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EDITORIAL 13/05/07
Once again just a quick word regarding CD reviews.
Regular reasons to the site will have noticed a major slackening off in the CD reviews department of late - this is not because of any particular shortage of worthy material, but relates more to a shortage of time on
my part since I am pretty much running everything on my own at the moment.
As a result of lot of music is coming to my attention and being missed altogether by the site - in order to rectify this I am hoping to start writing short CD reviews which rather than giving an in depth track by
track analysis will provide an introduction to the band followed by a much briefer overview of the music and any major points relating to the CD.
I feel this approach, while not perfect, will at least mean our readers are given basic information regarding some of the music available, which is infinitely preferable to being told nothing at all.
A previous poll of our readers indicated that most people would be happy with this move, until now I just have not had the time to implement it. Hopefully on the next week or two some CD reviews should start to
trickle through once again, and once I get things up and running we can return to running regular CD reviews once again!
If you are a musician and have previously submitted music for review which failed to show up, please accept my apologies and also drop me an e-mail at musicreview@elrose.demon.co.uk and I'll see if I can run a retrospective review.
Simon
EDITORIAL 02/04/07 (My Birthday!!!!)
Just a quick word of apology really for the late posting of this weeks update and the non appearance of the promised CD at the start of last week.. Unfortunately we had some major computer
issues here in our office that took our main PC totally out of action and made updating the web site nigh on impossible.
Hopefully the issues are all now resolved (after yours truly burned the midnight oil for several nights running) and normal running can now resume......
Almost anyway .....
with Easter upon us it's time for a very short break to recharge the batteries and try and get some of the reviews that I have promised written! With this in mind there will be no update next week - so the next scheduled site update will be April 15th.
Have a great Easter and see you soon.
Simon
EDITORIAL 17/12/06
It's kind of hard to believe that this is already nearly the end of another year, as it seems hardly any time at all since I was last wishing you all the seasons greetings - still, there you
go!
It's been a pretty hectic kind of year, and things have not really gone quite to plan as far as the site is concerned.
Regular visitors will have noticed that CD reviews have been a little thin on the ground over the last 12 months. This is not because of any shortage of great albums that could have been reviewed, but simply a lack of time and staff that prevents me from keeping the site up to date and writing reviews. I have always tried to give priority to the news, as I believe this is what most regular readers are interested in (correct me if I'm wrong), and this policy will continue, but next year I will be making a concerted effort to try to get more reviews online.
Following our move from the Demon server to our own URL, a mirror of the site has still been maintained on the Demon server - This mirroring was always intended to be a short term thing and
at some time in the new year the site on Demon will be closed down leaving us with one main web presence here at WWW.ELROSE.CO.UK - if you have not yet updated your browser to point to this address please do so now! (Please note our e-mail address will still remain with Demon - it's just the site that's moved).
New Horizons also has a web site running on MySpace which you can find at www.myspace.com/new_horizons_uk. While I do not take care of the day to day running of this site, it is an official New Horizons site, and again in the New Year it is hoped to run a few more features over there to make the
enterprise worthwhile. If you have not visited please take a look.
Finally I would like to thank everyone who has visited us in the last 12 months. Running a web site can be a pretty thankless task, and it's not always easy to tell whether one's
efforts are appreciated or not, but we do seem to have a hard core of loyal readers whose comments from time to time make me think we are getting something right.
If you have any suggestions as to how we can improve the site, or if you would like to help, or simply let us know what you think, please feel free to drop us an e-mail at any time to comments@elrose.demon.co.uk
All the best,
Simon
Please note we are taking a festive break over the next couple of weekends, our next regular update is scheduled for January 7th 2007.
We will of course monitor e-mail over the holiday period and if any important news comes our way we will do our best to post it!
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