The Original Music Collective

Glasgow band and friends of RTYD, Strangetouch, want to rally your support for the Original Music Collective. The Collective is the brainchild of one Joe Bone (with whom I'm not yet acquainted), and the hope is that it will help revitalise the live music scene for bands playing original material at a local level.

The band issued a statement introducing the Collective, with a link to its Facebook page, today. It goes like this:

For many years the local music scene has been controled in the fact that there are some promoters out there who really don't give a hoot about the music!!!


As a musician, although it be part time, i have spent many hours crafting my songs spent lots of hard earned cash on instruments, studios etc to try and put quality music out there for you guys to listen to when it comes to playing live both the bands and the fans are getting a crap deal for years.


Some promoters only want bands who can draw a crowd this gets them the cash they want, for struggling bands this can lead to a decent band not getting the much needed live experience they need to improve or in some cases forces them to just give up. We can do something about this, in fact we need to do something about this, or we will lose top bands simply because the wont get a chance to play.


A few musicians who have got together to try put on gigs where bands get paid thus enabling them to do more recordings buy new gear etc. [The Collective] needs support from both bands and fans; it's time for change make a stand and join now check them out

To join The Original Music Collective on Facebook, follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Original-Music-Collective/195162640497397

For more info about Strangetouch: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strangetouch/125536377488601