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Alan Noir
10-05-2006, 00:16
... www.manics.co.uk

Spring Snow
10-05-2006, 00:31
well it was there for a few minutes but now it seems to have disappeared..... ?????

Nobody
10-05-2006, 00:32
what have i missed??? :S

Spring Snow
10-05-2006, 00:34
we had a big banner up saying *james dean bradfield official site coming soon* ...

... and now it's gone...

Alan Noir
10-05-2006, 00:37
The official home page had something like this in place of the blood gif :

James
Dean
Bradfield

The official James Dean Bradfield site coming soon

looked like an ad for a dodgy sitcom

Paul
10-05-2006, 00:39
um..it's back


http://www.jamesdeanbradfieldofficial.com/

*Found That Soul*
10-05-2006, 00:44
How very exciting, cant wait for the journey to begin!

also is columbia sony yeah???

Alan Noir
10-05-2006, 00:44
OOPS... misread it, says Album coming soon, not official site.

Nobody
10-05-2006, 00:45
sweet, signed up to the newsletter (hopefully i'll get something this time)

and i see hes back to columbia...

MSPKYE
10-05-2006, 00:46
Oh cool :) says hes with Columbia - are they part of Sony??

*Found That Soul*
10-05-2006, 00:46
OOPS... misread it, says Album coming soon, not official site.
Just seen this to it appears to keep changing

Nobody
10-05-2006, 00:47
Oh cool :) says hes with Columbia - are they part of Sony??

yes, manics were on columbia for the first two album

Furbag
10-05-2006, 00:48
I love the mysterious stuff about when the journey is going to begin. Do you think the album or a song has something to do with a journey?

*Found That Soul*
10-05-2006, 00:49
can anyone else sign up it wont open the link for me

Nobody
10-05-2006, 00:51
signed up, and recieved confirmation email

Alan Noir
10-05-2006, 00:51
..ok there is an official site. :up: (AyeElsie)

i'm goin to bed.

Spring Snow
10-05-2006, 01:26
i take it that to avoid the spam filters they warn about - you just save their address in your address book / contacts list ?

deafmute
10-05-2006, 02:28
... www.manics.co.uk

Thank you for info! I signed for mailing list also. :D

Flint
10-05-2006, 05:26
Do you think the album or a song has something to do with a journey?
Most likely no. The beginning of a journey just sounds cool and intriguing.

nic
10-05-2006, 07:38
Just signed up.Getting excited now :D

Matt_o_Mac
10-05-2006, 07:57
Oooo and what a journey so i've been told

LoveMeToDeath
10-05-2006, 10:27
scary stuff, getting all excited now

Furbag
10-05-2006, 10:50
Oooo and what a journey so i've been told
Aha, is the journey the tour?

redsleepingrichey*
10-05-2006, 11:02
I quite like the aesthetic of it. Very refined.

mrvitaminpill
10-05-2006, 11:22
surely this (http://www.calvinofficial.com/) is more exciting?

Always/Never
10-05-2006, 11:43
Signed up - things are getting exciting.

Does the fact that they have made an official site and thus raising the profile a bit suggest the Columbia/Sony are actually behind this one? Lets hope so.

A boy called Rita
10-05-2006, 11:55
yayness ;D *gets all excited*

mrvitaminpill
10-05-2006, 11:55
aye should be good...persumably if he's getting his own site it will have some audio clips and videos and such?

Furbag
10-05-2006, 12:31
Be interested to see what promo shots and stuff what with this new refined artistic direction. It does seem like they are really going to push this album. Reckon it'll get into the top 40 anyone?

Always/Never
10-05-2006, 13:15
Be interested to see what promo shots and stuff what with this new refined artistic direction. It does seem like they are really going to push this album. Reckon it'll get into the top 40 anyone?

Might well do, although a radio play push is really needed - his single, whatever it turns out to be, needs to try and tempt people outside the Manics fanbase.

Lucyloo
10-05-2006, 13:15
Well that's me all signed up and looking forward to more news, especially hopefully of tour dates seeing as I'm not going to be able to make Nicky's Hay Festival thing.

