From: Christopher B. Prescott, cbprescott@earthlink.net
Subject: peer music/koppes!
Date: 2/24/2002 10:43:54 AM
To: Seance List, seance@lists.no-fi.com


Well, once in a while I redo searches for rarities on the web. On this fine
Sunday afternoon I was searching for the Never Swallow Stars track "Soldier"
reputed to have been on a Peer Music sampler. (I'll ask again, does anybody
even have this song? Heard it even?). So I was checking out Peer's homepage
(http://www.peermusic.com) and what do I spot?

http://www.peermusic.com/news/newsitem.cfm?announcement_id=213
peermusic Australia is pleased to announce the re-signing of the Church
guitarist Peter Koppes:
"The Australian office is pleased to announce that they have re-signed "The
Church" guitarist Peter Koppes to a world deal, for the new Church album
"After Everything, Now This".
Peter has been with peermusic for many years including the very successful
Starfish album. This is the best Church album in a few years. Check out "The
Church" site at www.thechurchband.com for more information, reviews etc."

Now, this is confusing, no? The announcement suggests that they've signed
Peter. But it sounds like they're actually talking about the Church. The
Australian release of AENT and Numbers is on some Cooking Vinyl related
label called CMEB, right? My Numbers cd says Marketed in AU & NZ by CME
Beaver Pty Ltd under exclusive license from Cooking Vinyl and Manufactured
and distributed by Universal Music Australia. So is the "signing" for
publishing rights? My cdingle says that the publishing rights are held by
Mushroom Music Publishing/Universal Music Publishing. So is this
announcement really for Peter's next album?

I'm confused.

Prescott