Howling Bells Webchat (6.2.09)

[livlovesmusique]

Aussie rockers Howling Bells talk about making it in the music industry and what we should all be listening to this year.

Chat date: Friday February 6th

Chat time: 14:00 GMT

We all love the rush of being the first to hear the 'next big thing' - how many times have you one of your mates tell you how they were "listening to Arctic Monkeys way before the hype?"
Well, if you are the type who loves hearing new bands but hates drudging through MySpace, join us in this live interactive WebTV to discuss the best of the UK's independent bands and artists and what we should all be listening to in 2009.

Joining us in the studio will be a band who definitely knows the importance of the independent music scene, Howling Bells. Coming to the UK in 2004 to make their name in the music industry, they shot to fame with their self-titled debut album which received wide critical acclaim and a faithful UK fanbase.

Lucky for us, the Australian indie darlings are taking time out from releasing their forthcoming album Radio Wars to tell us what it's like starting out and give advice on making it in the music industry. Having supported the likes of the Killers and Placebo on tour, they know a thing or two about what it takes to get your music out there.

The most important thing is to get your music heard and with the rise in social networking sites, there has never been a better time to lay down a few tracks. eMusic has the best of independent music and with over five million tracks available, you can hear the best new music.

So if you want to know what music to look out for this year, discuss what you thought of 2008's or get some tips from our special guest then log on and submit your questions to be answered live in the studio by Howling Bells and music expert Andy Perry.

www.inthenews.co.uk/infocus/entertainment/music/discover-best-undiscovered-music-$1266076.htm

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Searcher Supreme liv has done the business again!

However, the link thingy doesn't work properly - the last bit is missing, so if you click on it you then have to type the $1266076.htm part into your URL at the end.

It appears the guys are really going for it on the PR front (apart from the poor website effort) with radio appearances and now a webchat.

P.S. Just submitted a question!

[livlovesmusique]

^ Haha why thank you
Sorry about the link thing...I just noticed it now. I was going to submit a question, but I can't think of one that's good enough. To watch the webchat, do you have to be a member of emusic?

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Ask them when they're going to play NYC.

I don't really know how this webchat thing works either - I was hoping somebody could explain for an old dinosaur like me.

[livlovesmusique]

^ Ahh, that's a good question. Thanks!
I don't really understand the webchat thing either--I tried clicking on that emusic symbol there under the writing and it was a page for emusic tv or something, but it said to sign up. I think to watch it, you have to be a member?

[tealovertoma]

It's on now =]

generic.webchats.tv/chat/discover_the_best_of_undiscovered_music

[tealovertoma]

wtf that was way too short and they didn't even play any songs or anything, I thought at the very least they'd be showcasing some of their music...

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Is there any way you can view this thing after the event or was it live only? If it's not possible, can somebody give us a summary of what went on?

P.S. Don't forget the Radio 2 show at 2pm tomorrow (Sat 7th). I think it's Zoe Ball's porgramme. For those outside the UK it should be on Listen Again.

[tealovertoma]

It's not really wort watching. I only saw the last 15 minutes (it was ~24 minutes in total) but they just talked about the current state of affairs in the music industry... and while that might sound interesting, absolutely nothing new was said. HB also mentioned liking being a small indie label band because of the creative freedom and that you only get to work with people who are living and breathing music (as opposed to those money grabbing bastards over at EMI, I suppose). Most questions were directed at the "music expert", anyway.

It was good seeing Juanita but that's about all that's positive about it =/ no idea if you can see it somewhere else, IMO it's not really worth tracking down

[livlovesmusique]

Thanks for the recap! I didn't realize it was more about music in general than them as a band. I thought it was more of an HB-directed webcast