tag:fydstar.com,2005:/blogs/homestar?p=5HOMEStar2023-11-30T18:47:55+00:00FYDStarfalsetag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/73115422023-11-30T18:47:55+00:002023-11-30T18:48:56+00:00Spotify Wrap 2023 - 58 Countries!<p>Virtually no budget, not to bad :)<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/557288/27f6121ecff908c5a66f548a0ad04f9919aaf0bd/original/img-2108.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/72521632023-08-04T21:41:52+01:002023-10-16T16:00:16+01:00I temporarily sound like Grimes, which is nice!<p>Using that amazing voice replacing artificial intelligence, a new version of Black Hole Down is out now with the dulcet tones of Canadian singer and pusher of boundaries; Grimes. Thanks to her Elftech Ai witchiness I now sound like Grimes, at least for this song!</p><p>https://hypeddit.com/fydstargrimesai/blackholedowngrimesaiversion</p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/72515662023-08-03T20:04:14+01:002023-08-03T20:04:15+01:00Get Down with the Black Holeness?! Video with lyrics yaasss!<p>Video now up on the tube of you, lyrics n all!!</p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://youtu.be/ZymfYpKZTrE"><span>https://youtu.be/ZymfYpKZTrE</span></a><br> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/72459992023-07-23T12:09:13+01:002023-07-23T12:09:13+01:00BEEZER TEASER VIDEO FOR BLACK HOLE DOWN <p>See video section <a class="no-pjax" href="/video" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Video">here</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/72403182023-07-11T23:27:47+01:002023-07-11T23:27:48+01:00Black Hole Down remastered and re-released on 28th July and the Grimes Ai vocal version on the 4th August!!<p>After the Magroove cock up, Black Hole Down is to be re-released on the 28th July. Only this time there are extras as follows!!:<br> </p><p>A remastered version as the main release<br>The original release now called the In Your Face Mix, as it's just one more louder innit?!<br>The Lost in Space instrumental version<br>The Fully Arped instrumental version of Bite The Rope<br>The Go Away instrumental version of Scream<br>Instrumental version of Sweetness<br>Instrumental version of Hacked In</p><p>But on the 4th August a version of Black Hole Down is released with my vocals put through an Ai system created by Grimes' team, so it is essentially Black hole Down with Grimes singing! It took a fair bit of my studio time to have it sound and sit well in the mix but i'm loving it! :) </p><p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/71075752022-11-21T22:12:54+00:002023-01-11T20:29:13+00:00F*****G F**KEDY F**KING MAGROOVE, USELESS DISTRIBUTORS ****DO NOT USE****<p>Black Hole Down is temporarily being taken off all streaming services as the distributor I used; Magroove, can't tell their arse from their elbow and fucked up, having not released it on Apple, Amazon, Pandora and many others, even after 4 emails to customer services, not a bean in response! Twats!</p>
<p>Anyway Black Hole Down is still on Youtube in video form and you can listen/purchase it on Bandcamp, so go there and listen and watch, like and subscribe, cos we need cheering up!! XXX</p>
<p><a contents="Black Hole Down lyric video" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/hKMLy6XQoWM">Black Hole Down lyric video</a></p>
<p><a contents="Black Hole Down - Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fydstar.bandcamp.com/track/black-hole-down" target="_blank">Black Hole Down - Bandcamp</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/71005362022-11-11T21:14:02+00:002022-11-11T21:14:02+00:00What am i singing? See WTF im on about in the Black Hole Down Lyric video<p>Click to see it below, its been messed with to look like its showing on an old knackered TV screen, because, why not?</p>
<p><a contents="Black Hole Down Lyric video" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/hKMLy6XQoWM">Black Hole Down Lyric video</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/70975222022-11-07T23:54:15+00:002022-11-07T23:54:15+00:00A Cosmic Trip for you <p>Been messing with text to Ai and and delving back into After Effects (AE) after I couldnt face it for Hacked In. It really is incredible what text to Ai can do alongside something called Stable Diffusion and another technique called Out-painting.</p>
<p>Basically I fed either some of the lyrics direct, or descriptions of what I wanted some of the images to look like and then added styles such as certain artists or sci-fi matte painting and so on. Out-painting is using the Ai prompts to expand on each previous image, keeping the original image in the centre. I just kept doing that to create the images for the zoom, which I had to manipulate in AE to actually create the continuity. Stick on an Ai generated spaceship cockpit and some of this and that in AE and bingo....Cosmic return trip (song dropping Electric Wizard there!)</p>
<p>Give it a go, it's ace! I used Dall-e 2 and Nightcafe, but there are more and more all the time.</p>
<p><a contents="Black Hole Down video" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/a_DNVIHY4ts" target="_blank">Black Hole Down video</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/70950972022-11-04T01:25:24+00:002022-11-04T01:25:25+00:00Black Hole is Down!!!!<p>Its only been a year!?! New single is out now click below to listen about a love so strong you cant escape! we all want that don't we?!</p>