Dancing May Girl
10-05-2006, 13:36
Now this makes me excited and impatient to see what James have been up to:D

Supergirl
10-05-2006, 13:42
Signed up!!!!

Flint
10-05-2006, 13:51
I never bothered to sign up, whatever information the mailing list offers will be posted here about 5 seconds after the email has reached someone's inbox :p

Dai_in_the_summertime
10-05-2006, 13:53
I really wish people would stop going on about the album flopping, Sony not supporting the artist, etc, etc. JDB is signed to Columbia who, in turn, are integral to Sony, who will be supporting JDB as much as possible. Even if the album didn't go Top 10, would it really matter? So much shit makes top 10 it's unbelievable. As long as JDB produces an album that showcases what a talented musician/singer he is, I couldn't care less if it sells 1000 or 1,000,000 copies.

mafiamonroe
10-05-2006, 14:37
:up: Well said.

Thom Webbe
10-05-2006, 14:39
signed up, now i have to post it online for everyone else! :P

dimerocks
10-05-2006, 15:02
signed up, now i have to post it online for everyone else! :P
I love your signature!And you avatar....just had to put that out there.

Littlesue
10-05-2006, 15:21
I really wish people would stop going on about the album flopping, Sony not supporting the artist, etc, etc. JDB is signed to Columbia who, in turn, are integral to Sony, who will be supporting JDB as much as possible. Even if the album didn't go Top 10, would it really matter? So much shit makes top 10 it's unbelievable. As long as JDB produces an album that showcases what a talented musician/singer he is, I couldn't care less if it sells 1000 or 1,000,000 copies.

very true, but I don't think the money men running the record company would see it that way, I'm sure they and James want it to be as succesful as possible

Thom Webbe
10-05-2006, 15:29
I love your signature!And you avatar....just had to put that out there.
glad someone gets it :P

adore failure
10-05-2006, 16:36
looks like the announcement will be made shortly then

WelshManicFoo
10-05-2006, 16:46
I'm all signed up now.I'm so excited.It's been a long wait but finally something to look forward to from our JDB.

Miss Oceania
10-05-2006, 16:48
I'm signed up too. I hope we get some solid news off it soon! :mrgreen:

Dai_in_the_summertime
10-05-2006, 17:25
very true, but I don't think the money men running the record company would see it that way, I'm sure they and James want it to be as succesful as possible

JDB is hardly Rachel Stevens or Mark Owen. He actually has credibility as an artist and doesn't have faceless agents writing his tunes for him. He actually has the potential to have a successful album here.

JDB
10-05-2006, 18:25
I'm getting excited about it all...not that I wasn't anyway...






*gets coat and goes back to appreciation*

mafiamonroe
10-05-2006, 20:02
You're always excited when it comes to James. 'Come' being the operative word! ;)

Dai_in_the_summertime
10-05-2006, 20:49
You're always excited when it comes to James. 'Come' being the operative word!

Please, take that talk to appreciation :P

Nobody
11-05-2006, 11:24
James now has his own artists page on Columbia: http://www.columbia.co.uk/artists/james_dean_bradfield/

Inertiatic
11-05-2006, 11:33
I also just noticed that Sony have put a link up on their site http://www.sonybmgmusic.co.uk

"You know you he is." :confused:

missy_manic
11-05-2006, 21:21
I'm not ashamed to say it so here goes... I'm sooo excited I could wee! :P

Missy *blushing* xxx

Miss Oceania
11-05-2006, 22:37
I'm not ashamed to say it so here goes... I'm sooo excited I could wee! :P

Missy *blushing* xxx

Don't be ashamed darling! I'll be stocking up on Tena Lady tomorrow!!! :mrgreen:

Daz_uk
18-05-2006, 13:30
has anyone else signed up at :-

http://www.jamesdeanbradfieldofficial.com/

I Just have, hoping that they will release the extra tour dates on here, mind you seeing as its ran by Sony I aint holding my breath....

mafiamonroe
18-05-2006, 13:40
I like the biog on James' myspace and the photos are brilliant. He's still smoking. "Run Romeo Run" sounds interesting.

