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Next Aberdeen band to make it ?


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What does "getting signed" actually mean these days anyway?

getting commercialised into a certain style so that the guys with the money get even richer. Actually no im being too cynical there but it is true that bands have become 'packaged'' date=' (especially in the past couple of years as trendy, young and cool ect ect) because its what the market, as a product of the consumer culture we are part of, demands.Being signed is the only way forward though because it is the only way to let a wide amount of people get to hear your music. Unlless you want to try and go independent but i dont know how easy that would be.

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It means you can annoy the rest of ab-music by saying "na na na na na!"

if you are still thinking on that level, yes...

"getting signed" to me means getting on a decent lable that will look after you, promote you and let you tour places you've always wanted to play...

Domino has always been a favourite lable of mine, well before franz ferdinand dragged it into the limelight...

nothing to do with "top 40 hits" or being on TOTP.

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I think most people believe that being signed means having a record label pay you to write, record and perform your music, while they work to make it more visible to Joe Public and get you gigs. I believe that the truth is closer to not earning anything from your music until you have paid off all the recording costs, etc, etc! Be realistic when you think about "Being Signed", all is not what it seems...

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if you are still thinking on that level' date=' yes...

"getting signed" to me means getting on a decent lable that will look after you, promote you and let you tour places you've always wanted to play...

Domino has always been a favourite lable of mine, well before franz ferdinand dragged it into the limelight...

nothing to do with "top 40 hits" or being on TOTP.[/quote']

aye le peep i agree with what your saying but at the end of the day a label is gonna want to see some dosh coming back. How many labels out there actually support music that doesnt have a consumer culture philosophy but will still push your cause?

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Edinburgh.

That's where Ziggy is now. We, Staccato Set, really enjoy recording our own stuff, producing it and releasing, now, individual groups of ten! Great fun! Although writing new material just got a little tricky... Got a new ep doin the rounds by the way!

Success should surely be measured by the level of enjoyment and creativity of being in a band? Money? Always nice but...

Jim

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There's a whole other level?

yeah, but you have to be older than 25 to notice it (ho ho ho ho)

I always liked the story of the Fudge Tunnel Drummer still keeping his job as a chartered surveyor...but, I think that was one of the reasons for the split, as he couldn't keep doing the two, and realised that "being in fudge tunnel" wasn't going to be a long term plan for making money (to keep him Alive, under a roof etc), so, yes, money is important jim, but, Greed isn't.

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heh' date=' i love these threads. everyone has such different ideas of what constitutes 'making it' that it renders them completely pointless. to me making it was being able to record 3 songs i believed in and being proud of the results and having people i don't know say they enjoyed it. i really don't see why a band needs a manager to make it either. it's just another person to rip you off. fair enough if it's someone you trust implicitly and who can help you and is in it for the music but most managers seem to be in it for the money but that's another thread entirely.

for us the only aim we have is to release an album and be entirely proud of every song on it and for the record label to get distribution so that people can buy it. if that happens then we'll be made. i just wanna go into a shop anywhere in the country and ask about our cd and the staff will be able to find it on their computer. that'd be cool. it'd be even cooler if there was a wee board with our name on it in the cd's but that's wishful thinking.

if you wanna aim for top of the pops and a number one album then there's nothing stopping you, frankly anyone can do that if you right a decent pop song and get the right breaks(and work your fucking arse off) and there's no reason why a band in aberdeen can't do it but i can't think of anyone who's going to off the top of my head. bands who could very easily be 'signed' and get a bit of press though would certianly include, maple, eric euan, my minds weapon, politik, masamune, staccatto set(though ziggy lives in glasgow now i think), aka the fox and probably a good half dozen more. it all depends on your idea of success though really. i think aka the fox could probably be absolutley huge if they got the right gigs.

at the end of the day do it for your own reasons and not for how others perceive success, if all you wanna do is play drakes and you'll be happy then do that and if you'll only be happy once you've had a top 40 album and single then go for that but it's got to be fun doing it and it has to be something you believe in or it's all just crap.

incidentally i bought the maple album today and have to say it's one of the finest things i've purchased in ages, worth the 6 year wait! :)[/quote']

yeh you hit the nail on the head.

it just depends on how far you want to make it and your personal ambitions.

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I think there is heaps of bands that could 'make it' in aberdeen.

But more than likely the people who deserve to be signed wont be, it all depends on current music trends i suppose, which is why im sure dedalus have a great shot at the moment.

But the two bands for me that are outstanding and deserve a bit of recognition are Masamune and Politik.

Masamune are fucking amazing and al chivers screaming is wonderful!

But i think politik have the potential to be fucking great, they have such a sonic youth quality about them and are mesmorising to watch live. I wish i could have their babies. Or i wish i was the head of sony records cause they both would be snapped up by me.

(oh yeah, HG#1 deserve some recog aswell, i think they will probably be 'signed')

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(oh yeah' date=' HG#1 deserve some recog aswell, i think they will probably be 'signed')[/quote']

They are signed, or at least releasing an album on Snowstorm. Anyway, I hate these threads, if only because I only actually read in some vain, desperate egotistical hope that at some point somebody will mention me. Even though I don't even live in Aberdeen right now. How utterly depressing.

