Passed as VALID, but for the phrase “dying valiance” applied to Bradford City, which should of course have been “defiant valiance”.
MATTERS ARISING
INTERNET COMPILATION ALBUM
As far as anybody was aware, nothing more had come of this.
BPI
This would PEND. Again.
FIND PINKY
Mr Hibbett would remember to ask Pauly de Popex about this.
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES
WEBPAGES
The new Frankie Machine single was now on the Releases page, the links pages had been updated, the link to Frankie Machine’s page had been updated, and The Kraken had been added to the Bands page, much to their apparent delight. It was suggested that the Company Mission Statement, “To Make Records Of Great Beauty” be placed prominently on the site somewhere, and this was agreed.
NEWSLETTER
Mr Hibbett PROMISED he would get this done tomorrow.
PLUGGERS
CD-Rs needed to be received from The Kraken for sending here, and this would be chased up.
DISTRIBUTION
Prime are apparently doing very well, and are jolly happy.
FINANCE
Mr Fleay had prepared a complete financial breakdown on The Spreadsheet of Love, which he produced for the Board to much applause and exclamation. He demonstrated that the books were now balanced, that we knew where all the money goes, we know what is in the stock, and that it is being bloody organised that makes us ROCK. In fact, we were now seen to be £562.76 in the black, which was GRATE. It was agreed that the catalogue number AAS013 be reallocated to the monthly tithe, and that the 15p still owed to us by Stumble be written off against this. Which was very noble of the meeting. Mr Fleay was heartily congratulated by the rest of the board for his excellent work in this area.
Later in the meeting, in conjunction with Kraken matters, it was agreed that the Tithe be raised to £15 a month per Board member. Next months Tithe would be going out of members bank accounts on Monday or Tuesday in the coming week, so all agreed that they would go into their banks later in the week, that the next months be raised for all.
FOOTBALL
This had already been discussed in depth before the meeting, once again largely concerning the MATH for Bradford to stay in the Premiership, MATH which would, unfortunately, lead later in the afternoon to the certainty of their relegation.
A&R
FRANKIE MACHINE
Press releases had been sorted out, and were all ready to go. Prime had asked for 100 copies to begin with, and promo copies would be going out in the coming week. Mr Fleay reported that they would be playing in Bath on the 3rd, then London on the 4th – Sheffield, Birmingham, Norwich and Nottingham gigs needed some more prompting, and it was hoped that at least some of these would come to fruition in order to aid publicity of what was, after all, a GRATE single. Meanwhile, not much progress had occurred for the album since the last meeting, due to holidays and that, but Mr Fleay was hoping to sort out a way of getting together with Steve Domino for some recordings soon.
MJ HIBBETT
Mr Hibbett briefly described recent studio work, outlined plans for the future, and formally informed the meeting of his upcoming London gig on the 11th. He then less briefly described some new material, but nobody minded as, secretly, the rest of the Board looked forward to him doing this more than any other part of the meeting.
JOHNNY DOMINO
Recent reports suggested that the mooted multi-media extravaganza would probably be some sort of mini-album. Excitingly there were also rumours of a possible actual gig in the near future.
SALOON
It looked as if the band had now departed for their mixing in New York, and it was reported that the Glamour Puss single would be a split single with the Sonic Catering Band.
THE FRIGHTENED PRISONERS OF THE KRAKEN
Mr Hibbett had listened to this properly now, many times, and pronounced it GRATE. Mr Whitaker had obtained prices from A2Z for the project, and there was some discussion about various costs, before the meeting moved onto the idea of AAS itself contributing part of these costs. There was then lengthy and productive discussion about this, which led to the proposal to draft a new contract which would allow AAS to do this – Mr Hibbett would do a first draft for the next meeting, with other Board members then taking it onboard for additions and clarifications.
Anyway, it was also agreed that some CD-Rs needed to be extracted from the band for Prime (2 copies) and Overground, and possibly press too, but Mr Fleay would ask them about this. Finally it was reported that they were playing what appeared to be their Annual Gig, at the Derwent Music Festival, and the meeting discussed possible ways to actually meet up with the band sometime. A favoured idea was to try and get them a gig down our way somewhere, where we could also enjoy a signing session.
DENVER & CARWASH
Mr Whitaker reported that they were going to see Jyoti soon, for some advice and to look at his studio, then they would discuss the future between themselves. For now though the project was on the back burner.
WANDRIN’ ALLSTARS
The new material had been listened to by Mr Fleay, who stated it was a bit more guitary than he’d expected, and Mr Whitaker said he wasn’t sure what would become of it. Mr Hibbett looked shifty, because he’d forgotten to.
ANY OTHER A & R
As it was only a fortnight since the last meeting there was nothing to report here this time.
CORRESPONDENCE
The only correspondence received had been people asking us to listen to their MP3s.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Any other business would be discussed as part of the rest of the day.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
The next meeting would take place at the Three Nuns, Loughborough on 15th May.
