Fierce Angel is due to release this years Beach Angel on the 13th of this month. Being a big fan of Mark Doyles taste in music and his compilations i’m quite excited about it. It promises to be packed with jems.
Here’s the Tracklistings:
Disc 1
Kwame Drevon & Frankie Boissey – Everybody Wants To Rule The World Clique Feat Robina – Reasons (EK’S Angelic 12″) Wamdue Project Feat Heather Johnson – Washes Over Me (Wamdue Main Mix) Fac15 Feat Cathi O – Twisted By The Pool (Beach Angel ’07 12″) Miguel Migs – So Far (Album Mix) Latrice Barnet – Illuminate (Original 12″ Mix) Jephete Guillame Pres AK – Shining Your Way (Shining Main Vocal) Ananda Project – Universal Love (Jay J’s Shifted Up Mix) Danny Campbell – Answer My Prayer (Candy Apple Mix) Peyton – Holiday (EK’s Getaway 12″) Kaskade – Never Ending (Extended Mix)
Disc 2
Wamdue Project – Forgiveness (Beach Angel ’07 Mix) Bonnie Bailey – Safe (Eric Kupper 2007 Remix) Samantha James – Rise (Eric Kupper Mix) Belle – Surfacing (Rize & 7th Heaven Remix) Freemasons – Pacific (12″ Mix) Eighteen Feat Stephanie Mills – (You’re Putting ) A Rush On Me Cerrone VS Sweet Connection – Misunderstanding (Original Club Mix) James Kakande – You You You (Alex Gaudino & Jerma Mix) Albert Cabrera Feat Alex Cartana – Dig The Vibes (Original) Locktown Feat Alexandra Prince – Alive(12″ Original Mix) Bassmonkeys Feat Naomi Marsh – The Answer (Eric Kupper Mix)
Disc 3
Negrocan – Cada Vez (Grant Nelson Vocal) Dubtribe Soundsystem – Do It Now (Knee Deep Club Mix) Masters At Work Pres India – To Be In Love (Knee Deep Re-Edit) Junior Jack – E Samba (Rasmus Faber’s Cancao De Nega Mix) Etherfox – The Whirled You Live (Sixty Six Mix) Rasmus Faber feat Emily McEwan – Ever After (Rasmus Faber Main Mix) Armand Van Helden Presents – Everytime I Feel It (Richard Grey Mix) Salome De Bahia – Outro Lugar (Cutee B & Julian Jabre Mix) Mambana – Libre (Axwell Vocal Mix) Gadjo Feat Alexandra Prince – So Many Times (Original 12″ Mix) Afro Medusa – Pasilda (Original 12″ Mix)
[Disk three are oldies but goodies, Cada Vez really brings me back to the old Nova days of doing my “Drive Time” Radio show in a sweltering studio on a summer afternoon]
Also this years EsVive album is yet again the sound track to my summer, only leaving my car for the occasional BBQ beach party. I’d highly recommend it!
I’m getting the itch to stay in the Es Vive hotel now…
CheapChat Irelands access number 0818 27 27 74 was down. This is due to technical problems and although the technical guys are working flat out at fixing it, i’d imagine it will take a few more days. For now i suggest using our 1520 932 904 instead of the 0818 272 774 number to access all our national rate numbers this will connect to all. However this will cost 15c/per min, instead of the 8c peak/ 5c off-peak as usuall.
I apologise to all my customer and appreciate all the e-mails that have come in. Also i have been blown away by the supportive nature of the e-mails, I haven’t had one negative comment one as of yet dispite how badly i feel about the service being down for our regular users. Clearly we have incredible customers.
On the news today it stated that “the Irish stock market taking a serious blow (by loosing 8.6 Billion Euro) was distracting conversations from the usual debates about the property market”.
Surely these two occurances are completely correlated! The banks took the brunt of the hit and this, as well as being linked to the american banking issues, its because they are so at risk to the property market. People still think that property will level off! Which frankly isn’t possible, who would invest in property that has no probability of gains or cashflow. IMO Its more likely to be a swift and devastating crash (20-40%) and a slow recovery.
