Sunday 25 September 2011

Rough Trade


Rough Trade and the 1970's:


Q:  How did Rough Trade start?

Rough Trade was a record shop in 202 Kensington Park Road. the owner Geoff Travis opens the store because of his love of music

Q: Which music trends were popular?

one of the most popular was punk, then reggae came about and was also popular 

Q: What was the ethos of Rough Trade at this time?

to get people to make their own music, "anyone can do it"

Q: How was Rough Trade different to large corporations?

Rough Trade was a place where people could come in and be in a music friendly enviroment
Q: What techniques were used to expand the Independent music scene?

 Richard Scott  joined in 1977 and he offered mail ordered accounts, this allowed small independent shops like Rough Trade to branch out. Rough Trade allowed people who performed in the store to go 50/50 with money and shares.

Q: How did this lead to Rough Trade's expansion?

This helped the expansion because Rough Trade was personal and spoke to people giving Rough Trade appeal

Q: What type of business structure existed in the 1970's?
To gain business and continue to sell  

Q: Explain the successes of the distribution department and record label? 

  'Stiff little fingers' joined Rough Trade they were the first British Independent band to sell over 100,000 copies of their album. This allowed Rough Trade to take more money and spend it to allow them to sell pop music.



The 1980's:

Q: How did contracts effect the development of Rough Trade?

There were no stable contracts 

Q: What issues occured between the record label and distribution?

The Record label staff had a conflict between distribution and record label and seemed it wouldn't be resolved. Rough Trade wanted to stick to there morals of selling records by artists and bands.

Q: What changes did this lead to within the business structure of Rough Trade?
Firstly they left their original shop in which they started their business and moved to Kings Cross. There was also negative management towards the end of the 80's as the arguments between distribution and the record label started. 'The Smiths' relationship between Rough Trade was becoming antagonistic.


Q: What has been Rough Trade's ideology and how was this effected by the change in structure?

Rough Trade's ideology started as a company that ared more for principle than money, however doing the 1980's Rough Trade were finding it hard with money and 'The Smiths' were their only hope at the time to keep the business going.

Q: Which artists led to success for Rough Trade?

'The Smiths' led to Rough Trade being known at the time.

Q: What music trend emerged at the end of the 1980's?

Indie music began due to 'The Smiths' performance with Rough Trade.

Q: What differences were there at this time between Rough Trade and other independent music labels?

Although they was a larger corporation, Rough Trade would still sell their artists as independent.


The 1990s:
Q: What problems did Rough Trade incur at the start of the 1990's?

In July 1990, Rough Trade had to move again, also some of the staff had been dropped due to money problems 

Q: What effect did this have on the Record label and distrbution?

The argument between the record label and distribution was still going on and could not be settled, this caused them to lose business 

Q: How did major record labels branch out into the independent music scene?

They moved to a new record label with different contracts 

Q: What actions were taken to revive Rough Trade?

When Jeanette joined  and Geoff moved into the new Rough Trade, in 1993 

Q: What new music industry areas did Rough Trade begin to work in and with which artists?

Pulp signed with Rough Trade this allowed them to get started again and gave them business 


21st Century:

Q: How was Rough Trade envolved in the 21st century?

In 2001, Rough Trade signed up a new band, The Strokes.  'The Strokes helped Rough Trade get back into the music industry
Q: How are their working practises different to the music produced through programmes such as X factor?

Rough Trade doesn't like the way X Factor takes people and turns them into stars, bringing them into the music industry with them not knowing how it works. then seeing them disappear once the show is over 


Q: What successes have they had at this time?

Rough Trade signed Duffy and they help release her songs and albums when she is ready

Q: How was Rough Trade's ideology developed for the company in the present day?

