Tati The Sentinel
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Posted: Sep. 27 2007, 11:12 |
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Quote (ProjectZ @ Sep. 27 2007, 08:00) | hhmmm, this is a bad move imho...
Letting the promo-cd's floating around on the net for 2 more months (making a total of 5 (five) months)... who will remember to buy the album, except us, the fans... Most non-fans will probably have forgotten it... Imho it will be better to release it, without Mike doing promotion... |
But nowadays Mike does care about the quality of his personal life,he doesn't want be a non-present daddy to his kids with Fanny,so I respect his decision to launch MOTS later,first enjoy the new Oldfield on the block,and then promote correctly the album the way it deserves.
Correct if I'm wrong: when Platinum was released,Mike was near to be a daddy for the first time(Molly was born in Dec '79) and then toured in 1980,I remember once I've seen a footage from that tour that Mike appeared with Sally Cooper,and baby Molly(age a few months),and the 3 toured together,to the health of Mike's relationship with Sally.
On the NNOTP tour,the combo was Mike,Fanny and Jake,everywhere!
Quote (Korgscrew @ Sep. 26 2007, 21:58) | If Mike's baby is due in December, they must have known since at least July (and probably earlier) that it was on its way. A sudden change in release date isn't impossible, but it seems silly - this situation was not unpredictable and it would have been better to plan the release with this in mind. A delay is just going to encourage more people to download it and perhaps less to buy it. |
I do agree.Both Fanny and Mike knew about the baby coming up,but...why the launch party in Berlin,the promo on the web to download,since they've already known all about it,that would be impossible to promote the album?
With TSODE,it wasn't promoted in a normal way - it was twice,as far as I remember.
I'm trying to understand but...only time will tell.
-------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014
"I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011
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