Grove documentary - compilation CD

Don't know if this is a runner.

Would it be possible to produce a CD of the music in the Grove documentary.

We could then give the proceeds to a charity/hospital etc..

Seeing as 290,000 people tuned into the documentary, if even half the people who tuned in bought the CD, a lot of money could be raised.

It would certainly get in the charts.

Just a thought

Reckon the Copyright Police would have something to say about that,unfortunately.

Rolo.

Yeah, often wondered what the cut off point was. I mean how much royalties do song owners charge for something like that.

Reckon there's a flat fee, followed by a percentage of sales revenue or something. Anyone got any ideas ?

Just on that, you know that RTE Programme " Reeling in The Years ". Well I think that's magic. I contacted RTE and asked if they would ever be putting it out on DVD and they said that the copyright royalties for the music and the clips would make it impossible. Pity,'cos it's a great series.

Rolo.

Ah yeah T, but who would sing it ?

Rolo.

Right, I'm on it.

Give us a couple of days.

Noodles.

a trriple CD - each representing a decade, each beginning and ending with the most common opening and closing songs of that period, each with a couple of slow sets and pref. featuring some of the more obsure artists (they may need the royalties - e.g. Will You, Alternative Ulster (others?) are timeless Grove classics, and unike e.g. the Stones, they prob. don't have too much money these days...

re: royalties - have to be paid, no question, but may be less of a problem for a relativly limited release in a (ahem!) minor market like Ireland (?).

but why stop w/ a CD compilation? why not a movie?

Imagine... (Hollywood pitch hat on) a coming of age movie about a group of northsiders (remember the Commitments!) set in the early 80s (OK - so I'm not being too objective) against the back-drop of fragmenting musical genres, slow-burn sexual revolution, mass-emigration

Imagine...  imagine the Grove as a decade long "American Wake"... in todays post-Tiger, consumer-"heaven", its easy to forget that we all thought that even if the Irish branch of CND didn't stop the eventual US/USSR nuclear holocost, most us us would prob. still have to leave the country...

Imagine... a kinda "Big Wenesday" or "Big Chill" reunion years later...

Few societies have gone through the change ours has - few have the stories or charecters... 

Not far off,as far as I know ( and that's not a lot.)

Supposed to be about three teenage girls from The Northside and growing up etc.,etc. Think The Grove gets a mention,hence Cecil's involvement.

Rolo.