The Battle with Sony Music

As you may have heard from the last Episode of the Matt Keil Podcast, my band Le Monnier found ourselves in a dispute with Sony Music over rights to a song we uploaded to YouTube.

We think Sony may have been making money out of our music by falsely claiming one of our songs as their own. Are they doing this to other bands? We hope not. After Sony finally removed their claim to one of our videos, I posted this blog video on the band’s YouTube channel. Read more

Kurfürstendamm Nuclear Bunker Revisited

In 2006 I first created an Art film entitled ‘Kurfürstendamm Nuclear Bunker’ which contained footage from a bunker in Berlin, Germany when I went there one summer. The soundtrack for this is a series on manipulated sounds and historical recordings. Recently I remastered the video and uploaded a much better quality version, so here it is.

An Appeal on Behalf of Audrey

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This isn’t music related but quite important. The video below explains everything you need to know. Any advice would be greatly appreciated too. P.S. Audrey is a plant ;-) Read more

Le Monnier – 'Black Dot' Music Video

Just wanted to share this music video of my band Le Monnier. We filmed this back in February in Bristol in a disused hotel. It was quite fun although what I remember most is being cooked by a 1000-watt lighting rig…