Tail feather at… What? What did you think I was gonna say? Anyway, this time we have an insane amount of newness for you as well as equally as mental amount of other features for you. Including…
… A Festival season that hits fever pitch with both international and localised festivals so you can check out some artists from the ones near you! Including artists like Kanye West, Lykke Li, Fleet Foxes and Empire Of The Sun from Flo Festival (Finland), Heitere Open Air (Switzerland), Way Out West (Sweden), Creamfields (Spain), Boardmaster Festival (UK) and Ibiza Rocks!!! AND…
… A list of hot new videos so long you can’t see the end without using a telescope including…
- Noel Gallagher – ‘The Death Of You And Me’ (All)
- Pixie Lott – ‘All About Tonight’ (UK,IE)
- Lady Antebellum – ‘Just A Kiss’ (Australia)
- Lovers Electric – ‘Beating Like A Drum’ (Germany, Austria)
- DEV – ‘In The Dark’ (Germany, Austria)
Plus a whole palette (yep… palette) of other features, keep reading for the words to describe them.
THIS WEEK
Artists Of The Week -Shakira (all)
The Latina She Wolf herself is this week’s AOTW, Featuring her latest video ‘Rabiosa’ plus all her greatest hits ‘Waka Waka’ and ‘Whenever, Wherever’.
Greatest Hits – Pearl Jam – 20 (all)
Watch all the videos for the Seattle band plus trailers from the upcoming documentary directed by Cameron Crowe about the legendary band.
VidZone Recommends – Foster The People (all)
The LA band are charming all with their unique brand of sun-soaked upbeat rock pop featuring video ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ and live performances.
Bob Marley – Save The Children’s East Africa Fund (all)
Featuring a video created by the director of The Last King Of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) to the music of Bob Marley’s ‘High Tide Low Tide’ of which all proceeds go to Save The Children’s East Africa Fund so go buy the single after you listened to it on VidZone!
Artist Spotlight – Localised
We have localised Artist spotlights because we know you all like different things, see below for who you get ☺
- Dappy – ‘No Regrets’ (UK, Ireland)
- Destine – ‘Stay’ (Netherlands)
- Blind Fool Love – Vam piro (Italy)
- Mads Langer – Riding Elevators (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)
- Sexion d’assaut – Plus qu’un son (France)
- Brooke Fraser – Coachella (New Zealand)
NRJ Extravadance
Discover the best dance hits from Jean-Roch, LMFAO, Alexandra Stan and Bob Sinclar courtesy of top Radio Station NRJ
Summer Chill TV (All)
Summer isn’t all about partying… frankly sometimes it’s just too hot to move so we have the music video version of an ice cream to chill you out, featuring videos from Bonobo, Groove Armada & Royksopp.
NEXT WEEK
AOTW – The Throne
About as hot a Hip Hop collaboration as it gets Jay-Z and Kanye West team up to give you probably the most anticipated album of the year so far.
Ones to Watch – Emeli Sandé
Not only are we featuring Emile’s music including her new single “Heaven” we have a amazing competition so click here to win tickets to see her live! UK only… Sorry.
Greatest Hits – Foo Fighters
If anyone is deserving of a greatest hits it’s the Foo Fighters, Including all their greatest hits from ‘Walk’ to ‘Monkey Wrench’ and ‘Rope’ to ‘All My Life’.
VidZone Recommends – The Vaccines
Purely credible new indie music from the Vaccines that you will all love, featuring all the bands videos plus live performances from their recent show at ‘The Electric Ballroom’
Official PlayStation Magazine
Handpicked by the OPM editor himself, swoon at the pure genius of his music video picking skills.
OTHER STUFF
Don’t forget to like our new face book page below. We will be shutting down our old one soon so make sure you get over to the new one. Plus there is loads of competitions and stuff to enter there so it’s definitely worth it.
Twitter – http://twitter.com/vidzone
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/vidzoneofficial
Website – http://www.vidzone.tv
Video Requests – playstation@vidzone.tv
Customer Support -ps-problems@vidzone.tv
I’m off to have a bowl of coco pops… seriously, I am!
Ben
17 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 3:27 pm by Shou_Kobayashi
Oh there… oh no there isn’t information about WH40K KT in the german store, my bad…
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 3:32 pm by Danlisa
Oooo, Pearl Jam. Nice! That’s my school years right there. Flashback!
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 3:52 pm by deadrest
where are pink floyd? dave gilmour, the floyd’s guitarist/singer is on here but no floyd , or roger waters , floyd’s bass player /singer , till ’84 roger waters is currently on tour with ‘the wall’ he even reunited with his floyd surviving members , the show is amazing ive been to the m e n arena to see it , roger waters is with sony music so maybe you could snag it for us , i guarantee a lot of people will love it so please try , thanks guys!!!!!!
Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 4:08 pm by Ben Creasey
Hey Deadrest
Big Fan heh? Yeah us too, The Floyd don’t like to do digital things atm but as soon as we can get them… we will. I suggest writing a letter to Dave, or Roger… or whoever else you think can help! That’s what we did!
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 3:55 pm by taurus82
Mmm… Pixie Lott she’s grrrrrrrreat (Oops! wrong cereal).
How are those Solarstone and Juno Reactor videos coming along?
Hybrid have a new single/video Blindside coming out later this month, see to it that it and Hybrid get the attention they deserve by giving them an Artist of the Week.
