Singers with same name to perform together

From news.bbc.co.uk …

Would the Real Fiona MacKenzie Please Stand Up will be a night to remember at the Eden Court in Inverness next month as three singers, all from the Isle of Lewis and all named "Fiona MacKenzie", will be performing. As someone who has been mistaken online for other 'Alison Wheeler's the idea of getting together sounds great. In my own case I didn't really know much about my own namesakes until I started receiving phone calls from Germany and Austria asking if I was the new singer for The Beautiful South. Not having sung in public since I was at school this was more than a little surprising and I thought there must be some muddle somewhere. Sadly some of the calls were from people using foul language of how dare someone spoil 'their band'. Anyway, I was then called by BBC Radio for an interview about the muddle with my singing namesake, which was quickly followed up with a BBC TV interview which took place while I was in Brighton during my Party's annual conference. Subsequently — as the current wikipedia article shows — the article which someone had written about me some years earlier was removed, and replaced by one about the singer. More recently I created a facebook group "My name is Alison Wheeler" to link up with some of the — many — other Alison Wheelers around.

Screw the evidence

From www.openrightsgroup.org …

UK "Culture" Secretary Andrew Burnham today indicated that he would support an extension of the length of copyright protection granted to sound recordings from 50 years to 70 years. This directly contradicts past Government policy and the 2006 report from the independent Gowers Review of Intellectual Property which recommended against term extension.

Infest 2008

From www.bbc.co.uk …

"From the Godfathers of Cybergoth to, er, Rick Astley…" (Report from BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire). As they say, "I was there"



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