Your Say

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Brickbats from the left

To the editor

What the hell do you think you are doing? The Dues is published by the Musicians Union, right? Then why are you giving space to a frigging right-wing idiot like Paul Gray?

I thought the ezine was pretty good until I started reading his column about how the Iraquis are selling Christmas trees, and how Steve Earle can't think straight. What IS this crap? Steve Earle has more integrity in his little finger than Paul Gray.

Needless to say, I will no longer be reading your ezine.

David

via email.

The editor replies: Well, David, I'm sorry you won't be reading this response, because if you did, you would discover a little thing called editorial independence. The Musicians Union does not dictate the content of this ezine. We strive for two aspects of balance: first, to balance all the rest of the music industry drivel pumped out by most of the music related press; second, to have some internal balance within the publication itself. In other words, we need the idiot on the right wing to balance all the other idiots on the left wing, otherwise we can't straighten up and fly right.

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Industrial blues

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For all this energy and creativity, there are still many gaps in our knowledge about how to deal with the industry we find ourselves in (which we love and hate with such a vengeance). To address this, Bellaire Hillock confronts us with both hard truths and new possibilities in his series about how to get a paid gig. And we supply some of the basic, but often strangely neglected, tools of the trade in Holden Fairlane's ongoing series on Harmony.

The only way most of us can survive in this industry is with a healthy dose of humour. If you are feeling you've had a rought trot recently, check out The Clinkerfields this week and realise it could be worse! And we get down in the mucus with a hard-hitting interview with Michael Jackson's nose.

We also welcome new writers Bryn Collins and Michelle Le Cornu to our rapidly-growing and talented staff.

To all you struggling musos out there, hang in there and, just as importantly, hang together. We at The Dues will continue to try to help you do just that.

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