unsignedAct

no one's here - no one's here - no one's here - no one's here - no one's here - no one's here - except us - and we're off out.....

well we're glad we cheered some people up with our blog fest last night - glad to make friends with purple bubble and shoot the duke - have just spent the last 3 hours checking thorugh our first delivery of cd's - how is it that couriers make a living out of breaking stuff?

That's a good point. And well done to Zenith.

Zenith even tho you didn't get through, if jo said anything good about your song then you can use it as a quote and put on your myspace page Jo Whiley said "insert comment here" and it will probably help get you gigs

zenith with an i, really? well i hoping against it but kinda expected that, i think its that kinda comp. but i think most of us knew that going in. i have not listened to your stuff yet, but keep at it, underdogs win in the end, and well done, at least u can say u gotta perform infront of jo whiley...its perhaps a good thing? yes? no?

To Zenith with an I, you got further then any of these wingers. You should be proud! Well done.

ha! i admire a jezebel who will stray from a cad (who favours his fathers choice of a safe legal 'proper' marriage, than to liase with an unruly wench) ; )

...takes one to know one, cept i dont need to stray as the marriage was never near consumated, more pity them!

good luck. i shall vote for you. hope to catch u at a ball soon...

*hides tears behind black gothic fan*

x!

Zenith with an I say...it doesn't matter what your name is in this competition, unless you are a potential indie mainstream pop group you have no chance of winning this thing. We were the only Metal group there but we still didn't get the chance to try and brake the mould!

OK... As our relationship with Orange is at an end, we have moved on to another competition. Yes, we're total tarts when it comes to promotions...

Last Band Standing

http://www.lastbandstanding.co .uk/band.asp?band=618

Obviously, take out the space... Please vote. We need to get through SOMEWHERE!

ha! as i said last nite, my heart still beolngs to zenyth with a Y ;)

i will be busy 30th Oct prepping my broomstick for a nite of frolics...

anyway back to subject: i think most gigging artists can hold an audience for 40mins. as a solo artist i tend to gig locally, my longest is an hour. the difficulty is ensuring u pull in the numbers, most venues requiring min 30. so, u can have a gr8 product and perform well but u still need to create a buzz around you to be a gig jezebel and get noticed by a wider audience ;) i know acts who have management companies who are liasing with record companies to get them deals and enter them into comps like this for the extra publicity.

but yes, it must be frustrating if the finalists dont kno whether they are finalists yet, blimey momma!

(p.s...when i said i don't judge by appearance i have to say i am loving wren's leopard jacket..)

Hey Meg and Mark, thanks for all of those posts last night I was working and they made the blogs worth reading as nothing much has been going on lately.
Anyhows I have come for some help
We have just posted a new song mooseindahoose on mp3unsigned which is fab site if you give it a go and you don't have to sell your music soul to be on it.
Back to the point. Someone mentioned that it sounded like the kind of thing you hear on a Guy Ritchie film. So I thought why not I will send him a demo.
I have managed to find out that his production co is called Toff Guy but can't get any further with an address.
any of you peeps in the know down in the smoke can help us out here. Would be appreciated,
well you have got to keep trying haven't you.
Cheers

Shoot the Duke agree with that totally. What about independent releases where will that leave acts. Universal using to many SUITS!!!!

The probable good news Magic is that we will not have to wait to the 30th Oct for an announcement. Although technically Orange could leave the announcement to just before the auditions next week.
From a logistical viewpoint it must be a nightmare for the 54 artists. A major audition in a weeks time. You have to make arrangements for travel, etc, yet you still can't tell anyone. In all probability some bands will have to cancel booked gigs, yet won't be able to give the promoters/venues a valid reason. Remember too that those selected would want as much publicity as possible. Yet for some within a week of being announced as finalists, they will have been eliminated from the competition. In all probability those eliminated will not be allowed to say anything until after the audition process is aired on tv in Nov.
Frustrating for us not to know who they are, but doubly frustrating for the bands involved.
Not knocking any of the finalists, but I think Meg & Mark make a valid point. If you are at the stage where you are ready to put out a product that might sell well, and be able to hold an audience for 40 minutes, then the chances of you having some sort of deal in place already must be high. Wonder how many bands in say the top 500 were excluded because of this?

Not impressed by the artists above to be honest.

They clearly got the wrong Zenyth!!

Zenith - you guys need to change your name as there will be trademark issues with a security company of the same name.

All this non-exclusive stuff is pants. Even radio stations who play unsigned music not registered with PPL/MCPRS will ask for non-exclusive rights.

If this was the case for some bands then that is a disgrace!

