Releasing a cover song.

Nowadays it’s very popular to release a single that is a cover song but why are all artists doing this?

Milow won the MIA award for best song with his 50 cent cover ‘Ayo Technology’. Triggerfinger had a number one single in Belgium and the Netherlands with their ‘I follow rivers’ cover.

Why are all these artists doing this? This can be because of many reasons.

When people hear 10 new songs and there is one cover song, they’ll remember the cover song because they’ve heard the song before (from an other artist of course).

This is a good method for beginning bands to get more famous. But there are more and more artists that think it’s not done for bands to release a cover song.

To conclude: you can get famous faster when you release a cover song but people can think it’s wrong. It’s a difficult decision.

The thin line between hero and junkie

The subject of my blog today is the thin line between a musical hero and a junkie.

I’ve always been a fan of Peter Doherty. I think The Libertines are one of the best bands from the last decade. Babyshambles have got some amazing tunes and Peter’s solo album is great.

I’ve seen him prefrom solo in Lokeren for the Lokerse Feesten and the year after with Babyshambles. These 2 performances were very good because he wasn’t to fucked up because of drugs and alcohol.

Tuesday April 10^th Peter Doherty played live in De Vooruit in Ghent.

He was 40min late and he was high and drunk. He played 4 songs and left the stage to get some alcohol in the backstage.
He poured a bottle of red wine on the people on the front row and he begged that nobody would upload footage from the concert on youtube.

For me this wasn’t Peter the musical hero, that was Peter the junkie. 

Same thing happend at Rock Werchter when I was waiting for Babyshambles and had to see Air Traffic again because Peter wanted to stay home to witness the birth of the kittens of his cat.
So he abounded 25 000 people because of his cat. That is Peter the junkie and complete bullshit.

Today I saw a article in NME magazine that he is going back to rehab in April.