NEWSLETTER. No.1  What’s Happening!

We Need Your Support - Music Life - Times are a Changing!

The musical landscape is a changing and with it the nature of how musicians operate within it. It’s like the Wild West out there, where we’re all creating our own business models. As musicians we are more than ever before able to produce work without restrictions, exploit our music through licensing, going direct to potential listeners, creating mutually beneficial partnerships or independently setting up shows via promoters and agents. Access to music, once the domain of traditional structures (record labels) has shifted. We now put our own working frameworks in place. But the most important component of this is you!

Our Goals – For many of you, you’ll be aware that Bassistry has always run its own affairs. We’ve managed to work, and forge friendships around the world. We have a few goals for the coming year. Creatively it reminds me of the late 1960’s, different art forms can collaborate and hopefully accentuate their own artistic medium through another. Bassistry will be releasing a series of tracks in the coming months and along with my long-time, ultra talented multimedia partner Mark Welland we have produced simple animations and videos for some tracks. We hope you enjoy them, if you do please:

SUPPORTING US
Review and Comment  - If you like it people and people see this, they will check it out.
Send the tunes on – It’s the best recommendation we can get.
Give us some feedback – We want to see what you think, get ideas, keep moving forward. We can take good and bad feedback it won’t hurt our feelings!
Buy It! – The money comes to us. It’s what we do for a living!

Word & Mouth

On a wider level could you tell us about interesting festivals you discover, radio stations, internet sites, venues you would recommend us play. Most opportunities, jobs, people or gigs. So all our friends in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, France, Singapore, Japan, let us know. It's all comes through word and mouth. 

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU - Discount tickets, Back Stage Passes, Complimentary or New music, New Artists.

In the last 3 years my immediate network have done these gigs around the world: Corinne Bailey Rae, Oi Va Vio, Amy Winehouse, Craig David, Tony Christie, Bob Geldof, Akala, Plan B, Grace Jones (support), Keziah Jones. These are obviously pretty high profile but the really interesting stuff is often under the industry radar. For you, where we can we will provide (not in London) complimentary tickets, back stage passes for shows, or tickets at discounts. We’ll let you know when we’re around, who to look out for, what we’re up to when and who we are playing near you. Newsletter   - We will be producing a monthly newsletter. It will be about Bassistry but also about colleagues in our immediate network. We will be providing info on projects that range from new albums, new artwork, multimedia, music workshops, touring info etc. 

Drop us a line! See you in the New Year!