Dave Bulmer-related enquiry

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 09:09 AM

Does Malcolm have some kind of personal issue with Billy Pigg, wanting to see his recordings lost in obscurity and being prepared to make a fool of himself spouting obviously insincere business-speak bullshit to justify his position?

I haven't heard Pigg's LP for years. I want to hear it again, and I don't want to listen to some faux-managerial arsehole getting in the way.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 04:01 PM

"and I don't want to listen to some faux-managerial arsehole getting in the way. "
So that means that you are going to make the estate an offer for the master tapes and associated rights

or are you just another one who prefers to rant on the net rather than do anything?

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 04:29 PM

The still anonymous GUEST (unless of course it's a different GUEST: how would we ever know?) says "What planet are you on Steve Shaw, oh yes planet Troll."

There have been some posts in this thread that I would regard as trolling, but they're not Steve's. The worst that Steve has done is to respond to them, understandably, but nonetheless feeding the troll.

Any and all trolls: please crawl back under your bridges and let the rest of us get on with exploring how the recordings might be made available.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 06:05 PM

C'mon latest GUEST make an effort. All these guests are making a mockery of this site. It's very easy to join this forum.

Sheesh.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 06:15 PM

Oops! Bugger! 23 Oct 14 - 04:29 PM was me with missing cookie, rather spoiling the effect. Cookie now reset.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Rob Hardman ixer
Date: 26 Feb 15 - 11:59 AM

Have just learned of Bulmer' s death.
I know that Rosie would love to buy back her two albums.
We have always been glad that her third self financed album with Bill Leader was not released and that we kept the tapes.
It came out as The Lost Leader.
We tried to come to any sort of accommodation but like many others ...
Rosie is having a wonderful 70th birthday today and it would make it for her to have her two Leader albums back to release them.
She bought back her Plant Life albums with goodwill all round.
Rob

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Folkal Point Music.
Date: 10 Apr 15 - 04:55 PM

Hi - did Dave Bulmer acquire the rights to Midas Recordings from Alan Green, or, subsequent to his death, from his family?
I'm certain that there are other artists from the ' Alan Green record label stable ' that would need to know about their rights.
There are new ways to market recorded material - and unless some strict continuity is maintained, there is the potential that artists may be marginalised, to the point of being ignored - their legitimate rights being lost in the process.
The rights to Alan Green's record labels and catalogue are now being claimed by a third party - Lumi Entertainment Ltd.
Can anybody shed any light onto this set of circumstances and the position it leaves the original recording artists?
Please engage if you know something ............

Stuart - Folkal Point/ Midas Recordings - MR. 003.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Folkal Point Music.
Date: 10 Apr 15 - 05:07 PM

Who is Simon Jones?
Lumi Entertainment Ltd. have stated that they had bought everything outright from, Simon Jones in 2010.
By everything, they specified: Westwood/ Folk Heritage/ Midas Recordings.
Is this true, or not?
It is this company: Lumi Entertainment Ltd. that have made Alan Green's recordings available as a Pay To Download, without any regard to the original recording artists.
Help is required .........................
Stuart.

Subject: bulmer
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 11 May 16 - 11:16 AM

Any news on the Bulmer situation yet?

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 May 16 - 01:36 PM

no, not yet

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 12 May 16 - 05:07 AM

Looking down this old thread I was struck by this comment:

I imagine that the cost of trying to catalogue all the tapes, and in particular assessing their condition and the possible costs of restoring them would be considerable. There is also the considerable problem of trying to establish who is entitled to what royalties from the individual tapes. Quite possibly the cost of doing all of this would be far more then their commercial value.

Setting aside the issues of survival of the actual tapes I would make a big guess that the executors (who are probably not folkies) decided that the cost of establishing entitlement to royalties from the various recordings simply exceeded the cash value to the estate.

From an artistic point of view I find the idea distressing but I can see that it would make sense to a bean counter.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 May 16 - 12:48 AM

the whole issue is a stain upon the reputation of the folk world. i think he was greedy, His relatives who are in charge of the recordings appear to be similiar, there is no excuse for this, whether or not he was a good musician is irrelevant, his defenders do themselves no favours.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 16 - 04:01 AM

"His relatives who are in charge of the recordings appear to be similiar"

You have knowledge of how the estate was settled?

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 May 16 - 04:33 AM

I'm with Dick. We can't know how people's minds work, but there was so much noise surrounding this for so many years and it looks from here like a extremely obdurate, hands clasped over ears attitude prevailed over that time, and maybe still does.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Thomas the rhymer
Date: 13 May 16 - 01:16 PM

Indeed it does.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,sam walsh
Date: 14 May 16 - 06:21 AM

According to MCPS Neil Sharpley is in charge of Celtic Music and any royalties due are paid to him.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 May 16 - 06:52 AM

Neil Sharpely 10:30 - 02 October 2003

A Former coroner and solicitor accused of deception offences has walked free from court after the charges against him were thrown out.

Neil Sharpley (52), who was once the coroner for Louth, was alleged to have obtained £47,000 from a client's estate and used it for his own purposes. He had been due to stand trial at Leicester Crown Court this week.

But the proceedings did not reach the stage of swearing in a jury to hear the case.

After three days of legal argument Judge Ian Collis ruled that Mr Sharpley could not receive a fair trial due to an "abuse of process" in bringing the case to court.

Abuse of process is deemed to have taken place when something is judged to be so unfair or wrong with the prosecution that the case cannot continue.

The individual facts of each case are considered when deciding if the method used to bring the case to court was unfair.

Mr Sharpley, of Westgate, Louth, had denied two offences of obtaining a money transfer by deception from his client John Lewis between February and June 1997.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Folkal Point Music.
Date: 16 Aug 16 - 02:34 PM

In addition to Lumi Ente/ Iceni who are still effectively selling Folkal Point as a Pay-To-Download commodity, another business Zeitgeist, is selling a CD reissue via Amazon - they are claiming copyright since 2015.
None of these businesses have ever consulted or contracted with us - we receive nothing from these people.
The Zeitgeist offering is absolutely awful - I've heard it - goodness only knows what they used as source material - just who are these people?
In an attempt to put clear water between the inferior quality of material being peddled by the aforementioned and ourselves, we have uploaded material via Hoxa Sound and CDBaby.
The difference is staggering.
We have also included a previously unreleased track, recorded during the same period, as a unique identifier.

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Folkal Point Music
Date: 02 Feb 23 - 03:24 PM

The saga continues.
I've been corresponding with Cherry Red Records regarding their most recent 3 x CD folk compilation album: Before The Day Is Done. It features music recorded on the Folk Heritage record label and other similar labels that had once been owned by Alan Green.
I've had previous dealings with Cherry Red and enqired about this compilation as it includes two tracks from Folkal Point.
I was told that the entire Folk Heritage catalogue belongs to Marcello Tammaro.
Knowing that Dave Bulmer had previously acquired Folk Heritage, I can only assume that it was he who had sold the catalogue to M. Tammaro?
How can this sale be verified?
M. Tammaro is not the sort of person who would engage with any of the performers let alonse discuss royalties.
Any thoughts?

Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer-related enquiry
From: GUEST,Cornish Pasty
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 11:52 AM

M Tammario sounds a bit like Dave Bulmer