Day 8 - Choral Musings

Facebook members: 104

Wow. Wow. Er......wow! We increased the membership by over 50% today. This is working a little bit better than I ever expected.

We have a new poster/flyer (above obviously) which will be debuting on the tables at the Louis on Saturday. It looks nice and Christmassy and reminds me that I am going snowboarding 3 weeks tomorrow.

Lets crack on with the steps bit as a few good ideas were brought up today by my friends at the Choke forum.

Step 4 - Choral Arrangement

When I first started thinking about this I was assuming we wanted to go down the school choir route. Exactly how we would persuade a school to sing on our record I hadn't quite concluded. Hanging around outside the school gates is probably not the best way to go about it.

But some good ideas came up which seem like potential alternatives. First we considered the Band Aid style route. Get a bunch of the local Bristol celebrities in to sing different bits of the song. The problem with this is that the most famous person in Bristol at the moment is Justin Lee Collins, and he's not coming within 30 feet of our recording studio. I'd like to have some friends involved just to make it a bit of a laugh though and hopefully they can use their own fan base to help us along. This is definitely something we will do.

The more realistic idea is to get random people involved. Sort of the antithesis of X Factor if you like. Any one can do it, we don't give a f*ck if you can sing or not. There are two potentially workable options. Either we get people to record a bit of the song through their PC and send it in (sort of like a YouTube medley). This has the advantage that it has a ready made video and we could go down the YouTube viral route. The other solution (which I really like the sound of) is that we put on a show, turn the microphones round the other way and get people to belt out the chorus. Being that our current regular venue has a 24 track hard disk recorder behind the desk makes this a distinct possibility.

Obviously we need to write the track first and see how these ideas fit in.

So, ideas and people signing up, a lot going on today which has made me feel rather positive about the whole thing.

HOORAY!