Independent Music Venue on Arran Showing How to Pivot
Oct 23, 2020 12:04:06 GMT
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Post by Cams on Oct 23, 2020 12:04:06 GMT
As some of you know, most of my live gigs over the past 7 years have been at a local restaurant here on Arran called Crofters. It started out as Fiddlers Music Bar and I played in there up to three times a week during high season. It's owned by a friend of mine and fantastic musician, Dónal. Before lockdown, he had some Big Plans to expand the business, but naturally these strange times have put paid to all of that.
After lockdown, they restructured the business so they could continue to operate. Part of that restructuring was to spin off the music side as a separate entity.
One of Dónal's old schoolfriends Dave Town runs a live sound and PA hire business out of Glasgow and, like the rest of us, was 'enjoying' some enforced downtime. He came up with the idea of using some unused office space to set up a studio for independent musicians and venues to come in and record gigs to go out over the Internet. Dónal was his first client and he booked up 10 days in the studio last month. All the regular acts from Crofters were invited to book a day and go over to Glasgow and record as much as was possible in the allotted time. I did a full day with Dónal joining me on guitar and fiddle for about two thirds of it and it was an amazing experience.
The studio space was perfect and the sound and video engineers was so laid back and easy to work with. The sound guy was in a control room and the video guy was recording on two professional cameras. All together we got 25 tracks done.
The first of these concerts is going out tonight at 8pm and costs £5 to watch. The artist is Tim Pomeroy, a local celebrity of sorts as a sculptor. He's one of the most sensitive players and singers that I've seen, with a very folky style of playing on his two beautiful Taylor guitars. The ticket price is split three ways, with I believe 40% going to the artists. The broadcasts are going to be edited into one hour each and going out I believe every Friday night with the option of using the catch-up option after the broadcast goes out.
Take a look at this link for some teaser content and to buy a ticket tonight if you're of a mind to. I'm sure that the good people of this forum will enjoy Tim's playing, and take heart is supporting independent music. My first video is scheduled to go out on 27 November, but all the artists going out are well worthy of your fiver, I can guarantee that!
myplayer.uk/crofters
Here's my promo video:
myplayer.uk/content/10/1023-cams-campbell-promo
And some photos from my day in the studio:
www.cams.photo/Live-Music/Blackbox/
Hope to see you 'at the gig'!
After lockdown, they restructured the business so they could continue to operate. Part of that restructuring was to spin off the music side as a separate entity.
One of Dónal's old schoolfriends Dave Town runs a live sound and PA hire business out of Glasgow and, like the rest of us, was 'enjoying' some enforced downtime. He came up with the idea of using some unused office space to set up a studio for independent musicians and venues to come in and record gigs to go out over the Internet. Dónal was his first client and he booked up 10 days in the studio last month. All the regular acts from Crofters were invited to book a day and go over to Glasgow and record as much as was possible in the allotted time. I did a full day with Dónal joining me on guitar and fiddle for about two thirds of it and it was an amazing experience.
The studio space was perfect and the sound and video engineers was so laid back and easy to work with. The sound guy was in a control room and the video guy was recording on two professional cameras. All together we got 25 tracks done.
The first of these concerts is going out tonight at 8pm and costs £5 to watch. The artist is Tim Pomeroy, a local celebrity of sorts as a sculptor. He's one of the most sensitive players and singers that I've seen, with a very folky style of playing on his two beautiful Taylor guitars. The ticket price is split three ways, with I believe 40% going to the artists. The broadcasts are going to be edited into one hour each and going out I believe every Friday night with the option of using the catch-up option after the broadcast goes out.
Take a look at this link for some teaser content and to buy a ticket tonight if you're of a mind to. I'm sure that the good people of this forum will enjoy Tim's playing, and take heart is supporting independent music. My first video is scheduled to go out on 27 November, but all the artists going out are well worthy of your fiver, I can guarantee that!
myplayer.uk/crofters
Here's my promo video:
myplayer.uk/content/10/1023-cams-campbell-promo
And some photos from my day in the studio:
www.cams.photo/Live-Music/Blackbox/
Hope to see you 'at the gig'!