Well, I’m delighted to report that thanks to your generosity, I’ll be at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York this October.
A combination of some cheaper air travel deals found through the internet (thanks, Valerie), an incredible amount of financial support from around the world and a significant degree of flexibility at the university means that it’s all systems go. I’m very, very grateful.
Now… the next step is to figure out accommodation. I’m in the middle of a tour around the UK, speaking to musicians and music businesses about what it is they do for a living — and I’m finding the Youth Hostels to be, for the most part, entirely satisfactory — though some are infinitely better than others.
I found this site, which seems helpful as far as cheap places to spend the night in NYC are concerned — and with a bit of research I think I’ll be able to locate something affordable, close to the venue, and not overly perilous.
I quite like the sound of this place… but I’m open to your suggestion on that front.
I have an offer of t-shirt production, and that will be the next step. If you’ve donated, you’ll be receiving an email from me in the next few days, checking to see what you’d like to be credited as (band name, company name, private individual… whatever).
In the meantime, I’m still open to suggestion regarding interesting people to talk to for my research in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool. I have a few leads, but if you want to meet up for a chat, I’d be happy to try and accommodate that while I’m in your town.
I’ll be leaving for Belfast on Thursday. Looking forward to that.
Anyway… that’s more than enough about me. Next post’s a helpful and interesting piece about music business online. Promise.
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Since I have contributed to this fund, I must include myself in this….but surely this is conclusive proof that people on the internet are insane?
After you successfully demonstrated that you were able to make some pin money from selling your FREELY AVAILABLE BOOK, you’ve now convinced people to send you on a trip to Noo Yoik.
I can only sit back in admiration and hope that the collective madness continues and indeed continues to spread like wildfire when our album comes out….on the internet (28th August, in case you’re asking)
Well done to all concerned. This man deserves your patronage.
Dubber – I will hand over our contribution tomorrow evening.
Incidentally, perhaps there’s a new word here. If people who stop you in the street for charity contributions are known as chuggers (Charity Mugger) then may I suggest that this was a successful exercise in Wegging (Web Begging).
If you’d like to keep living off generosity, check out HospitalityClub and CouchSurfing. They are both databases of people willing to offer you accommodation for free. It’s the way I always travel now and I find that, as well as saving a few quid, I meet some really interesting people.
So how many logos/names are you putting on this T shirt Andrew?
Well done! -you are proof that the web community can work to make something like this happen.
You and Marillion make good bedfellows. I hope you dont mind the comparison.
Would so love to go. As it happens, I’ll be in NYC, but access to CMJ is so expensive, there seems to be no single-day fee. I am wondering, perhaps I should set up a PenPal thing too ;-)
Well, hope I can find a way to get in. Best of luck. Great blog by the way, Thank You for all the great information and ideas you share with us.
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