Page & Plant Bizarre Festival DVD & carpet bombing the IT industry
Posted by testcrunch on July 2nd, 2008
Just got a DVD of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant playing at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne in 1998, another bootleg.
The show was broadcast by Rockpalast in Germany so I assume it was recorded by someone onto VHS and then they’ve recorded that onto DVD. They did a good job too. The set includes great versions of Bring It On home, Heartbreaker, Gallows Pole, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Most High, How Many More Times and loads more. I saw P&P several times when they played together in the 90’s and they were always good. I saw them at Shepeherds Bush Empire with an audience of about 800, Madison Square Garden, Wembley, Dublin and another warm-up gig in Poole.
Just got an email from an agent where a company needs 9 test analysts in the City. I phoned him straight away and I was the first to do so. I asked him had he got much response and he admitted it was starting to dribble in and that he had carpet bombed the problem a bit. The email went to 3,000 IT people.
I suppose they’ve generated a mailing list of everyone they have a resume for, including developers, business analysts, project managers, scrum masters, DBA’s, operators etc and enter the mailing list name in the ’To’ field and fire and forget (Dunno about forget, they’ll get a load of abusive emails for that little stunt. Ed). Bit cheap.