I didn't know whether to put this in the Faker thread or give it's own moment in the spotlight?
Then I decided maybe to start a thread filled with quotes from really badly written media releases.
How's this for a sentence from a release on the lead singer from Faker's solo tour?
''Nathan’s performances with Faker have been described as resembling the restless lunacy of Alex, the protagonist from Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange – and anyone who has seen Faker perform knows that their shows are renowned for Nathan’s wild stage antics, so with this stripped back solo tour comes a rare opportunity to see Nathan perform tunes from Faker’s Be The Twilight and Addicted Romantic albums in intimate venues along the east coast.''
Longest sentence ever?
There must be quite a few people here who regularly receive crappy releases? Post the bad bits of the worst ones you get.
Post them here
ignoring the hyperbole, that's really badly written.
Lazy Susan rose from the ashes of several Sydney pop groups in early 1999.
Based around the song writing of Paul Andrews and Pete Wilson, and featuring Danny Yau on bass and Mike Wilcox on drums, Lazy Susan has earned a large and loyal following in an Australian music scene often characterised by hype, hyperbole and haircuts.
Lazy Susan's music suggests its members have spent a lifetime developing their musical roots while listening to the likes of Elvis Costello, Paul Weller, Todd Rundgren, Bob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Squeeze's Difford and Tilbrook and quintessential Australian bands like The Sunnyboys and Happy Hate Me Nots.
Lazy Susan's debut album, Long Lost, released in 2001, was an unqualified success. Radio played the hell out of three of the album's tracks, Bobby Fischer, Canada and Clumsy, while it also elicited glowing praise from Australia's music press and punters alike.
Lazy Susan's songs embedded themselves in the mental-playlists of Australian music fans, gaining national television and radio exposure, while the band cemented their reputation as a damn fine live act.
Two and half years later, Lazy Susan entered the studio to record Long Lost's follow up, Never Better (2004).
Never Better was a more thought-out and expansive record, adding horns and strings and exploring Lazy Susan's song writing and arranging skills. They grew up but they didn't bland out. Again, singles like Sometimes and Looking Backwards copped a well-deserved flogging on the country's airwaves.
Now, Lazy Susan's third album, Every Night - produced by J Walker from Machine Translations - changes things again.
Tempering their pop style with folk/roots edges, without losing sight of what makes their songs so engaging, on Every Night, Lazy Susan has drawn on classic sounds sorely lacking in the fashion-rock scene.
Every Night is scheduled for release in September 2006.
Nathan nathan nathan nathan.
WE GET THE PICTURE.
nathan musta written it.
Sorry Chris, didn't do a search, but they're also separate things. Yours is about hype, mine's about 'orribley written releases.
all that is true, though
anyway, i've started two threads like this
Cool. Nice to get an unsolicited plug for our last album. Thanks Realtime.
but the faker one says nothing
faker have ok songs, but nathan irritates me to the point where i can't watch them.
Wait a minute...your not Danny Yau are you?????????????
oh you should know you great big stalker.
all that is true, though
Well, not anymore.
i bet you have a spreadsheet somewhere where you track us all RTS.
Yeah, I'm danny. But i'm not in the band any more - I just sometimes find it difficult to let go.
I thought Interferon was Danny Yau.
I'm Mike Wilcox.
Some might call that a run-on sentence.
Who is Nathan?
He's the lead singer of Lazy Susan.
No he's not. Im really confused.
What word is formed by the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?
Alphabet.
Nathan is a restless lunatic, pops, with wild stage antics.
goldfoot said 23 minutes ago:
I thought Interferon was Danny Yau.
....
Nah. I was the lead singer of The Reservations.
I'll be dining with a representative from Faker's management company tonight and will endeavour to find out who is responsible for the press release.
That'd be good interferon. we need to get to the bottom of this and they need to be SACKED!!!!!
Ha ha ha, it'd be funny if it was Nathan then.
I also played drums in the Reservations.
Burt, my only concern is that the person I'm seeing tonight may have written this.
I'll let you know.
Oh dear....
I reckon it was written by a woman in her early 20s. Just a feeling...
Age discrimination!!!
two media releases just arrived in my inbox from the office of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett.
the first has a typo in the title:
the second is a two page document - but the only thing on the second page is the one ''Media Contact'' line. Surely she could have fiddled the margins to make it a one page document before converting it to pdf form!
obviously the 2 page orphan presser is consistent with his position on documentary production
A year or two ago, working for the Justice Dept I wrote this marvelous sentence.
''The new police station includes an entrance foyer and screened pubic counter area, Officer in Charge administration area, interview room, unisex shower and toilet, kitchen, property store, lock-up garage and a suspect toilet.''
After many complaints they got a plumber in.
I love media releases from pollies - not 'cos of their subject matter - but because they're almost uniformly badly written and have heaps of mistakes. You just know they've been written by some harried media adviser in 30 mins, without knowing much about the subject, so they can get them up to the gallery and pigeonhole them before everyone's deadlines.
haha suspect toilet. :D
Yep, that was me. Never had a clue.
Also, I'll let you all in on something. You know the bit in their releases that says ''The Minister said, 'Blah blah blah whatever..'' Well it is rarely the minister that 'says' that stuff.
We make it all up.
well der. :P
Nightwatchman, I did the same job - I know! :)
I still write 'em - for someone different - and it's still exactly the same.
I'm John-Michael ''Hollywood'' Howson, btw and this stuff is gold!
There was a clanger in one I saw yesterday:
''Armed with an arrogance and swagger that makes them instantly likeable...''
Can't remember the band. Some emo tripe.
deliberate?
DEAN GEYER
&
LISA ORIGLIASSO
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dean Geyer and Lisa Origliasso, together with their families, are delighted to announce they are engaged. The couple have been together since April 2007 and are thrilled to share their news.
are they cunts any cunts should give a fuck about?
the virgin and the veronica?
engaged in what?
lesbionage
Just researching Tracey Moffatt and came across this. This is why artist's shouldn't write their own releases.
[http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2007/07/05/130/]
I don't know, it just seems like it was written by a 12 year old ''Lately I’ve been making portraits I really like making them and I want them to be my on going project for a while.''
Did she get grants by writing like this?
sorry, this
excuse my murdering of the apostrophe
Hmmm, her release is about as simplistic and shallow as her art.
Even her own curator's agree:
*
Curator of her 1997–98 exhibition, Free Falling, at ny’s Dia Center for the arts, Lynne Cook described Moffatt’s work as characterised by ‘stylisation and artifice’. *
And, she doesn't even do a lot of the actual photography/filming. And she's had work sell for $220,000 at auction, which doesn't go to her, obviously, but imagine her prices....and she got to photograph Bjork, and it was shit.
Envy me having to write on her?
the rove quits tv for music article was pretty bad
Fuck I've been looking at Apostrophe Abuse and now I'm doing it myself all the damn time...it's contagious, I tells ya.