Sinister: re: promo ideas

[Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta]

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.



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