Re: KaTe and Mike Oldfield

[kuyper@iplan.co.za (Kuyper Hoffman)]

clive@mdis.co.uk (Clive Backham) Writes:

> Kuyper Hoffman (kuyper@iplan.co.za) wrote:
> : Who else has thought of this or agrees.  Maybe we could even get the
> : suggestion to either artist, problem is that KaTe's with EMI and
> : Mike's with Virgin (still? - think so) and you know how those dudes
> : can be :-)
> 
> If what you say about the record labels was true, this wouldn't be
> a problem, because:

[ summary : ]
> EMI bought Virgin Records
> KaTe's with Novercia (or rather, KaTe *is* Novercia)
> Mike Oldfield is no longer with Virgin
> Mike's latest work (TB2) was released on Warner Bros

Which all just goes to show how changeable the Record Industry is.

I only have the TB2 video, in fact my latest MO is Killing Fields
(which was still Virgin) so thatns for the Update.

> I'd have thought
> that, having finally extricated himself from the Virgin contract,
> he would have made sure he owned his own recordings from now on.
> 
> Like the idea of some sort of KaTe/Oldfield collaboration, though.

Glad I'm not alone :-)

> McDonnell Information Systems, Hemel Hempstead, UK

Ahh, nice place, I was there late in '92 - Yikes it was cold tho!

Cheers

Kuyper
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