500 likes on their Facebook page, what I would do
is focus on building those likes to around 2-3,000
and then think about a kick-starter.It’s also about
good timing. I also think there’s still a
place for record labels too. They
have the money, and they have
the know-how. There’s a lot
of songwriters who aren’t
great songwriters. On
the other hand there’s
a lot of great marketing
people who aren’t the
greatest song writers.
Those kind of people
are more fitted to a label.
Fan funding is right for us
and I’ve done it since the first
Jarinus album.
Honestly it’s not really a new thing
– it’s essentially like a presale. Which has
been happening for years. It’s a glorified presale
which forces the artists to provide the fans with
more content. So now they are buying an album a
little sooner than they would of and they are get-
singing ‘My Wena’ at 65 years old, in front of some teenage kids and it’s going to be super-creepy, and hopefully we don’t get arrested for it. I did tell the guys: “You
realise now we took this break, we can
never split up now?” Together
forever!
ting all this extra shit. It’s not a new idea but I love
the model. It’s making the bands work harder and
I love how fans can get more out of it. For example
I am literally not done fulfilling the rewards for
‘Songs People Actually Liked – Volume 1’. We had
4,000 or something pledges I think. For BFS it
takes me at least a year to fulfil everything. It’s just
t-shirt and stuff its Skype sessions, or it’s ‘I’ll write
you a song’. A lot of things are time-based. I had a
couple people at my house to write me a song. So
it is hard work but it’s worth it. Fans are getting something they never would ten years ago. Back in
the day I wish I could have got a hand-written lyric
sheet from Motley Crue, but unfortunately I didn’t.
live. So my answer is: Foxy Shazam.
When you actually do your farewell tour, you aren’t
going to sign a contract like Motley Crue have
saying they legally can’t come back – are you?
That’s the thing, now I feel like we could never do
another one. Essentially we can’t break up now,
because if we tried to people would be like “yeah
right, we’ve heard that one before”. Doesn’t matter how hard we tried. Dude! We never said it was
‘goodbye’! I guess we’re just together forever and
If you could bring back
any broken-up band,
who would it be?
Gosh, that’s a tough
one. What makes it
such a hard question
is: that you don’t realise which bands have
got back together or
not. Everyone breaks up
and