Geez. What a joke.
Oh well. Can't wait to hear his new stuff, anyway.
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:35:46 -0400, Greg Clow
<greg@stainedproductions.com> wrote:
quoted 73 lines Well, this is pretty ridiculous...
>
> Well, this is pretty ridiculous...
>
> >STOP PRESS!
> >
> >MANITOBA TO BECOME CARIBOU
> >
> >Dan Snaith, who released the albums Up In Flames (2003) and Start Breaking
> >My Heart (2001) under the name Manitoba, has changed his name to Caribou
> >following a lawsuit in the US. Frontman for punk band The Dictators,
> >Handsome Dick Manitoba, sued Snaith for trademark infringement, despite
> >never having released music under the names 'Manitoba' or 'Handsome 'Dick'
> >Manitoba'.
> >
> >"My immediate reaction was total disbelief," says Snaith. "Most of the
> >people I've talked to about it see this case as being utterly nonsensical.
> >Unfortunately, US legal precedent didn't agree and faced with a court case
> >that I couldn't afford to lose, I had no choice but to change the name."
> >
> >Having spent the last year touring Up in Flames throughout North America,
> >Europe, Japan and Australia with bands such as Stereolab, Four Tet,
> >Broadcast and Prefuse 73, Dan is back in the studio working on the first
> >Caribou album, tentatively entitled The Milk of Human Kindness.
> >
> >"This whole thing is an irritating distraction at a time when I'm more
> >excited about the music I'm working on than ever before. I'm half way
> >through finishing this new album and I can already tell that it's the best
> >and most focused music I've ever made.
> >
> >"I'm of the opinion that every second I spend talking about this Dick guy
> >is a waste of my time."
> >
> >Asked about why he chose Caribou (a large reindeer native to northern
> >North America) as the new name, Canadian Snaith offers "We were just about
> >to start a Canadian tour when we found out about this and it made sense to
> >look there for the new name. We'd heard hippy friends of ours going on
> >'vision quests'. I'm not sure we really understood the idea correctly but
> >by the time we'd soaked our proverbial bandanas in the brown-acid
> >dunk-tank and strapped ourselves to crucifixes on the back of a flatbed
> >truck for a few weeks it became painfully obvious that the new name had to
> >be Caribou. Talking caribou were central to our hallucinations."
> >Ironically, news of the lawsuit came just before Snaith performed his
> >first concert in Manitoba – the Canadian province from whence he took the name.
> >
> >Snaith's previous albums will be re-released worldwide under the new name.
> >The Special Edition version of Up In Flames will be withdrawn, with the
> >original single CD version taking its place. So catch that one while you can!
> >
> >The new album will be released worldwide under the name Caribou, through
> >Domino in North America and The Leaf Label for the rest of the world.
> >
> >"At the end of the day, nothing's going to change other than the name. I'm
> >still attacking making music with the same fanatical vigour that I was
> >before, and the music's only getting better."
> >
> >http://www.caribou.fm
> >
> >
> >
> >http://www.theleaflabel.com
> >
>
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