Yes, make sure you do have a look all over his Myspace page.

“St Jack and john sully”

[Hand written in the top right hand corner – “Song 8 on the website is my ‘teen spirit’]

St.jack are a band from Islington north London and are doing urban indie rough-edged rock, it counteracts all that student crap of coldplay etc etc, we are like “the doors”, “the jam” and “nirvana”, if you look at the website the girls really like this band and the music and we already have a great british and worldwide following. “oasis” are finished and the public like the time before “nirvana” are dying for this great new rock, and it is coming out of London like punk in the late 70’s.we have over 100 songs and this could easily become a movement if you have the vision, john sully the singer and writer is goodlooking and could be the ultimate frontman and he writes songs like no other.our web address is www.myspace.com/xx66 and the phone is 0207 XXX XXXX, try e-mail at johnsully@xxx.xxx , hip hop and shiity r+b is a sick evil beast that needs to be put out of it’s misery. Just like nirvana shit on micheal Jackson in’91.wesetrn youth are literally dying for the new wine and I hope you have the vision to see this, you must ask yourself why all the girls across Europe are digging this band and site, some on and lets start the revolution that has been missing all this century, they reject the violent thugs of hip hop and the little schoolboys of boybanderry,

Stables full of shite mean nothing to British youth, they know a wrongen and they know the real thing.

John Sully

[then scrawled in ink at the bottom of the page]

1. Teardrop Explodes

2. The jam

3. Nirvana

4. The doors

5. More beautiful + more numbers of girls on my website than ‘Take That’s’ website

“A quick glance at the myspace easily answers the main question John seems to be posing. The “girls” who are so clearly “digging this band and site” are the sort of Tila Tequila wannabees that would add any and everyone. If that’s the future of Rock n Roll, well, I guess I’m done.”

Canterbury’s most turbulent rock n roll band. Probably Canterbury’s only rock n roll band. An unfortunate group of fumbling idiots prone to unaccountable bursts of self-confidence and wholly explainable bouts of self-flagellation. Itinerant, loathsome and loutish cads determined to fuck up or be fucked up. Imitators and thieves of genuine talent. Under-qualified borrowers from the holy pantheon of rock n roll music.

Notably, there is no music on their Myspace page.

UPDATE: Mar 8th. THE WEBSITE IS BACK WITH A NEW SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE AND THE ‘JOURNO’S AND PUB’S’ (SIC) PAGE REMOVED FROM THE MENU OPTIONS. THE LINK POSTED BELOW, HOWEVER, STILL WORKS AND THEY’VE REMOVED THE JOURNALIST NAMES AND UPPED SOME OF THE PRICES. HOW VERY INTERESTING!

There seems to be some confusion as to what this website actually does. Styling itself as an ‘alternative’ music PR site and using an excessive amount of exclamation marks on its “about us” page (which is the same as its “how it works” page), it describes itself as a “very low cost, modern and eco friendly, fully automated ‘one stop shop’ putting you in complete control of your releases and campaigns. You write your own press releases, you invite journalists to gigs, you can send a journalist one or multiple tracks in the same submission and for the same cost!!! Its very quick and easy to do…. All our journalists are well known and respected and write for all the top music publications as well as national papers and numerous other glossy magazines.”

Indeed, the rotating banners at the top of the page boast of a list of clients (or are they targets?) from NME to Loaded to Time Out to, uh, The London Paper (which went under last year).

Like using any PR company, a band is not guaranteed of receiving a review in any specific publication. What happens is that a journalist will receive payment from Men From The Press for giving a band feedback on their music. It’s up to the journo (well, let’s face it, in most cases it’s actually up to the journo’s editor) whether or not they’ll do anything more about it. Like giving them some press.