<p>My distributor hasnt yet delivered to Apple Music or Amazon Music (there may be others like Tidal etc but I have no way of knowing ) for some reason, so um..soz for now.</p>
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<p><a contents="Stream here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://artists.magroove.com/lt/fydstar/" target="_blank">https://artists.magroove.com/lt/fydstar/</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/70571872022-09-10T00:32:02+01:002022-09-10T00:32:03+01:00Overheard in a Trappist 1e shopping mall "At this rate the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda, quicker than FYDStar releasing their next single!!!!"<p>I know, right?!</p>
<p>I have a lot of intention but also a lot of distractions at home these last few years and tbh often my heart is not in it to make music. It comes and goes, but it goes more than it comes!</p>
<p>When i do get the urge, it's exciting again and stuff gets done! In fact its usually been the case that the majority of the production of a song is done in a relatively short time, but the lead up to that relatively frenetic burst can be an age.</p>
<p>Also financially i have been skidding along on my arse for best part of two years now and it is disheartening to not be able to fund the marketing of a song at all, like what happened with Hacked In, though I do get it that, Hacked in was a tad political and not all about space, not even a little bit, so there's that......</p>
<p>At the moment there is no "but now *this* has happened so we're able to blast out singles like a Civet presumably shits out those coffee beans they eat??" (thus making the most expensive coffee in the world, yes, shat cat coffee!!!). But if you like what we've done so far (those 4 things in 2 years!), stick around because there is plenty in the tank, its just I only drive slightly more than that lad in The Lost Boys grandad!</p>
<p>Cheers Gaz</p>
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<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/70571702022-09-09T23:47:20+01:002022-09-10T00:00:38+01:00I've created a person out of the next singles' lyrics!!?<p>Whilst using Text to Image, specifically DALL.E-2 and Nightcafe, i fed some lyrics into them and this short video is the result. Behold within; Dave Zanguard! my daughters thought that's a suitable name for a man whose soul is fired beyond the event horizon and is; naturally, happier now.</p>
<p><a contents="See Dave here :)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtube.com/shorts/e5sDWHcFHjw?feature=share" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/e5sDWHcFHjw?feature=share</a></p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/69518782022-04-19T19:54:09+01:002022-09-04T09:46:31+01:00Next song brewing<p>A wee Alien, vibing to a wee bit of the new song in progress. More to come 👽</p>
<p><a contents="Click here human!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtube.com/shorts/hMRzrr59G7E?feature=share" target="_blank">Click here human!</a></p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/68455862021-12-19T02:22:07+00:002021-12-19T02:22:07+00:00Hacked in is go!!…..belatedly :/<p>Our new single about the shite British press and the fools who believe their lies is out now! Go listen and share the simple message!</p>
<p>https://hypeddit.com/fydstar/hackedin</p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/68396422021-12-13T21:28:49+00:002021-12-13T21:28:49+00:00WATCH OUT MURDOCH'S ABOUT! NEW SINGLE HACKED IN DROPS ON 16/12/2021<p>New single Hacked in is incoming, you have been warned!</p>
<p>Somewhat of a change in sentiment with this one, it is a bit of a diatribe against the gutter press in the UK and the gullible fools who believe the lies they print. OOOH BURN!!!! It's still a fun, stomping, genre bending FYDStar tune you want in you ears and as a special bonus, Gareth even wapps out some "metal" vocals at the end, WAAARGHHH!</p>
<p>Come back on the 16th to click to listen on all the good and tolerable streaming platforms :)</p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/66561952021-06-11T07:59:23+01:002021-06-11T07:59:23+01:00INTERVIEW BLAST OFF!!!<p><a contents="Watch interview" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.atticradio.co.uk/post/twin-engines-fydstar-power-on">Watch interview</a></p>
