2 posts tagged “mike”
Have a look at our Youtube channel. (Again if you were here for one of my first posts that mentioned this)
It will give you the opportunity to have a good laugh as I'm not my of a TV personailty. Ged (the Chairman) is up there, along with Mike (Head of Columbia) and Craig (Head of RCA).
I don't think any of us are thinking of quitting our day job but it gave us an opportunity to show you at least what we look like. I think I will try and stick a few more videos up there of what actually goes on in here so it makes a bit more sense.
I'd like you to comment on what you think of all this on the channel if you can, be honest, good or bad. The reason I ask is the only people who seem to have commented on there so far aren't involved in our community and don't seem to see it for what this is.
The reason this is starting to take off now is because all of you are supporting this very much from the inside. Which I'm really grateful of. As a result of the growth of the site I've managed to get a few things in the pipeline that are going to be really exciting. I can't give any details away as yet but I will soon.
Hope all is well with you out there.
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There are a number of reasons my being cloned would be of benefit.
I could take turns (with myself) to go to work or stay at home blogging, playing games and watching youtube.
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I COULD ANSWER ALL MY PM's!!!!
If there are people out their who think I'm am a rude hypocrite in talking about transparency and conversation in the music industry, and then not getting back to you, I'm really sorry. I've just got lotsa messages recently. I do evetually answer every message I get and try to reply to every comment also. If I'm not quick enough, just let me know and I'll get back to you. :-)
I found the radio show I was on, had a listen and was quite relieved. I only flapped a little towards the end and missed the mic at one point, apart from that all good. It's 15 mins in if you want a listen but if you're here and already blogging I doubt it will be of much use to you.
Got good feedback from our youtube vids aswell. If you're curious as to who the guy is who does all the artwork that has been mentioned recently, that's Mike, you can see his video aswell.
One thing that has really made me happy is the fact that a lot of you are championing this community and making it your own already. There's loads of good messages and idea floating about, keep em going, put's me in a great mood when I start worrying if this is going to work or not. In fact leave some comments on the youtube site if you can as it looks really bare and I'd like to know what you're thinking about it, good or bad (infact the only comment there at the moment is a bad one :-/ )
I've got to get back into the columbia & rca label blogs today, I'm going to sink back into the unsigned community and listen to music all day. It's a hard job but someone has to do it I guess :-). I'll post some of my personal favourites up here later on today.
Ok now, this is important. I'm totally blown away by how quickly this is taking off and how much good stuff we're getting so we're pretty much on stage 2 (I have a plan in my head) already.
We need to start connecting to each other and talking about each other's music. Aswell as this being a community for people like me to find new talent, I want this to be considered the place to find great new music. To do that we need a tight-knit community of artists, passionate about what they do and passionate about good music. This means finding each other and creating your own communities. For example, I already notice there are some Jazz musicians appearing, straight away they need to form a sub community and maybe between them start a group page or blog where they can pool their stuff and link to individual blogs. That way they could end up being a true tastemaker in the world of Jazz.
Some of you are already mingling a great deal and as a result listening to a lot of new music. I will evetually start recruiting people like you to help me do my job. I'm not sure what I can offer in return yet, even if it's just getting us on the guestlist at a particular artist's gig or something. I will talk more about that when I think about it.
In the meantime, keep linking me and other, send messages and I'll listen to as much stuff as I can.
