tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post6984906133340867652..comments2023-09-17T02:33:56.455-07:00Comments on Lost In Showbiz: "You’d be silly to miss such an astonishing band"Lost In Showbizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06007918229685250283noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-36935373732697240572008-04-03T14:32:00.000-07:002008-04-03T14:32:00.000-07:00Calm down chief!PR is a job. It is possible to do...Calm down chief!<BR/><BR/>PR is a job. It is possible to do jobs in ways that are good and ways that are bad.<BR/><BR/>The press release above is bad. It's full of bad uses of language and ill-thought out assertions.<BR/><BR/>It's written in the style of a press release as people think press releases should be written. <BR/><BR/>It a good example of words running away with someone. It's what happens when someone doesn't think about what the words they write actually mean. <BR/><BR/>If you have a job, or even a hobby, where you communicate with people, it's a good idea to learn how to do it well.<BR/><BR/>Especially if the people you want to communicate with make stuff out of words for a living.<BR/><BR/>As to the band, this release didn't tell me anything about them, and as such I don't have any opinion either way. It just had a load of hyperbole gummed together at random.<BR/><BR/>That's a bad press release for you, which doesn't do anyone in the world any favours, not least the people that it is representing.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>MarkArcheology of the Futurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317013353463732403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-43348322737613890772008-04-02T10:47:00.000-07:002008-04-02T10:47:00.000-07:00Ok, let’s get things straight. I find you people v...Ok, let’s get things straight. I find you people very dull. This is the worst website full of the kind of people who never bring anything to society nor attempt to create anything of use with your slow, bitter and arrogant minds. <BR/><BR/>The author of this particular blog has the literacy prowess of a retarded clown. And the rest of you should stop reading this. Haven’t you got another shit website to go on and make your perfectly useless comments. <BR/><BR/>Does one base their opinions on a painting by the review? Or the success of a car by the advert? <BR/><BR/>I agree press releases are tedious, but unfortunately their all written by tedious bags of dung like yourselves. <BR/><BR/>The fact of the matter is that, their lots of bands, creating, writing and touring for nothing more than the thrill of the music they create. Sometimes that atmosphere is not created on the record or not captured in the press release. Maybe, and here’s a thought, you should leave your bedrooms go out and see a few bands, before you make such rash and ignorant assumptions.the goodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605947733706612422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-11814319305818497742008-04-01T08:35:00.000-07:002008-04-01T08:35:00.000-07:00I like that they achieved an entire year.People sh...I like that they achieved an entire year.<BR/><BR/>People should not confuse how television and radio presenters speak with the best way to write.<BR/><BR/>"2007 was a mighty achievement for such a new band seeing them catapulted into the heady hedonistic heights at the infamous Ibiza Rocks gigs, supporting The Holloways"<BR/><BR/>My first thought is: Does no one ever read back anything they write?<BR/><BR/>My second thought is: Oh my god, they do and they think it sounds good.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>MarkArcheology of the Futurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317013353463732403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-2846837046012936702008-03-31T14:13:00.000-07:002008-03-31T14:13:00.000-07:00Always especially pleasing when the press release ...Always especially pleasing when the press release implies that we lowly scribes are stupid, witless and wankers for not recognising the historic greatness of Band X, Song Y or album Z. <BR/><BR/>BTW, I long for the day a band is touted as transcending precisely zero genres, breaking absolutely no rules whatsoever and not destined to take next week, month or summer "by storm". <BR/>Similarly, I cannot recall the last time a band was not "hotly tipped".<BR/><BR/><BR/>BTBTW - I think I may have kept somewhere the press release introducing James Lavelle & DJ Shadow's debut album - seem to recall it was descibed back then - 1999/2000, praps - as the "Apocalypse Now" of trip hop. <BR/><BR/>Woah. <BR/><BR/>I'll shut up now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-55018478972366235452008-03-31T04:23:00.000-07:002008-03-31T04:23:00.000-07:00My perfect press release would say this:This recor...My perfect press release would say this:<BR/><BR/>This record isn't as good as the records you actually like and no amount of me pretending - for money - that it is will ever change that fact. Sorry.<BR/><BR/>That would be ideal.Lost In Showbizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06007918229685250283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248343784481827503.post-81828451769500978902008-03-31T04:17:00.000-07:002008-03-31T04:17:00.000-07:00I see that their passion oozes from their genuine ...I see that their passion oozes from their genuine madness.<BR/><BR/>C#nts.<BR/><BR/>I've been waiting for a blog like this for some time. I hope you're emailing each of the cretinous PRs and alerting them to their naming and shaming.<BR/><BR/>What astonishes me is that they believe that the way of attracting the attention of a weary editor is to go over-the-top with superlatives, when it actually has the opposite effect.<BR/><BR/>I'd be far more likely not to bin a press release if it was just honest, and said... I dunno, that the band had a following of about 20 or 30 people – mostly from their local pub – and they're doing alright, nothing spectacular, but they're enjoying carting amps across town in the back of their cars once a week to rehearsals, and this tune is probably the best they've come up with so far, they're not sure.<BR/><BR/>Something like that.Rhodrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02500972224558889901noreply@blogger.com