Scott of Auto Switch and Gabe of The Remedials had a meeting a few weeks ago with the head honchos of a new on-line music service. This new website will allow musicians to sell their music on-line and make money right away! Damn, this sounds like a starving musician's wet dream come true! The Remedials couldn't really care less if their music sells or not, but surprising it does for some strange reason. Same with The Remedials shirts, which due to overwhelming requests they'll have to do another run! But hey if The Remedials didn't have to pay rent or weren't addicted to food and beer we would totally give our music away to everyone and have kinda done so already. This sit down was to take place at a swanky restaurant downtown in which Gabe of The Remedials had to buy clothes at an expensive shop, keep the receipt and return the next day. After the introductions were made the players included: David (El Presidente), Stephen (Director of Marketing and Community), Kay (Director of Marketing), Scott from Auto Switch and Gabe from The Remedials. After discussing the format and scope of the website, the company and what they hope to accomplish over a few pitchers of beer (why can't every meeting be like this?) Kay gave Gabe a lesson on marketing principles to which he could only just smile and nod. The Remedials like Kay and that quickly turned to love when asked what kind of music she listens to, Kay's response was "I grew up with Dayglo and Social D!" Surprising, they were all really grateful for the input and insight both Scott and Gabe had to give on the Vancouver music scene, on-line distro and what they would like to see on the site (who woulda though Gabe of The Remedials had anything somewhat relevant to say to business people or anyone else) although they did kinda rain on their parade a bit with a few remarks. Overall the meeting turned out not to be a total waste of time! Especially after David picked up the check, we knew we shoulda ordered more beer...
So this website is still in the beta process the site will go live on March 15th and by then you'll probably have already heard about it since there was already a write up about em' in The Province newspaper. When Gabe ran into Kay in his hood (thanks for the stickers!) and told her The Remedials are gonna upload songs on the site she said she'll buy one of our songs! Gabe then wondered what their return policy was... She also mentioned there's a lot interest from investors and how much cash they were able to raise from their friends and families (The Remedials wish they had friends like that!) which is rad for them. So this site sounds cool (and even The Remedials were able to figure things out) we're still not really sold on the name though but if myspace starts charging money The Remedials will probably move their base of operations to this site since it does everything we need for a price we can afford FREE! You can see an interview with Kay on "A New Rock Reality" Episode 9 as well as the debut of "The Remedial Report"! Look forward to reoccurring segments with Kay as she showcases local bands on the site!
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