By Hans Ebert It takes a lot for a train to cry and it takes a lot for a dam to burst and, gawd knows, it takes having to sidestep so many half-baked promises, and flimflam fakers to get to halfway near nowhere as a- I don’t really know, anymore. A chanteuse? Recording artist- and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ben Semmens’
THE PLASTIC HALLWAY OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
Posted: 10th October 2015 by We-Enhance in BEN SEMMENS, Entertainment Industry, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Horse Racing, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Adrenaline, Beer Garden, Ben Semmens, Ed Sheeran, happy wednesday, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Music, Jen Genie, JENNIFER PALOR, Jimmy Iovine, Lorde, recording contract, Shawn Mendes, SPOTIFY, Taylor Swift, Tidal, YouTube
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THE $284 ROYALTY CHEQUE AND WHAT’S LUCIAN GRAINGE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Posted: 10th September 2015 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, iTunesTags: Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, Saving The Music, Sony Music, Universal Music Publishing
My friend Ben Semmens and I received a Royalty cheque last week from Universal Music Publishing in Hong Kong for HK$284. This was after months of hounding the publishing house for a statement of “monies earned to date” for our song called “Home”, not the most original of titles in this hashtag and Google-centric world, [...]
WHERE DID THE MUSIC GO? (AND WHAT’S WITH ALL THESE CHARTS?)
Posted: 25th July 2015 by We-Enhance in Entertainment Industry, Jennifer Lopez, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, iTunesTags: Apple music, Beach Boys, Ben Semmens, Bruno Mars, CHRIS BROWN, Coldplay, Don Henley, ELLEN DEGENERES, J-Lo, Jefferson Airplane, KATY PERRY, Keith Richard, Monkees, Perez Hilton, Radiohead, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, the Byrds, Turtles, Vanilla Fudge, YouTube
If it wasn’t just so sad, it would be funny, but as this is written, Chris Brown has been released after being held hostage in the Philippines for three days for “unpaid bills”, there’s some kinda bad blood between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry over a song called, well, “Bad Blood”, there is absolutely way [...]
FORGET APPLE. REMEMBER WIL CAJUCOM AND THAT HOME-MADE MUSIC IS HERE
Posted: 1st July 2015 by We-Enhance in BEN SEMMENS, CREATIVITY, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, MusicTags: Apple free music, Ben Semmens, free music, Home, Home-made, Home-Made Music, SPOTIFY, Tidal, Twitter
There is just so much music out there, and yes, not all of it is that great. Then again, greatness is in the ear of Van Gogh and the psyche of Rasputin, but because of all the clutter, some real gems fall through the cracks. Guitarist Wil Cajucom is one of those rough diamonds found [...]
HOME-MADE: CUTTING OUT THE FAT. RE-BUILDING THE CREATIVE MUSCLE
Posted: 15th June 2015 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Beatles, CREATIVITY, China Entertainment Industry, China Music Market, EMI, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, India Music MarketTags: Ben Semmens, EMI Music, Eric Nicoli, Homemade Music, Kickstarter, MTV Networks, Paul MCCARTNEY, Pledge, Simon Cowell, Terra Firmists, Universal Music Publishing
“Home-made Music is the online meeting place for the global creative community” Home-Made Youtube Channel Home-Made Official Facebook page Home-Made(@HomeMadeMusic78) – Twitter It’s been over-cooked and half-baked for so long that some good old new fashioned home-made music- make, bake and shake that Home-made Music- might be the recipe many have been waiting for. Share [...]
IS BEN SEMMENS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS UNKNOWN MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD?
Posted: 17th September 2014 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kong, Horse RacingTags: Anna Fan, Ben Semmens, HKJC, maRK
In a world where making money by making music has made many musicians keep their day jobs and take on night jobs as gigs are scarce, and also because of those bozos who proclaimed from their games of thrones that giving away music was a good thing plus those other parasites who hoodwinked unknown artists [...]
GIVING YOUR MUSIC A SAFE HOME
Posted: 4th September 2014 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Beatles, China Music Market, Entertainment Industry, Entertainment industry in Asia, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music Industry, MUSIC AND POLITICS, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: Ben Semmens, Credence Clearwater Revival, Hans Ebert, Home, Jackson 4, John Fogerty, MICHAEL JACKSON, Music industry, Paul MCCARTNEY, Prince, The Beatles, Warner Music
No one said life would be easy, but they also never warned that it would also be so damn difficult, especially when making music, writing a song for the pure joy of it, and then, having that initial ego boost of people wanting actually wanting to pay money for the song via sync deals etc [...]
THE HKJC AND A SONG FOR THE HOME OF HAPPY WEDNESDAY
Posted: 2nd September 2014 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kng, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Horse RacingTags: Anna Fan, Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, happy valley, happy wednesday, HKJC, Home, maRK
(www.fasttrack.hk) PRESS RELEASE Hong Kong, September 2, 2014: Home is where the heart is and, to many, home on a weekday in Hong Kong is attending a Happy Wednesday night at Happy Valley Racecourse. Now, there’s a song about all this, called, naturally enough, “Home”, which doubles and triples as the musical anthem for the [...]
HONG KONG AND THE HKJC RECEIVE THE MUSICAL GIFT OF HOME
Posted: 30th May 2014 by We-Enhance in BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kng, iTunesTags: Ben Semmens, Hans Ebert, Happy Valley Happy Wednesday, HKJC, Home, Hong Kong, Right Of Abode
It’s a little strange to think that after all this time, Hong Kong doesn’t have a song it can call its own. Apart from the comical chop suey of a song made famous in the Sixties called “Kowloon Hong Kong” by a female group from the Philippines named The Reynettes, there have only been songs [...]
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB AND THE EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF HORSE RACING
Posted: 3rd December 2013 by We-Enhance in BEN SEMMENS, Hong Kong, Horse RacingTags: Ben Semmens, Fashion Styles The Valley, Giddy Up, Happy Valley racecourse, HKJC, Hong Kong horse racing, Hong Kong International Week, Longines, Music Rocks The Valley, Shatin racecourse, UNIVERSAL MUSIC
I was wondering if this would be a horse racing story or a music story before deciding that horse racing really is part of entertainment and it’s only the hardcore racing media and having the sport pigeon-holed by those within racing clubs is what still keeps this sport insular and in the Dark Ages- except [...]