an ozrics question

[Jon Jarrett]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, bedroom trancer wrote:

> what was the acute disagreement with the label?

        Now that I don't know, I'm afraid. I would hazard a guess but it
would be wrong, most likely, and probably actionable. Sorry... Yours,
                                                                      Jon

> >On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
> >
> >> Between what you and Richard mentioned, the bottom line on the 'Spice
> Doubt'
> >> CD is that, techically, it is rare. We would love to get hold of a box
> full
> >> at CDS.
> >> Basically what happened was that it came out very suddenly, with no
> >> pre-promotion and as a limited edition. Because it was a one-off deal
> >> between the label and the band, with proceeds being shared, the
> distributor
> >> was not the normal one and most outlets failed to get any because by the
> >> time they found out about it, and who on earth was selling it, the
> >> distributors (Telstar Leisure as they were known) had sold out, We
> shifted a
> >> load, but supplies literally lasted about two weeks and then it was gone.
> I
> >> recently spoke to the Ozrics camp about this and about 7500 were presed
> of
> >> which  over healf went to the USA on export, and they reckon that someone
> >> somewhere is still sitting on a whole stack of the CD's. Ironically,
> also,
> >> the group have never been paid one red cent by the label for the run of
> 7500
> >> that were all sold - familiar story?????
> >
> >        There's a little bit more to the story than normal in this case,
> >in that the Ozrics probably would have been paid by Snapper had they not
> >voided their contract shortly after its release due to an acute
> >disagreement with the label. This means that Sanpper are no longer obliged
> >to hold to their side either, meaning the Ozrics don't get paid any
> >royalties for any future sales of _Curious Corn_ or _Waterfall Cities_, or
> >any at all for _Spice Doubt_ or _Swirly Termination_, or indeed the
> >Floating Seeds_ remixes. There have been debates on
> >alt.fan.ozric-tentacles about whether or not to buy the things, or whether
> >instead just to tree them on a massive scale and send a quid or two to the
> >band. Attempts were being made to get the band to get Blim to produce
> >alternative artwork for these releases so that the fans could pay the band
> >for something but I never saw anything come together on that.
> >
> >        But basically, everything between _Become The Other_ and _Hidden
> >Step_ is feeding Snapper and their employees and no-one else (except the
> >webcast label in the case of _Spice Doubt_). Yours,
> >                                                    Jon
> >
> >P.S. Snapper had just got the whole Ozrics back catalogue too but I
> >believe the Ozrics got to take that with them. Does anyone know that for
> >sure?
> >--
> >     Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> >   =====================================================================
> >        "There's nothin' more dangerous than a wounded mosquito."
> >
>

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