Woo Woo! Last night we were played on the RADIO. In fact, somewhat farcically, we were played twice. It was on the Tom Robinson 'Introducing' show on BBC6, and can be listened to here.
Not only was Tom good enough to accidentally double our airwave exposure, or radiation, if you will, but he also had something to say about the money issue, as in the post below. Thus:
Tommy's got a point, and so have you. Actually there's no reason why you can't sell the albums AND give away the tracks as free downloads. Have em on iTunes etc (use Tunecore - brilliant royalty rates, no long term contract) and on your website offer fans the option of buying physical CDs with premium packaging as well. Get the print done for the packaging, and then burn off CDRs as the orders come in. Result: £10 profit on each CD (as opposed to 90p via a record company). Most importantly - carefully read David Byrne's excellent article setting out the available range of business models here http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne
hope this is some help - and sorry about the cockup with Sunflower on my 6 Music show last night...
Tom Robinson
So this is all very good. Perhaps he is being nice to us because Ben told him that Gayle fancies him. On the topic of Gayle, that is her picture at the top. More here.
If you have a spare minute, you can vote for us to reappear on next week's show at the website above.
So bye bye for now.
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