This was agreed as RIGHTEOUS, and would be posted on the webpages, also acted upon throughout.
DEMO REJECTION POSTCARDS
The text would be redrafted and resized, to allow space at the top and bottom for extra writing. Mr Fleay asked that the front fonts be redone to appear less gay.
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES
WEBPAGES
The redesign had not yet been initiated, nor had the whizzing lyrics been slowed down, but these would be done soon. Similarly, the MJ Hibbett zShop had yet to be converted to an AAS zShop, but this would be enacted as soon as Mr Hibbett was sure we could receive payments, and would included everything we had (meaning no 'Loon, as they had sold out, and only 5 remaining Stumble). Finally, a link to the Three Nuns (www.threenuns.co.uk) would be added.
NEWSLETTER
The time was not right for this yet.
PLUGGERS
Once again, Lee and John had demonstrated themselves to be lovely, also helpful, blokes with their ADVICE.
DISTRIBUTION
The sublist of Indielabels, featuring those fcuked over by the halfwit Paul at Prime Distribution had seemed to dissipate when the ring leaders had received their statements. Mr Fleay had emailed Paul and Johnny and when, inevitably, he had received no acknowledgement he had asked yet again, to be told by Paul, the twat, that it would be sorted "tomorrow".
Nothing had, of course, been received until 2 days ago, when the May statement had arrived. We were STILL missing statements for August to December - AMAZINGLY the months when we had had sales.
Having had enough of this a PLAN was arranged. Mr Fleay would send one more email, and Mr Whitaker would send a letter registered post demanding the situation be resolved, otherwise we would take "action" - this action would consist of The Board going down to their bloody offices and DEMANDING payment and stock there and then.
There was much excitement at this prospect.
Meanwhile, other options had been pursued. Plastichead apparently only really sold (or tried to sell) Proper Punk material, so that wasn't really for us. Cargo had received, and lost, a promo package and been unable to find it. For fcuk's sake.
THUS a NEW PLAN was proposed by Mr Whitaker - AGENT ALICE! There was much discussion of this idea that The Oaker would become our distribution agent. All agreed that this would be good so long as everything was CLEAR and STRAIGHTFORWARD from the beginning, in much the same way that AAS had been set up, and Mr Whitaker confirmed that he would diligently dot i's and cross t's like it was going out of fashion. The only other worry would be if shops refused to pay up, but then again it wasn't like we were getting any money through at the moment, was it?
The Board thus unanimously looked forward to a future in which distribution would FINALLY be dealt with by someone nice, friendly, competent, and honest. AT LAST!
FINANCE
£10 had been received from Reveal in Direct Sales, but there was little else to report that had not been covered in the previous item.
RECORD STALL
The stall at the recent MJ Hibbett/Frankie Machine had LOOKED good, even if no sales had been made. It was agreed that this was probably because there hadn't been many people there, and that this would operate as a Dry Run for future events - Mr Hibbett suggested his forthcoming gig near Reading, and he would FACT The Board with further details.
THE BOOK
Mr Hibbett's completed (up to first draft stage anyway) chapters were presented. Nobody else had done theirs - BAD everybody else, they would get on with it though, honest. The TITHE had been updated by all to pay for it so still, well done all.
FOOTBALL
The TROPHY was gloriously presented to Mr Whitaker, who took the victory cleanly and efficiently, whilst Mr Hibbett presented a reciept for £13.99 in much a similar way.
Predictions were then made, with all due solemnity, as follows:
Mr Whitaker
Mr Fleay
Mr Hibbett
Mr Dresden
Derby
2
6
4
24
Bradford
10
12
12
24
Posh
14
12
9
24
Man. Utd
1
2
3
1
Let DESTINY Decide!
A&R
FRANKIE MACHINE
Mr Whitaker had sent a cheeky email to Neil Gibbons at Key re. Manufacturing - he had heard nothing as yet, but would ring again tomorrow. Though unsure about how Org was ensuing, Mr Fleay did state with clarity of vision and mind that he was POISED, like a lithe (though sensitive) leopard to POUNCE on the Live Arena as soon as his CDs were complete, even though there had recently been some fluctuations in the state of his live line-up.There were now TWO videos on the CD - the one of 54th and 3rd, and also a LIVE video. Ooh!
Meanwhile a track on a DerbyMusic CD-R recently had garnered some interest, even allowing him to sell some singles, and he was preparing a track for the next one. There were plenty much new songs on the way at the moment, HOLA!
L CHRISTIAN LUNDHOLM
The album was now COMPLETE, coming in at 74 minutes and sounding GRATE. Mr Hibbett would FACT the received parts to Mr Fleay for checking, and Mr Whitaker would get a quote, then we would get ROCKING! Again we say, HOLA!
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS
Mr Hibbett regretted to form the meeting that The Fairplay Trophy single had somehow failed to set the world alight - oh well, at least I hadn't cost much to do had it? On a happier note, recording of ALL basic tracks for the album was now completed, with only a few more sessions required to finish it utterly (at last). Once completed it was agreed that he would send out some copies to other Friendly Types to see if they would like to release singles or anything.
THE FRIGHTENED PRISONERS OF THE KRAKEN
Nothing had been heard - Mr Fleay would FACT them, that he might pierce this membrane of silence, whilst Mr Hibbett would remember to contact Sorted Supremo Dave Dixey to see if he fancied doing that single.
THE CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT
Mr Fleay, in his capacity of Session Libertine, has been in the studio with them last week, which was all very jolly, but reported that the cheque presented previously would need redoing.
JOHNNY DOMINO
New stuff had been done, and it was GOOD! Hoorah! Mr Fleay resolved to try and get them into the DerbyMusic SCENE and then, who knows? Perhaps some GIGS?
Crazier things had happened, in this crazy kookoo world we call Rock!
ANY OTHER A & R
THE PO BOX
Mr Hibbett was passed CDs by Skinjob, Pot Worker's Union, Empty Vessels and Hellbaby Rockers, whilst Mr Whitaker was blessed with Lenina, Slut, Sleep Walker and Orchid House. In the event of most of these being a bit rubbish, they would form a perfect test bed for the Demo Rejection Postcards. Mr Hibbett had also received, at his home address, a CD from One Lesson.
PLANS & APOLOGIES
These were a 6 piece Derby Band, with whom Mr Mishra was going to work - however, he now had not the time so was going to give them CASH instead. THUS, if they turned out to be VALID, AAS would work it on up with them. HOLA!
EMPHEMETRY
This was the solo project by "Biff" from Little Explorer - Mr Fleay reported that the CD was dead good, and would FACT it to the rest of The Board.
THE REMOVALS
Mr Fleay had seen these recently, and reported that they had ROCKED his little world. The Derby Scene was GRATE! AGANE!
ALUMNI NEWS
Shockingly, Mr Fleay had been forced to BUY the new Saloon album, in order to hear what it was like. He reported that it was OK, and that he preferred the slow ones. Terrashima had been causing a RIGHT fuss in That London simply by being GRATE, and would have a single out in September. Stumble had played a short set of long songs in Nottingham recently, had a single out on Purr right now, and had finally parted company from Mr Cooper.
CORRESPONDENCE
None not otherwise reported.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Not this time.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
The next meeting would take place at the three nuns, Loughborough, on August 13th at 8.00pm.