But what’s causing a ruckus is the newly introduced and irritatingly apostrophed “Journo’s And Pub’s” page, which lists journos and how much you, as a band, need to pay Men From The Music Press for their ‘feedback’, described by the site as “the submission fee we charge to cover admin and Journalist expenses.” We won’t be surprised if the journos start contacting them to take down their names, but at time of writing there’s an NME journo whose opinion is worth £15, an Observer journo who’s worth £8… and a writer for The Fly who is worth 10p. Indeed, the journo from Blowback magazine is worth more, at £6.50. Blowback went under in 2007.

Well, you have hand it to them for trying something new… haven’t you?

[click for biggie]

From the same email author as this. Since September ‘09, Jack Kendall has also emailled us about his other band Wellerman, “the essex’s most best and original paul weller and the jam band… THE BEST PARTY AROUND!!”, “The legendary Jack and Danny Chas & Dave Tribute Band”, and “The Commited”, whose marvellous poster you can see below.

Hello. An odd topic, but I don’t care.
My boys and I recently reformed after a brief hiatus
over Christmas and the New Year and we want gigs NOW.

Our band name is [BAND] and we’re a tight as fuck, rocktastic,
beautifully melodic, sexually toxic bag of eye cabdy for the girls (and guys wink)
We had a myspace, but I short-sightedly deleted it due to a break down in communication;
We all thought each other member wanted to go their seperate way, but in reality none of us did.
I can supply MULTIPLE samples, songs and images from previous photoshoots, until I get a new page up and running.

We’re best suited for playing with bands within the range of metal – rock – Alternative (Industrial,Technical,Acoustic,W’eva);
We’re too heavy and original for Indie (lol), but too melodic and faggy for anything extreme.

We’ll play whenever for whatever. We just want to really get gigging again.

See y’all soon!

Our submitter writes: “As if my last mail wasn’t enough, the band edited their post to include the following:”

P.S. If the gig’s local, in the [XXXXXX] area, we can ensure a mass of females. Not joking. Just know in doing so, we expect our cut; We’re Enthusiastic, not Naive!

Before anyone gets all pedantic on my ass – yes I realise Doves are actually called Doves and not The Doves. But still. Come on. That’s funny.

Come on, lad – do you not enjoy being in a band?

Niceties out of the way…

To save future embarrassment, band names would normally be removed but quite frankly I’ve been ill for the last fortnight and am in a spectacularly bad mood, so here is today’s missive in full with links. The video is worth watching if you can stomach all 5+ minutes of it. We like the fact they couldn’t be bothered lugging the drum kit to the beach so the drummer has to mime to a non-existent kit.

TR8R are a young Indie/Alternative/Power Pop band based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, with influences including Paramore, Muse, Lost Prophets, Arctic Monkeys & Blur.

TR8R ARE;

Vicky, 19 yrs, Vocals.
Mikey, 16 yrs, Guitar.
George, 16 yrs, Bass.
Conor, 15 yrs, Drums.

Formed in 2008 TR8R are currently under management with KMD Studios, they are busy writing, rehearsing and performing at every available opportunity, constantly becoming more popular within the local music scene and across the UK. Despite their young age they appeal to a wide age group and attract a good audience wherever they perform. Their fan-base is ever growing and has led to a demand for the sales of merchandise and the release of their first E.P. “Numbers”.

Many people have commented on the maturity of their writing skills and this has been proven with their continued success in the various competitions they take part in. Through the rest of this year TR8R will be recording their first album, they intend to attract as much media interest as possible and are busying up their live schedule to reach a wide audience and increase their fan-base.

Their live performance is bursting with energy and includes a superb mix of covers and original material, if you’re looking for a band that people will remember and want to see time and time again, then look no further!

For bookings, reviews, merchandise, music and all things TR8R please visit the following;

http://www.tr8r.co.uk

http://www.lemonrock.com/tr8r

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TR8R/122223325330

http://www.myspace.com/tr8r07

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THEIR WEBSITE (with guest commentary from our submitter)

VICKY

Influences and Inspirations:
Nickelback, Paramore, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Puddle of Mud, Seraphim, Billy Talent, Michelle Branch, Leane Rhymes, Hayley Westenra….the list goes on forever! [if that's true, why did you put all the shit bands at the beginning??]

