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| 12 July 2003 - 01:42 |
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Details on album and conflict Marlin vs. Svare.
Comment on You Weren't There |
Yesterday and today the Norwegian press has given great emphasis to Lene's comeback, also thanks to the news coming from Italy. Let's try to make the point and summarize all the latest news.
Vg (one of the main Norwegian newspapers) has dedicated yesterday 3 articles on Lene's return and has interviewed Hans Olav Grøttheim, from Virgin Norway. The release dates in Norway are the following: 28th of July for the airplay of You Weren't There, and 22nd of September for the release of the album Another Day, recorded in London and produced by Mike Hedges. Grøttheim announces that some songs had already been written time ago, others are more recent; the album needs other 2-4 weeks to be completed. Grøttheim adds that Lene, in the recording studio, has played with her band some songs that will probably end up as b-sides on singles or as bonus tracks.
A 4th. article published today by VG did not appear online. It concerns again the conflict between Lene Marlin and her (ex) manager Arne Svare, which seems not to be solved at all.
Cato Schitøtz, Lene Marlin’s lawyer, claims that the five years contract with Arne Svare expired July 10th., that is yesterday, and says that if the manager disagrees he’ll just have to take it to court.
The conflict obviously involves lots of money: Svare wants 25% of Lenes income on the new album, which means a great deal of money if Lene achieves the same success as she did with "Playing My Game".
Svare claims this referring to ‘extraordinary circumstances’ which would lengthen the contract. It's not clear what ‘extraordinary circumstances’ means and Svare refusal to talk any further about all the question does not help.
But it has probably to do with this: Svare had to accept a lower %-share than usual with Lene's first album and he didn’t get anything of the prepayment on 14 million NOK from EMI Music. Now Svare, thinking he had proved that he could handle the job as the manager with and having invested in Lene's future, he could demand a extension of the contract or a large economical compensation.
The question is how big input Svare really had in this success, and if he can demand a large economical compensation. If so, this might end up in court to stop Lene’s new release. But we knew from last VG's article on this case (May the 27th.) that Svare had already received from Marlin 1,4 million NOK. Besides, Cato Schitøtz says it isn’t written anywhere in the contract that it must be lengthened.
At this point we can only wait for Arne Svare's next move.
Not only VG, but all Norwegian media have, between yesterday and today, dedicated great attention to Lene's return without giving further information other than those we already gave you in the past days; they infact have directly quoted the Italian fan-club that has published in preview the album's tracklist. Virgin has, in the past few hours, updated the local Italian and German websites and published some new photos of Lene. Virgin Germany has also published the first, interesting commento on You Weren't There that we translated:
Her first single, "You Weren't there", is a classic radio title. The unmistakable, sweet, and melanchonic voice of Lene accompanies us lightly, as a cloud that floats throughout the song.
When you listen to the song for the second time, you feel as you've met an old friend.
From now you can read in Press Review all these articles both in Norwegian and translated in English. Also some more articles from Norwegian press (Nrk and others).
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