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djp

Check it out here:- http://nanolog.blogspot.com/2011/02/alight-here-vol-0007.html

Totally honoured to be in the company of the wonderful Cousin Silas…!

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djp

http://alternativeirishmusicreview.blogspot.com/2011/01/daniel-prendiville-happy-days-in-gulag.html

Apparently, I’m from Northern Ireland…;-)

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djp

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djp

Enjoy…

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djp

'Pon my soul, the game's over...

Sponsored by the letter I.

I’ve just finished my promo campaign for the album. This lead to a total of 682 e-mails being sent to various media outlets, but mainly blogs.

Any results? Not so far – I sent links for downloading an electronic press kit, and I have no idea just how many downloads there were – the number of recorded downloads goes up and down and therefore cannot be trusted.

Apart from one offer of a gig, I have had no meaningful contact or response from anyone I sent an e-mail to. Googling the album name hasn’t revealed any significant activity.

So, that’s a disappointment, then? Not really – I was never expecting a huge level of response (I am a realist and have been around the block once or twice), but I feel the effort was worth it, as the album was definitely “entitled” to a decent push on my part.

One comforting thought – I c0uld have gone to the trouble of sending out actual press kits with physical copies of the album. On the working assumption that between printing the album, postage and packaging, it would’ve cost me, say, €5 per kit, then I’ve saved somewhere in the region of €3,500 by sitting down of an evening and sending out a batch of e-mails. Well, if I am going to be ignored, I might as well go about it in a cost-effective manner.

So, barring anything earth-shattering (or anything at all) happening to the album, this is more than likely going to be the final posting to this blog. It’s been great fun to do. Thanks to everyone who’s shown an interest.

I’m going to take a bit of a break now and do a few things that I’ve been putting off for a while – like wiring-up a patch bay for my studio.

In December, I’ll be launching a new blog to report the recording of a new project for 2011, entitled OPTIMISM 1 – EXPERIENCE 0.  I’ll post a link to that blog in this blog nearer the day.

So, till we meet again, au reservoir…

Regards,

djp

According to CD Baby, the album is now available and “live” on the following online sites:-

• Great Indie Music
• iTunes
• Napster

Other sites are to follow (allegedly).

Feel free to check out the album at these sites.

Regards,

djp

Listen to it here.

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djp

Got a request for a “promo CD” of the album for review purposes. I politely told the querist that there is no physical product per se and that I am unable to comply with their request. However, I directed them to a location where they could download my “electronic press kit”.

I suspect that this is not going to amount to anything on the basis that I can’t give them a CD. This suspicion is borne out when I go to the querist’s website where they say they are only interested in physical product – no MP3s considered.

But here’s the best bit – the request came from an online “magazine” – i.e. a virtual entity with no physical manifestation. And yet while it’s OK for them not to have a physical “presence”, the album must have a physical “presence” in order to be reviewed there. As the title of this posting says, does. not. compute.

Had I thought of it in time, I’d've told them I could send them a physical CD  if they’d send me a physical magazine. How d’ye like dem apples, Pilgrim? Unfortunately, as Pete Townshend memorably said of Kevin Moon, I always “get off at the wrong step”.

Meanwhile, the promo madness continues, but not with all the “drilling-down” as I’d described earlier. I already have more than enough links to be going on with, TYVM…

Regards,

djp