Bandcamp

It's amazing how easily one gets distracted. The original idea was to set up the Bandcamp account, and then go off else where. I ended up finding The Bonnevilles and The Bon Scotts, while I should have been promoting myself. Both wonderful bands and well worth a listen. Bandcamp, easy to set up an account, they do all the hard work of file conversion of stuff like that and also gives us musicians statistics that actually tell you useful things.
The thing I really love is the artist page, lots of band names and picture of their latest “release”.
It reminded me of those halcyon days of my youth, where one had more time than money, (as if those times would return), where one would spend time browsing though record shops.
My favorite was the “Record and Tape Exchange” shops in London. These was a good article in last months “The Word” magazine on them. Browsing though, rows and rows of vinyl picking up the inexpensive and interesting looking. I spent a month in the mid 80's, regularly visiting the branch in Islington North London, waiting for Ed Kueppers' Laughing Clowns albums to come down it price. Got two for about £7 in the end. Then 20 years later got the complete works boxed set for around £15 when it came out on Cd. Which makes no fiscal scene at all. So back to Bandcamp, you can browse though the interesting looking sleeves and have a listen – something that isn't as straight forward in other music networking sites. As you can tell I got as far as the Bo's, something to do with my ego. I've got the rest of the A – Z to get though yet.

A Start

Huh, how did this happen, it’s all down hill from here, I’ll be twittering from a crack den near you, given time. Mainlining technology. It must be the 21st Century.
Hi, I’m Steve from the Bollnas Wolverines, late 40’s band about a year old. Anyway, I’m here in an attempt to raise the band’s profile, that’s all. To be honest I’m at the age were asking me “why am I here?” on any other level just leads to a lot of crying.
I digress.
I’ll post bits about the band and it’s members and what we are doing. But, since that would even bore me, I’ll add gossip and useful facts from about 20 years in the music industry as a low key professional. Stuff about how we are promoting the band, and how these strategies work out. Recording and playing tips and tricks. Think pieces, tedious anecdotes, random digressions and impenetrable sentence construction. All of these will be here. If nothing else, you can point your kids here, or kids point your parents here, and say
“Keep away from music, accountancy is a much better idea”.
Enjoy.