Dancing Kirby
18-05-2006, 14:10
I like the biog on James' myspace and the photos are brilliant. He's still smoking. "Run Romeo Run" sounds interesting.

I didn't know that even existed until you just mentioned it. Thanks for (sort of) pointing me in its direction.

deafmute
18-05-2006, 14:16
I like the biog on James' myspace and the photos are brilliant. He's still smoking. "Run Romeo Run" sounds interesting.

Yep. :cool: he looks like lost more weight, doesn't he.

Takk
18-05-2006, 14:23
I didn't know that even existed until you just mentioned it. Thanks for (sort of) pointing me in its direction.

Is that blog for real?...

You have to understand that it was never James Dean Bradfield's intention to make a solo record. It's just that, 15 years on from breaking his first promise as a rockstar (the Manic Street Preachers' bloody-minded early declaration to split up after one million selling album), he, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore decided to finally keep a promise; the one made that April night at Hammersmith Apollo when, at the end of a tour that reinstated their position as the past decades definitive UK rock band, he declared 'you wont see us for two years.

After almost two decades of noise, confusion, dreams both gloriously realised and set down in flames; of inspiration, dedication, victory, loss, tragedy and comedy, the Manic Street Preachers decided, albeit briefly, to have a rest. "After 'Lifeblood' we decided that people deserved a rest from us, and we're not the best kind of people to actually get distance from it ourselves. Contrary to people actually saying 'Manics split' over the years, we never actually talk about that. It still feels like a youth club band, regardless of our age."

But James, always the bands down-to-earth workaholic was never the type to spend 18 months on a golf course. "We kept wanting to go back in the studio to do a Manics album, he admits, but we really tried to stick to it for the first time. It sounds horribly sincere and earnest but I really just missed having music in my life."

Though James was at the helm musically, the bands unique division of labour meant that nobody has ever known much of what makes James Dean Bradfield the human being tick. The Great Western' is his belated statement of intent, a heroic pop-rock memoir statement that combines the sweeping flourishes of Everything Must Go; the airtight punk of The Holy Bible and Generation Terroristss wide-eyed lust for life, and vacuum packs it all into 11 raw, unfussed and passionate modern rock tracks. I deliberately did most of it in The Square Studio in Hoxton and Stir Studios in Cardiff (where the band famously made The Holy Bible), and theyre really small studios; when youre actually playing in there they dont sound like big rooms. I like the idea of stuff being a bit more cloaked; more murky and '70s-esque

The lyrics, too, see Bradfield stripping back and laying himself bare like never before. Hed had a go at writing on his own before, of course, on the well-received 'Know Your Enemy' single 'Ocean Spray'; a deeply personal meditation on his Mothers death. And after such a wrenching experience, he hadn't been keen to do it again. "I'm not saying it was self conscious or remotely Jungian or Freudian or it was like therapy," he remembers, "I'm not saying that. It came out of death that lyric, and I couldn't see myself writing another one for a long time after it."

In fact, it was a happier reconnection with his past that set James off on this new path of creativity, when the time off from the Manics saw him regularly making the same journey between Cardiff and Paddington that had marked the four teenagers first tentative steps to domination. I noticed that a lot of my writing was happening on that train journey, and I began to realise it wasnt an accident, says James.

So James wrote to understand, starting with the man who had first given them the keys to the big city. 'An English Gentleman' pays moving tribute to the benevolence of the late Philip Hall; their publicist, close friend and mentor who went so far beyond the call of duty as to move the young Manics into his home as they took their first crucial steps. "I remember Philip coming to meet our parents for the first time, and he turned up and he wasn't the flash Londoner that they thought he was gonna be. I just remember that, the never the twain shall meet, our parents and this supposedly big, fat-cat, cigar-in-his-mouth London manager, and when they actually met, there wasn't that much difference between them in a strange kind of way. Even though he was very comfortable with my parents, there was something quite swashbuckling about him."