There's probably a few artists in Aberdeen that could do well, but it's question of right time, right place. Given the quality of the Dedalus stuff on the Nomad split EP I could easily see them making a big leap upwards, but it depends on a lot of factors, only a few of which are under their control.

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With some help from Rough Trade' date=' I'd have Dedalus as a good chance at getting somewhere. I think you'll find that any "next band to make it" from aberdeen will be a band that;s trying to make "their own music", and not sound like a covers band of the current "faves". If you understand how the music business works, if you "try to sound" like your favourite band, in the hope that you'll get signed, I think you are kidding yourself, music men have moved on from that sound, and are then "trying to find the next big sound"...anything in the chart will have been developed 3-4 years ago!

Maple certainly are going to rty and get heard by the right people (this time!) I'd imagine if no one picks up on this LP...we could see the end of maple. We'll see.

who'd a thunk we had a meeting in London with Indipendiente about 6 years ago now...and showcased for One Little Indian...(when we were still a 3 piece)[/quote']

Well, I think getting review of the week on Planet Sound on teletext is a very promising thing for Dedalus, i mean a lot of buzz developed around Hope of the States after they got review of the week on Planet Sound. It's a good start anyway.

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i think far too many people are getting over excited about our 'chances'. whatever happens happens and i'll take whatever i can get so long as it's still fun and doesn't mean i have to move to london. we got some good reviews and i guess we've got the same kinda sound as those franz ferdinand guys but really that level of success depends so much on the whim of nme's editor and all that jazz that it's sheer folly to try and predict it. basically what i'm saying is that we're very grateful for every good review we've got and that it's real nice that so many people have said we could make it to that level but let's not build things up to much eh? i mean you only have to look at a few bands round here to see that no matter how much great reviews and chances you get it might still not come off. lift signed a large publishing deal with bmg a few years ago and were touted in mags like q as the next big thing but it didn't quite go to plan and as phil said maple had showcases for independiente(home of travis, one of the biggest bands in the whole wide world) and one little indian(bjork) but again nothing came of it. not the fault of the bands i'm sure but just one of those things. we ain't even come close to that yet.

having said that we're working with a small but dedicated label who were kind enough to pay for our cd to be pressed and publicised. we're as signed as any other band on an independent label really but it's just that we're starting small and hoping that together both the bands(us and the ever brilliant politik) and the label can grow and hopefully 10 years down the line we'll still be in a position to record albums and eps and have them released by our friends and keep making enough to do some more.

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But i think politik have the potential to be fucking great

What? by ripping off Sonic Youth in as many ways as possible just as you said yourself: 'They have such a Sonic Youth Quality' - :up:

I don't see how they have more potential than Black frikkin Atom - both carbon copies of replica's toy models.

Ten Easy Wishes, however musically dire you find it, would fare highly in my list to be sipping champers at the Ritz with David Geffen.

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Politik are definately the best (local) band I've ever seen from Aberdeen. Managed to miss both them and Deadalus back home but managed to catch them when they played Edinburgh a few weeks back. Was thoroughly impressed by both bands, and I don't really think Politik sound an awful lot like SY.

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i think saying politik are a sonic youth rip off is lazy and cheap. there's so much more to them than half assed sonic youth comparisons.

surely a sonic youth quality would mean they have the potential to reach a large audience, be musically inventive yet still have a commercial appeal while compromising as little as possible and influence as many as you can? a sonic youth quality does not just mean that they sound exactly like sonic youth. and this is something that's annoyed me in the past, people just throwing "sounds like sonic youth" around wildly without thinking about it, usually aimed at anything that's not 'indie' or 'punk' by people who probably don't have a clue about what each term really means. but before this descends quite rapidly into a slagging match, i'm not aiming that at anyone in particular and not saying that's what ambientmood meant merely saying people could think a bit more about comparisons, influences and what a band is actually doing before trying to put them down with one catch all comparison.

politik as richard so rightly said, sound like politik. they are the sum of their parts and are one of the finest bands in aberdeen at creating melody, rhythm and some clever noise.

i like ten easy wishes too.

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i think saying politik are a sonic youth rip off is lazy and cheap. there's so much more to them than half assed sonic youth comparisons.

surely a sonic youth quality would mean they have the potential to reach a large audience' date=' be musically inventive yet still have a commercial appeal while compromising as little as possible and influence as many as you can? a sonic youth quality does not just mean that they sound exactly like sonic youth. and this is something that's annoyed me in the past, people just throwing "sounds like sonic youth" around wildly without thinking about it, usually aimed at anything that's not 'indie' or 'punk' by people who probably don't have a clue about what each term really means. but before this descends quite rapidly into a slagging match, i'm not aiming that at anyone in particular and not saying that's what ambientmood meant merely saying people could think a bit more about comparisons, influences and what a band is actually doing before trying to put them down with one catch all comparison.

politik as richard so rightly said, sound like politik. they are the sum of their parts and are one of the finest bands in aberdeen at creating melody, rhythm and some clever noise.

i like ten easy wishes too.[/quote']

thanks for that dave, it was paul who made that post though. eek

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