And belatedly....
...we won! Woohoo! The Slicethepie showcase that is of course..and hence £15,000 to record our first album. It's been such a mad week that I'd not gotten around to posting it here, but needless to say we are all made up about it and looking forward to starting the album in the New Year :) Huge thanks go out to anyone and everyone who supported us by spreading the word and voting for us in the showcase - we couldn't have done it without you!
For anyone who is interested in the whole slicethepie thing (you can read all about how it works here), you can now buy 'backstage passes' in us for £5. These basically pre-order you a copy of the album, allow you access to our backstage area at slicethepie.com (for updates on the album's progress etc), and enable you to buy 5 'contracts' (basically shares in the financial success of the album) at a discounted rate for trading purposes. To be honest, I find the whole trading side of things pretty confusing, but it seems to be pretty popular with some users of the site, and there is money to be made through it all apparently....as long as the artists sell some records at the end of it all that is! :)
In any case, it's all good for us, and we're just happy to be able to put our energy into a whole album's worth of material without searching for money to fund it...or waiting for a recording contract. It was a nice pre-Christmas present to say the least!
In other news, we'll be playing at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford tomorrow night, which should be great as it's an excellent venue and we had a really good time there last time we played. If there are any Oxford people out there please come along and check us out if you can! Doors are at 8pm and it's a fiver to get in....
Happy Xmas all!! (to use the abbreviation that we all hate!)
x
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Keep us all up to date as i am really interested in the process that it involves.
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I know I'm probably barging in here, but I will say to make sure you feel that at the end of the day (in the recording) your vocals sound consistent and confident and that they truly stand out. It's amazing how one word that was sung tentatively in a song really stands out even in a final mix, and it can really sour the whole song. Make sure the vocals are sung with clarity and passion and heart. If you have 4 members in a band make sure they all stand out in the recording as instrumentalists and don't just sound like a backup band "going through the motions" and try to use inflections of their musical talent throughout the song rather than just towards the end of the song in a "solo" fashion. On an emotional scale make sure the highs of the song are never too high and the lows are never too low. But make sure there is enough musical emotion throughout the song to keep people's attention. To go back to vocals make sure that there is a certain thrust in your vocals so that they stand out as an emotional personality and don't end up sounding like they sunk in with the harmony of the music. If any of that makes sense, I hope it helps in some way. Congratulations on winning the Slice The Pie!