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Help Us Support New Music… Quenched and The Strokes.
We need all your help guys. For four years, we’ve made no money in supporting new music. It’s not why we do it. We our living through our art and writing elsewhere. This is our passion. For four months we have been directing a major campaign for CALM, who work to prevent suicide, the single [...]
For The Money
“I have one referral here for a divorce lawyer… Shalln’t be needing that…Already got that covered.” I looked at Danni and we struggled to hold it together. In a room of around thirty-five people, we’re the only ones not in suits. We’d been kindly invited to a BNI networking event by a guy we met [...]
The Basics – Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Social
By playing gigs you’re seen and heard by your current fan base, but social media gives you the opportunity to continue the conversation with fans when you’re not at a gig. It also allows random people to hear your music, find out more about you as well as making it easy for your music and [...]
Tall Brick Walls and Holes In Fences
“Doing Some Cleaning mate?” “Yeah… sort of… well, you know when you just get on a mad one and it’s not really planned?” “Ha ha, yeah… cheers. See ya.” I didn’t even say goodbye. Just the quiet hiss of the heavy shop door of Malik Superstore quickly replaced by the autumn wind and yellow/brown leaves [...]
Introducing Mark Mace Smith
Introducing one of the guys we’ll be featuring as part of the CALM #Express campaign. Mark Mace Smith is a multi-time slam poetry champion. Slam Poetry is a form of live competitive performance poetry and we’re delighted to unveil Mark’s involvement with our campaign. Here is an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming interview: My personal [...]
Sunday with the Reverend
When you’re planning a project of this magnitude, you need all the help you can get. The loyalty and strength of your network is put to the test and you start to find out whether it really was a good idea to sign up for directing a campaign. Over the course of the week, I’d [...]
Guarding The Fort
“…Can I just stop you there, before you spend too much time asking questions sir, is there a fee?” “…erm…no I’m afraid not, this will only take an hour and a half.” “I’m afraid we’re commercial agents so regardless of charity or not we can’t help, maybe try them through Twitter, that’s your best bet.” [...]
Winter Mornings
These winter mornings absolutely destroy me at this time of year. Any negative emotion is cranked up to the max and rolling over becomes a habit far too easy to take up. But I can’t allow it. When you enter the busiest spell you’ve had, there’s no real rest. Six hours sleep is luxury. That’s [...]
Introducing Tuka
The thing about running a company like Quenched is that you often fall in love with bands and musicians. It means you get to help them and see them grow. Many fall in what is a tough business in a tough time. Back in 2010 whilst I travelled New Zealand and Australia, I went to [...]
CALM #Express. An Introduction
For a long time, I hadn’t heard of the charity, CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). If I’m honest, I had a brief look, but beyond noting it had something to do with men and the horrible disease that is suicide, I didn’t know too much more. Then through our work at Quenched, we met Danny [...]
