Reminds me of when Harrods, a London department store, decided to sue
Harrods, a New Zealand department Store. The whole town in NZ got
together and renamed the town "Harrods" in defence.
Well, except Manitoba is already called Manitoba.
I wonder if Mr Snaith has just bent out of pressure and hasn't checked
if this guy lawyer is talking with his dick or something? I wonder if
he could ask Manitoba state to stop this Dick from using Manitoba?
On 7 Oct 2004, at 17:56, Chispas De Muerte wrote:
quoted 156 lines Wow this takes the cake for stupid lawsuits, and about
> Wow this takes the cake for stupid lawsuits, and about
> the most un-"punk" thing I can think of. Although
> maybe now the appropriatly named Handsome Dick
> Manitoba, (except for maybe the handsome or Manitoba
> part) can now go and sue the canadian province for
> naming themselves after him. Bankrupt canada, and then
> become military dictator of Canada. --- Alan Lucas
> <alucas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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 â 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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