Melissa And More: News

We have a new gig just come in for the 10th October.
See gig listings or have a look at http://www.southamptonpuja.org.uk We will have our new drummer... Announcement coming very soon...

We are playing for 45 minutes from 3pm.

SET LIST

1.WHAT I WANT
2.ALL THESE YEARS
3.LEARN SOMETIME ( Korgis cover )
4.ONWARDS AND UPWARDS
5.SLEEP SOUND
6.AROUND THE WORLD
7.MOVING ON
8.FALLING DOWN
9.WHY

If there is time we will throw in "What Have I Done" as well

It will be a great event and we are all looking forward to it....

We had a great day at the Michaelmas Fayre in Gosport yesterday, organised by the Gosporteers http://www.gosporteers.org.uk

Sadly it was our last gig with Pete Isbell who has to leave us due to unforeseen circumstances.

He has been a valued member of the band for the past year and we have played no less than eight gigs with him which equates to about 3000 people, as well as enjoying some studio time in the Solent University.

We will miss his sense of humour and great timing and wish him all the best for the future.

Our next gig is at the Michaelmas fayre, Walpole park, Gosport, Hampshire,this Saturday 19th September.

We start our first set at 11.30 am till 12.15, then back on from 3.30.

Set list as follows:-

SET 1                                                              SET 2

RIGHT TIME                                          AROUND THE WORLD

WHAT I WANT                                      FALLING DOWN

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY (Maverics)    ROOF TOP

ONWARDS & UPWARDS                       SUNNY AFTERNOON(Kinks

SLEEP SOUND                                      MOVING ON

WHATS UP ( 4 non blondes )                LEARN SOMETIME( Korgis

MR ROCK & ROLL ( Amy Mcdonnald )    SCREWED

ALL THESE YEARS                                 WHAT I WANT

WHY                                                     RIGHT TIME

 

At the end of that we will probably feel like this--

  

 Well we hope not...............

Our Our band average now is 7.08 Up again on a few weeks ago by 0.1 point...It all helps...we hope.

Here are the top three scores -

Say Hello - 7.20

What Have I Done - 7.14

Downstream - 6.90

The abacus counting kitten is working out our chances .....

 

We have a gig coming up on 19th September in Gosport have a look at the gig dates page for all the info

Our scores on Slice The Pie are as follows..

 

TOP TEN

Say Hello - 7.16

What Have I Done - 7.14

Twilight - 6.91

Words (hungover ) - 6.84

Downstream - 6.82

Anything - 6.80

That Way - 6.80

Nothing Changes - 6.77

Got To Be Something - 6.68

Wait For Love - 6.67

This gives us a band average of 7.07....certainly up on a few months ago.

 

It can all change in a day but its pretty jolly good!!

 ThoughtI would throw in a kitten for good measure !!

 

The sun was shining, the bands were playing and everyone had a great day.

Here is Andover Sound fm radio's link and photos about the event

http://www.andoversound.com/pages/extranet/jt-festival-i-2359.php

 

9 bands performed at the JT Festival including ourselves and it was a total success., they raised a lot of money for the charities.

Here is a view from the stage just before we started

Dave sorting out his leads and where he was going to stand

Here is Pete setting up and Jerry looking cool

 

There are more pictures of us and some of the other bands in the gallery.

We may have a copy of us live from the event coming soon.......

We had a great time at the Lordshill festival. There must have been at least 1000 people there.
The weather was good and the wind was fine ( if you know what I mean....for kites).
We made some new friends and a big thank you to all for your support and kind comments.

Hopefully we will be back again next year...


Lots of new pics on the gallery page and more to come...

Here is the set list for the kite festival gig on Sunday 21st June

5 Acre Field, Redbridge Lane, Lordshill Southampton

www.solentkitefliers.co.uk  for all the rest of the goings on...

Come and say hello. Its a great day out for all, and its FREE !!