The tense duality between James the West London rock musician and James the working-class boy from Blackwood is the backbone of The Great Western. Never more so than on 'Which Way To Kyffin', a tribute of sorts to Kyffin Williams, the Anglesey-based painter widely regarded as Britain's greatest living landscape painter. "I was in West Wales last year, says James, and I had this feeling where I didn't want to go back to London and was really fighting not to go back. I just felt like driving up to Anglesey to find Kyffin Williams. Just drive up to North Wales on the spot, make the three-hour journey and paint myself into a corner and never have to leave again. Almost in a metaphorical way, like the chorus says, I was trying to paint myself a different life so you can be captured in the painting and don't have to leave it."

But thats not to say James has left the old sloganeering way behind; the hyperactive lead single Thats No Way To Tell A Lie takes a pop-stained swipe at the way organised religion has kept AIDS rife throughout Africa, and the records one cover, a gorgeous rendition of Jacques Brels To See A Friend In Tears carries a message that resonates far further than the subject about which it was written. "I just liked the way it seemed to pre-date the debate that's going on post the Iraq war. This comes from a war that's much more firm in its moral judgements, it was written in the '60s about the Second World War but it comes to the same conclusion.

Of course, any Manics follower will instantly recognize the lyrics to frenetic Spector-pop highlight 'Bad Boys and Painkillers' as being from the pen of Mr Nicholas Wire. "It's got shades of Richey and Pete (Doherty); and I don't know whether anybody's made that comparison more than once you know, and there's a massive difference between them but it all ends on the same road. It says the same thing; Pete Doherty always says that he's found something perfect in this mirage of Albion, and so once and forever Libertine. Whereas Richey never came close to finding anything perfect and he was always looking for something perfect, whether it be a girl or whether it be a nation or a country or a place. Perhaps he only ever found his perfection in something more bleak and nihilistic."

James freely admits that making music on his own felt like infidelity at first. Completely." The plan was always for Sean Moore to contribute some drums; he is spending the hiatus on an altogether different kind of collaborative project, as a new father. James played all the guitars and bass, and some of the keyboards himself, while Super Furry Animals' Daf Ieuan contributes drums to 'Run Romeo Run'.

But going it alone has re-affirmed the band's closeness in a surprising fashion: "After the very first session I did which wasn't too successful in my mind; it's corny but I realised that that telepathy you have with people you've grown up with and played music with since you were 15 I will never ever take it for granted again. I realised that you couldn't ever put a price on it."

Though most musicians will balk when quizzed about their influences, James is candid about his two inspirations; both Welshmen, both leading figures in seminal bands who chanced their arm at going it alone. First was Velvet Underground pioneer John Cales Paris 1919, which James calls one of his favourite albums ever. His songs are quite confusing and you can actually get lost in them. I just like the sombre quality to a lot of what he does and I like the fact that he's always writing about disparate people and places but always remains sounding Welsh; no matter how he's trying to escape it he never will.

And secondly, 7 Park Avenue, the album of demos that Badfinger frontman Pete Ham recorded in the eponymous house in Golders Green. I just liked the fact that he never seemed embarrassed about what he wrote; he always seemed comfortable. There's just something undeniably so melancholic about the music. I took those two things as inspiration, because they seemed individual in their esoteric landscape."

The album reconnects with his Welsh identity for sure; coming to terms with and moving on with the triumphs and tragedies of his past - yes; but while 'The Great Western' is as grown-up and profound as that sounds; it's shot through with the same primal zeal for melody, urge for power chords and lust for life that have kept James Dean Bradfield at the summit of Britrock for 15 years.

And has this tentative solo flight given James the appetite to work on his own again any time soon? "I only mastered it last night," he sighs, "but I've just realised that I actually really enjoyed it a lot. Seeing 'Words and Music by James Dean Bradfield' written down actually made me feel happy. For once I've lost a bit of my insecurity."

Dancing Kirby
18-05-2006, 14:25
Yep. :cool: he looks like lost more weight, doesn't he.

Yes, and in the ones taken at the train station he looks as good as he has done for a long time. Those particular promo pictures might also end the debate over the meaning behind the album's title.

Dancing Kirby
18-05-2006, 14:26
Is that blog for real?...

Definitely looks like it to me.

