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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:32:26 +0100 (MET)
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Subject: New Chicks On Speed dates!!! Kids On TV myspace censorship!!!

CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS NEWS
( please scroll down for English version! )
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* Chicks On Speed - new dates
* Kids On TV - mySpace censorship
* current COSR artist dates
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* * * Chicks On Speed - new dates

Chicks On Speed sind wieder in der Welt unterwegs! Unter anderem, werden
sie in Wien eine spezielle "Art Rules" (so der Titel der nächsten Maxi)
Show, zusammen mit Christopher Just und Douglas Gordon performen. Wir
bitten alle die Termine (weiter unten) in den entsprechende Rubriken
aufzunehmen. Interviews (live, phoner, mail) sind jederzeit möglich. Bei
weiteren Fragen und Presse Information wedet euch bitte an:
n@chicksonspeed-records.com oder promo@chicksonspeed-records.com
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* * * Kids On TV - mySpace censorship

Am 1.März 2007 wurde ohne Vorwarnung oder Erklärung das
MySpace-Band-Profil der Kids On TV aus Toronto wegen angeblich
anstössiger Inhalte, gelöscht. Ein ungeheuerlicher Vorgang, hatte die
Band doch zuletzt die gesamte Bewerbung der anstehenden
Album-Release-Tour über Ihr Myspace-Profil abgewickelt und über 14.000
Kontakte gebildet (myspace-friends). Wie sich bei Nachforschungen
herausstellte, passiert das nicht zum ersten Mal, und interessanterweise
sind sehr häufig schwul-lesbische Künstler davon betroffen. Inzwischen
gibt es ebenda eine Seite, die Stellungnahmen zum Thema Zensur auf
Myspace sammelt: www.myspace.com/myspaceprofiledeletions.

Weiter unten das Presse Statement der Kids sowie ein Tour-Update ...
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ENGLISH VERSION
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* * * Chicks On Speed - new dates

Chicks On Speed are on the Road again! Among other shows, the Chicks will
have a special "Art Rules" (that´s the titel of their upcoming maxi)
show, together with Christopher Just and Douglas Gordon in Vienna. Please
post these dates (beneath) in the corresponig columns. Interviews (live,
phoner, mail) arepossible anytime. For further questions or
press-informations, do not hesitate to contact:

n@chicksonspeed-records.com oder promo@chicksonspeed-records.com
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* * * Kids On TV - mySpace censorship - press statement

On March 1, 2007 Kids on TV had their myspace account deleted with no
warning or specific explanation by myspace. Kids on TV had built up
14,000 friends in advance of their album release and European tour (both
of which are "full steam ahead").

We suspect that, although we kept our site visually "PG-13" and played by
the rules, the discussion of sexuality in our lyrics and the open embrace
or radical culture was too much for myspace. We definitely ran into their
limits whatever they were. They never responded to our questions either
which is the experience everyone has apparently.

Myspace specifies that there be no nudity or "sexually suggestive
photos". Altho nudity is pretty specific, the phrase "sexually suggestive
photos" is vague enough to mean anything to anyone on the myspace staff.
We demand that this phrase be removed or replaced.

We have set up a myspace profile where we encourage people to post their
stories of myspace censorship as comments - especially stories where the
artist suspects a political bias to the censorship. We recognize that all
censorship is political. However we have a theory that recently (and in
the past) myspace has been deleting accounts simply because they
represent radical views, and express those views in images, video and
music. This censorship will undoubtly continue and may result in the
deletion of the page we created for censorship discussion. In the mean
time we need to document and discuss these cases when they result from
the homophobia, sexism, racism etc of myspace staff and policies. We have
not found a corresponding page on myspace and the forums on censorship
that we found seem pretty inactive. Others may exist that we haven't
found.

Once we created the page we were surprised that everyone who responded to
it with a story of censorship was a gay artist. Admittedly we are (or
rather were) in touch with many gay artists via our myspace account. But
this doesn't explain the repeating pattern.