 

 

SET 1

Feels Like Heaven - ( Fiction Factory cover starring Fergal the flute )

One Man Woman - ( My original country classic lurve song, also on the music page)

Sunny Afternoon - ( Kinks cover )

Moving On - ( New original with a bossa nova feel  starring Dave and Fergal )

Roof Top - ( A Motown feeling original, also on the music page )

Dance The Night Away - ( Maverics cover )

What I Want - ( A gig favourite, original rock song, also on the music page )

 

SET 2

Dance - ( An original pop track from the 'Did He Say' ep )

Dreams - ( Fleetwood Mac cover )

Valentine - ( New Original throbbing ditty )

Around The World - ( Original track with a reggae feel starring Jerry )

Mr Rock And Roll -  ( Amy Mcdonnald cover )

All These Years -  (  Country original, a bit of a goer, also on the music page)

Why -  ( New Original with attitude starring Pete )

 

Set 3

Sleep Sound -  ( Laid back original starring Borris the keyboard )

Onwards And Upwards -  ( New Original )

Learn Sometime - ( Korgis cover, done in a funky style )

Screwed - ( Rapid New Original )

Falling Down -  ( New Original )

 

And a few more if there is time...

 

 

 

 

We had a rehearsal on Tuesday and wow what glorious weather it was. The thermometer was reading 30 in the shade. Dave and Pete decided to cool off a bit in the paddling pool.... They had wanted to go on the trampoline as well but it had to be pointed out that they were a bit too big for it... Only a bit...

We did not get started till a bit later than intended but hey... who knows how long the sun will shine for. We did go through all the tracks for the Lords Hill Kite Festival for the 21st of June and its shaping up very nicely indeed.

We all had a listen to the tracks that the students recorded and we came to the conclusion that its not quite mixed yet. There is a bass line on there that Jerry did not play, Pete sounds as if he is in a bathroom ( or paddling pool ), my vocals have no re-verb and there have been added backing vocals at the end of the track that were not originally intended to be there.

I have tried to contact them on this but so far ..no joy... With a bit of luck we will do it again and get a decent mix. ' Onwards & Upwards' eh?

One of my latest tracks has been recorded. It is a slightly melancholy track in 6/8 time and has a folk/pop feel to it.
I am really pleased with the harmony vocals I put on and Dave, Jerry and Pete don't sound bad either.
'Onwards & Upwards' is now available to hear at http://www.myspace.com/fullfacerecords This is the track we recorded for the Students at the Southampton Solent University back in Febuary.
We also recorded a cover of the Korgi's track 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' which can also be heard.
Hopefully I will shortly get the tracks so I can put them on here.
Let me know what you think

New gig listings up and visible for the 11th July and 8th August on the calendar page.
Now rehearsing like mad and sorting out set lists.
I have 2 hour long sets to sort out and 3 X 30 min sets to sort so far.
Great fun.. I will probably write some new songs just to put a spanner in the works..

Having spent a long time finding websites for music promotion, tools, gadgets and widgets, it amazes me how much there is for artists to promote themselves, even if there is a limited budget or no budget at all.

It is very time consuming to find sites that actually work for an artists promotion, and it can be quite frustrating as well.

Yesterday, having loaded up songs that took most of the day ( my computer works at a snails ) to a certain website, I found to my horror that they would charge me to have my music listened to. I had to sign up to them to be able to read this small 'small print'.

At least I have not parted with any cash on that site and from now on I will be more careful than I had been.

Three years ago I started having pages on websites, I had about three and no computer know how at all. My official website was pants ( for want of a better word ) and I could not afford a better one at the time so I concentrated on other sites for promotion.

I was not that good at it and I learned through a lot of mistakes, and empty pages and wasted time. Now there is a lot more choice and easier, more powerful tools.

I can sync one site to another, update on one site and it will do it on all the others, still directing traffic to my new official site. Now I am a lot more confident in promoting the music.

The fact that there are tools to help me for free makes the whole process of brain to pen to voice to performance very worthwhile.

It has been hard work and I am not great at this computer stuff, but I know a lot more now than I did, and I am pleased that the music is being played and appreciated, and we are getting quite a few gigs coming in because of it.

Thank You to all those great free sites!!

All the links to these helpful sites are on the links page.

I hope this helps other artists and if there are any questions or other great sites not mentioned, please let me know.

We are now averaging 7.05 artist score. One is rather chuffed and enjoying it while it lasts...

