Neil Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 It seems fairly par for the course with this forum nowadays that a thread which could be of assistance to some people descends instead to petty bickering about something which has little to do with the topic. Which was fine when it was the Wasteland, but the music discussion forum is increasingly becoming a waste of time (at least from my perspective), which is a shame.Unfortunately, I'm tempted to agree with this opinion. I would strongly like to stress to people that if you cannot not make a constructive and helpful reply to a thread such as this then please don't bother replying. Otherwise, you’re wasting everyone's time and that of your own as well as ultimately undermining the web site's purpose.Keep damaging the web site enough and people will stop using it. And when people stop using the web site it will disappear.Now let's get back on topic please... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 someone should start a webpage with anon forums. i believe it would be rather funny, plus take the dickheads and the shit posting away form neils site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/faqs/what_is_pub.htmlHas all you need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Stax Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/faqs/what_is_pub.htmlHas all you need to know.Now why go spoil things by posting something of use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted October 14, 2006 Report Share Posted October 14, 2006 someone should start a webpage with anon forums. i believe it would be rather funny, plus take the dickheads and the shit posting away form neils siterather cowardly too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Blastcap Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 ne nothings should "wheesht"i have a limited deal, i'm still skint though. perhaps i'm not "lifty" enough. cough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volta Posted October 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Wow, didn't realise this would spark this kind of debate.I know there's a lot of information on the internet already about publishing deals/companies, you just have to spend the time researching. The TAXI website has some very informative articles for example although I would never join this comany. They're only a U.S. song plugger who charge you a few hundred buck a year. Some good free articles though! http://www.taxi.com/faq/index.htmlI also found a great website detailing U.K publishers website/contact details and whether they were seeking material or not. A lot of bands/songwriters send out demos to companies that wont listen to them for legal reasons or that aint even working in the same genre as the artist. There's no point in just sending out a hundred demos to any company you can find. Waste of time and money. Some publishing comanies will also help bands with development deals and will record demos or even albums to plug to record comapanies or management. KT Turnstall also got a publishing deal first before getting a record deal further down the line. So if your in a band looking for a record deal, it might be worth targeting publishing companies aswell.(especially of the independant variety, my personal opinion)I'll find the website and post the link if anyones interested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Stax Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Someone could post the price of cheese in Belgium on this site and it would get debated to within an inch of its life... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Wow, didn't realise this would spark this kind of debate.I know there's a lot of information on the internet already about publishing deals/companies, you just have to spend the time researching. The TAXI website has some very informative articles for example although I would never join this comany. They're only a U.S. song plugger who charge you a few hundred buck a year. Some good free articles though! http://www.taxi.com/faq/index.htmlI also found a great website detailing U.K publishers website/contact details and whether they were seeking material or not. A lot of bands/songwriters send out demos to companies that wont listen to them for legal reasons or that aint even working in the same genre as the artist. There's no point in just sending out a hundred demos to any company you can find. Waste of time and money. Some publishing comanies will also help bands with development deals and will record demos or even albums to plug to record comapanies or management. KT Turnstall also got a publishing deal first before getting a record deal further down the line. So if your in a band looking for a record deal, it might be worth targeting publishing companies aswell.(especially of the independant variety, my personal opinion)I'll find the website and post the link if anyones interested?Yeah, I'd be interested thanks. I've had so many people saying that certain songs of mine sound like they belong on film soundtracks that it's an option I'm looking at exploring. I can imagine worse ways to make a living. In fact, I know worse ways to make a living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volta Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 http://www.mpaonline.org.ukHere ya go. The search facility is on the right and it includes hundreds of UK publishers that you can search by genres and whether they accept material. Think you can also search by companies looking for music for t.v. and films. I've found it pretty useful so far.Regards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 http://www.mpaonline.org.ukHere ya go. The search facility is on the right and it includes hundreds of UK publishers that you can search by genres and whether they accept material. Think you can also search by companies looking for music for t.v. and films. I've found it pretty useful so far.RegardsThanks, much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cow tipper Posted October 24, 2006 Report Share Posted October 24, 2006 Anyone know which organisations provide publishing deals?sony, bmg etc plus smaller companies like reverb, and perfect songs (trevor horn's company). there are loads of them. there's a new one in brighton we met up with last week and they said they pitch for tv commercials, video game soundtracks etc and if they get you something, they take 25%, which is probably less than most... although they wanted an exclusive contract for a year (going to send it to our lawyer to check over). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 sony, bmg etc plus smaller companies like reverb, and perfect songs (trevor horn's company). there are loads of them. there's a new one in brighton we met up with last week and they said they pitch for tv commercials, video game soundtracks etc and if they get you something, they take 25%, which is probably less than most... although they wanted an exclusive contract for a year (going to send it to our lawyer to check over).Nice, that's the sort of thing that I'd be interested in, if anybody was actually stupid enough to reciprocate the interest. The video game soundtrack route sounds quite interesting, I'm friends with a band that got onto a couple of soundtracks recently. I'll have to ask how they did it... but 25% doesn't sound too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cow tipper Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Nice, that's the sort of thing that I'd be interested in, if anybody was actually stupid enough to reciprocate the interest. The video game soundtrack route sounds quite interesting, I'm friends with a band that got onto a couple of soundtracks recently. I'll have to ask how they did it... but 25% doesn't sound too bad.aye, i'm guessing most will take more than 25% tho...for the xbox thing, microsoft just called us out of the blue. we have all our contact details on our myspazz. 'soccer am' called tonite too and we've never sent them anything. w00t.i can send you microsoft contact if you want... they were gonna use the band on a driving game (shock) but it just fell thru at the last minute... would've got over 2,000 for it. bah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cow tipper Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 i have a limited deal, i'm still skint though. perhaps i'm not "lifty" enough. cough.from what i can remember, the only publishing deal lift had was a 'single song assignment' (or something) for the 3 tracks on that lithium records single... unless they got something afterwards i don't know about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Nice, that's the sort of thing that I'd be interested in, if anybody was actually stupid enough to reciprocate the interest. The video game soundtrack route sounds quite interesting, I'm friends with a band that got onto a couple of soundtracks recently. I'll have to ask how they did it... but 25% doesn't sound too bad.There are agencies around that will keep your stuff on their books on a non-exclusive basis, specifically for these kinds of markets. http://www.aclearidea.com/ for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 There are agencies around that will keep your stuff on their books on a non-exclusive basis, specifically for these kinds of markets. http://www.aclearidea.com/ for example.Cool, thanks for the address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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