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I found this website - www.barkingspiders.co.uk and basically it's a new music management company putting unsigned bands through the music industry. They offer free downloads and they are launching with a band called GoodShirt. The webite is pretty cool and although it's all new I think it's worth checking out and I think it might get pretty big. Do you think record labels such as EMI will follow this route too one day?
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I'm afraid that's not going to happen when they are double platinum in New Zealand, close to in Australia and touring Canada too. They are a household name over there! Now please no racial comments!
Whether or not the name is 'personal' is irrelavant. Regardless of what you may wish to believe people are going to go "GoodShirt? What a stupid name", and then probably decide they don't really want to know anything about a band with such a rubbish name. It's true. They could at least get a name that makes some kind of sense.
Good Afternoon to you too!
Sorry I misunderstood your initial message. As for your second comment, I admitted I did the whole thing wrong, (saying I had come across the website) and then explained what I do. Thirdly, was it necessary to go into such vulgar detail? I guess with bands, the name is always personal - and very rarely the audience can identify with it. I'd like to think that not everything is about the name.
Thanks
Louise
Sorry I misunderstood your initial message. As for your second comment, I admitted I did the whole thing wrong, (saying I had come across the website) and then explained what I do. Thirdly, was it necessary to go into such vulgar detail? I guess with bands, the name is always personal - and very rarely the audience can identify with it. I'd like to think that not everything is about the name.
Thanks
Louise
Graphic.
I never said it was a games only forum.
And what happened to "I found this site..."?
One more thing, GoodShirt is about the worst band name I've heard of since Fountains of Wayne, Bowling For Soup, and all those other bands who give themselves a zany name in the hope of attracting cutomers. I'm not surprised they haven't been signed. If I was a record company exec I'd take one look at that name and throw the CD into the bin, first taking time to wipe my hole with it (whole hole). Then I'd pour petrol into the bin, set light to it, and throw it out of the window of my top floor office. Then I'd wait a few seconds and spit out. Then I'd probably puke, because I would be disgusted with the whole issue.
And what happened to "I found this site..."?
One more thing, GoodShirt is about the worst band name I've heard of since Fountains of Wayne, Bowling For Soup, and all those other bands who give themselves a zany name in the hope of attracting cutomers. I'm not surprised they haven't been signed. If I was a record company exec I'd take one look at that name and throw the CD into the bin, first taking time to wipe my hole with it (whole hole). Then I'd pour petrol into the bin, set light to it, and throw it out of the window of my top floor office. Then I'd wait a few seconds and spit out. Then I'd probably puke, because I would be disgusted with the whole issue.
Thank-you Goatboy - for your reply!
I feel now that I should explain myself as you have so quickly assumed certain things.
Firstly I respect your opinion. Secondly I am nothing to do with EMI or any other big record label company.
I was trying to, (done very poorly, I admit) spark some interest about Barking Spiders and GoodShirt. I didn't realise, (as Grumpy Man pointed out) that this was a games only forum as I thought this was a chat forun and this one in particular, one to do with music movies and tv.
I do however work for Barking Spiders and I feel that you are already convinced that we are just another free download site, giving unsined artists false hope - not the case. We act as a record label. We make the single available as a free download to counteract the costs of distributing the single via CD single. (There is rarely any profit in using this root - unless of course the artist is a major). GoodShirt are already signed in New Zealand and are double platinium over there - and biased though I am, I think they are pretty damn good! No I am not a Kiwi - in fact I am Scottish.
The company is about getting fantastic artists in the spotlight. It's about encouraging record labels to follow route, and encourage them to stop releasing singles aimed at kids and to "take a risk" so to speak on the artists that wouldn't necessarily bring loads of money in on a debut single hit.
You seem pretty educated on the subject and I appreciate genuine views. I hope that Barking Spiders will prove the cynics wrong, I guess we'll see in the next couple of months!
Please feel free to comment again or email me on [email protected]
As for the drugs and stuff - not my scene. Nor do we endorse illegal downloads!
Cheers
I feel now that I should explain myself as you have so quickly assumed certain things.
Firstly I respect your opinion. Secondly I am nothing to do with EMI or any other big record label company.
I was trying to, (done very poorly, I admit) spark some interest about Barking Spiders and GoodShirt. I didn't realise, (as Grumpy Man pointed out) that this was a games only forum as I thought this was a chat forun and this one in particular, one to do with music movies and tv.
I do however work for Barking Spiders and I feel that you are already convinced that we are just another free download site, giving unsined artists false hope - not the case. We act as a record label. We make the single available as a free download to counteract the costs of distributing the single via CD single. (There is rarely any profit in using this root - unless of course the artist is a major). GoodShirt are already signed in New Zealand and are double platinium over there - and biased though I am, I think they are pretty damn good! No I am not a Kiwi - in fact I am Scottish.
The company is about getting fantastic artists in the spotlight. It's about encouraging record labels to follow route, and encourage them to stop releasing singles aimed at kids and to "take a risk" so to speak on the artists that wouldn't necessarily bring loads of money in on a debut single hit.
You seem pretty educated on the subject and I appreciate genuine views. I hope that Barking Spiders will prove the cynics wrong, I guess we'll see in the next couple of months!
Please feel free to comment again or email me on [email protected]
As for the drugs and stuff - not my scene. Nor do we endorse illegal downloads!
Cheers
No, she really did find that site, honest, then she found this games site and thought this would be the best place to tell everyone.
Wow, that almost didn't read like an advert and poorly disguised feelers from EMI...
No I don't think majors will follow any sort of trend that negates A&R whoredom, gak snorting in toilets and self-congratulatory circlejerks when the next "big new thing" is carefully designed, labelled and strategically "launced" onto the internet via shoddy stealth-marketing techniques.
As for management companies representing unsigned arists via download (musicsound.com etc etc), it offers nothing but the chance for the artist to feel vindicated that something they put heart and soul into is out there, in any format ,for people to hear.
These "free legal download" things are a joke, people are going to download music when "labels such as EMI" blow their wad on Robbie Williams instead of founding new talent.
Take your EMI-funded hack marketing techniques and go tell the label marketers that they should learn a new job, something useful.
No I don't think majors will follow any sort of trend that negates A&R whoredom, gak snorting in toilets and self-congratulatory circlejerks when the next "big new thing" is carefully designed, labelled and strategically "launced" onto the internet via shoddy stealth-marketing techniques.
As for management companies representing unsigned arists via download (musicsound.com etc etc), it offers nothing but the chance for the artist to feel vindicated that something they put heart and soul into is out there, in any format ,for people to hear.
These "free legal download" things are a joke, people are going to download music when "labels such as EMI" blow their wad on Robbie Williams instead of founding new talent.
Take your EMI-funded hack marketing techniques and go tell the label marketers that they should learn a new job, something useful.
I found this website - www.barkingspiders.co.uk and basically it's a new music management company putting unsigned bands through the music industry. They offer free downloads and they are launching with a band called GoodShirt. The webite is pretty cool and although it's all new I think it's worth checking out and I think it might get pretty big. Do you think record labels such as EMI will follow this route too one day?
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