Random Announcements
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@Giles said in Random Announcements:
Most of the Dorset Coast is fantastic......Lulworth Cove is very much so, but will be absolutely fucking heaving with grockles at that time of year....
I would skip driving to LC or to anything advertised as parking for Durdledoor, having done this with all visiting American friends and family recently I can confirm it is full of arseholes (that’s normal English for grockles).
Assume you’ll be in a car @Tago-Mago - I would suggest taking the sandbanks ferry to Stuland rather than driving the quick way, check out the corfe castle area. Once you get further west, there’s a nice pub with great beach views in Seatown called the anchor inn. Lyme Regis/Beer and Branscome are all very nice slightly further along, Masons Arms in Branscombe is my favourite there. If you’re into walking, Dartmoor National Park is stunning too, and once you’re west of Exeter you can’t really go wrong unless you end up in Plymouth which is a bit of a hole
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Well what can I say.
My boy is a shining star in the Manchester area
https://www.9sjs.com/news/winner-of-the-access-awards-2024-qasim-amin/
Proud dad.
The world's insane
While you drink champagne
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Also those had voted as well
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@Mizmazzle said in Random Announcements:
Dang, Mo! That's incredible!! It might be time to adorn the lad with a select piece of GAH!
@Mizmazzle already has the Good Art Buddy loop.
Wears Iron Heart at the age of 15.
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Thought about putting this in either or both of the Music and Instagram threads, but I figure it probably makes the most sense to put it under one roof here as a random announcement.
I've played in bands my whole adult life, but lately have been pivoting more towards pared down solo work. I recently started an Insta to corral my music stuff, plus a new Bandcamp to collect recordings as I work on them, both demos (as are on there right now) and any future stuff that's more fully produced.
If you'd like to check it out, follow me at @palmooremusic (Insta) and palmoore.bandcamp.com. And fyi, I have the demos currently on there as set to a high stream count per song until it asks you to pay, after which putting in $0 is totally fine with me. These are unmastered songs, really just put up to get out there and into people's ears. Thanks, y'all!
Edit: whoops, left the last p out of the Bandcamp link. Fixed
WTB
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@popvulture done!!
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@popvulture dude hell yes! I've been thinking of doing the same thing for a long time now. Your stuff sounds much nicer than mine, but it'd be cool to get it out there. Hows the deal with the bandcamp artist thing?
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@WhiskeySandwich man, thank you! I'd love to hear your stuff — you should really do it. Gotta say, feels good.
Bandcamp seems very cool as far as that whole thing goes. There isn't any sketchy legal jargon or anything that feels like they might secretly have ownership over your stuff (like it can creepily seem with FB/Insta sometimes), plus the money stuff is pretty straightforward. You can charge however much you want, and the fee they take is reasonable. Plus they have Bandcamp Fridays sometimes when they waive their fee.
The coolest thing I've found so far is the analytics component. Lots of detail on how people play your songs — do they listen to the whole thing, do they skip certain tracks, etc. It's useful.
Mainly I just wanna get out there and play some solo acoustic shows. Despite having been the lead singer in bands for years, I find the idea of getting up there by myself to be pretty damn terrifying. This is a step one kick-in-the ass to get me to do it.
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@popvulture dude, i like it. its good chill stuff and you've got your sound together. My stuff's just iphone recorded dirty instrumental noise layered on free Garageband. I just want it to exist somewhere besides my phone and i'm pretty tech (and musically) illiterate. I dont care about generating money or fans. Do you pay a subscription for an artist-account holder?
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Nope, it's free — there's a paid version that gives you more features but I haven't opted for it yet. Might someday, but I don't see any need for now.
I think phone recordings sound pretty fantastic sometimes, just gotta try to make sure you're not getting too much intruding noise from unwanted sources like humming air conditioners or whatever else. A lot of times whatever room sounds you might get can make things feel more real. I can't tell you how many times I cut out a lot of ambient sounds from my recordings, only to have my girlfriend tell me it sounded sterile and that she liked it better with the squeaks and scrapes.
