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I think, as part of the booklet for The World Is Mine, I’m gonna write about unsigned acts I like. Just recommended people to check out. Not that much, maybe my top three with a little YouTube link or something. Cos one of the things I love most with all this is the community spirit. (My original idea of rattling on at length about the ideas and meanings behind the album was deemed, by me, incredibly pretentious and boring. So now I’ll fill it with fun little facts and such.)
Since I make more than enough from DFTBA sales, I figure the least I can do is buy CDs from other artists when they’re released. So I have – nearly – every release (I never got a physical of Expert because Craig gave me the files when I met him last year, but I’ll order it soon). The DFTBA artists have had a couple ideas to work on collaborations together; we discussed a fun one a while back where we all cover each other’s songs.
Anyway, someone who’s not on DFTBA but is very very cool needs my help, and I thought in the spirit of this entry that I’d help her out. I used to play acoustic shows with her, where she would outshine me night after night, cos it was three years ago and I had no stage presence and played cheesy crappy songs like “Smile” (“when I see her smile at me, it gives me strength, my room to breathe” – OH MY GOD). The only song from those days that made it on to Parrot Stories is ‘Sicily’ – think of that, Sicily being the strongest song in a set of songs.
Anyway, Fran’s wonderful, and she’s in the Vodafone Live And Unsigned competition in the UK, for which she tells me she’s through to the regional final :) If you clicky here, you’ll be able to listen to some tracks and help her out in the competition if you like them. It’d surely mean a lot to both of us if you did ^_^
(No, we’re not dating, you crazy gossips.)
Oh, one last thing to run by you – Parrot Stories. Since I’m releasing The World Is Mine in a digipak (on account of digipaks being more durable and lighter to transport), I’m thinking of converting Parrot Stories to a digipak too. So once we sell our first order of a thousand jewel cases, I’ll just order them in digipaks from then on. BUT: as part of this, since I’m improving the product, I thought it’d be nice to revise the booklet, and make it what I now think booklets should be, filled with fun facts instead of just lyrics.
So thought I’d put that out there, that’s a plan for the future. =) (No, I’m NOT asking you to buy it again :p)
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