Looking Through New Doors To Find New Opportunities

This week’s blog is a little of the beaten track and not all about what I have been up to within the week, but a little bit about other hidden outlets for local music that you might not have thought about, but could still be very valuable nevertheless.

So What Are You Not Doing

As you well know music is added to everything, shops, gyms, shopping centres, cinemas, bars the list is endless but have you ever thought about armature film societies?

Leicester has a thriving film society that pulls together all types of enthusiast that want to create individual works of art; all of these films, unless silent will use music to complement and highlight various aspects of their film.

This has two major benefits;

First; the director will be promoting their film and at the same time promoting your music, not only will it be played in the film but shown in the credits.

Second; if you are polite, friendly and punctual the odds are that they will recommend you and your music to other directors, other film enthusiasts and you can well find your music appearing on more and more films.

If I still haven’t got you convinced this is a worthy path to walk, I urge you to take time out to watch the latest campaign from Leicester NHS regarding teen pregnancy and the much talked about ‘banned YouTube video'.

The campaign has been created using music from local band Dutch Courage, a four piece from Market Bosworth formed in early 2008.

The campaign features there music heavily across the six episodes that follow along like a local soap opera on YouTube.

Next week I will have Dutch Courage answering questions about how they got involved in the NHS campaign, what they think about the campaign and just generally digging up the dirt and maybe a little bit of gossip.

This Weeks Workload

Well this week just like every other has been cram packed with hard work but I don’t seem to see the fruits of my labour so clearly this week.

I have The Note Worthy Project CD’s and case covers printed and had hoped the project would have been rolled out this week but as with music all was and still is not as easy as it seems. I still however want the first CD out ASAP but only time will tell.

I have also had more meetings with Demon FM and there exposure team, this is looking very promising something to look forward to in the future.

The thing that made me smile most this week has been the phenomenal performance of the slightly strange provocative form of griller marketing I started about four weeks ago, ‘Sexy Underwear’. The group has excelled this week hitting 1,500+ new fans a day moving from 6,000 members at the beginning of the week to 17,000+ buy the end of the week.

Well I think that’s it for today, I have just received a copy of Dreamweaver and I’m now off to play around with website idea’s and designs.

Have fun and enjoy

Adam

Keeping Leicester Alive With Music.