We have had some more great reviews come in recently and the highest rated tracks have changed again.
Our average artist score has now gone up to 6.98
The top three tracks are active for reviews, and here is the top ten

DOWNSTREAM - 7.19

WHAT HAVE I DONE - 6.99

SAY HELLO - 6.92

ANYTHING - 6.72

TWILIGHT - 6.70

GOT TO BE SOMETHING - 6.66

DOWNSTREAM ( original chilled version ) - 6.54

DONT LET ME GO - 6.52

JUST A THOUGHT - 6.52

WORDS ( hungover ) - 6.51

Interesting to see which are the most popular at the moment.
It can all change with one review but its nice to know the music is on the right track as far as global public opinion goes....

We are sorting out the set list for next weeks gig at the Swan Inn, Woolston on 24th, should be great.
The tracks we recorded at Southampton University should not be too long either so we are really excited about that.

We have a meeting in May about the JT Festival coming up in around August that we are going to play. More details soon.

Finally, we have a musicians page on Facebook, it took all day to sort out but its there. Its not as exciting as this site though, this is much better!!


Melissa Sullivan's Profile


We are as lonely on there as we are on Bebo, but its all good fun...

Our average artist score is now 7.01

Downstream - 7.17

Twilight - 6.97

What Have I Done - 6.90

Its good !!

Twilight has moved up to the Q show qualifier on Fame Games, this means that it will be played on air across the USA and Europe ( hopefully ).

Please vote for Twilight to help it advance further up the charts.
We have had some really nice reviews so far. Click on the link to read what people are saying, just scroll down to No7 and there we are, you can review and comment. Please help by voting for us

http://www.meermusic.com/content/charts/qresults.asp
Many thanks xx

We did not quite meet the showcase for the Gibson arena but the show goes on for the all genres.
I have been changing the tracks around and trying different songs to be scouted. At the moment the scores are as follows -

Downstream - 7.08

Twilight - 6.94

What Have I Done - 6.89

I am really pleased with these scores so far. Lets hope they don't go down...much... and go up... lots..

When I have finished playing and experimenting with these I will put up the top ten tracks as judged by the good old general global public on slice the pie

www.slicethepie.com

This is came through to me yesterday and concerns all musicians and music fans alike.
Lets stop this theft!!

Dear member

We're writing to keep you updated on the Google story. As you will know, Google took the decision to remove premium music content from YouTube. This action was taken while we were negotiating with Google for the renewal of their licence for YouTube, and without any need for them to do so.

We are continuing our negotiations with Google over online royalties payable for the use of your music on their YouTube service and will continue to keep you updated on the situation.

Since we first emailed you two weeks ago, we have received many comments and messages of support and many members took part in our online poll, the results of which we’ll have shortly.

It is great to know that so many of you care about the deeper issues raised by Google’s action and want to help in any way possible.

Because of this overwhelming response, we have created a dedicated website for all songwriters and composers within the UK to show their commitment, pledge their support and help focus attention on the need for online businesses to pay a fair amount for the music content they use.

Please visit the site at fairplayforcreators.com and pledge your support today.

Best wishes


Steve Porter
Chief Executive, PRS for Music



Thankyou

Going to be rehearsing at the hall tonight. We are going over a few things for tomorrows gig at HMS Sultan.
Should be great, especially as Dave's finger is better.
Flask of tea and Tiramisu cakes all round I think.

We are now on Twitter

www.twitter.com/melissaandmore
Daily tweets

The Gibson scout room is closing on 29th March here is a quick update of our scores so far
Our artist average has gone up today to 6.84
DOWNSTREAM - 7.03

TWILIGHT - 6.94

SAY HELLO - 6.56

I think we need an average of 7 to go through to a showcase so we are crossing things at the moment.

www.slicethepie.com

We are the pop featured artist on noisehead tomorrow 16th March
www.noisehead.com and click on the pop genre

or www.noisehead.com/mypage/melissa
Hurrah!!

I have just loaded up some new pics from the recording session we did in Febuary.
We are really looking forward to the recording results..watch this space for news

These pics were taken by Jerry
Thanks Jerry...