Conference marvin::uk_music

Well, I know this bloke who used to work for NME........

Good luck Matty, if I can help, I'll will.....

Paul

    Best of luck Matty, I'd like to hear your demo, if you ever tour in
    Brighton I'll interview you for the Poly paper if you like =8*).
    
    Tim
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    Six years too late. All of the people I knew at NME are dead or senile now
    (myself included, I sometimes think). Good luck, anyway.
    
    Piers

    Matty,
    	  I currently sing in a band which will be breaking up soon (we're
    all going off to Uni' and poly' - me included).  Our main influence is
    Ride and we write all our own stuff except for a cover of "8 Miles
    High" by the Byrds.
    
    	So if you ever find yourself living in Brighton and looking for a
    lead vocalist to sing with an indie-style band (Wedding Present
    influenced preferred) then llok me up at the Poly'.
    
    Oh well, you can't say I didn't try!!
    
    Good luck,
    
    Russell.

    
    Russell
    
    Are you off to Brighton poly??  I'm going back there in September for
    my fourth year, if there's naything you want to know about the place
    give me a bell on 7 899 5214 or mail me on Tim Price @ RDL.  What
    course are you going to do.  Anyone with a love of Ride and the Weddoes
    is fine by me.
    
    Tim
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    But who's going to keep me up-to-date on the latest Madonna singles
    when you go???  %*{
    
    Well, almost everyone I know in the biz has killed themselves.  Or have
    gotten "real" jobs.  However, I still have one friend at RCA (she's
    one of about 2 people left from the time I was there--3 years ago!)
    Her office is right next to the A&R staff's offices (she's involved
    in contracts & business stuff.)  Maybe she could slip your tape
    into their "must sign" pile.  (Of course, that's if she's still there
    by the time you make a tape.)
    
    Anyway, good luck with your music.
    
    -Vicki             

    Matty
    
    Brighton is Creation city so if you send me a demo I could try and drop
    it in Alan McGee's pocket at a gig, he seems to go to them all down
    there, and remember they have a dance side to their label so your luck
    could be in =8*).
    
    Tim
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Matty,

After having a think about it, this bloke that's just moved into my house 
does the lighting at Royale's in Manchester, I'll talk to him and see if he 
knows anyone.  He seems to quite well in with Technotronic...

Then again, why should we help you?  You're supposed to go through the rough, 
tumble, living-in-a-carboard-box life that most bands have to go through.  
It's all part of the life, man ;-)

Paul

    re-1,
    
    Paul,
    
    Yeah, I'm really looking forward to dodging the bottles, the sleeping
    on floors, fiver a gig between 4 of us, punctures on the way to the
    gigs, the stolen equipment, etc.  :-)
    
    
    matty

Matty, all I can offer is some space on my living room floor and sofa
(Stuart's bed) when you do your first tour of the States...Ed

    Cor, sleeping on Stuarts bed...
    
    Don't forget my offer to help you produce, Matty.  You'll probably go
    on to become really famous and make loads of money, and the rest of us
    will be stuck here in a pay freeze and moanin' in notes.
    
    Does this mean we will see you being interviewed on DefII next year?
    
    Mikef

    
    Just remember the UK_Music noters Matty, you could dedicate your first
    LP to us =8*)
    
    Tim
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    I have in my possession no fewer than 6 of Matty's earliest works.
    should I hang on to them in case they become collectors items soon?
    
    Bootlegs, anyone? Going cheap!
    
    Bob

I can also reveal that contrary to Matty's claims he is not 'from the 
streets' at all and has never lived in Finsbury Park.  He used to play with 
smurfs at an early age, especially Smurfette.

Paul

    Bob, chuck 'em away, I'll send you some better ones in a few months!

    .15 is definitely the sound of someone who either a) cares about his
    music enough to not want to foist (possibly) substandard product on his 
    public, or b) doesn't want anyone cashing in on his future mega-stardom by
    relasing said product at a later date.
    
    How much do you want for the safe return of your tape, Matty...????
    
    Bob

    re-1,
    
    It's a) and c).  c) is that I don't want b) because it's a).
    
    Confused yet?

    
    See ya Matty, its been fun mate.
    
    -Tony (who sez that if you ever need someone to lay down a solo or two
           on your tape - gimmie a call as I'm turning out to be a bit of a
    	   sessionist in me old age (20!) ).

    Tony is only 20!!!!  Must be all that sex and drugs aging you...
    
    Mikef

    I'm thinking about setting up a 0302 Newsletter group.  ie. a list of
    interested parties, people who might be willing to swap money for demo
    tapes, 0302/matty Brown t-shirts ;-) etc.
    
    I got this idea from John Otway's book - he has about 400 people on his
    list to whom he sends these newsletters informing them of any
    developments.  Also the Inspirals use this to flog their t-shirts.
    
    Does anyone have more any ideas on this?
    
    
    matty

    I know that Ride do this, when they were touring in the days before
    they could afford hotels etc they asked for peoples floors to stay on
    and ended up on my mate Jason's floor well one of them anyway.
    
    Tim
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    Tim, It must be a good idea if Ride do it ;-)  Does Danni Minogue do
    it?
    
    
    matty

    Well folk, I'm definately off.  Moving back to `Bonny Donny'
    (Doncaster) in August.
    
    I'm going for the newletter thing, so if you want to be on it just mail
    me with your address and phone number.  Of course if this doesn't work
    out I could come and burgle your house ;-)
    
    My plan is for the first newsletter in about 6 months saying that if
    you send me a blank tape I'll copy some of my stuff onto it and send it
    back - who knows it could be worth a mint in years to come ;-).  The
    second newsletter will probably announce a national tour and the third
    my forthcoming TV appearance on the Johnathon Ross show ;-) ;-) ;-)
    
    The risks of this are starting to hit me - the job situation in
    Doncaster is impossible and I won't be able to claim from the Social
    Services (Welfare in Americanspeak), and then of course there are 100's
    of records out each week.  Geeeezzz, it's going to be fun ;-)  I've
    started sending my CV to record shops in the area - it's got to be fun
    standing about listening to records all day!
    
    I'd really appreciate it if you sumbitted yourself to the Newsletter
    list.  I reckon the bigger the audience the better, then it all depends
    on my music.
    
    It's about time I started deleting all my embarrassing Notes - it'll
    take ages ;-)
    
    
    matty
    

    Demo Tapes;
    -----------
    
    I'm committing to getting the first newsletter out before the end of
    October.  The people whose addresses I already have will receive a demo
    tape free (about 20 people).  Anyone who is not yet on my list but
    wants a copy of the demo will need to send me their name and address,
    but the tape will cost 2.00 pounds to cover the blank and postage.
    
    Hopefully the tape will be 4 tracks, 2 hardcore House, 1 guitar based
    Indie/Dance/Pop and the other will revolve around the Ambient tag.  The
    quality of the recording should be pretty good and fingers crossed, so
    too the music!
    
    Any questions?  I'm on 7851-3671 during normal working hours.
    
    
    matty
    
    ps.  Thanks to those who've mailed me for their interest.

    Wow, a freebie, I'm looking forward to it already.  So when's the first
    tour?
    
    Tim
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