Biffy Clyro have attempted to distance themselves from a retrospective compilation being assembled by old label Beggars Banquet.
The Scottish trio released three albums through Beggars, but the relationship seems to have soured after the label resolved to harvest the cream of Blackened Sky, The Vertigo of Bliss and Infinity Land for the Greatest Hits-esque package.
"It looks like Beggars will finally do what they've threatened to do and release a singles compilation,” said the band’s tour manager, currently on tour with the 14th Floor-signed act in the US.
"The band have chosen not to be involved with this release, beyond requesting that they [Beggars] don't attempt to create a 'new' album. It would have been awesome if the B-sides from that period had surfaced as a compilation, but what can you do?"
Beggars, meanwhile, deny they’re working independently of the band, a label spokesperson telling the Daily Record: “I have heard this but the truth is that it is being done with the band.
“There is nothing untoward, we are not going behind their back – this is being done with the blessing of the band."
DrownedinSound have contacted Beggars and are waiting on a response.
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hilarious
the beggars group are one of the few big labels who actually seem to invest in their artists and support them when they don't have much commercial success. oh, like biffy, then, with their three albums in two years, which weren't exactly chart humpers..
A colllection of B-sides on one disk woud be fab.
Kind of like MV's between the lines. People scream of cash in when this happens but it's great to have it all on one disk rather than but all the singles.
Buy all the singles
I mean
their silly little strop
has pretty much given Beggars the license to do that, so i imagine it won't be far behind now.
This just goes to show
how fucked up copyright law is. Those songs belong to the band, yet their label has the freedom to pilfer what they want from them, even after they've parted ways. Bastards!
hahahahahahaha
who do you think paid for the band to record them? and for the pressing of the CDs? and the fancy digipacks all their singles came in? and all the videos the band made?
Erm...Jesus?
WITH HIS OWN BLEEDING HANDS
the songs may belong to the band
(though more likely they sold them to a publisher) but the recordings do not.
My point exactly
copyright law allows a person to put emtional, financial and physical effort into a creative work, and then allows a business man to buy the right to copy that work as much as he likes, regardless of whether the artist ends the agreement or not.
The contracts signed by artists are rarely, if ever, fair. Of course they get the financial backing to produce more songs and maybe even make a living off their work, but that shouldn't mean that they lose the right to copy their work, and more importantly, to reclaim that borrowed right from others.
Legal rant over. B sides would be amazing, a new singles compilation is a waste of time imo. :)
Maybe they're worried that
people will hear that they used to make quite interesting music and not the Diet Foo Fighters stuff they churn out now
^
starting listening to blackened sky and vertigo again about month ago. Some good stuff, I was surprised I still like it in a way.