I’m Like The Gift That Keeps Giving

Top Of The Agenda 
Woooooooooo hooooooooooo 

This week has been completely different to another seeing the OSOM idea thrown into the spot light and carefully analysed by myself. 

Before people start talking, or worse still jumping to ideas, no I'm not shutting OSOM down and the thought has never crossed my mind, but I have been trying to better the project. Unfortunately this means completing some unbelievably boring but necessary steps in the realms of market research and the beginnings of a business plan. A professional business plan will be the concrete foundation needed for creating a strong structure for the project furthermore outlining the projects vision in a more acceptable manner. 

Ooooo that sounds hellishly professional doesn’t it, I do have to admit the shear amount of information and literature needed is very overwhelming but surprisingly helpful.

Why have I chosen to walk this path? 
Honestly, I’m sick to death of approaching people about the project and its potential just to receive that glazed look you get from the dog when you tell it how your days been? The project will never be taken seriously unless I also take it seriously and can prove that the home work has been done. 

Oh my mother will be so proud, her little boy is all grown up now ..lol

The Note Worthy Project 
Well the project has now been successfully going for 2/3 weeks, there have also been plenty of hiccups along the way so ill start from the top, the CD is complete minus tag lines. This was a hard decision to make but to have the music in circulation was the key aspect and the main goal. 

Having looked at what went wrong with the taglines I have chosen to alter the initial idea slightly by creating a radio jingle/movie trailer introduction to the project and the individual locations, but still want to have artists introduce themselves and their music, this is because I want character and personality of the individual artists to shine through.

Right so where is The Note Worthy Project Playing? that is a very good question.
Venues/locations actively playing the Note Worthy CD are;
• O-Bar
• Hub Bar 
• Sumo (downstairs)
• Walkabout 
• Melting Pot (entertainment nights) 
I wish to have Sophbeck involved but the gentleman I need to talk to have eluded me for some time now but is now farther to a little new baby so I wish him all the best and will try and sort something out when the time is right and he is settled down.

New Events/Gigs Around Leicester
Just an update for all you gig happy fans, there are two new nights that I know of that have popped up in the last couple of weeks. 

The first is LE1 Live down at the Walkabout bar, the guys down there are very keen to create an established live music night on every Tuesday. 

Second is a night hosted by Stevie Jones and Mark Gill down at the Musician, there good honest love for music also shows in the musicians that accompany them on stage, bringing to light even more local talent I never know was there!
   
Bits Running Around My Head 
I have this feeling that’s turning into a need to record a video blog in the near future partly because it’s something new and something I have never done before but I also believe I would be quite nice for people to hear me and listen to my words instead of reading them. Maybe this may encourage people, that like me have dyslexia and struggle reading and spelling or the people that don’t have time to read then all they will have to do is listen.  

Its time to hit the mountain of information that my printer has just spat out ……. The average person spends 32.7 hours a week on the internet ……… see so many facts to reinforce the OSOM vision, time to get the highlighter.

Ta tar for now 

Adam @ OSOM 
Keeping Leicester Alive With Music  

The Feeling You Have To Fight

I’d like to start this week by saying hello and welcome to all the new people reading this blog and thanks for joining us. If your reading this blog for the first time and are thinking to yourself, what the hell is this crazy guy talking about and what the hell is he going on about, here is a little summary of OSOM:

OSOM was created to bring awareness to the vast amounts of local musical talent that lies right beneath our nose, giving a voice to the small and unsigned artist/s allowing them the recognition and respect they deserve.
OSOM is not just for the new and unsigned artist/s, we would like to also welcome the lucky artists who make a living in music, recording studios, musical suppliers and most importantly the DIE HARD MUSIC FANS!

And if that got you hooked I suggest you have a read of the earlier blogs filled with more information.

Back to this weeks blog, well its going to be one you can all closely associate with whether you’re a singer, dancer, teacher, accountant we all seem to hit rock bottom some time and the feelings are always the same.

As I have stated before OSOM is a hobby, something I do to help, to potentially make things better for groups, bands, shops, venues, then during the day I work for the council. My rock bottom came last week after having the best ever birthday week away with my adorable fiancé. As we were camping there was always going to be no way of becoming engulfed in yet more work on my holiday and as Nicola quite rightly tells me ‘you need to switch off some times’ so I did.
The week away, the weather, the location, the company it all was amazing and so enjoyable and I thoroughly enjoyed doing nothing.

I do have to admit thought I did fall force to the power of music when the old guy across from us started playing a harmonica and in true Adam fashion I was right over there encouraging the old guy to play more. Having wanted a musical instrument and having already thought about a harmonica this was the perfect opportunity to purchase one, so I did.
Tangent over back to where I was…….

When we arrived back home I was overwhelmed with the thought of what was soon to come ……..work! My day job is not great at the best of times and it’s only the people I work with that make it bearable.
This feeling started to take over everything; I just didn’t want to do anything including working on OSOM. I dedicated so much time and effort in to OSOM and other project and at times it feels like a thankless job that leaves me wondering why?

I hate this feeling that sort of dark negativity that creeps in and explodes in to everything all at once. It’s like being at the point of no return or the fork in the road that life happens to throw at us every now and then, the decisions that make us what we rely are.

I have respect for any body at the same challenging cross roads whether its students taking exams or revising, new business struggling in the turbulent financial times or even the most over looked people parents struggling to take care of their families.

I’m a firm believer that anything is possible for anybody, it’s the attitude, motivation and self belief that determines whether you succeed or not and I’m sure as hell am not going to lose.
So I will continue to wage the war for local music and keep fighting the OSOM way, then next week we will go in to my addiction to Facebook fan pages and how I plan using them in the real world.

This blog is about the OSOM venture, the good and the bad, I feel that unless you truly understand what goes on within OSOM then people will not become interested and really love the OSOM venture.

Right I’m off to see if Kleenex will sponsor this blog lol and I promise I will not cry in the next blog.

All the best

Adam @ OSOM
Keeping Leicester Alive With Music