Bumblebeez lose their gear - does anyone care?

Loose Brown said :

(sarcasm!!)

Lowest form of humor isn’t it?

Awesome track and video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novN-7Qzt_o

And BTW – the criteria for an unearthed win is how good you are – not how many times you have bumped in and out of venues around Canberra.

Hmm – no you are all right – after hearing about the merits of the off-site data backup process and the mean spirited way that the band achieved success without gigging in Canberra and then deliberately squandered it has led me to change my opinion.

They obviously fully deserve to have had their stuff nicked. Maybe they should all be shot at dawn also!

(sarcasm!!)

> Out of interest, what was controversial about their Unearthed win?

the fact they suck and have done nothing in (or for) Canberra had something to do with it..

Tylersmayhem, agreed. Offsite doesn’t necessarily mean “uploaded” JB, what’s wrong with dropping a removeable drive at your mate’s place once a week?

johnboy said :

working audio files are REALLY big.

I’m not sure offsite would be a great option on Braidwood’s internet.

That’s why you schedule it for a differential backup O’Night, or when ever musio’s sleep.
Yeah, it sucks, but I also have a friend who does nothing but reminding people about their backups, so to hear a story about someone losing all their data simply re-enforces what others have already said. That said I hope they do get their music back (A thief with a heart maybe?).

I’m not sure offsite would be a great option on Braidwood’s internet.

You can buy a whopping 1 Terabyte external drive for about $150 these days. Really not a decent excuse. I store all documents and photo’s (I’ve got heaps) both on my home PC, and a copy in a locked drawer at work. To think that a bands livelihood and future income was not backed up is astounding.

working audio files are REALLY big.

I’m not sure offsite would be a great option on Braidwood’s internet.

Loose Brown said :

Be nice everyone – they could have had their stuff backed up on 100 hard drives at their studio. The issue is some b@stard has broken in and flogged the lot.

That’s why you do off-site backup. They could have arranged something over the web which is secure and would keep everything off site. So when all 100 of their HDD’s are stolen it won’t matter as the important stuff can be restored.

How many JJJ unearthed acts are still kicking on six years down the track? Not too many I daresay.

Good on the Bumblebeez for making it this far. They have certainly made more of a name for themselves than Canberra’s previous winners did (Soulcrusher and Liquid).

Not that I’m putting Soulcrusher and Liquid down in anyway – I liked both of those bands – but they never went on to the dizzying heights of Killing Heidi or Grinspoon. Or get signed by Geffen.

> Out of interest, what was controversial about their Unearthed win?

A lot of Canberra bands were peeved that an electronic, essentially non-gigging, not part of the scene artist won. Some people saw it as a bit of a kick in the teeth to Canberra music by Triple J…a joke even. Triple J support for them since has shown it was no joke, although there’s still a lot of lingering resentment to the ‘Beez over the win…not helped by having them never play here since.

All the more reason folks to have offsite backups.

For example, your precious family photos of the kids and what-not. Copy them to DVD, and then take copies of them and lock them up at your workplace. Should your house be robbed or burnt to the ground, your family memories should be safe at the other site.

Out of interest, what was controversial about their Unearthed win?

That sure sucks, and I would be devastated if someone stole my gear, but I’m finding it pretty hard to be sympathetic. (Did Steve Russell get an interview in the paper!?)

They managed to get dropped by Geffen (this is the same company that had patience enough for Nirvana!) They have yet to play a gig here in Canberra since winning Unearthed and it’s taken them 5 years to put out a debut album.

They squandered a great opportunity and some of the entrants of 2002 Unearthed have not forgiven them.

ONE OF the region’s most celebrated young musicians…

Mrs Krabapple: “Ha!”

Be nice everyone – they could have had their stuff backed up on 100 hard drives at their studio. The issue is some b@stard has broken in and flogged the lot.

Pretty poor form if you ask me. Coming home to find your stuff gone (and in this case reportedly up to 1/2 a mill’s worth) takes a long time to get over.

Does this mean that the Bumblebeez will play a folk gig at UC?

That sucks, but the sysadmin’s mantra bears repeating:

Data that isn’t backed up is data that you don’t care about losing.

The words and the tune are in their heads and can, pretty much, be re-produced with any instrument.

But six months of loop fiddling only exists in the recording.

“You can’t steal a folk artist’s work but you very much can this stuff.”

Er, beg pardon?!

No disk backup of their valuable recorded tracks? Good grief!