Music and Business

Every now and then we all get together for a meeting to discuss our current plans and goals. A few weeks respite from gigs whilst Kimba is rocking up Malawi's build-up to the Lake of Stars festival gives us time to focus efforts on writing and direction of moving forwards. It's coming up to four years since we started out, and one thing is itching away at our minds - record labels. Making a living out of Subsource has always been a common goal and supposedly the way to do it is to get that label deal to widen that exposure.

Whilst we are tweaking the sound of our recorded material to make it more enticing to labels, part of me can't help but feel that labels are not the only way to go these days. In an age where it's easy to stay in touch with your fans and you don't have to pay in order to manufacture a product - unconventional acts have more of a chance to become more popular by not bowing down to conventional rules... this is the same age where companies like EMI collapse, Prince gives his new album away for free, and Radiohead say no to iTunes, shrug their shoulders and say 'pay what you want'. (Altough get huge amounts of publicity for free)

As some press sources say, the music business may well be imploding, but this is who we are, this is what we do and this is what we love.

More shows have been confirmed for the upcoming month - it's great to see us hitting new areas of the country (Cardiff, Hull, Carmarthen) and there should be some new tunes in the set too. If you're in London, the big one's at the Scala on the 18th - would be wicked to have everyone's support there!