Sinister: re: promo ideas
warning: major cynicism ahead. people of a nervous disposition may want to look away. cover versions. put decent cover versions on the b-sides of records. 'reel around the fountain' would be ideal (twas a real highlight when they played it in glasgow and edinburgh all those months ago). people will buy the record for the cover and fall in love with the original stuff - instant fanbase. and keep doing things the sarah records way. by which i mean not putting lp tracks on singles. it means that everything you buy is all new. it also means that you have to buy all the singles as you know they won't be on the new lp. (think of 'thriller' or something where 80% of the album later turned up as singles - pointless. ok, b&s aren't michael jackson but...). 10" singles are good too (although i've so many that are just so poorly pressed...). 2 part cd singles are bad, especially when filled up with throwaway stuff (tindersticks anyone?). and, well, the thing that hooked me with the sarah stuff was the little personal bits like the a4 posters and the sleevenotes. (b&s are already doing this with the little tales in each release, and decent covers). and just keep the records in the shops. went looking for another copy of '3, 6, 9...' on saturday. easy to find i thought - chart band and all that. except woolworth's use a different chart from everyone else. whsmiths only seemed to stock the top 20 and virgin just had a hole where number 32 should've been. ok, it serves me right for living in such an armpit of a place but... andy
what do you all want on my new site?
a spell checker?
i've only just finished it so any ideas would be apreciated i have all most of what i could do has allready been done by Andrew Dean
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Andrew Dean wrote:
warning: major cynicism ahead. people of a nervous disposition may want to look away.
licks lips in anticipation!
cover versions. put decent cover versions on the b-sides of records. 'reel around the fountain' would be ideal (twas a
real highlight when they played it in glasgow and edinburgh all those months ago). people will buy the record for the cover and fall in love with the original stuff - instant fanbase.
and keep doing things the sarah records way. by which i mean not putting lp tracks on singles. it means that everything
you buy is all new. it also means that you have to buy all
the singles as you know they won't be on the new lp. (think of 'thriller' or something where 80% of the album later turned up as singles - pointless. ok, b&s aren't michael jackson but...).
cynical but foolproof. cover versions are OK, a bit boring for the band perhaps.Singles taken from albums exist as advertisements for the album, so the more they put out, the more albums they sell. Probably. Business is business. And so on.
2 part cd singles are bad, especially when filled up with throwaway stuff (tindersticks anyone?).
I hate two part CDs too. I've got the first part of a Charles and Eddie one in a special sleeve.
and just keep the records in the shops. went looking for another copy of '3, 6, 9...' on saturday.
You live and learn. Perhaps Jeepster or their distributors expected less demand, and I suppose it makes more economic sennse to fall short than to overdo it. Well, perhaps that should be the other way round. One for all the people bored in their economics lectures.
i've only just finished it so any ideas would be apreciated i have all most of what i could do has allready been done by Andrew Dean
why bother then?
A lot of websites start off as a project to enable the person to learn HTML or whatever it's called. I tried once, but fell at the first hurdle. It was going to be about the bombardment of Guernica, a sadly neglected topic in WWW land. Mind you, I know virtually nothing about it, so my intention was just to get a bit of practice in, in case I actually need it one day. The new website appears to be the result of a bit of leftover lemur space, so I applaud the author's attempt to make use of his time and space. In the future it might change completely and become something unique. It's inevitable that some things are repeated, otherwise a stray "surfer" wouldn't know what's going on. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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