I sit here typing this blog with my thumbs on what looks like some kind of portable gaming console. Anyone watching me would probably think I'm playing Donkey Kong or maybe even Tetris.

But no, in fact I'm posting a blog onto a music website that I help run, that I can now access from anywhere I chose to, at any time. All with this small grey contraption that has a groovy screen that flips around and looks impressive as hell.

So with this technology expanding, making more and more things possible every day, is it not wierd that all of this stuff is actually shrinking the world in a sense?

Go back a few years and if a band in Australia wanted to get a demo to a label overseas, they'd have to get it made, put together a great press kit and have it printed and presented really nicely.

Now though, with the internet, YouTube, MySpace and many other sites, a band can put together a swish press kit with samples of tracks, video of them live, documentaries and a zillion other things that are so accessable to everyone now and send it out to a list of hundreds of labels world wide with one click of the mousal pointing device.

I mean holy shit... how cool is that? While it probably makes life hell for a lot of label managers, the ease for bands and band managers to start getting promo and marketing engines rolling is spectacular.

There's no reason a band shouldn't be able to take their product and start trying to feed it to the world (depending on their world domination plan of action) as soon as it's recorded.

The only thing we need to concentrate on now is developing cheap matter transporting devices so touring overseas to back up sending all of that easy to produce and spread around promo is useful. Or perhaps some kind of realistic holographic stage projection so bands can 'play' in countries live without being there. It's the next best thing! HoloTours!

Ain't technology grand?

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