Mr Fleay apologised for mis-remembering the meeting and thus not being there. He did, however, send reports by email.
VALID
Agreed as Accurate.
MATTERS ARISING
There appeared no to be any.
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES
5TH BIRTHDAY RELATED ISSUES
SINGLES COMPILATION
Mr Whitaker had dug up the Wandrin' Allstars DAT, whilst Mr Hibbett had a DAT for "Clubbing In The Week" and the CD for "Church Hall of Sound". Mr Whitaker had asked Pala about getting their track, and had been told this might be "difficult", although it was pointed out by the same Mr Whitaker that he did still own 50% of the recordings, and that they were available on CD anyway, so we would have to see.
Mr Fleay reported from the electronic ether that Steve Stumble haid said YES to including the original Stumble single, whilst Will Lazer Guided had his hands on the originals for their singles.
GIGS
Mr Fleay reported that he'd spoken drunkenly to various Derby Sorts about a Birthday Gig, including the promoter at the Vic, but had done nothing as yet. Messrs Whitaker and Hibbett agreed that the originally agreed date of "May-ish" was both a bit vague and a bit tight, especially as we almost definitely wouldn't have the compilation done by then. It was agreed to reschedule for the less tight and equally vague "summer" instead.
BAGS
Mr Whitaker had not effected this yet, but would do so.
BOOK
Mr Hibbett had made a small start on this, and proposed the idea that, instead of doing a section for each release, he would EXPAND to doing a section for each catalogue number. Mr Whitaker agreed that this was a Good Idea. Mr Hibbett also required Mr Fleay to supply the general design IDEA for the album itself, then he would get going designing the Multimedia Aspect.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL VALID
Mr Hibbett had Officially removed this from the web by putting a note on the front of it saying "This has been removed, and will be reissued as part of the compilation album". A little tinkering was required to SORT it so that it would work properly as part of the compilation.
WEBPAGES
Updates had been made as requested last time, and the BLOG system had been set up for the news pages - all board members would be set up to make use of this within the next few days.
NEWSLETTER
It was agreed that this was no longer needed as a recurring item, as the newsletter had now been absorbed into the webpages.
PLUGGERS
Similarly, there seemed little point in retaining this item.
DISTRIBUTION
Mr Whitaker reported that distribution would now be coming back under the wing of AAS itself, transferring to the care of Mr Fleay's LACKEY, whomsoever that might be. All thanks were passed to Agent Alice, who had provided him with a copy of The Book, which contained all details of all transactions. All this information was also recorded in ISAAC - Mr Whitaker would talk to Mr Fleay about what sort of system to use, and other distribution based issues in further depth.
Meanwhile, Mr Whitaker had rung Prime and been told he needed to speak to someone called Keith. Astoundingly, he was in a meeting, but Mr Whitaker would try again tomorrow, when he would suggest that the first move in effectively coming to an agreement would be for them to return all our stock to us properly. He was logging ALL conversations undertaken so that he could demonstrate to higher management, if need be, how rubbish it all was. WHITAKER UNLEASHED!
FINANCE
Mr Whitaker had the cheque book, and would deliver it to Mr Fleay when they met.
RECORD STALL
GIGS!
FOOTBALL
This had suddenly become very close indeed, with all players within 6 points of each other as the season came to a nervy close. Everyone was now Mathematically Safe anyway, which was a relief, and Mr Whitaker was as optimistic as he always was about Bradford's chances next season, being convinced that they had finally hit bottom and were on the rise again, again.
A&R
PLANS & APOLOGIES
Mr Fleay, from the cybernetic future highway, stated that "P&A want to release their NEXT album with us too because we are cool and not Major Label Scum." HOORAH!
FRANKIE MACHINE
Again, Mr Fleay reported, from Dimension "i", that they had got a gig at the Derby BEER Festival in July - HOORAH! Also, that the "American album is coming along we are discussing artwork and track listing". WAHEY!
L CHRISTIAN LUNDHOLM
Looking like a man reaching the end of a long long lonely road, yeah, Mr Hibbett reported that he had just about DONE the L Christian Lundholm campaign - even as the meeting continued, Mr Whitaker handed over 25 copies of the album for sending out to various Classical Music Types, in the hope that this would engender some interest. HOORAH!
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS
A Band Meeting HAD been held, and it was agreed that The Validators would be playing about eight gigs over the course of three or so months to publicise the album. HOLA! After playing Mr Whitaker his attempt at mastering the first half of the album Mr Hibbett firmly decided to entrust this process to Mr Fleay, that it might be made LOUD. Meanwhile text was being written and re-written for the Multi-Media Aspect of the CD, a SAMPLER of some tracks for the album had been written, and all that was needed now was to sort out the MANUFACTURING. Mr Whitaker would contact Key to sort out some pricings, and would arrange for Mr Hibbett to nip and see them to see what sort of TEXTURE his digipack could be made in. Finally it was agreed that the album would be coming out in July, and Mr Hibbett GIBBERED with the excitement of it all. JOY!
THE FRIGHTENED PRISONERS OF THE KRAKEN
It was agreed that LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, and for the time being the wonderful Kraken be moved into the Alumni section.
ANY OTHER A & R
TWINKIE
Mr Whitaker had recieved a copy of their new single, and as the meeting was being held in his living room, all in attendance were thus enabled to have a listen. Lovely! Meanwhile, in the spirit of spring cleaning sweeping through procedure it was agreed that Twinkie too be removed from this section.
THE PO BOX
As Mr Whitaker and Mr Fleay had been too busy and important to listen to all the demoes this month it was agreed that next month Mr Fleay would listen to all of them, twice.
ALUMNI NEWS
From the Digitial Thought-Zone Mr Fleay reported that Terrashima had been reduced to a three piece and dropped by their record company... oh, if only they had stuck with us eh?
CORRESPONDENCE
Not as far as anyone knew.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
No.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
The next meeting would take place in Leicester's Fashionable West End, meeting in Mr Whitaker's Living Room at 7.30pm on May 27th.