Rough Trade have kept their morals to this day doing what they have always done being about the music and letting their artists and bands develop at their own time, they have stayed true to their ideology

Rough Trade notes

. 2008 Duffy topped the UK music charts

.Rough trade began as a small shop

.20th February 1956 rough trade began at 202 Kensington park road

. Geoff Travis

.bought songs from America and shipped to England

.punk rock explodes on to scene in 70s

. punk and reggae Austin Palmer

.Buzzcocks, Richard Boon

. Spiral scratch released in 1977

.The desperate bicycles 1977

.Screti Polity

.Mayo Thompson, American that joined rough trade

. 70s distribution was under control by monopolies

. Richard scott joined rough trade

. Daniel Miller, The Normal, Mute Records

.T.V.O.D. became very popular

.Steve Montgomery

. Stiff little fingers joined Rough Trade

.December 1962 Rough Trade sold to staff

. The Smiths signed to Rough Trade and created indie music

. Rough Trade to go international

.Indie music was becoming main stream

. Rave starts at end of 80s

. Distribution left Geoff

. March 1991 Rough Trade went under

.Rough Trade stop trading 1991 June 1st

.Geoff moved to reinvent Rough Trade

.Rough Trade singed pulp

.2001 Rough Trade comes back to life

 .Strokes sign to Rough Trade

.Duffy has development plan with Rough Trade

Tuesday 20 September 2011

jay z and kanye west otis analysis

music video analysis

1.Genre characteristics

. Empty scrapyard

. Represented as gangsta both have some bling and are driving women or "super models" jay z mentions

.Scantly glad women in back of modified car, wearing tight and short cut clothes.

. Represented as wealthy owns cars, bling jay z says he is wealth




.Relationship between music and visuals

.Paparazzi jay z uses hands to sugest taking a picture

.Supermodels in the car when he says super models in the

. Jayz and kanye puts up two fingers when they say they have two watches

. Both do car motion for "benz" which is mercedes benz

. Kanye says "made jesus walk" with his hands he prays

. Sometimes images or gestures illustrates lyrics


. Relationship between lyrics and visuals

.Music is smooth and soulful with hard hitting beat, slow cuts and not alot of camera movement

. Camera goes to slow motion when kayne sings a long note to represent the lenght of the note.



. A visual style

. Lots of close ups of the two rappers to show that jay z is back recording, because he has been off scene for a while. this is implied when jay z says " i guess i got my swagger back"


.Close ups of girls in car to show that he has a gangsta lifestyle.

. Seen customising he's Mercedes Benz scraping bits off a expensive car just to drive around in. shows he can do it because he has the money refers back to his gangsta lifestyle.


Reference to the notion of looking

. As far as i can see i can see no reference to notion

tenacious d tribute

jay z 99 problems

Sunday 18 September 2011

music video

1. music video demonstrates genre characteristics(e.g. performance in rock video dance routine)

2.there is a relationship between music and visuals

3.there is a relationship between lyrics and visuals

4. a visual style

5.there is frequently reference to notion of looking and particular voyerlistic treatment of the female body

6.this is often intertectual reference

 

Tuesday 13 September 2011

media summer task take that

Take That are an English five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter. In total, the group have had 27 top 40 singles and 16 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom alone, 11 of which have reached number 1, as well as having seven number 1 albums.


It was during the years 1993–95 that the band fronted scores of magazine covers ranging from Smash Hits to GQ, becoming mass merchandised on all sorts of paraphernalia ranging from picture books, to posters, stickers, their own dolls, jewellery, caps, T-shirts, toothbrushes and even had their own annuals released. The band had also developed a large female teenage fanbase at the time. During this time, they performed at numerous music awards shows and chart shows such as the BRIT Awards and Top of the Pops.
In 1995, Take That released their 3rd studio album Nobody Else, again based on Barlow's own material which reached number 1 in the UK and across Europe, capturing new audiences annually, with Take That also able to make inroads in the adult audience in Britain through Barlow's melodic, sensitive ballads. For nearly five years, Take That's popularity was unsurpassed in Britain. The release of "Sure", their first single from the album, achieved yet another number one on the UK Charts. 

In July 1995, Williams was photographed by the press partying with fellow band Oasis at Glastonbury Festival. This led to the band offering him an ultimatum; where he was to adhere to the bands responsibilities or to leave before their scheduled world tour. Undaunted by the loss of Williams, Take That continued to promote Nobody Else as a four-piece, scoring a further hit single with Barlow's "Never Forget" and completing the Nobody Else Tour in Late 1995.
On 13 February 1996, Take That formally announced that they were disbanding. This was followed by the Greatest Hits compilation in 1996, Take That gave what was thought to be their final performance in April 1996 at Amsterdam. Following the band's announcement, millions of their fans were distraught around the world and in the UK alone, teenage girls threatened suicide and were seen lining streets in tears, to the point that telephone hotlines were set up by the government to deal with counselling them. 