Does that mean we have to wait until the 30th of October for the final line up like the rest of the country?!

i am not shallow enuf to judge them on appearance, but if its true someone was behaving like an ass, then that is sorry, but kinda funny in an ironic way, i also experienced one of them behaving in a very off diva way...but this is the music biz guys! lol.

i did manage to do a search for sarah howells on myspazza, she has a tender beautiful voice in that liz phair vein and is a gr8 acoustic player...

...i wanna see the final line up now, dammit...

;)

haha, Zenith with an I is in those photos... where's Zenyth with a Y?

lyda - wouldnt hold you breath - we've said it before - we'll say iy agian - just about any serious muso's who entered - if unsigned - will have signed up to slice or last fm or somesuch - we know of a couple of artists who are on the 02 site as well as in this comp - some bands with management didnt even know they were in this comp - so the chances are that most of the 50 are ineligible in some way - the transparency of the web means that people will be checking on the finalists independently of orange - result? - one big headache for the organisers

whens the announcement of the acts that got through ?

purple bubble - glad someone out there appreciates our attempt at irony - you can be our friends!

Meg and Mark - you are just outrageously FUNNY!!! Going to find your myspace now. We want to be your friends.

Cheryl, if you think this lot aren't good enough to get through to Jo, why the hell did you go down to the open auditions??!! No offence

Lots of luck with the release!!

Oh my... its tragic.... these people really got through to jo?

I started off really excited about this competition... but slowly, i've lost real interest- its almost like the worse you are- the better your chances !!! lol.

Well guys and gals, I hope you're all gonna support my new release on the 1st November.

its gonna be on cdbaby, iTunes, napster, etc

Wish me luk x

Mark is now laughing too much to type...

meg and mark - you sad sad sad sad man

thank goodness - no -one can get a word in edgeways

we're fed up with this - we're off for a cup of tea

vive la differance

there's self promotion - and then there's insanity - do you know the difference?

yawn - only like every other minute

did we tell you we were on the radio in three countries this week?

and you think thats clever?

breaking news - we've now posted more blogs than anyone else

breaking news - no one is reading this blog only us

we're on a mission to make this blog more popular than the last one

maybe its like through the looking glass -and everyone has won - except us - and they are all at a really cool party - and we weren't invited

or the 02 site - where you can't blog people into a coma

they've all died of boredom and gone to sign up to slice the pie

where all the regulars that used to be on here back in the good old days when people cared about the top 54

oooh - theres other people in here now - hello

no - we were just trying to sound cosmopolitan

really - do you have shops where you live?

till we get bored - or run out of vino and have to go to the shop

so - how long do you think you can keep this up for?

suits us - we wouldn't buy it if it was the last music in the world

yeah - but we dont want to be famous so we're not telling you where you can get it from

you have a cd out?

you are just jealous - those raccoons are hardcore fans of ours - they bought our cd

yeah - it was some obscure station with a couple of raccoons listening

any way - did we tell you we on radio in the us this week?

you tease

not telling

on this site? - like who?

no - we voted for people with real talent

did you vote for us then?

only joking = we love you really

go on then we dare you

if you keep spamming this blog we're going to complain to the moderaters

no worries - its not like we knew him really

oh - sorry to hear that

no - the one's with the fat guru whose dead now

what? people who work for that really cool mobile network?

tom robinson rocks esp when he's glad to be gay...

no - but we used to know some orange people

were they ever in the orange competition?

no - he's a dj - and he used to be in a band

doesn't he make orange squash?

*holds up meg n mark flag*

m&m, at least there are two of u talking to yourselves, usually its just me, myself and i...but i quite enjoy it being an only child n all ; )

well, i dont know about the music yet but at least this lot kinda look diverse...

altho my heart still belongs to zenyth with a 'y'...haha

yes - we were played by that nice tom robinson

really?

did you know we were on the radio on monday?

we know - and we cant spell

yeah well get over it - your'e not that good anyway

gosh - i wish we had a real life

meh. want to see who got through =)

perhaps they have real lives to get on with

no - i guess they are not reading this either - probably they got fed up with waitng for the results!

hey did sam or lucas get back to you about whether the 6 month business applies to acts that they are not interested in?

we know - but it amuses us

trouble is - theres no- one else reading any of it

and its free

yeah - we know - but theres no such thing as bad publicity

bit of a mutual self appreciation society going on here tonite

thanks - we thought so too

really? thats cool

in the meantime - you might like to know that we're being played on the second coolest underground radio station in sydney on monday

thanks meg and mark - glad to know we're not alone on this

meg and mark: we agree some real news might pick up the interest in these blogs which appears to have plummeted

yeah the pics are all very well and good - but how about some real news - like the results?- duh!