The BBC’s annual award for Young Musician of the Year was awarded to a 17 year old from China, Fang Zhang; most unusually his instrument being percussion, he plays marimba, snare drum timpani and vibraphone.
The delayed final for 2020 was in held in Manchester.
His performance “deeply moved ” the judges & is a great testament to the power of music to touch hearts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56965752
We have massively decreased the price of all our card products…why?
Two reasons:
To give you a boost as we get back to normality, with live venues opening again; it will make your money go a bit further!
To promote the use of eco-friendly card products in our industry, which is historically very plastic orientated.
The price drop includes single card wallets, double card wallets, lancing packs and digipaks.
All our other prices remain as they were, which is still very competative.
Have a look using our instant price calculator.
We often have customers ask about what to do if their PC or MAC doesn’t have a disc drive OR what can they tell their fans who want to buy their CD or DVD but dont have a disc drive.
Here is the answer:
For around £20 on Amazon
You can buy a CD/DVD drive to hook up to a PC or Mac for under £20
The city of Liverpool hosted a pilot concert last weekend.
No restrictions, no masks….just a covid test before entry…..so theres hope !!!
Live music is on its way back!
This BBC article is a good read.
Life is slowly returning to “normal” in many sectors of life and in the business world.
The question mark over live music festivals is still looming large for this summer.
In particular relating to risk levels and whether insurance can be given to organisers to allow them to plan ahead.
Another BBC news article gives a good account of some of the issues relating to this.
At the start of the first lockdown, I was furloughed and wanted to try do a project I had been wanting to do for years but never had the time for. Making a song a day for a whole month. So, I decided to make a song a day for thirty days. I was doing a masters in music innovation at Waterbear in Brighton at the time and thought it would also be interesting to write about for an upcoming essay.
The songs were uploaded daily to my bandcamp and I would post about them every day on social media and it was really lovely having a very small group of people keeping up with the project daily and getting feedback constantly and feeling like I was creating something original.
Anyway, people were asking if I would make a CD, and I wanted to see if I could keep the CD’s in ethos with the project. I had gotten really into the number thirty and I liked the symbolism of having thirty cds for thirty songs. I also loved how each day in the project I had to try create something new and so I wanted each CD to be new and differentand so I liked the idea of painting each one.
In the end it was difficult and challenging but really exciting seeing everyone getting unique CD’s! I also painted a lyric poster for every song so you would get a numbered print and cd. I sold them through Resident Music in brighton and sold out like 6 hours after putting it up for preorder! It was really rewarding.
I then made thirty days 2 and 3 and for the second decided to have the cd’s more conventionally made through your site but had custom badges and for the third I am going to put an order through soon for conventional CD’s again but will be making thirty unique hand made tiny zines with lyrics and drawings in them.
Raf’s story is both inspiring and heart warming.
We love to hear about our customers projects…the more detail the better. It gives us great pleasure to work with cutomers and see the final product that they are achieving.
If you want to speak to us about a project that you may need some advice with drop me an email :
una@duplicationcentre.co.uk or call us on 01702 530354 we would be happy to chat and help you where we can.
If you want more information on Raf Batchelor’s story , you can follow him on FaceBook.
An interesting read as we move out of the restricted year that we have all had!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56398165
Its a really busy time for planing and developing in the live music industry ….whether it all happens as per the headlines????
Its good however to keep up to date with current thinking.
Another good article below for you to read about festivals:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56199403
More interesting ready as the country begins to restart.
This article is about live music Festivals and Vaccine Passports.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56278140
Keeping you up to date ( at a quick glance via the link ) on some key factors about yesterdays budget and how this may affect the Entertainment and Arts Industry’s.
Persevere with it as it speaks of how the budget is focused on helping live music to survive the months of closure still ahead………