Loop Cycle V James Gilberthorpe - Barge and Bottle Sleaford
A video showing some clips and great audience reaction from an open mic at the Barge and Bottle in Sleaford! And no, despite all the cheering and dancing, I never got a booking here! If I am still going in 2021 - Barge and Bottle - I may be taking bookings again then and it's a good idea to book people who have a following and have consistency blown your customers away on each and every appearance at an open mic. Book quality, see numbers increase each time. Investment in success = more success = venues staying in business.
Because most venues like to stick to traditional acts, even if it makes them a loss, or to free acts who usually drive business away (mystifies me too) I have to sell music online to keep going. If you like my work, and my honest no bullshit approach to the industry and my art, you can support it by being fair and buying a track or two, or by subscribing for just 69pence a month at loopcycle.co.uk
It helps keep me going, means I can focus my efforts on my actual job (producing high quality music) so I can keep the quality and originality there, rather than me having to spend time doing other jobs and treating music as a hobby and producing poor quality and unoriginal material.
Yes, saying it like it is, it's about time people started doing more of that! A bunch of "yes men" never changed a thing in this world...
You won't find me on Spotify, I only sell my finished works because I VALUE them and want to give you something of value and encourage ethical behaviour rather than exploitative behaviour.
I upload the live looped version of tracks to promote the finished recorded product which is available from my website. There are also tasters on the site so you can hear a little before you buy or subscribe. So, people still get plenty for free from me, the way to give back is buying the finished studio tracks which take a very long time to record, mix and master to a professional standard, completely by myself.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Here are some more links.
loopcycle.co.uk/subscribe
loopcycle.co.uk/buy-music
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