A string of high profile artists have all signed an advert today calling upon the British government to change their copyright laws.

At the moment, copyright on sound recordings only lasts for 50 years. All the acts concerned want this to be changed to 95.

Sir Paul McCartney, U2, Kaiser Chiefs, Paul Simonon and The Who's Pete Townshend are all amongst the 4,500 industry people who have signed it.

Printed in the Financial Times, the advert demands ‘Fair play for musicians.'

It goes on to read “We call upon the UK Government to support the extention of copyright in sound recordings.”

The advert is in direct response to the recently released Gowers Report which recommended that the law should not be changed.

Andrew Gowers deemed that the change would put up costs and provide no benefit to the public.

The string of high profile artists, backing musicians, session singers and orchestral players are all hoping that the law will be in line with America where the law is in force for the full 95 years.

Acts like The Beatles could be hit hard if there is no immediate change.

Source Gigwise

Cleopatra Records plan to reissue GREAT WHITE's Recover collection in January, 2007.

The 2CD reissue comes with Great White's covers of JOURNEY's 'Any Way You Want It', AEROSMITH's 'Same Old Song & Dance', VAN HALEN's 'Unchained' and much more.

More details to follow.

Source Cleopatra Records

According to Voices from the Darkside, reunited Atlanta-based thrashers HALLOWS EVE will release a DVD from their recent Halloween show. The gig was professionally shot with five cameras and also features "the full-size whipping" that bass player Tommy Stewart got from a dominatrix onstage while singing the song "Soldier" .

The band will furthermore be doing three last shows in Alabama, San Francisco and Los Angeles before they start working on a new album. This time they will try to stick to the original HALLOWS EVE sound as much as possible and have even tried to get original vocalist Stacy Andersen back into the lineup, but Stacy unfortunately still won't be willing to rehearse or tour.

Stacy is currently in a ROB ZOMBIE -style industrial metal band with Doyle Bright (formerly of RIGOR MORTIS ) called TWO PRONGED CROWN , which is performing a HALLOWS EVE tune entitled "Lethal Tendencies 2006" . On the subject of original HALLOWS EVE members, Ronnie Appoldt , who used to be with the band in its early days, is still alive and well (so all rumors about him being killed in a car crash were false!). He's currently playing bass in a band called RUKUS out of Templeton, California.

Source Voices from the Darkside