This week I have been reflecting on some plans that Mike and I have for the continuation of Local Animality. I have done a post regarding how we will get licensing sorted for both digital and vinyl releases. However we have a lot of plans for next year also. We are defiantly looking for sponsors and now that Mike and I have finished with the academic side of this project and we can focus on the future and making this successful.
The main thing we need to do now is keep working on our social media page. We have posts planned and some ideas. We have approval from bands to use photos from our sessions on the Instagram page so we can now work with Casey to make the album inner sleeve and more collage content to gain traction. We want to make posts that people will want to share I have showed a few of these in my social media post.
Something that I think comes hand in hand with this is writing a press release. Mike and I have been discussing for months how we want to distribute this. We have had an offer from SGC media to release it through them on EGM. However this means that Mike and I won't have control over it as much and we wont't have EGM account SCG will. So, instead of using them for distribution and licensing we have organised all this our selves. We will still use them for some things however but only a few specific contacts such as Triple J and Rolling Stone Magazine.
We will be sending them a press release which we will write ourselves. It will be focused mostly on the research behind the album as well as our passion for Brisbane music and wanting everyone to celebrate with us! The research we will include will be about Brisbane music history and which texts inspired the aesthetic such as Pig City by Andrew Stafford. Mike and I decided that we shared some pretty cool views about Brisbane music with this guy as we found well defined in this quote:
"What I love most about Brisbane is that it’s unafraid to be itself. There’s no confected competition or rivalry with Sydney or Melbourne to be had. The music made here was always too variable to be reduced to a “Brisbane sound” but the best of it is unafraid to be itself too, and that’s the stuff that travels and endures. Most of our best bands, like Blank Realm, SixFtHick and HITS all command much bigger audiences overseas. Our flaw is not to rate ourselves" - Andrew Stafford, Pig City
so yeah we will mention things like this which back our views as well in the press release and see how we go!
Next year will be super exciting finding. studio to record in (hopefully with some funding heheh) and do it all again.
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