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Originally posted by Ciarán Ryan
Woooh, just jumped on this thread.
I was potentially in a similar situation to Una's. Writing for cluas a few years ago, I wrote gushing reviews of Waiting Room and giveamanakick. At the time, I had no involvement with either band but became a big fan of both. Now, I'm involved in a label that puts out releases from them, and when I approached another publication to do a review of a record we were putting out before, I was told I could do the review myself under a pseudonym. Obviously, I didn't but I've seen a number of reviews nationally over the years that seem a bit too pally for my liking
care to elaborate, ciaran? would be interested to hear what those were
while we're on the subject of conflicts of interest, i found out the other week that jim carroll was involved in starting up Lakota Records (JJ72, Jubilee Allstars etc) but left years ago. apparently, because of his involvment with the label, he has NEVER written about any of the acts which strikes me as a pretty good get-out clause of having to listen to the s**te he signed then!