If this post makes no sense… It’s because my brain isn’t working at all well due to the fact I have just got back from Glastonbury, a festival which makes you remember what music is all about… Fun, dancing and good times, as do all good festivals. Over the coming weeks we have features from some of the best around the world so you can get a taste of what you can expect from the likes of Sonisphere, Wireless Festival, Putte i Parken and Super Bok Rok (see separate headings below for full details), and then hopefully still get your hands on some tickets!
What, Can’t afford tickets? What’s that, you want us to get you some? Bit cheeky isn’t it? OK, OK, let’s see… Well it just so happens that we have 2 full weekend tickets to the UK leg of Sonisphere to give away. All you got to do is go our Facebook and enter our little sweepstake for your chance to win. Also, We are unable to provide transport to the festival so if you are outside the UK then make sure you can get to the UK on the date with your tent and festival hat!
Keep reading for allllllllllll the other vid-tastic (new word alert!!) features we got coming up.
THIS WEEK
Artist Of The Week – David Guetta (All)
The French mega producer is unstoppable right now producing for the Snoop, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland etc etc etc. We have all his hits and collaborations in one place including new video “Where Them Girls At”, featuring Nicky Minaj, Flo Rida
Directors Series – Hype Williams (All)
To start of our Directors Series, celebrating the genius of the people who add vision to our music, we have one of the biggest in the world. Hype Williams has worked to direct for the biggest names in Hop-Hop and beyond including Blackstreet “No Diggity”, Kanye West “Gold Digger” and Coldplay “Viva La Vida”
Artist Spotlight – Enter Shikari (All ex. Australia New Zealand)
To celebrate their new video “Quelle Surprise” we let the guys enter our artist spotlight to illuminate what great talent they have.
Artist Spotlight – Miami Horror(Australia, New Zealand)
Melbourne based electro wonder kid/band Miami Horror are leaving their Aussie shores to embark on a US tour as of next month, so to set them on their way we thought we would put them in the spotlight. Featuring their latest video “Holidays (ft Alan Palomo)”
Wireless Festival (UK, Ireland)
We have videos from all the headliners Black Eyed Peas, Chemical brothers and Pulp plus loads more acts playing throughout the weekend.
Putte I Parken (Sweden)
We have videos from many of the acts at this eclectic Swedish festival including Veronica Maggio,
Graveyard, Håkan Hellström and The Far East Movement.
Defected TV (All)
We celebrate one of the best known labels in dance music with some of the most iconic dance videos from the past 10 years and today including new video from Copyright featuring Nuwella Love “I’m All Yours” and my pick for the lads out there Lifelike and Kris Menace “Discopolis”
One To Watch – Jali (France)
Belgian acoustic artist Jali is our one to watch in France this week, featuring the first 2 episodes of his webisode series and acoustic version of ‘Espanola’
NEXT WEEK
Hot New Videos (All)
These videos are sizzling like the sausage of destiny atop the frying pan of desire on the stove of great mystery, Featuring videos from Coldplay and Tinie Tempah
Directors Series – Spike Jonez (All)
Continuing the series with Spike Jonez’s work of visual mastery. Check out all the videos you know and the ones you don’t including Daft Punk “Da Funk”, Beastie Boys “Sabotage“, Pharcyde “Drop” Chemical Brothers “Elektrobank” and the rest!
Sonisphere TV (UK, France, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Switzerland)
To go with our amazing competition we have a TV channel featuring footage from last year’s festival, interviews and videos from bands playing this year’s festival to get you in the mood for winning tickets.
Super Bock Super Rock (Portugal)
Festival fever hits Portugal with a great line up including Ian Brown, Arcade Fire, Portishead, The Kooks and loads more we have them all here to watch
OTHER STUFF
Remember to check out our ever changing Video Of The Day which you will see as soon as you open VidZone and as ever, if you want to contact us about anything then use the following channels below:
Twitter – http://twitter.com/vidzone
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/vidzoneofficial
Website – www.vidzone.tv
Video Requests – playstation@vidzone.tv
Customer Support – ps-problems@vidzone.tv
I’m off to see if my brain is actually still in my head… cos it feels like it fell out!
Ben
18 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 2:52 pm by Deviil-Boy
Hello,
I’m from Algeria, I have a valid adress in Switzerland so I have a Swiss account, I CANNOT ACCESS TO VIDZONE.
Are there solutions to this ? When Vizdone will be online in the north of Africa ?
Thank you.
Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 11:27 am by Ben Creasey
Sorry, VidZone is only available inside the country borders we have launched in, so you would actually have to be in Switzerland to get Swiss VidZone
We plan to launch to more countries if we can but it takes a long time to make it viable to do this (we need to make money in order to run the service)
Sorry you can’t get VidZone but maybe one day soon
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 3:00 pm by obiadekanobi1980
hi ben ive been asking every post about some hardcore up on vidzone and alas there is still none any joy on that front yet also any word on getting either dave gilmore or any of the floyd on the site gilmore has done some awsome concerts albert hall live in gdansk these are awsome and id love to see them on the store
thanks as always ben now go nurse that glasto head i know the feeling very well!!!
Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 11:31 am by Ben Creasey
Hi obiadekanobi1980
Sorry about the lack of hardcore videos, we have tried to track down some labels who own the rights and it is proving difficult. It takes quite a while from finding a label to getting their videos live (legal, formatting etc takes AGES!) Don’t worry, we will keep trying.
As for the Floyd, they are very picky witht heir digital rights, as soon as the band say yes to more things we will get them live!
Hope that helps
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 3:13 pm by Aysir
Is there any way to watch music videos in other languages on VidZone without making a new account (So Tokio Hotel in German or Laura Pausini in Italian)?
Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 11:25 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Ayasir
You can only see videos licensed in your country due to legal reasons. Most labels do have licenses for all their artists in most countries so you should get all the international artists you desire, if not we do try and find the label that does have the rights so we can make it live in that country. If there is anything you think we are missing then can you email playstation@vidzone.tv
Hope this helps
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 3:54 pm by Rocstarr
fantastic!
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 4:45 pm by OttoT
Sony and the dividing of content in Europe is a huge, enormous let down. For this service and any other service they come up with. They´re business model is inadequate and frustrating for they´re customers. please take the time to get that fixed before release more and more cut up services over Europe!
As a customer I´m used to go to YouTube, type in a song and get the clip. I understand in the service you provide that is “difficult” and maybe not “possible” but it´s inadequate and you shouldn´t present it.
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 5:29 pm by taurus82
Nice to see some more and new Chemical Brothers, keep up the good work by getting some Solarstone and Juno Reactor vids.
Cheers,
taurus82
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 5:38 pm by Spaulding
Let’s just hope, Vidzone works again. I cannot start any videos for over a week…
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 7:02 pm by deadrest
no pink floyd still , roger waters was lead singer of the floyd , he is touring the world with ‘the wall’ ive been , it was EPIC!!! roger waters is signed with sony music , so please see if u can get it on vidzone , like u did with faithless , c’mon ‘tear down the wall’ i would pay for that one
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 10:55 pm by Spaulding
It just doesn’t work. Like at all. Whenever I try to play some videos, e.g. Foo Fighters, it tries to load the video but then it just stops and nothing happens.. WTH???
Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 11:17 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Spaulding
We are having licensing issues at the moment. We are working on rectifying these but it might take a little time. We haven’t removed the videos as it would remove them from everyone’s playlists which woudln’t be great.
We apologise massively for this, but it will be rectified soon
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Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 12:51 am by sully1311
@Spaulding – All Sony videos aren’t working because VidZone and Sony have licensing issues. They also haven’t uploaded any Sony videos onto VidZone for months now.
Hope this helps!
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Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 9:00 am by bitbydeath
Please get the new Eminem vid – Spacebound
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Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 9:09 am by bitbydeath
@Sully, vidzone works fine for me.
@Spaulding, sounds like you’re having the issue i used to have try this to fix it-
http://www.psu.com/forums/threads/225367-Fixed-PS3-connection-p roblems-%28VidZone%29?highlight=vidzone
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Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 7:30 pm by sully1311
@bitbydeath – VidZone definitely doesn’t play Sony Music videos atm.
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Posted on 1 July, 2011 at 11:19 pm by bitbydeath
Ah, thought he meant not working in general… nevermind then
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Posted on 3 July, 2011 at 2:47 pm by Andrefpvs
Hey Ben, was Untouched by The Veronicas ever added to the catalog?
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Posted on 3 July, 2011 at 8:42 pm by suds17
dont even have example what a disgrace!
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Posted on 3 July, 2011 at 10:33 pm by Reload101
In response to andrefpvs good song choice my friend I love the Veronicas however The Veronicas are signed to Sire Records which is owned by Warner Music Group and Vidzone doesn’t have the licenses for record company’s that are owned by Warner Music. Ben if your reading this why has the Sony music entertainment owned music disappeared come on Ben Vidzone is on the PS3 which is product owned by Sony. And is Vidzone is always going to be locked down by licensing issues it annoys me when videos go missing from the service and will you ever get a deal with Warner Music Group. I know this post seems mean Ben but i want Vidzone to be the best music VOD service ever.
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Posted on 4 July, 2011 at 1:19 pm by AzamG
VidZone is not available in UAE (AE) right? This post comes up in the blog for UAE but it isn’t relevant to us until the application is launched here. (Same with MUBI)
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