Want to know what James Blunt gets up to in his tour bus? Thought not, but soon those with a grimly voyeuristic bent will be able to check up on the singer songwriter as well as other artists via a new moblogging scheme being tested by record labels EMI and Warner. According to New Media Age and other other sources, bands are being given mobile phones loaded up with the ShoZu application which seeks to make sharing videos and photos from mobile devices much easier.
The likes of Funeral For a Friend (pictured) and The Aliens are onboard and will soon be able to hit Flickr, YouTube and no doubt other Web 2.0 favourites with their visual diaries. The idea perhaps is to find a more legitimate, personal way for bands to communicate with their fans - MySpace Music pages have become increasingly corporatised over the last year, with few artists taking any control over their pages. Moblogging is a way of mainlining artist activities to the faithful.
Now, finally, we’ll no longer have to read gruesomely self-indulgent tour anecdotes in NME - we’ll be able to see rockstars vomiting into their drumkits with our own lucky eyes.
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