It is a crazy time here at IDHAS as the 10th Anniversary approaches in July. We will hit the 4th million view before that and that is a little frightening. The place was only ever meant to be a small reaction to people of my age constantly banging on about how all new music was crap before they went and listened to Badfinger for the 10th time that week.
Nothing at all wrong with Badfinger at all, I love 'em, but there has been music since. So as I begin to think about the milestone, I wanted to celebrate in some way. It isn't something we normally bother with, I don't put myself about much and allow modesty to hold back self congratulation. So, the answer was to let the artists do the talking, simply because this place has always been primarily about them.
So the plan is to have a week of Live sessions from artists who have made the biggest splash here over the decade. The last time we did this, it was incredibly popular and led to some surprise associations that continue to this day. That was for the hundredth edition of the Audio Extravaganza.
The planned feature will be a week of sessions, three a day, totalling 21. The format will be 4 songs, one of which will be a cover. The cover was thought of with not doing any on the LTTW Playlist and that it would be nice for the newer to celebrate the older.
I'll be going through the 10 years to note artists who have made an impact. It will be Guitar Pop heavy of course, but there will be Prog, Psych Pop, Rock and other diversions. I'll be inviting artists over the next month to finalise a line up.
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Exciting stuff - congratulations on the 10th anniverary!
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