Someone mailed us asking why is censorship a problem if we are all
constantly spammed by commercial porn profiles - and when they appear in
banner ads. The emerging cases documented on the censorship page seem to
be mostly gay/sex-lib arts groups - not commercial ones. The groups that
are targeted for censorship seem to be mostly non-profit, activist
groups. We believe that the reason that there are so many commercial porn
profiles whose accounts are not deleted is because they are paid
advertisers of myspace. It seems that the way the myspace software is set
up, myspace can filter and direct adult content based on the age of the
profile owner receiving the content, but only for advertisements - not
profiles. myspace has no designation of adult content. thus the same week
Kids on TV's account was deleted we had banner ads every day advertising
porn / adult dating services with "sexually suggestive photos" every time
we logged into our account. which is fine by us. we just want the same
courtesy
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Myspace Political Censorship Page:

www.myspace.com/myspaceprofiledeletions

Kids on TV pages:

www.myspace.com/kidsontvsongs2
www.myspace.com/kidsontvsongs3
www.myspace.com/kidsontvsongs4
www.kidsontv.biz

Articles about Kids on TV's experience:

www.gayboy.at/news/11042
www.intro.de/news/23040079
www.jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/370095/TrkHomeMagTsr3
www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24809/1.html
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* * * Current COSR Artist Dates

Chicks on Speed Live

12/05/2007 ES - Valencia - Observatori
18/05/2007 FR - Lyon - Nuits Sonores Festival
01/07/2007 BL - Bucharest - B'estival
24/08/2007 BE - Qudenaarde - Feest In Het Park
27/10/2007 PT - Lisbon - Fade In Festival

Chicks on Speed, Douglas Gordon
and Christopher Just - ART RULES live show

28/04/2007 AT - Vienna - Gartenbaukino

Alex DJ Set

23/03/2007 ES - Palma de Mallorca - Sonarama club
24/03/2007 ES - Alicante - Stereo club
30/03/2007 TH - Bangkok- Dude / Sweet at Club Culture

Girl Monster DJ Team (Alex+Melissa)
19/4/2007 FR - Paris - Les Bains Douche
26/5/2007 AT - Kleinreifling - Seewiese
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Kids On TV

24/03/2007 UK - London - Club Motherfucker (w/ Dat Politics, I Love
Audrey, Marvelous Macc Mello)
27/03/2007 UK - Nottingham - Social (w/ The Mules)
29/03/2007 UK - Bristol - Club Stutter @ Thekla Social
31/03/2007 UK - London - Howl Club @ 333

02/04/2007 NL - Amsterdam - OCII
04/04/2007 DK - Copenhague - Loppen
06/04/2007 SE - Malmö - Inkonst
07/04/2007 SE - Stockholm - Combustion @ Debaser  (w/ Norma Bates)
09/04/2007 SE - Stockholm - Debaser Medis (w/ Ladytron)
11/04/2007 FR - Metz - Le Tunnel
12/04/2007 IT - Faenza - Clandestino
13/04/2007 IT - Bologna - tba
14/04/2007 IT - Rome - Queer Jubilee
15/04/2007 IT - tba
17/04/2007 FR - Paris - Fleche d'or (free entrance!)
18/04/2007 DE - Nürnberg - K4 (w/ Die Princesss Die)
19/04/2007 DE - Mühlheim - AZ (w/ Ill Ease)
20/04/2007 DE - Hamburg - Bang Bang @ Hafenklang Exil
**ALBUMRELEASEPARTY**
21/04/2007 DE - Dortmund - FZW
24/04/2007 DE - Berlin - NBI (w/ Prinzessin Hans)
25/04/2007 DE - Dresden - AZ Conni
26/04/2007 DE - Munich - Rote Sonne (w/ Cherry Sunkist)
27/04/2007 AT - Linz - Crossing Europe Festival
28/04/2007 AT - Krems - Donaufestival (w/ Gang of Four, ESG)
29/04/2007 CZ - Prague - Club 007
30/04/2007 DE - Köln - Tsunami Club

02/05/2007 FR - Toulouse - Le Theo
04/05/2007 ES - Barcelona - Razzmatazz
05/05/2007 ES - Madrid - ELASTICO Flexiclub
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Ana Da Silva

14/04/2007 UK - Leeds - Ladyfest
18/05/2007 FR - Lyon - Nuits Sonores / w/ Chicks On Speed and Angie Reed
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Angie Reed

23/03/2007 NL - Den Haag - Paard van Troje (Berlin Ruft An)
18/05/2007 FR - Lyon - Festival Nuits Sonores
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