuzzled up to the screen, break it apart with its updates, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

- “VOOM”?!? Mate, this service wouldn’t “voom” if you put four million volts through it! ‘E’s bleedin’ demised!

- No no! ‘E’s pining!

- ‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This service is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is developer! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you weren’t serving a cached page ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-service!!

NOTE: transcrição original retirada de uma good ol’ web1.0 webpage

Pre-historic music industry - NOFX - dinosaurs will die

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Kick back watch it crumble, see the drowning, watch the fall. I feel just terrible about it.
That’s sarcasm…
Let it burn!

I’m gonna make a toast when it falls apart, I’m gonna raise my glass above my heart, then someone shouts “That’s what they get!”

For all the years of hit and run, for all the piss broke bands on VH1, where did all their money go? Don’t we all know?

Parasitic music industry, as it destroys itself we’ll show them how it’s supposed to be

Music written from devotion, not ambition, not for fame, zero people are exploited, there are no tricks up our sleeve.

Gonna fight against the mass appeal, we’re gonna kill the 7 record deal and Mmke records that have more than one good song.

The dinosaurs will slowly die, and I do believe no one will cry, I’m just fucking glad I’m gonna be there to watch the fall

Prehistoric music industry, three feet in la brea tar. Extinction never felt so good

If you think anyone would feel badly, you are sadly mistaken. The time has come for evolution, fuck collusion, kill the five!


NOFX “Dinosaurs Will Die” (LIVE)

Whatever happened to the handshake? Whatever happened to deals no-one would break? What happened to integrity? It’s still there it always was, for playing music just because… a million reasons why.

(All) dinosaurs will die

Search trending the world: love and hate, war and peace

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So I did another search, and then another and still no answers, just more confusion.

Found out how cynical the search trend oracle can get.

The world is permanently invested in Love, oh yes, religioulsy peaking every Valentine day like a swiss clock.

And the world is absolutely disregardful for Hate. Cool!

Google Trends - Hate and Love

On the other hand, people seem so excited with War sometimes.

Google Trends - War and Peace

Maybe they should be searching more for peace.

for more interesting results: check stress and relax, shame and confidence and sadness and hapiness

Search trending the world: SOA and SAAS

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I just read a nice post on mashable pointing out that web-hosting is on the low and social media now owns the market share for those publishing, sharing and community building tasks you could only engage in if you had a hosting account.

Sooo true…

SOA and SAAS

So I took the opportunity of checking some more trends… So I did SOA and SAAS and the result is quite interesting: both show steady growth and an amazing, really, amazing synched seasonality.

Google Trends - SOA and SAAS

To be more precise, in the past 3/4 years:

  • SAAS search trend peaks twice a year, after the summer and new-year… the two peaks are becoming more sharp, year after year.
  • SOA has a steep valley every late December, and it’s becoming deeper every year. SAAS nearly reached SOA by the end of 2006 and it cleary surpassed in late 2007.
  • But the search trend for SOA does not show a valley in the fall opposing SAAS fall steady peaks.
  • OTOH, SOA’s steady growth has slowed down and it became really wobbling through 2nd and 3rd quarter of both 06 and 07. Every year it looks more like a roller-coster.
  • Finally, news about SOA and SAAS are becoming more popular all the time, but had an impressive low by the end of 2007.
  • News about SOA took a head start but SAAS is now catching fast.

So, Autumn’s weather is nice for planning your next SAAS product? no one cares for SOA round christmas? SAAS is the buzz-word on new years eve?

Is the limited attention of the industry’s collective conscience bouncing between the focus on the best business model and the architectural concerns?

And, more important: what does this data tell us about the weather tomorrow?

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