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Last Updated: 11/17/2009

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Status: Single
State: Scotland
Country: UK
Signup Date: 1/9/2005
Thursday, June 25, 2009 

Current mood:  validated
Category: Music
Firstly, I want to say I'm really grateful of all your messages about Animosity. It seems like a lot of folks are buying and liking the record. 
It's a huge relief to me that my excitement about this album is receiving affirmation as it can be really frightening letting go of music. Up till then, it's secure and safe within your control - once it's out there, it's on its own!

As a totally independent musician, support from listeners is absolute. I do everything associated with Beerjacket alone. Fully by choice, these are some things I don't have: * Any other band members. * A manager. * A record label.
* A producer/ engineer. * A publisher.
* A radio plugger.
* A PR team.
* A distributor.
* An agent.

Despite working without all of these apparently necessary factors, Beerjacket has recently received valuable coverage in local and national newspapers, as well as national and international radio play. 
Thankfully, I have been bolstered by the support of genuine enthusiastic individuals who imbue the music industry with integrity in the face of so much artifice. They are still out there!

So, thanks basically. 
In supporting my output and that of other truly independent musicians, you put paid to the out-dated idea that you have to be obligated to external agencies to successfully operate within the music industry.

Now more than ever, independent musicicians are a threat to the bland mainstream and we can present true alternatives, not only musically, but ethically. In contrast with the sad commercial whitewashing of daytime radio, where it can be difficult to break down the door, the Internet is in some respects a level playing field. You can be heard anywhere at any time of the day. It is now, of course, perfectly possible as a Glasgow home-recording artist to find yourself on an iPod in Ohio snuggled up to the major-league players as a result of a hungry music fan's hunt for fresh meat.

Please download Animosity from iTunes, eMusic, LaLa or Amazon MP3 (priced only £4.99!) if you have not already, and if you have, spread the word. 
The beautiful digipack CD edition is also available now from Avalanche Records in Glasgow - if you work in a record shop and would like to take copies, drop me a line on Myspace. More stores will be stocking the record in coming weeks.
Keep in touch, we're in this together!

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