Furbag
18-05-2006, 14:52
James Dean Bradfield releases his debut solo single
Thats No Way to Tell a Lie on 10th July 2006, on Columbia.


Following the highly productive sessions for the new Manic Street Preachers studio album, the ever-distinct voice of James Dean Bradfield, emerges with a re-invigorated writing confidence and a hugely anticipated debut solo album. With his band in the studio recording their eighth studio album (but most definitely not split up, bassist/lyricist Nicky Wire is recording his solo album, and drummer Sean Moore is looking after a new release of his own as a father), James has produced his first solo album, entitled The Great Western. Having touched the lyric sheet once before as a Manic with 'Ocean Spray'; a deeply personal meditation on his Mothers death, he comments on his decision to go it alone for the first time: "I missed writing songs and I missed performing music and its as simple as that. So I thought; perhaps I've just got to garner some self-confidence to write some stuff of my own."


If any further proof were needed of Bradfields relevance to these times, then Manics devotees old and new and the few music fans left untouched by their rich catalogue over the years will be unsurprised by the depth and quality of Thats No Way to Tell a Lie and the songs on The Great Western. It is an album that seems to capture the breath of life so readily attached to the Manics finest moments. Each song is characterised by choruses with G Forces, lyrics of genuine poignancy and classic playing.


The Great Western was recorded in Wales, Berlin and London with James playing most of the instruments (a Super Furry Animal crops up on drums along the way) and writing virtually all of the lyrics. Nicky Wire contributes words to Bad Boys And Painkillers and James covers Jacques Brels To See a Friend in Tears, but elsewhere it is all James work. James sought influence from John Cale, Badfinger, Kyffin Williams and the much travelled journey from Cardiff Central to London Paddington during the recording: weve also heard the Steve Miller Band, Todd Rundgren and Rattlesnakes era Lloyd Cole in there.


Thats No Way To Tell A Lie is not James Dean Bradfields first post-Manics single, then.

It is his first solo single. "I just realised last night I actually really enjoyed it a lot. Seeing 'Words and Music by James Dean Bradfield' written down actually made me feel happy. For once I've lost a bit of my insecurity."




Thats No Way to Tell a Lie is released on 10th July 2006

The Great Western is released on 24th July 2006

James plays at the V2006 Festival: Stafford 19th August 2006 and Chelmsford on the 20th.

MSPKYE
18-05-2006, 15:05
James Dean Bradfield releases his debut solo single
Thats No Way to Tell a Lie on 10th July 2006, on Columbia.


Following the highly productive sessions for the new Manic Street Preachers studio album, the ever-distinct voice of James Dean Bradfield, emerges with a re-invigorated writing confidence and a hugely anticipated debut solo album. With his band in the studio recording their eighth studio album (but most definitely not split up, bassist/lyricist Nicky Wire is recording his solo album, and drummer Sean Moore is looking after a new release of his own as a father), James has produced his first solo album, entitled The Great Western. Having touched the lyric sheet once before as a Manic with 'Ocean Spray'; a deeply personal meditation on his Mothers death, he comments on his decision to go it alone for the first time: "I missed writing songs and I missed performing music and its as simple as that. So I thought; perhaps I've just got to garner some self-confidence to write some stuff of my own."


If any further proof were needed of Bradfields relevance to these times, then Manics devotees old and new and the few music fans left untouched by their rich catalogue over the years will be unsurprised by the depth and quality of Thats No Way to Tell a Lie and the songs on The Great Western. It is an album that seems to capture the breath of life so readily attached to the Manics finest moments. Each song is characterised by choruses with G Forces, lyrics of genuine poignancy and classic playing.


The Great Western was recorded in Wales, Berlin and London with James playing most of the instruments (a Super Furry Animal crops up on drums along the way) and writing virtually all of the lyrics. Nicky Wire contributes words to Bad Boys And Painkillers and James covers Jacques Brels To See a Friend in Tears, but elsewhere it is all James work. James sought influence from John Cale, Badfinger, Kyffin Williams and the much travelled journey from Cardiff Central to London Paddington during the recording: weve also heard the Steve Miller Band, Todd Rundgren and Rattlesnakes era Lloyd Cole in there.


