Our homie the Dresden sent his marker, and The Fleay Meister made with the regrets for his rude drawings of anatomically incorrect cats at the Away Day.
MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING
True.
MATTERS ARISING
THE NEW VENTURE
This was the Big W's bitching scheme from the Away Day. Still no street name was appended for it, but The Fleay Meister would get bizzy with the chatter with the webmaster of duckworthsquare.com to see if he could sort us out with something similar for the logging in business.
BADGES
As agreed, these would consist of a simple logo badge, as last time, and one with "DEFY THE MAN" as the slogan. The Fleay Meister would conclude this business.
T-SHIRTS
Once again, The Fleay Meister would work his magic over this little piece of business. Sweet.
ROLLING REVUE
Yeah, the Chairman spoke, it was mega. He had a plan, a dream yeah? He wanted to expand the organisation to a national picture, and play AAS gigs in Hull, Derby and London, with himself, The Fleay Meister, Last Starfighterz, and Adam, the Hector Collector's main man. SING IT! He would case the joint for a London gig at the 12 Bar next Thursday at his won gig.
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES
WEBPAGES
The Chairman had been "indisposed", if you hear what I'm saying. Dig? He pledged his colours that he would get it ON soon enough brothers, whilst The Fleay Meister made with the promises that he would correct the word "SLAES" on the front page.
DISTRIBUTION
The Fleay Meister supplied the Big W with extra compilation albums. Big W would get these out to the bands, and once this was completed the whole MOFO scene would be UNDONE. Big ups all round!
FINANCE
The Fleay Meister made with the Spreadsheet ACTION, yeah, it was a sweet sweet scene he painted that night and no mistaking. At all. The Chairman recieved a heavy cheque for £762.33 for "record sales" (say no more), which did not even include the many readies for the Sienna/MJH split single, which The Fleay Meister was dealing with seperately. Moo, who had come to the meeting to pay respect, was presented with a cheque for 50p (the agreed advance on sales) and one for £9.50 (sales, minus the advance), and there was a beautiful scene going down. YEAH! Big W let it be known that he had not yet spoken to the Kraken, but he had the will, he had the compilation albums, and he had half-term coming up, so he would righteously ACT. To aid his jigging to the jive he was given a cheque for the Kraken to be sent.
FOOTBALL
Holy moley daddio, it was a messy business. Mr Dresden had actually won the competition, again, but as he was not present to collect the trophy would go to the dude in second place, as in previous years. However, both The Fleay Meister and Big W were equally placed, so it was agreed that whoever got closest to their home team's position would win, and that would always be the tie-breaker, yeah, however which way the "cake" got cut. Thus, the winner of The Football for the second year running was The Fleay Meister, with the trophy being presented by Moo. Again, big ups
A&R
DR COCA COLA MCDONALDS
The Doktor was in da HOUSE! Boom, shanka. Moo gave a mega wicked double ace presentation, covering "Two GRATE brands coming together", in which he brought the board up to date with his workz, defined his personal viewpoint of his relationship to AAS, and illustrated his forthcoming output, including a new album, a DVD, a live band, and remixes. It was all very exciting. He asked and was given AAS's permission to be part of a documentary, and also for acts to provide him with basic parts for remixes. Finally, with all homies together in the House Of Love, it was agreed that his debut album would be part of the first wave of free releases with the New Venture. It was an excellent presentation, and Moo was thanked MIGHTILY by all.
JOHNNY DOMINO
Down in the Domino hood, the band had agreed to push out the boat and get 500 copies made, to go for the big promo push, and get their funky asses working the booty baby, working it big time. Giles was sending The Chairman their artwork, to be bitch-slapped into shape, and Big W would take on some of Mr Dresden's responsibilities, like packaging and posting the promo copies. It was a whole lot of jive-assed hoopla, possibly even including some more gigs by the Domino posse, to coincide with a release around about August time.
PLANS & APOLOGIES
The Chairman was intending to see them in The London next day, but wasn't sure if they were playing, even after The Fleay Meister had got with some of his contacts on the street.
THE LAST STARFIGHTERZ
The Fleay Meister had still not had the respect from these he required, and had not heard any more of their EP. Also they might be changing their handle to "All the Zs".
FRANKIE MACHINE
The Fleay Meister stated that tomorrow was their first ever headline gig, in Derby, and he was looking forward to getting jiggy with it. The Chairman had sent out a whole mess of promo copies of the American album, and The Fleay Meister provided him with a few more. The next album was now completed, with artwork and multimedia now needing doing - he guessed it might be hitting the streets in September time, with it possibly being released in the States on chocolate hearts, if Gabe over there managed to shift some of his current SUPPLY of the Machine goodness. It was ceremonially allocated the catalogue number AAS041, and it was SWEET.
The Org compilation had still not come out.
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS
Yeah, there had been some occurences in the Chairmen's hood. The b3ta video had gone worldwide, generating some hefty moolah and requests to do covers. He'd also been drafted onto Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 show to be football correspondent, and there was going to be a Q Review of the new EP. Nasty. Said EP had been manufactured with consumate professionalism by SFH, and 105 promo copies had so far been sent out. The distributors (through Sorted) had been totally WACK, and had messed up big time with their pricing database, because they were FOOLS, but this was being chased up. Gigs were forthcoming (although, in a further wack ATAK, the Validators would not be getting it ON in a practice room at any point soon), and the Chairman happily announced that he'd signed up for publishing with Wipe Out Music. As a nut, mate, isn't it?
Future plans included a trip to the US of A to CMJ, and the Chairman was working on getting this going. Also in the US of A, according to The Fleay Meister, was Mr Jervis of WIAIWYA, hence the current lack of movement on the One Minute album. Tim The Celebrity Drummer was sending out material to his old Record Labels, to see if their were interested in doing anything with the NEXT album, "Mental Judo". Finally, The Fleay Meister handed over 33 discovered copies of "Church Hall Of Sound", as the Chairman's supply had run out.
Truly, it had been a time of occurences.
THE PO BOX
The Fleay Meister had sloped on down to the drop off point, but Neil's dad wasn't in so we couldn't get at our STASH. Neil had been a bit evasive when we'd offered to take it over from him, so The Fleay Meister would investigate finally getting our own PO Box sorted out.
ALUMNI NEWS
Intentions Of An Asteroid were big into sportswear, and this was rapped about.
OTHER A&R
Big W made his annual announcement that he and Rob would be doing some recording soon, and that he'd spend his publishing readies on a RUBY. That's a curry, not a gem. The Chairmen passed out CDs of some artists who had recently come into his hood. There was still no Dead By Dawn album.
CORRESPONDENCE
The Fleay Meister had had a missive from Suzie of The Lovelies. She said Brighton had a good scene.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Nish.
MINUTES STYLING
Moo was invited to lay down the style of the minutes, and he said he would dig it to the max if it could be done in some kind of "Street" style. Thanks Moo!
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
The next meeting would take place in place at The Whitakery at the usual time on July 5th. Hands would be put in the air as if they just did not care.