<p>Many thanks to Darren on Attic Radio for our first interview, on video too, so you can gaze upon our radiant fizgogs as we flap our gums about the how and why of FYDStar!! </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/66379222021-05-23T13:07:52+01:002021-05-23T13:07:52+01:00Interview postponed due to illness and world time shenanigans <p>Watch this space, still go and listen to the station, as it’s great though :)</p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/66357122021-05-20T21:17:55+01:002021-05-20T21:17:55+01:00Wanna hear us flap our gums on Radio?<p>Well give Attic Radio a listen from 3pm using link below and you can luxuriate in the sounds of our mellifluous voices chatting with the DJ Darren and it’s a worldwide three way call Wales/England/New Zealand, as Simon is currently working over there, the man does not stay still! :) <a contents="Listen here, the show’s dead good!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.atticradio.co.uk/post/distance-doesn-t-stop-duo">Listen here, the show’s dead good!</a></p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/66203852021-05-03T20:12:21+01:002021-10-05T18:18:17+01:00I gonna done a live one!! Acoustic version of Scream from the Soundshed<p>I've just uploaded a live acoustic version of our 2nd single Scream on youtube. I plan to do versions of Bite the Rope and Sweetness relatively soon and further more, to do proper studio versions of them in the future, with choirs and shit. yep.</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="raA7wBTPnpY" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/raA7wBTPnpY/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/raA7wBTPnpY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/66084252021-04-19T20:50:08+01:002021-04-19T20:51:21+01:00Spotify Playlists Curated by FYDStar, from the beautiful to the brutal! Plus other kick ass 2 piece bands! Click on each image to open<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2RTZBmEpItCKOayH9oBbxw?si=e7cbd9f442f148d6" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/557288/bd86a7b7b76fc3469a3730b0b3544f268c4f6306/original/2-piece-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_thin" alt="" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2iJWQou90SfkgFyJ1qjoOH?si=445c79a8a8f14d8d" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/557288/5c147f6f4d1eec6384ba407c7f073f885f15e34c/original/cute-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_thin" alt="" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QmRP2rPjuzhcRbtZcKXyt?si=5846b93d3fae456c" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/557288/d0850fc6e8b4827324134dfeae3f259b82a5f14a/original/sweetness-heavy-playlist.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_thin" alt="" /></a></p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65961822021-04-06T23:12:12+01:002021-04-06T23:13:51+01:00Sweetness and the new Flying Ladies Who Kick T-Shirts!<p>Like those excellent ladies kicking about on that plane wing who you see advertising our latest single Sweetness?</p>
<p>Of course you do! Well there'a a T-Shirt for that!! Available in organic Cotton in ladies fit S to 2XL and Unisex S to 2XL and also available in 3XL to 5XL (but alas not available in organic cotton for some reason?)</p>
<p><a contents="https://fydstar.com/music-and-merch" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fydstar.com/music-and-merch" target="_blank">https://fydstar.com/music-and-merch</a></p>
<p>Hurry there's still time to get 20% off all orders until the end of 9th April using Discount code FYDStar20 at checkout :)</p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65842152021-03-25T08:51:26+00:002021-04-21T18:14:55+01:00SWEETNESS IS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!<p>Watch full video below!!</p>
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<p>Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and so on here:</p>
<p><a contents="https://hypeddit.com/link/xgnf2q" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://hypeddit.com/link/xgnf2q" target="_blank">https://hypeddit.com/link/xgnf2q</a></p>
<p> </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65838622021-03-25T00:11:38+00:002021-03-25T00:11:38+00:00Sweetness is out NOW, here' the final teaser and we'll out up the full video later today, we gotta Sleep ya know!<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="6KtI4GYAMBs" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/6KtI4GYAMBs/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6KtI4GYAMBs?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65827922021-03-23T22:32:35+00:002021-03-23T22:39:00+00:003rd of 4 teasers for Sweetness with cupcake dancers and a cheeky winker<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="DZoCTgGjB-E" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/DZoCTgGjB-E/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DZoCTgGjB-E?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>Nearly there!!</p>
<p>3rd teaser adds a splash of colour to proceedings in the form of dancing cupcake ladies and a Japanese cabaret dancer! You know, standard stuff really :) </p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65808772021-03-21T21:41:13+00:002021-05-03T20:04:13+01:00Pour some sugar on yourself and other people (with consent, naturally), with new single Sweetness!<p>Excited to announce our new single is to be released on the 25th March 2021 and yes I know it’s not a Friday, but I thought it was, like a numpty! Can’t change it now, so lets hear it for “New Music Thursday” anyone? </p>
<p>Anyway this is I think is our “poppiest” song, yet still low down and dirty and features my other half singing with me towards the end </p>
<p>I think so far, I get the biggest buzz listening to Sweetness, it’s just a fracking great combo of…. well sweetness and heavy Cosmic Thunder Sludge Pop (or is it Pop Sludge?) of course.</p>
