Friday March 9th 2007
things are beginning to happen for my music. i found out yesterday that a company who promote indie artists have selected me for a sampler disc which they send out to all the major record companies, tv networks and film studios. this may not sound like much at first, however the man behind it has a towering reputation in music circles as a talent spotter (many artists, most notably linkin park, have landed major record deals, publishing deals etc, off the back of his samplers).
the other main factor to all of this is that, as many aspiring artists will know, getting through the front door of any large music/film/tv company is often the hardest part. this is understandable considering the amount of submissions they all must receive, but extremely frustrating for anyone who is desperately hoping that someone will give their music even 5 minutes of time. as a result of the reputation of the people involved, i have luckily managed to bypass such a screening process.
i know this is only the first step, but it is a large, and very sudden one. i am very grateful to those involved who actually took the time to listen to my music.
in other news, i've signed up with a digital distribution company (for an astonishingly low rate, check out www.tunecore.com if you are an artist) which means that my album will soon be available through i-tunes, napster etc worldwide (may 26th at the latest i believe).
as regards film and tv placements for my music, which is something i have been pursuing, i have had positive initial responses from music supervisors on a few projects, but nothing concrete as yet, fingers crossed!!!
i have also been approached by a very kindly record producer (who recently had a billboard no.1), who has offered to mix a song for me for nothing as a favour. all i have to say is that, despite all of my cynicism towards the music industry, all of the above news shows that there are good people still out there.
i am eternally grateful for everyone's kind words of support over the last few months. i have had a difficult time recently, both financially, and in terms of artistic self-confidence, hopefully things are beginning to take a turn for the better.
i am still writing and recording, and i should have a few new songs on my site over the next few days, one of which is an acoustic version of the first song i ever posted on myspace (as part of my aborted band project). it was a song called "body type four" which is about men who live with life-like sex dolls as their partners. i originally wrote it as an acoustic song, but i felt like rocking out a bit at the time. it turned from a gentle beach boys/elliott smith style song into a queen style pompfest, haha :) now it has returned to it's natural habitat, and i'm really rather pleased with it :)
that's all for now, i'll keep you updated on any potential sale of my soul to a huge multi-national corporation, and please forgive my slight exuberance, i shall no doubt return to being a sullen, introspective individual before too long
Saturday 17th March 2007
My agent has been working hard all week at SXSW to find a home for my songs in the world of tv and movies. Fingers crossed something good will come of it. I have submitted my song “The Sweetheart Stone” for a popular show on the Discovery Channel, so I just need to wait and see what happens.
I have uploaded two versions of a new song “Body Type Four”, an acoustic version, and a rock version which I had recorded a few months back for my aborted Los Descamisados band. You can listen to them in my downloads section here, where you will also find download links for both versions of the song.
If you want to find out about the background to the song, you can read about it in my MySpace blog here
