Stop for one second and think about what Social Network actually means. Social: Pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations Network: An association of individuals having a common interest, formed to provide mutual assistance, helpful information, or the like. My point? Having a Facebook page, Twitter Profile and YouTube account does more »
Over the next few weeks I’ll be looking at how to get set up online, avoiding the pitfalls and making the most of your time in cyberspace. This will be familiar to many of you but no harm in starting at the very beginning. It is easy to get caught up in the addiction of more »
By Al
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Posted in Al Mobbs, Music Resources, Music Tips
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Also tagged Al Mobbs, artist help, band advice, digital setup, digital strategy, Facebook, ftp, host, ifttt, instagram, myspace, new artist advice, plugins, server, social media, ssl, themes, Tom Robinson, Twitter, web 2.0, websites, wordpress
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Over the last three weeks I have given an overview of some of the main areas to consider if you want to make some hard earned dosh from your beloved songs. If you’re reading this for the first time check out my page on this site to read more. By now I am sure you more »
By Al
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Posted in Al Mobbs, Music Tips
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Also tagged Al Mobbs, badges, Free artist advise, get paid, karma, merch, merchandise, metadata, music supervisors, My Grey Horse, New artist tips, pledge, posters, sync, synch, synchronisation, tax, Tom Robinson
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April 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
Photos from Tom’s 60th Birthday gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire by Roger Goodgroves This is such a fundamentally f**king obvious part of an artist’s career that I am in complete incomprehension as to how or even why I hear so much grumbling from promoters about artists and vice versa. It is really simple, you more »
By Al
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Posted in Al Mobbs, Music Tips
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Also tagged Al Mobbs, artist advice, artist tips, FOTN, franz ferdinand, gigging, Kirsty Chestnut, live, sound engineer, stage plan, tech rider, Tom Robinson, wegottickets
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April 16, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Yes yes! Come here for your freshly heated musical pasties! Queue up in an alphabetised orderly line like here: DRY THE RIVER – New Ceremony Tom accidentally left this on the Listening Post from last week and loads of people rated it in their top 5 again – even though it already made the Fresh more »
By Massimo Zeppetelli
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Posted in Fresh Faves, Massimo Zeppetelli
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Also tagged BBC Introducing, DRY THE RIVER – New Ceremony, ELECTRIC YOUTH REVOLT – Temper’s Getting Shorter, Girl, GOLD ROAD – Planes, IAN THISTLETHWAITE – You’re 24, NIGHT OF TREASON – The Ballad of the Teddy Boy from Ladbroke Grove, POPE – The Drag of Sloth, ROBIN ADAMS – Sun Behind The Storm, Stop Talking About Disney, THE 53S – Lights, THE JUNIPERS – Song to Selkie, Tom Robinson, TUESDAYAFTER8 – No Other One, WEAREHOMEWORK – Thoughts, WOODERSON – Mint Condition
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Good morning and welcome to this week’s batch of 9 Fresh Faves – handpicked by Team Freshnet from our inbox last week, then rated by readers on our Listening Post. Big thanks to everyone who took the time to come and pick their favourites over the weekend. Click on Read more… to see the full list more »
By Al
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Posted in Fresh Faves, Music Resources
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Also tagged Al Mobbs, Dead Surf Country, Early Cartographers, listening post, Look Strange, Marsicans, My Grey Horse, snippet, Stylusboy, The Folk, Xercx
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BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
March 13, 2012 – 10:52 pm
Don’t be deceived by their cute, retro-throwback name. Ninetails are not a band stuck in the past. Since arriving unannounced onto the Liverpool live circuit in October last year, Ed, Jordan, Phil and Jake have set about tearing up shows, turning heads and notching up some impressive support slots with the likes of Errors, Three more »
It’s only week two of our new online “Fresh Faves” feature and we were overwhelmed to receive almost fifty tracks in just a few short days. Thanks to everyone that got involved and picked their favourites from that batch to create our second ‘Most-Liked’ list. The quality was incredibly high and some artists that really more »
February 22, 2012 – 11:35 am
Oxford based five-piece, Spring Offensive, have been firm Fresh On The Net favourites for a long time now. Since first being played on the 6Music show back in 2009, the self confessed “wimpy miserablists” have gone from strength to strength, consistently churning out tunes that tug on our heartstrings. Mixing complex poly-rhythms and dashes of more »