It’s All About Little Old Me This Time

Well well here we are again, I would like to start by saying thank you to all of the people that have taken the time to read ‘The Music you Never Knew Was There’, if you haven’t its archived so there is no excuse ha ha.



Well I better start by elaborating on the vague introduction in my previous blog.
For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Adam Breedon; I’m 24, I live in Leicester and am happily engaged to my lovely fiancé Nicola a.k.a the biggest love in my life but also the biggest pain in my ass (she knows I love her.)


I had the idea for OSOM (or ‘my idea’ as it was called back then) in November of 2008, before the closure of ‘The Charlotte’ in Leicester and I made a promise to myself to read at least 3 books a month. These books then fuelled my hunger to create a music database unlike any other. After getting slightly addicted to reading (which for a dyslexic person doesn’t happen often) I finally settled on a name/acronym I was happy with, I then began creating logos and purchasing web space.

The first logo was created using 38 separate layers in Photoshop and was the best thing since sliced bread, until everyone I showed, criticised it 'too childish, can’t understand it, what does it say', so it was back to the drawing board or computer screen in my case.


Criticism tends to get me down, but I feel I have more of a point to prove, a bigger goal to achieve. So I take it on board and create something bigger, something better.

On attempt number 5 (I think) the OSOM logo was finalised, something I was happy with, something I was proud of. By this time the Leicester Mercury announced on the 15 January 2009 The Charlottes troubles and the possibility of its closure.



It was time to put the small OSOM wheels into motion, to help create the interest in the Leicester’s music scene.


OSOM then introduced ‘Keeping Leicester Alive With Music’ a small FaceBook group, that has been kept up-to-date with news and my progress, but it didn’t go as well as I thought it would. I think it was more to do with me not knowing what the hell I was doing. I mean Facebook can be so bloody annoying sometimes, add this, add that, send a present, throw a snowball arrrrrrrrr (sorry rant over with promise).
So having caught the social networking bug I went back to my old roots MySpace and within 2 weeks I hit the 1000 friends mark. I have listened to more music than ever before and have discovered more about local bands than I ever knew before.
Well that’s that and here we are to the present day banging the OSOM idea home day after day, looking forward to the completion of the OSOM website.


I would just like to add aswell, this is not a money spin, I don’t earn anything from this and nobody pays me (think I'm mental). I will be looking for sources of income through things such as add sense to better the webpage and future plans and ideas that OSOM will bring to the table.


Now I've fed you all with the boring bits I promise NEVER to do it again ha ha

Thanks again for reading, all the best and rock on!

Adam
OSOM
Social Music Networking

If you wish to show your support please do, you can find me on:

MySpace
FaceBook
Twitter
Bebo

Join the OSOM group;

FaceBook Group (Keeping Leicester Alive With Music)


Or even email: adam@osom.co.uk