“I went for piano lessons when I was 11 and my teacher said that I should consider singing, so I did, and here we are!” [translation: you were so shit at piano your teacher palmed you off onto some other poor bastard]

Favourite Drink:
Water [\m/]

If I ruled the World…
I would enforce my own rules and if people didn’t like them I would throw them off! [*fear*]

MIKEY

Background:
I am attend Chesham Park Community College and due to my love of music and am taking Music and Music Technology at A-level. My plan at the moment is to continue on the career path of life in management and production after A-level or fulfil my dream by playing pro in a band. [Well if that doesn't work out you could always teach English. Oh wait...]

GEORGE

People will tell you I have a very wide taste in music, from the Mamma Mia soundtrack to Rage Against the Machine… [snip]

CONOR

My favourite music styles are a bit of Pop-Rock, Club Rave, Funk-Rock basically anything with a rocky side that I can boogie to! However, I dislike Screamo, Emo and basically anything that depresses me. [I know drums are loud but HAVEN'T YOU HEARD YOUR OWN BAND?!?!]

HIGHLIGHT OF GIG LIST

Thursday 12th March 2009
Red Nose Day, Chesham Park School

[...aaaaaand I'm spent.]

Greetings
I am the singer of [Some Band].
Our manager is incapable of attaining a decent booking agent for us here in England
So here I am emailing you. We have booking agents in Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Spain and Texas. Chile and Brazil are pending.
We have pending negotiations with agents in Boston and other parts of America and Europe.
We are in the finals of the people’s music awards for best rock/indie song of 2009 with our hit [Some Song Or Other]
We are off to Boston in 2 weeks to perform a presentation for the NACA, to climb upon the university circuit in America,
So as you can see we are a hard working band with potential, being suffocated by our manager

This problem is getting solved, but here’s my quarrel.
Because he’s executed such an asinine job of managing [the band], the gigs we are doing in England are dyer [I think he means "dire"].
We can get them easily, but they’re no good. We want some decent gigs to show people our music
Could you email me if there is even a chance of you working with us please?
Our songs, I’m sure you will agree, stand up to any band. We record in Germany where we have a recording deal with a big producer.
And a publishing deal with [someone that, when Googled, appears to be a video director and not actually a publisher. How queer].
I don’t know much about this business to be honest, but maybe we could latch onto one of your touring bands as support??
Hey, you don’t get if you don’t ask right??
Please email me back either way
Thank you for you time

That was sent to 15 people at the same company. Fair dos for them doing the research. It was at least a better attempt than this, which contains far too much comedy gold…

Peter Parker – His Voice. His Rockin Guitar. His Stompin. No one else can tear up the stage the way he does. He rips it up! Giving everything. Never holds back. Losing himself. Asking for nothing in return. He doesn’t care when he’s up there. The audience knows. And they go CRAZY! Screaming. Singing. Dancing. He moves. Stamps a rocking rhythm. His feet banging on the stage. Like an African Tribal dancer. Swinging his guitar this way and that. The world has never seen anything like it. And never will again. They want a piece. But they can’t have it. No one else can do what he does. One man. His guitar. His sweet sweet valve amplifier. His Soul. His Spirit. Never fearing. Facing the unknown. On an adventure. Bringing everyone together. But just for the moment. That’s the way it should be. Then he’s gone. To live life his way. The audience theirs. And they know. Peter Parker rocks.

This is one of the most pointless wastes of internets we’ve ever come across. Way to go!

Harvey Goldsmith – eat your heart out, pal.

Hi there,

Are name is [Band Name]. We are a four piece rock band and we are looking for gigs in the upcoming summer. Ordinarily, we contact venues by sending them our press pack but we’ve had too many none replies from places after doing so [that must surely tell you something]. Instead, we are looking for venues that might be interested in us and then sending it on.

If you are interested, then let us know and like i said, we’ll send you our press pack. If not, pleasse let us know anyway as otherwise, we’ll most likely keep trying until we receive a reply!

