OFF: DarXtar, Bedouin and record labels; + PT news

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Nick Lee wrote:

> >Have the Ozrics split from Snapper? Somebody told me that, but
> >I'm not sure that's true.  The Waterfall Cities was issued here in the US
> on
> >some obscure NY label, but I figured that was some licencing deal with
> >Snapper back in the UK.  Floating Seeds was on Snapper at least.
>
> Yes, they have.  They're on a label of their own again "Stretchy" (over
> here, at least).   I believe that Dovetail fell apart because a so-called
> friend was mishandling it (creaming their money?).  The band said in a
> recent press release that things hadn't gone well with Snapper (either on
> their web-site, one of the e-mail newsletters or both) and that they were
> looking to re-acquire their back catalogue and re-release it,  'properly' as
> they'd always intended.  I thought the Snapper reissues were rather good
> myself, cheap and with extra tracks, but there you go.

        Thing that annoyed me most about the Snapper releases, apart from
the fact that _Live Underslunky_ never made it back out as far as I could
see, was their pretty coloured CDs. Why? Because Dovetail was one of those
annoying companies that put the track times and writing credits on the
discs rather than in the packaging (as indeed do Columbia on the BOC discs
- ha! topic struck!). Now, I grant you that's annoying - when do I want to
see this information? When the disc's doing however-many r.p.m. in my CD
player. But at least it's there. The Snapper packaging has lovely Richard
Allen sleeve notes and completely omits anything else other than track
lists. Annoying. Yours,
                        Jon
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