We’ve signed up to a site called sellaband.com. The premise of it is that a band signs up and uploads some music. Then visitors to the site have a listen and if they like what they hear they become a believer.

Once a band has 5000 believers the site gives the band £50, 000 to record and produce an album, a tenner for every believer. So naturally we would quite like £50000 bucks. We’ve already got one believer so we only need a few more. Heres the link.

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Posted: April 14th, 2008 under Industry Musings.
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Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Industry Musings.
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We’re playing this Saturday night in Pivo Pivo in Glasgow. If you’ve not been there before it’s a great venue on waterloo street. No tickets for this one so it’s £4 on the door and we’re playing with Rio Callaghan and The Gens.

Posted: April 2nd, 2008 under Band News.
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I’ve got some new music from a couple bands that are on myspace that i’d like to heartily recommend. I’ve mainly found them through friend requests but now and then from other folk. If you’re a fan of Sigur Ros or Mogwai then there’s a good chance you might like The american dollar I don’t know a thing about them and i’m quite happy for it to stay that way. I think they’re on their second album though. They’ve added some new music recently. Another fantastic bunch of noise mongers are Sanchez is Driven by Demons Very excellent.

Posted: March 31st, 2008 under new music.
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The Mexicolas played in King Tuts last night. I’ve been a fan of them since we played with them last year and i wasn’t disappointed. I’d been complaining on here about the lack of good rock bands around at the moment but I obviously forgot about these guys. They started with the song “shame” which blew my socks off, the riff in that song is superb. Have a listen here Mexicolas myspace The song “big in Japan” was another highlight. Im afraid I cant remember any of the other song names but they had some really good new music which i’m going to hunt out. There was a song where the guitarist used some really nice harmonics in the verse coupled with a really good simple bass line. Glad I dragged myself out of the house on a wet tuesday night for this one.

Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Gig Reviews.
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Heres a few photos from our last show in the Classic Grand. We’re playing there again a week friday and we’ve got some new music to play.

Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Band News.
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I’ve practically given up on CD’s a the moment. When I buy one I rip it to my computer and throw the case in the cupboard. So whats the point in buying them? Well for a start I cant find a legal download site that I like that doesn’t charge a monthly subscription fee. (If you know of one post it in a comment) Thats excluding itunes of course, but that doesnt count as you have to burn the song to a CD before it belongs to you and not Apple.
I know thats a bit hypocritical as our new music gets released on itunes but I do think itunes is excellent if you want to use nothing but apple software. So what i’ve resorted to a the moment is just myspace bookmarking. Which is organising my favourite bands into my top friends so I can easily get to their pages and have access to their songs. (a few of them anyway)

Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Industry Musings.
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I went to see Nada Surf in the Garage on Saturday night. This was my third time seeing them and they were absolutely fantastic. I cant recommend this band enough. Big highlight for me was “Killians Red” and “These Bones” which shows that their new music is just as good as their old stuff. I was a bit dissapointed that they didnt play for a further 3 hours though. Heres one of their videos.

Posted: February 25th, 2008 under Gig Reviews.
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If you’ve heard of Nada Surf this is good news. If not,  this is good news. They’ve put their superb new album ‘lucky’ on their myspace page. Oh, actually, i’ve just had a look and they’ve taken it off. Bastards. That was a good ploy. They got me hooked on it then left me wanting. I’ll have to go buy it now.

Posted: February 7th, 2008 under Industry Musings.
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We’ve just confirmed a new gig on the 21st March at the Classic Grand in Glasgow. All about the Dots are also on the bill. Tickets will be available from our website.

Posted: February 1st, 2008 under Industry Musings.
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