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Well, it's been a fun break, but sadly I have to return to The Day Job tomorrow. Actually, the rest of this week is pretty easy, and for the next week or two things won't be too arduous if I'm honest. No, the problems start when Autum sinks it's fangs into my Happy and robs me of warmth and sunlight until the tail end of next April. That's gonna lick balls.Thus, I find myself feverishly working on music once again. To quit the job I need either a big injection of cash into my bank account or an alternative job (one which I can still pay my mortgage and buy food with). My lottery chances are as shit as everyone else's, so I need instead to use this brain I'm so proud of to come up with something clever enough to get me out of the rat race.Inventions are good, and I do actually have a fair few ideas in that line which, with some R&D, might be worth something. However, and this is gonna surprise you, I do not have much of an R&D budget. In fact, I have no R&D budget. So that's all of those ideas consigned to the back-burner till who knows when.No, instead I think the only solution is to produce something creative that people might want to buy. I do paint, and I'm around 10,000 words into a novel (about, in part, escaping a shitty day job), but those both lack the immediacy of music. As I've shown, the ability to release a record is becoming democratic; anyone can do it.Unfortunately, here's the problem; how do you get people to notice your record? In these early stages in which I find myself, I feel (perhaps arrogantly, but objectivity is difficult when you're producing something that is definitively subjective, and better arrogance than reticence) that I'm now making music that sounds pretty good. I'm very pleased with the seven lyrics I've now got, as well as my ability to write more. So where next?MySpace isn't an easy place to get noticed, since I'm just one voice in thousands. I don't think that sending friend requests to every damn person on here is a particularly practical or effective means of drawing attention to myself. And I'm not able to play a thousand shitty gigs around Camden because I don't live there and my opportunities for exposure by gigging up here in Yorkshire away from the London-centric music industry and media are pretty slim. No, I think in this case I need to get other people championing my music. The various music blogs are essential, of course. I've really gotta finish the next song I'm planning on putting out and see if any of them bite. Then, radio perhaps? That's a bigger step, and one I'm not sure about. All of this leads to an obvious conclusion though:Self-releasing isn't gonna make this financially viable until people have heard of me.I need help. Which means that if I'm serious about this then at some point I need to approach a proper label. Or, more likely, several labels.Not what I really want to do, but how else do I let significant numbers of people even know I exist?Which makes me think that if I'm gonna pursue that route then I need to be ready. Already have the web presence (this profile, Twitter, Seej500.com and the rest). Already have my name up there on iTunes and the other digital download sites. Already have some idea of how the industry works and where I might fit into that picture. What I need now is three good songs, and another three to follow them up if I get anyone's attention, and make good on my New Year's resolution to not have to get out of bed until the sun comes up on that first, cold, horrible Monday back at work in January 2010.Thus, I find myself feverishly working on music once again.Currently listening: Erik Hassle vs MPHO - Don't Bring Flowers (remix) as a single
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