Thats No Way To Tell A Lie is not James Dean Bradfields first post-Manics single, then.

It is his first solo single. "I just realised last night I actually really enjoyed it a lot. Seeing 'Words and Music by James Dean Bradfield' written down actually made me feel happy. For once I've lost a bit of my insecurity."




Thats No Way to Tell a Lie is released on 10th July 2006

The Great Western is released on 24th July 2006

James plays at the V2006 Festival: Stafford 19th August 2006 and Chelmsford on the 20th.

Aha! so it is a train thing:P

Furbag
18-05-2006, 15:07
Go to www.myspace.com/jamesdeanbradfield and look at the promo pics, then you'll know what it is about.

Furbag
18-05-2006, 15:08
http://myspace-979.vo.llnwd.net/00747/97/90/747020979_l.jpg

unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed
18-05-2006, 19:00
Go to www.myspace.com/jamesdeanbradfield and look at the promo pics, then you'll know what it is about.

Could you post the pics here? I wouldn't want to soil my soul by signing up for myspace.

Dai_in_the_summertime
18-05-2006, 19:16
http://myspace-661.vo.llnwd.net/00747/16/60/747020661_l.jpg

http://myspace-979.vo.llnwd.net/00747/97/90/747020979_l.jpg

http://myspace-590.vo.llnwd.net/00747/09/51/747021590_l.jpg

http://myspace-300.vo.llnwd.net/00747/00/35/747025300_l.jpg

http://myspace-168.vo.llnwd.net/00250/86/17/250967168_l.jpg

Dai_in_the_summertime
18-05-2006, 19:17
http://myspace-524.vo.llnwd.net/00744/42/55/744435524_l.jpg

http://myspace-419.vo.llnwd.net/00747/91/40/747020419_l.jpg

http://myspace-154.vo.llnwd.net/00250/45/16/250966154_l.jpg

Dai_in_the_summertime
18-05-2006, 19:21
I think the "Taxi Driver" look is cool as fuck.

Flint
18-05-2006, 19:22
http://myspace-524.vo.llnwd.net/00744/42/55/744435524_l.jpg
Mrrwww. :heart:

Dancing Kirby
18-05-2006, 19:37
From myspace...

the hyperactive lead single Thats No Way To Tell A Lie takes a pop-stained swipe at the way organised religion has kept AIDS rife throughout Africa

That puts an interesting new spin on TNWTTAL, but am I alone in not really detecting any of that in the actual song?

Dai_in_the_summertime
18-05-2006, 19:38
I didn't get any message in That's No Way To Tell A Lie.

ZiZi
18-05-2006, 19:47
Great pictures, thank you.

burnleybassman
30-05-2006, 08:51
I've just noticed that you can't get to the spoof JamesDeanBradfield.com site anymore. Looks as though the embarassment was too much for Sony! :lol: I take it theres going to be no album called 'Big Jim' then? :(

relic
30-05-2006, 13:32
Yes. :( You just get a redirect to the official site. It was fun while it lasted, especially with some lazy journalists actually using it as a news source.

deafmute
30-05-2006, 13:34
I wonder how much Sony spent to get that domain.

MJG
30-05-2006, 13:38
I've just noticed that you can't get to the spoof JamesDeanBradfield.com site anymore. Looks as though the embarassment was too much for Sony! :lol: I take it theres going to be no album called 'Big Jim' then? :(

Nooooooooooooooooo. That site was so funny. JDB reviews 10p confectionary :lol: :lol: :lol:

deafmute
30-05-2006, 13:56
Nooooooooooooooooo. That site was so funny. JDB reviews 10p confectionary :lol: :lol: :lol:

and how about that ugly jumper and speccy. :eek:

Manic Steve Preacher
30-05-2006, 14:16
That's a shame, I thought the site was quite funny. In the next few weeks I guess they'll get rid of jamesdeanbradfieldofficial.com and all promotional material will just have jamesdeanbradfield.com on it.

It makes commerical sense to get jamesdeanbradfield.com though, but I have noticed that the person that registered the jdb site may also be responsible for www.nickywire.com, so it looks like Sony may have to fork out once again!

