Slade Fan Club archive website comment...
www.sladefanclub.com totally condemns the start of the removal of all archive footage containing Slade songs and performances from YouTube, seemingly at the request of the so-called Slade Official Channel.
Numerous Slade fans, over the years, have taken time and effort to unearth and upload rare Slade footage to You Tube. These uploads were not made for financial gain of the individual uploaders. The uploads were made to help promote and keep interest in the band that the individuals love and respect - SLADE.
For the Slade Official Channel to instruct for the videos to be taken down - never to be seen again - is unbelievable.
The contact address for the Slade Official Channel is SladeChannel@gmail.com
UPDATE - 1 April 2013
The YouTube Slade footage saga continues.... Whild John Music, Secret Records and the recently set up Official Slade You Tube Channel had fan footage blocked in an attempt to monetise every video that you can watch and have a fee generated to them. It seems that now Universal Music Group have intervened and so fan footage is in the process of being restored.
What is harder to restore and repair is the goodwill between Slade fans and the people who were threatening them. You can't just put that back up and say a muffled sorry.
This site is not monetised in any way. We do not expect you to pay any sort of fee to be a Slade fan.
Numerous Slade fans, over the years, have taken time and effort to unearth and upload rare Slade footage to You Tube. These uploads were not made for financial gain of the individual uploaders. The uploads were made to help promote and keep interest in the band that the individuals love and respect - SLADE.
For the Slade Official Channel to instruct for the videos to be taken down - never to be seen again - is unbelievable.
The contact address for the Slade Official Channel is SladeChannel@gmail.com
UPDATE - 1 April 2013
The YouTube Slade footage saga continues.... Whild John Music, Secret Records and the recently set up Official Slade You Tube Channel had fan footage blocked in an attempt to monetise every video that you can watch and have a fee generated to them. It seems that now Universal Music Group have intervened and so fan footage is in the process of being restored.
What is harder to restore and repair is the goodwill between Slade fans and the people who were threatening them. You can't just put that back up and say a muffled sorry.
This site is not monetised in any way. We do not expect you to pay any sort of fee to be a Slade fan.