<p>Listen to a small blast <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="track" href="/track/2670489/sweetness">here</a></p>FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809002021-03-04T18:17:36+00:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Listen to GrubX ‘cos i said so :)
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<p class="has-large-font-size">GrubX is an ad free metal and rock radio station local to me in North Wales, with added stompy choon choice facility, which is nice <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="🙂" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <a href="https://grubx.co">Listen here</a> lovely humans!</p>
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FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809012021-01-29T09:56:00+00:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Support your fellow bands, especially when you win free stuff off them ;)
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Clearly I jest about the reward aspect, I try to support my fellow bands because I really like them, because it’s not all about me (awwwww, can it be just a little?…..). However it’s difficult for me to show monetary support, as it is for many of us. </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">I was lucky enough to win a bundle of merch from a massively heavy two piece band called The Road, whose track Gyro Electro Destroyer was my most played track on Spotify in 2020, so as I wait to buy their new release here’s a link to their <a href="https://whenwilltheroadend.bandcamp.com/album/reverence-redacted">bandcamp</a> and my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2okX9RCuO4">favourite track</a></p>
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FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809022020-12-20T13:34:34+00:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00A ghost from Christmas Past….
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">In 2003 my good friend Fosta and I had decided we going to try to be commercial song writers and off the back of this rose this Christmas song “I Often Feel Like It’s Christmas Day” (I mean I don’t, but nice sentiment)</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">It won the BBC Radio Liverpool Christmas Song Competition (I know, I know, a pinnacle of musical achievement!) in 2003. It’s proper cheesy, with bells, kids (our respective children) and a “get up off a Westlife barstool” key change. </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">So in short Merry Christmas, wrap your ears around this!!</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Oh, I WILL do an FYDStar version next year, betcha can’t wait?………</p>
FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809032020-12-15T19:22:51+00:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Vietnamese Sexagenarian sweet dreams about our next song?
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background"><strong>1st things 1st, sign up to our email list below and you’ll get access to an exclusive prerelease version of our next stonking beast of a song; Sweetness. </strong>It will be released in January now, mainly as I just don’t have the time (or funds) to market it now, plus it needs some remixing, but rest assured its a belter!! </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">In fact if you kindly gave your email via a Facebook or Instagram campaign I did via Hypeddit, for either Bite the Rope or Scream, then I replied a few weeks later with an email and within was a link to the pre-release version of the song, which is titled Sweetness (cover art below)! Search your spam filter if you did, you need a little Sweetness for Christmas <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="🙂" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">In other news, after the far east Playlist farm situation in Vietnam, Scream reached 6300 streams and not one single one of those spawned any true listeners, shite! Still it was exciting to see how high it would go! </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">And it looks good on the Spotify page! </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">TTFN!</p>
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FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809042020-11-20T19:30:49+00:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Rough artwork for next single (Illustrator is soooooo hard!!)
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Here is the basic design for the artwork for the “cover” of our next single, named Sweetness. There’s a touch of Hitchhikers guide about it, mixed in with weird 80’s childrens Sci-Fi series Chocky?</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">It looks pretty basic (and it is..) but it took me most of the day to get to this, cos i’m a numpty with illustrator (version CS5 as it came with my last 2nd hand MacBook Pro). Anyway I’ll be working on making this better in-between work, and relaxing (important!!) and worrying about how I’m going to make a video for Sweetness. Yay! no budget creativity!!!</p>
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FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809052020-10-21T13:54:14+01:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Big in Vietnam?
