Editorial: March 2003

I'm a little late with this months editorial, but sometimes you just cannot defy time restrictations can you. We'll this month we saw the opening of AMIGAremix, and the new four way commodore forum. Both these things are good news for the comunity i feel. Eventually the board at c64audio.com will close and the remaining parts of the forum which have not already been transfered to the commodore forum will be passed to the commodore messageboard at remix64. Combine all four scenes many of us feel is a great thing. While it supresses the need to checkout two seperate forums the most important thing is that it brings together the scene somewhat, it should make the commodore forum much busier and certainly alot more diverse place to be involved.

Is it me or does radioplay and commercial success happen to the weirdest people? Recently this month, An Australian group called Superfluid had a radioplay hit with a cover of Knucklebusters (their first C64 cover). There's lots of stuff better on RKO technically speaking, and a lot of stuff worse. So why does, for instance, Zombie Nation, Add (N) To X, or whatever attract success when there are plenty of worthier people and tracks? What's in the minds of the A&R People that repels them from the good stuff: stuff which is good from any viewpoint. Congratulations to those who have cracked it: no mean feat, and they deserve the success.