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So what's new? Well, I am going back to uni in September. I've had an unconditional offer from Westminster University and I've accepted it. The course itself is more music business focused which will teach me a hell of a lot more than I already know and the ins and outs of the industry. So, hopefully, that'll mean that I won't ever get screwed over by a record label again.
If I sound a bit bitter then it's because the record "deal" we signed last year has been nothing but a waste of time and money. OK, we got our debut single out... but with no promotion or plugging involved, it's not really made any great impact. At the end of the day, the majority of the people that have bought it are friends and family who were going to buy it even if it sounded like Daphne & Celeste. Maybe this is how it is for all bands trying to break thru, but it sometimes feels like a chore being in a band. The days of it being fun seem to be disappearing by the day. It's all business focused now and I don't know, maybe it's the right thing to do, but I can't help but think if we spent more time writing and rehearsing, the tunes would get better and we wouldn't have to keep forking out to record and promote stuff in the hope that people will like it. If we keep writing and rehearsing, we'll get better and everything else will happen by itself.
At the end of the day, no fancy flyer or huge MySpace friend list is going to break a band, it's the tunes. Right now, I think we do have good songs, but we're nowhere near our peak. I think the rest of the band, besides Carl, are older and are perhaps more impatient but I'd rather us work on becoming a better band.
I'm trying to clear all my debts before I go back to uni and the band makes it damn near impossible to do that. Bearing that in mind, how the fuck am I going to afford to do this when I go back to uni?
If I sound a bit bitter then it's because the record "deal" we signed last year has been nothing but a waste of time and money. OK, we got our debut single out... but with no promotion or plugging involved, it's not really made any great impact. At the end of the day, the majority of the people that have bought it are friends and family who were going to buy it even if it sounded like Daphne & Celeste. Maybe this is how it is for all bands trying to break thru, but it sometimes feels like a chore being in a band. The days of it being fun seem to be disappearing by the day. It's all business focused now and I don't know, maybe it's the right thing to do, but I can't help but think if we spent more time writing and rehearsing, the tunes would get better and we wouldn't have to keep forking out to record and promote stuff in the hope that people will like it. If we keep writing and rehearsing, we'll get better and everything else will happen by itself.
At the end of the day, no fancy flyer or huge MySpace friend list is going to break a band, it's the tunes. Right now, I think we do have good songs, but we're nowhere near our peak. I think the rest of the band, besides Carl, are older and are perhaps more impatient but I'd rather us work on becoming a better band.
I'm trying to clear all my debts before I go back to uni and the band makes it damn near impossible to do that. Bearing that in mind, how the fuck am I going to afford to do this when I go back to uni?