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 4:46 pm by mrfight67
Still havent seen dappys new song so i guess vidzone will resolve that problem later
Nice update, loving vidzone as always. The only thing that’s missing is music from example
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 4:46 pm by mrfight67
Oh and will pro greens and jessie js new vids be appearing soon? cheers
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Posted on 11 August, 2011 at 11:41 pm by coomoo
I have only one little question:
How is that possible that we can watch every music video on YouTube (even those VEVO ones) while being in Poland, but to use VidZone we have to pretend that we live in UK or one of other countries supported by your service. Not attcking, just asking.
Also, I can’t believe that launching VidZone in Poland wouldn’t make a profit. I saw the UK’s version of the service and as far as I’m concerned it is mainly funded by ads. We have VOD services in our country and companies that run them somehow managed to find someone who will invest their money in them in exchange for showing their ads.
So sorry to bother you in every update post, but it’s so annoying – VidZone already has so many polish artists in its base and it’s like every country in Europe can watch them for free except us
So… when Poland?!
Posted on 17 August, 2011 at 11:47 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Coomoo
Sorry for the lateness of my reply.
You are correct, we aren’t saying it is impossible to work in any country, especially one as established as Poland, but we can only do one thing at a time. A new territory launch takes many 100′s of hours of planning, licensing, ad selling, developing, editorial and promotion so the main reason is that we are a small company and don’t have the resources to roll out in all the countries we would like. I know this is no consolation for you, but Poland is at pretty much the top of the list if we can manage to launch in new territories. don’t give up faith, we haven’t, and please keep up the when Poland, it really does make a strong case to us when we have so much demand on the blog for it.
I hope that has answered your question, we try and be as open as possible with our users.
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 6:56 am by shedboy90
@coomoo
u have to pretend u live in uk nearly half of all polish live in uk
the ppl at sony and vidzone have more important things to do than give poland vidzone
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 9:07 am by coomoo
@shedboy90
Maybe from your perspective, expansion of VidZone to other countries is not important, as you can just press X on XMB and start enjoying music videos. But I’ve paid for PS3 the same price and I want to have the same functionality. I wonder what would you do, if everyone apart from UK had an amazing service such as VidZone, and you could just look, and do anything about it.
So please, don’t be so puffed-up, saying Polish customers (and other from Eastern Europe, which VidZone can’t possibly see on a map) are not important as I can say such thing about UK customers and you know that wouldn’t be true.
Nice trolling, btw
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 9:22 am by Mr__Stig
Why are there no Linkin Park videos on there?
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 9:28 am by grizla75
Great service but was on all day yesterday and 4 ads after every 2 songs was driving me mad, especially the ad for the Nissan Monstrosity, twinkle twinkle. lol
Posted on 17 August, 2011 at 11:36 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Grizla75
Sorry for the lateness of my reply.
We try and have as much Ad inventory as possible so you don’t get the same ads more than once for at least an hour. Advertising is essential for keeping the service free, but we do try and make it as unintrusive as possible.
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 9:58 am by shedboy90
@coomoo
i don’t like vidzone i watch music on youtube
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 10:02 am by shedboy90
@coomoo
im surprised u have to whine anyway u should join ur family in uk
u polish recked my town go back to poland
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Posted on 12 August, 2011 at 12:12 pm by mnemonic-dk
@Ben
The video “Fågt op i skalle” by Malk de Koijn doesn’t work and never has – This is the third time I have pointed this out here… Maybe the video should just be removed?
Posted on 17 August, 2011 at 11:15 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Mnemonic-dk
This video is now fixed.
Thanks
Ben
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Posted on 16 August, 2011 at 5:52 pm by G2OWLY
@mnemonic-dk
I kind of agree sadly…
I pointed out 3 videos that didn’t work (despite being in a published playlist) about 6 weeks ago and made a passing reference to advetrs grating. I was pleased to get a reply, but sadened that it lectured me on why adverts are necessary (like that’s not obvious!) and ignored the main point about the videos.
@Ben, let’s get what we have already loaded working and then worry about updating it. I’m gutted VidZone has gone this way.
PS: Just to let you know, there is some good news; all the adverts are still working without a hitch…phew!
Posted on 17 August, 2011 at 11:34 am by Ben Creasey
Hi G2OWLY
I’m sorry to hear the videos you requested still don’t work. The changes we made ensured all videos were now working again shortly after you posted and I personally checked that the following 3 were working.
Angels – Within Temptation, Anathema – pressure and Forever After – Paradise Lost
I have retested them just now and they still work. Can you let me know if they aren’t for you and we can advise accordingly.
Apologies for not telling you that they were working again, and we do test and fix all videos that are reported to us as not working.
Sorry if you thought I was lecturing you also, The intention was not to patronise, just to be as open and honest as possible as I try to be with all our users.
I hope this answers all your questions.
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Posted on 17 August, 2011 at 1:57 pm by grizla75
Hi Ben, thanks for reply. Totally understand that ads are essential for a free service, just wish there could be more variation in them. The same 4 ads every 2 songs can do serious damage to your mental health. lol. Especially if your playlist has over 700 songs on it (like mine).
Anyway, fantastic service which needs to be made available to all countries. Keep up the good work.
ps, any chance of other björk vids off Debut album? Big time sensuality, play dead etc.
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Posted on 18 August, 2011 at 10:17 am by G2OWLY
Hi Ben,
Firstly, I’m really grateful that you take the time to reply.
I checked Angels & Pressure before my original post and since reading your reply and can assure you they do not work this end. I have tried from my playlist, the playlist you have published and by searching to see if my playlist was corrupted, but they just start to load, then stop every time, where others work perfectly fine.
Are you now thinking this is a local issue with my profile? If so, please advise accordingly as promised.
Thanks for your help.
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