A somewhat flawed approach, I fear.

At present, my daily activities include working as an SSA at a school near Wimbledon, and outlining a book (pertaining to the ’minor’ genre of anarcha-feminist advocacy) interconnecting ethical questions concerning the ways in which the cultural devaluation of midwifery impacts on public health with a novel paradigm for philosophic-poetic praxis (I’m resolved to retaining one artistic persona committed to lyric poetry and song despite the fact that it could be seen as irreconcilable with the fact that I’m increasingly interested in writing poetry consonant with a Deleuzian affirmation of affective becoming attending to the stuttering of the creative moment, slips into unsyntactical speech, the emergence of breath patterns unbound by the dictates of calculative rationality, dismantling the ‘grammar of control,’ ’syntax of command’ and the subject of narcissistic ’self-expression’ that homogenising ideologies rest upon, and thus opening spaces for alterity to enter, the voice to be relocated, beyond the clamour of institutionalised materialism). But please don’t let all that bother you! I’m fortunate enough to have enough time and energy to give the music a serious shot.

Via Gumtree. Oof!

Subject: Band fromIndia
Message: Greetings from India! I am vocalist and co-songwriter with Kolkata (Calcutta) based quartet, PINKNOISE. We make music that is a quirky stew of contradictions. This is fearless music and this is the way we live in India. “The Dance Of The Diaspora” (2010). Folk music has always come from the village. But now, the city has its own folk music, too. We speak English when we’re polite. But our exclamation marks are in the mother tongue. The food on the table is continental. Before bed, it’s Sanskrit prayers at night. This can only happen in India. Where the culture is ancient. The attitude is future. And the state of peace is an unlikely mix of madness and endless calm. These songs are stories of the Indian diaspora. They are interfaces. Between lullaby and rap. Between South Indian temple dance and electro beats. Between elephant gods and thugs. Between back-then and tomorrow. In the now. You can hear the “Diaspora” demos at www.pinknoise.bandcamp.com “PINKFRAUD” (2009). Our irreverently tricked-out deconstructions of 10 select Pink Floyd songs ranging from the staple to the obscure. One enraged fan put it best after hearing them: “PINKNOISE is the worst thing to happen not just to music but to life in general.” Success! You can hear “San Tropez” and “Lucifer Sam” at www.myspace.com/itspinknoise “Quirkwork” (2009). Ghost grooves. Tricky treats. Hybrid chords assault the hordes. Electric texture. Good to eat. Melodies like demented swords. This music was crafted to challenge. Ourselves. And the audience. Twisted. Tongue-in-cheek. Acidly aggressive. Deceptively sweet. You can hear “Quirkwork” at www.pinknoise.bandcamp.com and watch some tunes on www.youtube.com/itspinknoise We plan to travel to the UK this summer and would love to perform at Sub 61. Thank you for reading. We look forward to hearing from you. With best regards, Jayashree Singh + + + PINKNOISE is: Jayashree Singh Voice Amyt Datta Guitar, Synth Gyan Singh Bass Jivraj Singh Beats www.itspinknoise.com www.pinknoise.bandcamp.com www.youtube.com/itspinknoise www.myspace.com/itspinknoise

His gig at vicar st was truly amazing and I wish I could be in oz to see him play the Garden Party Festival. Once again those who have no idea what they are talking about or who are jealous I recommend to keep it to yourself or seriously you risk deformation suit for your comments. The song was given 5 stars by the irish times and three by the irish sun and a similar view in the hot press. WHO ARE YOU???

Brilliant.

[via DiS]

Joshua Radin is the uniquely word-of-mouth global success story that’s just about to get a whole lot bigger. His anthems for the heartbroken and dispossessed have appeared on hit TV shows including Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, House and 90210. Joshua’s recent sold-out London show provided evidence of his organic growth.

That “uniquely word-of-mouth” thing will of course have nothing at all to do with his music being placed on “hit TV shows including Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, House and 90210″.