It got me thinking why is this property market crash anticipated to take so long? The reason the Stock market droped so quick is cause it’s being dealt with by professionals who make logical decisions based on fact, figures and no emotions. On the other hand, the investment sector of the irish property market is less detached to the investment vehicle. Would you hold on to shares if you were certain that the price would go down over the next two years?? What if your dividends were due to go down too cause the rental market will be following the property market? You’d sell right??
Here’s the facts – Our population is aging, some of the immigrant workers that were here to facilitate to construction boom are no longer needed. They’ll move to England to facilitate the building requirements for the olympics there or somewhere where they’re skills are required! The prices of property are exceptionally over stated – first time buyers can’t afford property on a standard wage. The people that own a major share of small property investments are paye employee’s with one or two properties as a passive investment. These investors bought in under advice of others and based on past market preformance – something a sophisticated investor would never do.
Was happy yesterday to recieve a letter saying that i now only have to file Vat returns every 4 months in opposed to every 2. I think this is a great step forward from the Irish Gov. The Bureaucracy of business compliance is a major problem for small and start up businesses. Paying Vat both personal and corportate, can be very time consuming from filing little reciepts and trying to collect expenses reciepts (from employees) then setting aside otherwise productive time to keep everything in order is a pain. While i think having to do so is not a bad thing at all, business needs to be kept in order. The time constraints and frequency was problematic. Big pat on the back for the guys in revenue on this matter.
As many people have been mentioning Spam in the last while has been on the massive increase and its really getting annoying. Today i had 33 blog post spams, 147 spam emails (in my inbox) and 6 trojan viruses in emails. Surely outlook can do better? Does spamming really work for these people? Surely if they focused their efforts else where they could be more productive.
Irelands insurance policy’s are a complete joke, there seems to be absolutely no logic behind the numbers they pull out of the air and slap on your premiums. I heard a catchy ad on the radio and decided to give 123.ie a try for my car insurance, based on their ad that they were so sure if they don’t beat your current premium they’ll change their price to beat the competition and give you an extra cash saving. So i logged on, lost five minutes of my life inputting all my personal information and guess what their quote was 1000 Euro more expensive than my current renewal price!!! Clearly they wont get my business even with their fancy promises to beat the current price, i just get an impression they are over promising and under delivering. Recklessly wasting potential customers time. I’d never even consider them for a quote again now. Clearly they must serve some niche (or be some way competitive in their own right?) but by advertising to the mass market they completely alienate they rest of the market and create an awful comsumer image.
Vodafone texting is down tonight, spent the last hour or so trying to send texts to people to no avail. Rang the customer care team, waited for the usual not so prompt service and was told that yes it was down, no they don’t know why and they hope it will be up again soon.
I’m surprised in the stage of development that everything hasn’t back up services so that something like this simply doesnt happen anymore?
I was going over some old property “Daft Reports” today and something in David McWilliams Quarter 2 2005 post hit me:
“If you are buying today to generate an income from renting residential property, you have missed the boat. However, as the banks are lending hand over fist to the market, you can still make a few quid by avoiding being Paddy Last. That’s the rule. As Paddies continue to buy property as if it is going out of fashion, everyone’s exit strategy in this inflated market is to make sure there is another Paddy investor behind you to whom you can flog. So make sure you are not that guy – make sure you are not Paddy Last. Always keep the exit doors open”
Could this be the reason why some people are still swearing blindly that Ireland is invunerable to the looming property crash??? Is it as simple as they are still too heavily invested in it and therefore can’t admit that things have changed?
Fundamentals and Confidence are what drives a market. The fundamentals of investing for cashflow went years ago and the confidence is currently falling all around us. In Ken McElroy’s book the “ABC’s of real estate investing” (Kiyosaki’s Rich dad series) he suggested that the monthly rental should be 1% of the total purchase price on a reasonable investment deal. With Ireland running at three times that and a potentially shakey rental market in an economic down turn. So are you a Property Paddy Last???
Got to thinking this morning when people have a success they tend to correlate everything they did leading up to that success with the end result. At first glance that does seem to make sense, but what if that success is inspite of your efforts not because of them. Is the fact that we contiune to do what gave us results before the sole reason that we arent getting better results? Could it be a case that because someone is doing good they are less likely to be do Great??
