Lyndahere And Snippets From Twitter...

I have been under the impression for a long time Lyndahere (@lyndahere) doesn’t really like Great Big Sea although she clearly likes Alan Doyle. My suspicions where confirmed in a tweet today about her clear preference for Alan Doyle @JackRossAgent @alanthomasdoyle “I especially like that you mentioned both GBS and Alan. More GBS is good: more Alan Doyle Band gigs is best” 24 February 2013. There is further evidence.

There have been numerous examples on her blog and on Twitter that illustrate she may not like Great Big Sea as much as she professes too. I have written about it on previous posts for example blaming Great Big Sea for the comments she gets on her blog when they start selling seats to concerts and the tour ends.

However, it is mainly her actions like not retweeting the CBC Music videos of their concerts on Twitter, and bootlegging the It’s Friday video filmed in St John’s with Great Big Sea and Dean Brody and releasing it before the due date. She did bootleg Great Big Sea’s performance with Blue Rodeo also filmed by CBC Music. But she held off for a bit and then put her own copies up on Youtube after what she considered a suitable amount of time.

If the video is an official Great Big Sea video and not in competition with her own bootlegged live recording videos then she will retweet a link or provide links on Twitter like Heart of Hearts.

There was no acknowledgement or congratulations on the opening of Bob Hallett’s pub in St John’s Newfoundland on her Twitter site and no photos or videos. I would have thought since she was in Newfoundland she would have been there.

Lyndahere sent the following tweet to all the Great Big Sea members Alan Doyle, Sean McCann, Bob Hallett, Murray Foster and Kris MacFarlane “The Koolhaus Toronto Nov 2004, full concert” 24 February 2013. While she did not retweet any links to the videos from the CBC Music or Great Big Sea Twitter site that were up on Youtube or their links she loaded up an entire music pirated video live concert recording from 2004 in Toronto.

So why not put Twitter links to a really brilliant performance that would really sell Great Big Sea. Wikipedia states Great Big Sea's released their first concert DVD and videos collection, the Great Big DVD in Canada and the United States in 2003 and Europe in 2004. In 2006, the band released their second concert DVD, Courage & Patience & Grit, recorded in Belleville, Ontario.

I have seen copies of these DVDs on Youtube and they are excellent so why not provide a Twitter link to copies of these videos even though they are pirated. For example one of the music pirated videos is song The Mermaid from the Courage and Patience and Grit DVD by Sean McCann. It also contains a wonderful brief history of Newfoundland folk music and links to itunes for people to buy the song. But then there is no publicity for her site or her ‘work’ in there.

The concert Lyndahere provided links to was nearly ten years ago. Great Big Sea is not the same band anymore. They have evolved both as individuals and as a group as has their music evolved. Here she is selling a band people will not see and hear and a product that doesn’t exist anymore. Her biases are clearly seen in her videos and her writing and that is her videos and her writing clearly centers around Alan Doyle. There have been lots of old photos sent to his Twitter site but I think that is more to remind him and the band how long she has been stalking them or a fan.

Lyndahere always the opportunist is ready and waiting. When she tweets her videos and photos to Alan Doyle she now includes a full stop and blank space after her name separating it from Alan Doyle. So that she is clearly the author of the material. Always on the look out for some extra publicity.

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle performs a snippet fr. GBS’s “Horatio The Penguin” @WPG Alan Doyle band gig at Youtube….. (See You’re great!!). 21 February 2013. 

Alan Doyle wrote on his official Twitter site “Just learned of the Juno nomination for Testify video. What a thrill. What a thrill. Thanks Margaret M. and the Iceland folks, and esp Russell Crowe”. On Tuesday 19 February 2013 the music video Testify by Alan Doyle and Russell Crowe was nomination for a Canadian music Juno Award. Congratulations. The video was made last year in Iceland with talented Canadian photographer Margaret Malandrucco. It was Margaret’s second nomination for a Juno Awards last year, the second song Fire It Up by Johnny Reid.

Despite all the alternative types of videos being produced including bootlegged live recordings and vidding there is still a place for the traditional musician and artist video in the world of music by fans who love to watch them and by the music establishment who recognise their importance in promoting music. The video is available on Youtube on Alan Doyle’s official site Vevo and in high definition on Vimeo.

It was Lyndahere who provided a tweet for the link to the Alan Doyle official Youtube site for the official video Testify. And it was retweeted by Alan Doyle. A tweet and an eventual retweet by a bootlegger of live concerts who has sent Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea tweets hundreds of tweets to her videos that have never been acknowledged. A bootlegger providing a link to a talented Canadian woman who makes music videos for a living, and is recognised by her peers by being nominated and is paid. One of her videos has had over a million hits. Everything Lyndahere has wanted but never achieved.

Testify is one of Lyndahere most bootlegged songs. There are over 20 copies of this song on Youtube from Alan Doyle's solo tour and with Russell Crowe at the Indoor Garden Party in St Johns and New York. Despite all of her bootlegging here is an official video being nominated for a Canadian Juno award.