A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Phaylen Fairchild for her podcast.
I hadn't really spoken much with her before so it was great to meet such a vibrant and well loved personality. Although the podcast was around an hour or so we did chat for probably another hour afterwards
Right after our chat I then sat and watched
which had me in hysterics and feeling rather ashamed that I hadn't seen any before and more in awe of Phaylen who is so extremely talented and funny, and BTW if Hersheys Chocolate is reading this, please send her more :)
Thats the reality of being online and how thrilled I am to get to meet so many wonderful people.
to listen in to the podcast click here
Phaylen and Slimmie
Phaylen and Slimmie
had a global meetup. Users of the website all gathered in Real life from all over the world in different locations to talk music, meet up and collaborate. Due to distance and not being able to get to any of the meetings I decided to hold a meetup in SecondLife after also realising that Jana Kyomoon ( aka Jan Pulsford) was also unable to make the London one.
A few hours of frantic social media tweeting and facebooking and inworld notices went out and eventually at 8.30 pm we had a venue, a photographer and film maker and users of Soundcloud all gathering in SL. We do plan to hold more in the future.
Chantal Harvey very kindly stepped in and agreed to film the event inworld and you can find that here:
Pictures of the event can be found here courtesy of Speedmaster Bing.
and article here
A good Virtual Reality time was had by all.
Also talking about websites this month I want to introduce you to Talenthouse.
'Talenthouse is a platform providing opportunities to the world’s creative community – a place to participate in unique projects with artists and brands, collaborate, gain recognition and compensation'.
I have been a member of the site for a while now and at the beginning of this month I entered a Producer/Remix competition with none other than DJ Andy Moor
My personal marketing team ( ie Me) swung into action. I twittered, facebooked, emailed, messaged, begged and tried to get my fanbase into action by clicking to support me and to be in with a chance to have a track of mine mixed by Andy.
Now I am realistic and know that the competition would be tough, but I think what I totally failed to realise is that asking fans to support you, is always a game of chance.
Ones expectations are high and after all, I do love my fans and appreciate the fact that I do appear (well on a few music websites) to have many..
or do I?
The harsh Reality against my Expectations is simple.
Out of 900 or so connections on FB, 6000 "fans" or so on various music websites and 800 or so followers on twitter I am not in any higher echelon of music makers and generally am not so egotistical to think that simply everyone likes the music that I make.
anyway out of that total
I got 32 votes and don't get to make even the top 50
Nothing like a hard dose of reality to keep ones expectations to a more reasonable level
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