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Initial Idea – 4th November

Monday 4th November

First spark of an idea!

— Johny Kramer & Jacqueline Rawlinson-Brown.

This project started life as a hypothetical university project to put together a plan to start a record label. Things quickly spiralled away from this original rough brief into an idea of giving young people the experience of writing, recording and releasing a single. We studied the birth of Rough Trade Records in the 1970’s and was inspired by their D.I.Y. ethos.


With this in mind and the memories of our own experiences, of our first bands, and the lack of knowledge and direction we had back then, we thought it would be great to walk young bands through this process. Help them set up a useful web presence, record a track with them and release this track as an independent release with a launch event. We recon this would be a great way of getting young people really making the most of their music, and working together in a positive way!

After the bands have been through this process with us they will have the tools to be able to put together thier own release and make the most of the resources they have.

Venues – 30th November

We have looked into our options of different venues. We have begin to put together some costings with some quality venues. We are also in talks with a Local promotions company to aid with putting on the event in a Town Hall. Also we have spoken with the organisers of a festival and some independent radio to be involved with promotion and possibly getting our bands on the radio or even with a slot on a stage at a festival.

The Event – 7th November

We have been working hard on concepts and ideas to make this successful and decided that having an amazing launch night could bring this idea into the real world. Instead of it being an online based project we felt that bringing people together to experience a night of music could begin a following for these new bands and generate a real interest in the young musicians.

The launch event will be what we will build up to with each band. What will make each following event more successful is somethings we put in place at each event to get people involved with us.

We will put in place a system where we collect contact details which will enable us to create an interactive element with the audience. We will send the audience members the promotional details of the bands as they are performing. Including a download link to each band’s new single straight to their phones The audience will then have an option to download the original singles which are performed throughout the night. 

We will be counting the downloads of each single and using the numbers to determine a battle-of-the-bands-esque ‘winner’ of the night. 

We will also use this event and the contact information we’ve collected to promote the next launch night with the next 3 bands we have lined up with an aim to repeat this cycle, growing the audience each time. People will be able to buy tickets to the next event at this one.

We are LiveStartMusic

We are all about the music – We are an organisation geared around creativity, musical instruments, and building confidence and positive experiences for young musicians. Check out our Website – https://livestartmusic.wixsite.com/livestartmusic

LiveStartMusic is a project set up to mentor young bands and help them set up the means of writing, recording, releasing and performing their own music masterpieces. We have some fantastic links with local music school a nationally acclaimed festival and can provide all the support needed to turn a group of young people messing around with music into an act that have the infrastructure to market themselves release their own music and with a bit of luck be the next big thing!

We will actively promote these new bands record and release their first single. We will organise a release date and event to promote their single and will offer future support with their musical journeys.

​If you are in a band and would like to have your songs recorded and released, If you’d like to be part of a launch event for your single then get involved contact us, via our website!

https://livestartmusic.wixsite.com/livestartmusic

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