Soooo... this new song needs big guns.

Hey guys,

I'm just dropping you a quick post before it goes live - as I don't want you to get the wrong end of the stick! Sam thought starting an Indiegogo for this new song might be a good idea.

The Indiegogo is for friends and family and anyone on social media with a fiver who isn't a patron!!! I do not expect to see any of you on there! Nor do I want to! I'm not making this post for that, I'm just worried you'll see the Indiegogo online and be like "wha? they're asking for more money? what about us?" so I wanted to explain myself.

Sam started an Indiegogo for his System of a Down cover, and he accumulated a decent amount of Facebook followers from the Lad Bible posts. The logic was "new Facebook followers, potential Indiegogo supporters?" Plus, there's only so much a few pub pay checks can contribute, and we need to split the budget 50/50 or it's not happening! 

(Lol, Split The Budget.)

For XV, Patreon-wise, we'll only be able to use January to March for my part of the budget - which is a HUGE amazing help and it's covered recording, mastering, and given us a basic video budget, but it's not enough for publicity or enough to pay the video crew or rent the ideal location or equipment.

I'm using my own dosh for this too, I was aiming to use a further £2k video game pay check to help with publicity, but then I got dumped with a monstrous tax bill that I wasn't expecting, so that kind of blew our publicity plan to hell. My own fault for using all my savings on The Information Age. I forgot I also exist in society and need to pay taxes... whoops. 

adulthood sucks.

ANYWAY:

With the BBC Introducing support happening right now, it's never been more vital to have a publicity budget, so that's why we're doing the Indiegogo. That's it. The song will still come out and sound amazing and the video will still happen even if we can only afford for it to be a basic version of what we're aiming for.

Is it useful for me to break the budget down for you? To give you a better idea of what we have to work with? How much we need for a basic release with a modicum of get-back? Let me know. I don't like talking about money, so I'll only share that stuff if you're interested. I want to be transparent with you. This is so important, as it's your investment too. So let me know.

But yeah, I just wanted to let you know that's happening. The last thing I want is for you to feel blindsided.

Chat soon. Will let you know if I get a massive, well-paying job and this is no longer a problem, lol. What I wouldn't give for a McDonald's commercial right about now.

(Also, I'm going to make this post public, just in case we get a few social media stragglers who are feeling how I feared! this is why!)