2nd Annual Paul Haig Day!

Relieve mp3 Relive Paul Haig …. buy it!

Paul Haig, former singer of Josef K, and current songwriter/singer of wonderful music all his own, has been a blogger’s best friend. Last year when Blogger (the company) and google went berserk and began deleting people’s posts and making a general bully of themselves, Paul got involved. He got involved because the dear Vinyl Villain posted a track of his around this time and it was snatched down, supposedly due to copyright infringement. When Paul, the artist and sole copyright owner, heard about this unauthorized takedown he became “bemused” and offered up some more mp3s as a way of encouraging us (legitimate, not-full-album-download-musician-raping) bloggers in what we do. And what we do has always been clear to this artist – we promote music, we give free advertising so that our readers will go out and give their hard earned cash to support musicians in order to make more music. It’s really quite simple. Paul wasn’t confused. We weren’t confused. Blogger and google are the only ones confused and honestly, it’s not even really them, it’s the bureaucracy of laws and the capitalist interest that those laws protect that thrives on making confusion. Unfortunately, the confusion leads to money being handed over to people who haven’t earned it and taken from people who have.

So this wonderful artist, Paul Haig, has given us many gifts. He’s encouraged us not only with his music but also with his attitude toward it and toward our work. His latest album, Relive, is reviewed here by BBC music, along with audio clips of each track. It’s a techno, dark, wondrous mix of guitars, drums and electronica. This is some fine post-punk, post-modern pop. Pick up a copy and give back some of the support he’s given us, oxo

ooooh wait!!! There’s more!!
Trip Out The Rider (remix) mp3

(I stole this from JC’s blog) “It’s a great version of the opening track from Paul’s most recent LP Relive, released to great critical acclaim at the tail end of last year. This particular remix is one that has been done by Paul for today.

However, I’m delighted to reveal – and this is a world-wide exclusive – that a further remix has been done by Fred Deakin from Lemon Jelly, the highly innovative UK electronic act, and it will be made available as a very exclusive 7″ vinyl single later this year.”