It seems to be my turn.
Im Helen, the more behind the scenes side of SD. While Chris deals with most of the emails and bands i tend to put together most of the orders, i handle most of the phone calls, and i have the all important tast of creating and maintaining the SD website. I do alot online actually.. you can find me on quite a few music forums always promoting SD! the website is a constant job for me.. im not a professional and ive never had any website training so what you see at SD.co.uk is always a work in progress that will conitue to improve.
I also earn all the money. Although we both have student loans and overdrafts its never enough, so i work weekends at John Lewis in Nottingham.. its a good job, they're a great company. I do odd bits of work in labs over the summer too.. anything to help pay for the next big release.
Lab work.. yes, im a plant science student on the side. Aswell as SD and my job ive got to fit in 20-hours of lectures a week and a 12,000 word research project. Its like having 3 seperate lives... comes in handy when one (usually SD) is stressing me out!
This blog was my idea... i thought it might be interesting for a few people to find out what goes on behind the scenes of a label like SD. Hopefully it'll make people realise that working in the music industry is not glamorous and not at all easy!!
anyway.. more info another time.
Helen
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Info on: CHRIS
So here's my first post, and it's all about me. How egotistical!
I don't really know what to say to be honest. So I guess I'll outline what I do for SD. I guess I do all the exciting stuff and some of the more boring stuff.
I've found all our bands (for my sins).
I liase with our bands and do the deals that get the signed to the label.
I work with the manufacturers so that they know what they're doing for our releases.
I write any contracts we do with bands.
I fill out all the forms for copyright, etc, etc, for our releases.
I sort out and do PR for our releases.
I try and create contacts to organize gigs for our bands.
Owning and running a record label is a financial and emotional roller coaster. I must admit that I can get extremely negative, fustrated and dissillusioned with music, the music scene and the label often. Not because I fall out of love with it. Just because that's my personality I guess, and I'm so passionate about our bands/releases and the label, that if anything goes wrong, I do get down about it.
Money is always a big worry for me, although I'm more into risking cash than Helen is I think. We're spending in excess of £50k on the label over the next 12-18 months to give you an idea, and recently we've been debating whether to spend more (and without even signing any more bands!).
Aside from the label I'm doing an English degree at Nottingham University that I try to juggle unsuccessfully. I've just finished my second year and that was hard to manage so I'm a little scared how next year will pan out. I also live with Helen and three other housemates.
I love music. Pure and simple. When not listening to SD bands, I'm listening to other music. Bands on my playlist right now: Kayo Dot, Khanate, Harvey Milk, Sika Redem, Boris, Bloody Panda, Trap Them, Gallhammer and Rosetta. Good stuff indeed.
But basically at the moment I'm creaming over the next few releases we've got in store. Fall Of Efrafa's 'Owsla' and 'Elil' are making me jump up and down like a kid with excitement, Kongh's 'Counting Heartbeats' is going to destroy you and the MUCH delayed Sons Of Alpha Centauri's self titled opus is still absolutely killer.
Aside from that we have the awesomeness of Zonderhoof, Red Paper Dragon and The Clauberg Opera at the pressing plants. I can't wait to get these properly out to fans and into the shops. The bands have created some truly outstanding releases and we're honoured to be releasing them.
So, I think that can be my first post. Less about me and still more an introduction into the label and some of its workings I guess.
Peace...
Chris
I don't really know what to say to be honest. So I guess I'll outline what I do for SD. I guess I do all the exciting stuff and some of the more boring stuff.
I've found all our bands (for my sins).
I liase with our bands and do the deals that get the signed to the label.
I work with the manufacturers so that they know what they're doing for our releases.
I write any contracts we do with bands.
I fill out all the forms for copyright, etc, etc, for our releases.
I sort out and do PR for our releases.
I try and create contacts to organize gigs for our bands.
Owning and running a record label is a financial and emotional roller coaster. I must admit that I can get extremely negative, fustrated and dissillusioned with music, the music scene and the label often. Not because I fall out of love with it. Just because that's my personality I guess, and I'm so passionate about our bands/releases and the label, that if anything goes wrong, I do get down about it.
Money is always a big worry for me, although I'm more into risking cash than Helen is I think. We're spending in excess of £50k on the label over the next 12-18 months to give you an idea, and recently we've been debating whether to spend more (and without even signing any more bands!).
Aside from the label I'm doing an English degree at Nottingham University that I try to juggle unsuccessfully. I've just finished my second year and that was hard to manage so I'm a little scared how next year will pan out. I also live with Helen and three other housemates.
I love music. Pure and simple. When not listening to SD bands, I'm listening to other music. Bands on my playlist right now: Kayo Dot, Khanate, Harvey Milk, Sika Redem, Boris, Bloody Panda, Trap Them, Gallhammer and Rosetta. Good stuff indeed.
But basically at the moment I'm creaming over the next few releases we've got in store. Fall Of Efrafa's 'Owsla' and 'Elil' are making me jump up and down like a kid with excitement, Kongh's 'Counting Heartbeats' is going to destroy you and the MUCH delayed Sons Of Alpha Centauri's self titled opus is still absolutely killer.
Aside from that we have the awesomeness of Zonderhoof, Red Paper Dragon and The Clauberg Opera at the pressing plants. I can't wait to get these properly out to fans and into the shops. The bands have created some truly outstanding releases and we're honoured to be releasing them.
So, I think that can be my first post. Less about me and still more an introduction into the label and some of its workings I guess.
Peace...
Chris
Welcome to the new SD blog.
Hello all.
So we decided to set up an SD blog to show what goes on behind the scenes at Sound Devastation Records.
We're two 20-year old students from Nottingham, UK, and we run a record label that releases all manner of alternative and extreme music. We're very committed and our roster has bloomed cince our inception in 2006. Check out www.sounddevastation.co.uk and www.myspace.com/sdrecs for details, sounds and more.
However, here isnt the place for all that. Here we will be showing the more personal and day-to-day workings of an independant record label. Hopefully it should be pretty interesting and show you guys what we go through to bring you some of the best music out there from new bands worldwide.
We hope to update this regularly and hope you check back from time to time to read posts and (hopefully) watch some videos.
Peace...
Chris & Helen
So we decided to set up an SD blog to show what goes on behind the scenes at Sound Devastation Records.
We're two 20-year old students from Nottingham, UK, and we run a record label that releases all manner of alternative and extreme music. We're very committed and our roster has bloomed cince our inception in 2006. Check out www.sounddevastation.co.uk and www.myspace.com/sdrecs for details, sounds and more.
However, here isnt the place for all that. Here we will be showing the more personal and day-to-day workings of an independant record label. Hopefully it should be pretty interesting and show you guys what we go through to bring you some of the best music out there from new bands worldwide.
We hope to update this regularly and hope you check back from time to time to read posts and (hopefully) watch some videos.
Peace...
Chris & Helen
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