Site aims to clean up impact of festivals
10.03.2006 / 12:53
A new website called agreenerfestival.com launched this week and aims to support and promoting environmental efficiency at music festivals.
The folks behind the campaign will work in the promotion of reducing the impact festivals leave on local environments in terms of waste, traffic, CO2 emissions, noise, water pollution and land damage. It has been coordinated by music industry lawyer Ben Challis, who has said, "The site is designed to help promoters and organisers - not preach to them".
Based out of Europe, the site's organizers recently told CMU, "Many festivals have realised that their environmental impacts can be minimised by managing CO2 emissions and facilitating green waste disposal, and festivals such as Glastonbury and Bestival have led the way in combating the inevitable problems on-site. However festivals have certain unique impacts of the environment - with thousands of people often living together under canvas in confined areas with high noise levels and with unusual problems - like how to recycle thousands of discarded tents - and what to do with that pile of unwanted fairy wings. By making this research available, agreenerfestival.com acts hopes to be a resource for festival organisers as they turn to the task of preparing next summer's round of live music. Over the coming months, the team will develop pointers, guides and practical
directions for delivering greener festivals. And the site will look to advise festival goers themselves on how they can make their festival summer a little greener."
Sale of Red Sparowes limited vinyl gets do-over
10.03.2006 / 12:46
A do-over has been called over the recent sale of new Red Sparowes vinyls after a hacker got into the Neurot webstore. The person then gained access to the album before it was available for purchase and posted the link online resulting in it being sold out before it even went up for sale. The band has issued a letter explaining:
"As some of you may have heard, the limited, colored vinyl of "Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun" that was exclusive to Neurot Recordings was sold out before it actually went on sale. Unfortunately someone managed to hack into the Neurot Recordings webstore and gain access to this item before it was available. To make things worse, this person actually posted a link to the hidden section of the Neurot Recordings webstore on a forum, which allowed anyone to purchase this item.
We realize how frustrating this is for the fans that were patiently waiting for the sale. To remedy this situation, Neurot Recordings is refunding everyone that ordered the album using the illegal link and *all copies will go back on sale as they were intended*. In other words, *don't worry if you've been waiting anxiously to get the record, you'll still get your chance*.
We apologize to anyone that ordered the record thinking that the link was valid. We hope that you understand that, by ordering the album before it was actually for sale, you basically cut in front of a line of people that were waiting to purchase this item. Although you may not have realized this
at the time, we ask you to understand that we must sell the record in a way that will be fair to everyone. When the record officially goes on sale you will have a chance to purchase it along with everyone else.
To the person who posted the illegal link: We hope you understand how much work and frustration this has caused, not only to us, Red Sparowes, but to our good friends at Neurot Recordings.
Thanks,
Red Sparowes."
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