Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Featured Artists Coalition - Air Studios Event


On 25th September 2009 James Kelly attended the Featured Artist Coalition event at Air Studios in London. The event was organised to discuss artists views on illegal file sharing, downloading and recent events on the subject. James Kelly and PureTone Records do not see the following as a solution or the future of digital music but the right course of action at the time given impending government intentions.

As a result of the event, the following statement was released.

We the undersigned wish to express our support for Lily Allen in her campaign to alert music lovers to the threat that illegal downloading presents to our industry and to condemn the vitriol that has been directed at her in recent days.

Our meeting also voted overwhelmingly to support a three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional.

Signed:

Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane)
Jamie Turner
Adriano Buffone (Raygun)
Andrew Laidlaw (Luck Soul)
Tony Morrelli (The Fire Escapes)
Jean-Baptiste Pilon (The Fire Escapes)
Mark Headley (The Fire Escapes)
Hal Ritson (The Young Punx)
Billy Bragg
Howard Jones
Tjinder Singh (Cornershop)
Phil Simpson
Steve Jones
John Reynolds
Sandie Shaw (via phone)
David Rowntree (Blur)
Ed O’Brien (Radiohead)
Alan Sharland (The Hoosiers)
Martin Skarendahl (The Hoosiers)
Steven Hogarth (Marillion)
Mark Kelly (Marillion)
Guy Chambers
Patrick Wolf
Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly)
Jamie Allen
James Kelly
Ross Millard (The Futureheads)
Fran Healy (Travis)
Nathan Taylor (The Young Punx)
Josh Allegro
Ali Howard (Lucky Soul)
David Arnold
Lucy Pullin (The Fire Escapes)
Annie Lennox (via phone)
Lily Allen (Not a Member of the FAC)
George Michael
Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)

Signed After the meeting;

KT Tunstall
David Gilmour
Jools Holland
Ulrich Schnauss
Sandy Dworniak (This Much Talent)
Tom Jones
Amy Studt
Benjamin Evans (Deal Maker Records)
Lyndon Coyne (Bandito Records)
Sofia Hagberg (End of the Road Festival)
James Blunt
Jonas Kroon
Irwin Sparkes (The Hoosiers)
Robbie Williams
Robert Vale
Jerry Vale
The Music Producers Guild

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Sunday, 1 November 2009

James Kelly 'Acoustica EP' Available at Indiestore

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Saturday, 31 October 2009

PureTone Records - A New Business Model

PureTone Records was established by James Kelly to exploit the possibilities now available to musicians in the 21st century music industry and digital age. At the heart of the digital age is the file sharing and illegal downloading phonomumom.

The many views on addressing the revolution of accessing music, have been well publicised and at present it appears the British Government are to push through a three strikes and possible disconnection system against copyright infringers. Meanwhile the newly formed Featured Artist Coalition have declared themselves against criminalising potential music fans and Internet Service Providers are not inclined to police they're customers activity. This has seen several new models recently launched including Spotify, SKY Songs and a regenerated Napster, as legal alternatives are seen as vital to combating the issue.

James Kelly and PureTone are currently working on creating a new business model that would see music fans allowed to legally share and download music over the internet, would not require ISP's to police or pressure their customers and would reward artists and rights holders.

Proposal

• PureTone Records owned by James Kelly, licenses its catalogue to Internet Service Providers allowing their customers to legally access and download PureTone Records music via any file sharing website.

• A license fee would be agreed by PureTone Records and the ISP’s that could then be recouped in customers monthly bill. The license fee would represent the status of PureTone's catalogue and online activity.


In order for this model to work, the online activity of PureTone’s music would need to be monitored as accurately as possible and at present ISP’s are not willing to do this. If an independent organisation such as PRS for Music or Merlin were willing to undertake this role, then this model would not criminalise consumers, see income for artists, labels and possibly ISP’s where current revenue is lost and also open the door to the full potential of music in the digital age.

James has recently had meetings and discussions with Feargal Sharkey of UK Music, Patrick Rackow of BASCA, Jeremy Silver of the Featured Artist Coalition, Jon Webster of MMF, BT and the ISPA regarding his ideas. He is currently in the process of contacting possible monitoring bodies and ISP's.

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James Kelly Gallery




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James Kelly 'Acoustica EP' Available at iTunes


James Kelly and PureTone Records first official release - Acoustica EP!

James Kelly - Acoustica - EP


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Website Links

James Kelly Myspace - www.myspace.com/jameskellysounds


iTunes 'Acoustica EP' James Kelly - Acoustica - EP
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James Kelly Biography

James Kelly is a songwriter, guitarist, singer and owner of PureTone Records. Influenced primarily by Blues, Folk, Rock and Soul, combined with a passion for quality and imaginative production and song-writing.
Based in the south east of the UK, Theatre Of The Mind is the first single James has released featuring his full band through PureTone Records. PureTone Records was created by James to make and promote his music to as many music fans as possible.

It allows James to own his music whilst controlling his career and a recording company in the 21st century environment and digital age.
People choose the genre’s they like but a great song is a great song – PureTone.
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