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<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Hooning about in the basement of the music industry, as most bands do at the beginning, rarely awards you recognition, unless you’re organised, well funded and of course good enough to be seen and heard above the masses. This presents a temptation for many to buy likes on Facebook for instance. I myself tried this some years ago whilst doing my dissertation on feedback (the verbal/written kind) in music, as an experiment. Within a few days of paying Facebook I found myself with over 100 new followers on my Facebook page! Brilliant I thought, here we go, fame at last!! Hang on though, why are they all young Mexican women? The answer is old news, as it’s been going on for years. I’d paid for click farm likes, empty likes that people are paid to do which very rarely result in real fans.</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Well without my involvement this time , its sort of happened again!</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">I had been having a dry week for plays on Spotify and the money for marketing has dried up for the time being, so on opening my Spotify for Artists page I am shocked to see 997 plays not the 0 plays I had been resigned to for the last few days? What’s going on, have we began to get noticed? Is this the beginning of fame and fortune? </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Well no of course, but still,1000 plays of our track scream in a few hours that’s a good thing right? Well yes on the surface, Scream now shows over a thousand plays to anyone who looks at the song stats, allowing some micro bragging rights from me, I mean we’ve just earned approximately £2.67 here!!! All our worries….are firmly and calmly staring us in the face, unmoving and constant, like a massive Buddha strapped to your face, whom you owe A fair bit of money to and is both reassuring and threatening at the same time.</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">So what is going on? Well I have been hawking our musical delights to people on Facebook who literally ask for you to do so, crucially with no cost involved. Some of these garner a few listens and maybe a fan or two grateful received. For most however, nothing seems to come of it and it becomes clear that they are in an adjacent boat to musicians so to speak, in so far as they are also shouting into the void! So these playlisters, internet radio stations, music influencers and so on are prone to the same numbers game temptations as us musicians and they may just buy “listeners” to get their numbers up.</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">And that is what has happened here almost certainly, the playlist on Spotify we have been placed (most gratefully I might add) has bought listeners via some kind of international click farms. </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">So this time it’s not Facebook likes, it’s Spotify plays, it’s not Mexico, it’s Vietnam and this is the odd bit, it’s not young Mexican ladies, it’s 60+ Vietnamese women!!! You know maybe we speak to the older ladies in Vietnam, I mean it’s possible?But I know really it’s not, because we have not had one more follower from over a thousand plays. Balls <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f626.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="😦" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Still, look we have 1000 monthly listeners looooook!!! Just remember not to look next month as it plummets back down to next to nothing, and unless of course any other playlisters need some Cosmic thunder pop sludge on their playlist’s, they wish to buy listeners for? Anyone? Hallo? Hallooooooooooooo……..</p>
FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809062020-10-01T21:41:56+01:002021-03-21T22:03:35+00:00Double trouble is what we want!
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">As we are a heavy (or sludgy at least) two piece band, I think it’s time we showed some love for all those other twin engined double trouble stomping duos out there, that also kick some measurable amount of backside!</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">So here is a playlist on Spotify showcasing awesome twosomes. such as Nova Twins (technically a 3 piece with the drummer but its all about those ladies!!), Wargasm UK, Death From Above 1979, Wooze, Royal Blood (of course) and so on. Its a work in progress and any suggestions welcome.</p>
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FYDStartag:fydstar.com,2005:Post/65809072020-09-23T17:48:36+01:002021-03-21T22:03:36+00:00“..it was wild! Kinda like coming out of anaesthesia..”
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Yaaaaaaaasssss LOVE that description of what listening to Scream is like!! This is from the Rise Guys Radio show in North Carolina, on their Brutally Honest Music Review.</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">This is the 2nd time I’ve submitted my music to them, the first time back in 2015 (i think?) with an early version of Bite the Rope and both times they played my music, which is v.cool!!</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">The format has the 4 “Rise Guys” listen to two songs and each member has a buzzer to indicate when they don’t like the song anymore and the one with the least buzzes wins…………..Of course in both cases we won with no buzzes <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="🙂" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> </p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">However this time unlike in 2015, they couldn’t get hold of me to have a chat, so they decided to phone the other band who was pretty local which was some very pleasant country music (honestly dead chill!) by a guy called Jarrett [2 buzzes, just saying <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f609.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="😉" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> ]</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background">Anyway other excellent remarks about Scream from the show include:</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background"><em>” I feel like i walked in on Korn blanking Muse”</em> – whatever blanking means, could be blinking? Anyone from the US/North Carolina know…I feel so British ha! EDIT – Oh right, blinking is listening according to the Urban Dictionary. Right, I was envisaging Korn getting all huffy and purposely ignoring or “blanking” Muse, as Matt Bellamy jumps up and down in front of Jonathan Davis and Munky, screaming “LOOOOK AT MEEEEEE!!” or maybe ” I CAN USE A PITCHSHIFTER TOOOOOOOO!!”</p>
<p class="has-white-background-color has-background"><em>“I didn’t realise I was a fan of Cosmic Thunder Pop Sludge Rock”</em> – Everyone Should be <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="🙂" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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