Manic Steve :X

Lindz Delirium
30-05-2006, 14:29
I often wondered what happens when someone has registered a name, would Sony contact the person who owns nickywire.com and ask to buy it off them?

unger76
30-05-2006, 14:41
I often wondered what happens when someone has registered a name, would Sony contact the person who owns nickywire.com and ask to buy it off them?
Probably they would try to threaten with legal steps before offering some promotional CDs in return for the URL.

markus

Matt_o_Mac
30-05-2006, 14:44
Probably they would try to threaten with legal steps before offering some promotional CDs in return for the URL.

markus

They might go for Nicky Jones who knows.......

Anyhow you can't copyright a name in relation to a website, thats the truth.......even if Ronaldo wants to disagree

Manic Steve Preacher
30-05-2006, 14:47
Yeah I guess they would go the legal route, it saves them paying a lot for it. Most big companies argue that they are working in the interest of their artist, and the term 'Nicky Wire' is synonymous with Nicky, meaning that Sony would argue that technically they have more of a right to that domain name than the current owner.
It would be even easier for James' site, as James Dean Bradfield is his real name.

With fear of legal action most peeps hand over the site.

Manic Steve :X

Dancing Kirby
30-05-2006, 18:59
Bonesy made some uncharacteristically nice comments towards JDB a couple of days ago, so Sony must have either given him loadsamoney or threatened to sue him for defamation of character and break his legs unless he handed the domain over ;)

Everlasting_Emptiness
30-05-2006, 20:25
Bonesy made some uncharacteristically nice comments towards JDB a couple of days ago, so Sony must have either given him loadsamoney or threatened to sue him for defamation of character and break his legs unless he handed the domain over ;)

It's still available as a cache on google, for those who are interested:

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:mv1hmk9UWCMJ:www.jamesdeanbradfield .com/+jamesdeanbradfield&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Takk
30-05-2006, 22:45
I don't think there's any legal basis for demanding control of a domain name, is there? I'm sure they can force you to remove any material that's defamatory or libel or whatever, but you can't lay claim to a domain name with an artist's name, can you?

gs82
01-06-2006, 12:45
JDB's myspace is "undergoing routine maintenance" :surprise: ;)

mr_banana_pants
01-06-2006, 12:52
JDB's myspace is "undergoing routine maintenance" :surprise: ;)

I believe the whole of myspace is.

unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed
01-06-2006, 13:10
Bonesy quite literally sold out then.

gs82
01-06-2006, 13:17
I believe the whole of myspace is.

my page isn't!

must be all the music ones

Dancing Kirby
02-06-2006, 18:46
James' myspace page has a sample of the single now. I hope that picture with it isn't the single or album cover. It's not even a new picture, as far as I'm aware, but it's used for the album on HMV as well.

Bonesy
02-06-2006, 19:09
Bonesy made some uncharacteristically nice comments towards JDB a couple of days ago, so Sony must have either given him loadsamoney or threatened to sue him for defamation of character and break his legs unless he handed the domain over ;)

oh cynical!! jimbo loses -500 points for dissing doors fans.

mustique
05-06-2006, 04:08
James' myspace page has a sample of the single now. I hope that picture with it isn't the single or album cover. It's not even a new picture, as far as I'm aware, but it's used for the album on HMV as well.

I was just about to say that.

famousblueraincoat
07-06-2006, 17:39
James' myspace page has a sample of the single now. I hope that picture with it isn't the single or album cover. It's not even a new picture, as far as I'm aware, but it's used for the album on HMV as well.


And a big sign that says "his erection problem affects you both", which is a pity in my humble opinion.

Dai_in_the_summertime
07-06-2006, 18:57
I firmly believe that the album cover is the picture of James looking out of the window of the train.

Also, myspace site will have more samples in next few weeks.

mustique
11-06-2006, 03:05
Not that it's really important .. but .. I just noticed that James' photo on Myspace looks brand spanking new.

Scars Of Birth
18-06-2006, 23:43
It might've already been said, but what are the odds the site is actually ready for 1) the single release 2) the album release 3) before the next MSP album?