On 9 May 2006, Take That returned to the recorded music scene after more than ten years of absence, signing with Polydor Records in a deal reportedly worth £3 million. The band's comeback album, Beautiful World, entered the UK album chart at no. 1 and, as of June 2009, had sold over 2.8 million copies in the UK.  It is currently the 35th best selling album in UK music history.
In the album Beautiful World all four members of the band had the opportunity to sing lead vocals. Unlike the band's earlier works, where the majority of their material was written by Gary Barlow who received a sole credit, all four band members are credited as co-writers, regardless of whether they contributed to the writing process or not. The comeback single, "Patience", was released on 20 November 2006, with a special event launching it on 5 November. On 26 November "Patience" hit number 1 in the UK in its second week of chart entry making it the group's ninth No. 1 

Take That performed live at the BRIT Awards ceremony at Earl's Court. Their single "Patience" won the Best British Single category. 
During 2007, Take That also wrote a song for the motion picture Stardust titled "Rule the World", which reached number 2 in the UK charts and went on to be the 5th biggest selling single of 2007.  It was announced at the start of 2007 that Take That signed a record deal with American label Interscope, and would also release their album in Canada. Starting on 11 October 2007, Take That began their Beautiful World Tour 2007 in Belfast. T


"Greatest Day", the first single from the album The Circus, made its radio premiere on 13 October 2008 and it was released on 24 November. It debuted at Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 30 November 2008. An album launch party for The Circus was held in Paris on the 2 December. it was revealed that the album had broken all pre-order records and had become the most pre-ordered album of all time. On its first day of release The Circus sold 133,000 copies, and after four days on sale it sold 306,000 copies (going platinum) making The Circus the fastest selling album of the year. The album reached number 1 on the UK album charts on 7 December 2008 with total first-week sales of 432,490, the third highest opening sales week in UK history.


The band were nominated for one Brit Award in the category Best Group and performed "Greatest Day" at the 2009 BRIT Awards ceremony.

Take That started their Circus Live tour at the Stadium of Light on 5 June 2009 in Sunderland and ended at the Wembley Stadium in London on the 5 July 2009, which over 80,000 people attended. This tour quickly became the fastest-selling of all time, breaking all records by selling all of their 650,000 tickets in less than four and a half hours.
On 7 June 2010, the news broke of a single called "Shame" which had been written by Barlow and Williams and would feature the vocals of both artists. This was the first time the pair had worked together since 1995 and would appear on the second greatest hits collection of Williams. Heart and I, another track from the same album, was also co-written by Williams and Barlow. The single Shame peaked at number 2 on the UK singles chart while also achieving success throughout Europe.

After working with the band on new material in Los Angeles, on 15 July 2010 Robbie Williams announced he was returning to Take That. After months of working together, assembling new songs for a new album and even debating a band-name change to "The English", a joint statement between Williams and the group read, "The rumours are true... Take That: the original lineup, have written and recorded a new album for release later this year." The statement went on to say, "Following months of speculation Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams confirmed they have been recording a new studio album as a five-piece, which they will release in November."


On the first day of release Progress became the fastest selling album of the century, with 235,000 copies sold in just one day. The album reached number 1 in the UK, selling around 520,000 copies in its first week, becoming the second fastest-selling album in history.

"Kidz" was announced as the second single from Progress, it was released 21 February 2011 and charted well across Europe. The band performed the song live at the 2011 Brit Awards hosted at the 02 Arena where they won a Brit for Best British Group and were nominated for Best British Album. 
On 29 April, it was announced that Take That had recorded the official single for the upcoming blockbuster, X-Men: First Class. The song, entitled "Love Love" was released worldwide for digital download on 11 May 2011. It was performed for the first time on 11 May live on ITV for the National Movie Awards 2011.
On 19 May 2011, Take That announced a new EP entitled Progressed which contained eight tracks that were written by the band since they reunited as a five piece. It was packaged alongside the record breaking album Progress and returned the band to number 1 in the UK Album Chart the week after it was released on 13 June 2011.

take that since then have continued with their success still one of if not the best boy bands to date.