Needless to say, I am also forwarding this to Black Park!


> > >
> > >
> > > Marillion fans created music business history by
> getting fans to finance
> > the recording of their forthcoming album.
> > >
> > > The enduring English rock band took the
> unprecedented step of organising
> > an internet whip-round among the 30,000 fans on
> their mailing list as an
> > alternative to taking up deals being offered to them
> by established record
> > companies. In getting fans to pre-order what will be
> the band's twelfth
> > studio album, Marillion's plea yielded £100,000 in
> donations within three
> > weeks, underwriting the cost of recording the album.
> This arrangement has
> > endured that the band had no
> > > need to seek a record company advance, and thereby
> retained the rights
> to
> > their music.
> > >
> > > Fans who coughed up funds before July 31 are to be
> rewarded by having
> > their names included in the thanks list of the
> special first edition of
> the
> > album. All pre-ordered albums will be distributed
> via Marillion's Internet
> > mail order Racket Records, after which the band will
> cease manufacture of
> > the album, and EMI Records will distribute and
> market the album through
> > their Liberty label. With the band reckoning that
> 95% of their fanbase
> will
> > purchase the album at regular retail outlets, the
> revolutionary agreement
> > has been hailed as a win, win situation.
> > >
> > > It's not just about the money, the band's vocalist
> Steve Hogarth
> insists.
> > The internet allows us to communicate directly o our
> fans world-wide in a
> > way that'sspontaneous and instant.Its a two-way
> communication process
> thats
> > changed everything for us the fans feel like a
> world-wide family now.
> > > This is not the first time that Marillion fans
> have funded th eband's
> > activities. In 1997 American fans underwrote an
> entire US  tour to the
> tune
> > of £60,000 following an Internet campaign conceived
> and managed by the
> fans
> > themselves.
> > >
> > >  Marillion are now working on their new album with
> producer Dave Meegan
> at
> > their own studio in Aylesbury. The album is expected
> to emerge in Spring
> > 2001.
> > >


=====
Dede

"You get what you pay for,
But I just had no
Intention of living this way."--The Counting Crows

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