Finance and Other Trivialities: Special Editions???
Written by simonindelicate on August 23, 2010 – 5:29 pm -Well here’s the thing:
It turns out that vinyl is quite expensive.
No doubt you knew that already, and we knew it too deep down – but we were still a little bit surprised when the quote came back from the vinyl people and it turned out that, having spent most of the money we made from SFSL on making David Koresh Superstar and basic subsistence, we couldn’t really afford to risk placing the order.
We’ve costed it all out and we reckon that, in order to produce a limited run of 250-300 LPs we need to sell at least 90 of them in advance, either on their own or as part of the special edition package that we’ll get to in a minute.
So if – as many of you have approached us to say that you do – you want vinyl you’re going to have to take a step into the world of trust based economics and work with us on something:
Basically, if you would like to buy Songs For Swinging Lovers on vinyl, we’re going to ask you to pre-order it now.
If we don’t get enough pre-orders by the end of September we will refund all money paid. If we get to 90, we’ll place the order with the pressing company and those who pre-order will get their signed copies (+ a link to a pre-order only bonus track) days after we do.
We appreciate that this is a big ask, but if we don’t do it this way, we can’t do it at all – it is, very literally, up to you.
So – if you’d like to place an order, you have several options, all available at:
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/Indelicates_Store/special.html
1. Signed Vinyl LP only – £18
+ link to pre-order only bonus track
2. Special Edition – £72 (£60 w/out CD)
price will increase to £80 after pre-order period
Includes:
Signed Vinyl LP
+ Pre-order only bonus track
+ CD copy
+ ‘Antique Lace Under Musee Glass’ – art/poster book
+ Lyric book
+ A signed, limited edition print of one of Julia’s photographs from the DDR radio building where the album was recorded
+ SFSL shrinky-dink necklace
+ A short length of the actual rope we used to hang ourselves on the cover
+ Fudge
Super Special Edition – £300
Includes:
The Complete Special Edition
+ Simon and Julia will come to anywhere you like (within the UK )on a date of your choosing, play the album for you, record it and then sign a legal document transferring all the rights in the recording to you, thereby creating a limited edition of one.
Obviously, if we fall short of the 90, but a few people are interested in the super special edition, then we’ll probably be able to proceed anyway. Also, the books will be available separately later in the year.
If you want to buy the special edition, but have already purchased the CD, then you can order the CD-less version for £60. This option will not be available after the pre-order period.
We don’t know if this will work, and we’re only vaguely sure of what we’re doing – but it’s been a bit of a year for that sort of thing, and heck if it ain’t gone kinda well so far. Thanks in Advance, and here’s that link again:
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/Indelicates_Store/special.html
Simon and Julia
XX.
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Corporate Records Update – August 2010
Written by simonindelicate on August 20, 2010 – 5:29 pm -
As company directors, Julia and I deserve your goddamned respect goddamnit: so we assume that you will take these recommendations as they are intended – as orders – and immediately go and pay money to own these hot new slices of boss tuneage that have cropped up on Corporate Records recently.
Incidentally, if you’re in a band or are a singer/songwriter or a not-really-a-singer/songwriter or a guttural-wailer/songwriter or are a performance poet or a reader-out-of-odd-little-stories then we’ll be writing and promoting these roundups on a fairly regular basis – if you think we’d like what you’re doing, please use the site and send us the link somewhere (facebook/twitter/skywriting) and we’ll give it a listen.
So first up, released today is this Song Of The South tinged oddity from Laurence Owen from his six tracked ‘Yarnripper’ E.P.
If that (and indeed almost everything else) is a little too middle of the road for your taste - this offering from The Far Queue is awesome:
Wob has been producing fantastic impassioned anti-folk since long before anyone decided to dress it up in a floaty dress and brand it on the tube. There’s a whole back catalogue to explore on the site, but this – from 1996′s ‘Friends in the Night‘ EP and now reissued on Corporate Records – is as good a place to start as any:
Lastly – and belatedly, as we were too busy promoting ourselves to go on about her when she released it – if you haven’t bought Lily Rae’s album then you really really should because it’s fucking amazing:
Peace out kids. X.
Tags: community, corporate records, downloads, far queue, laurence owen, lily rae, record insutry, streaming music, wob
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A Despatch From The Threatened Country Of Open Wi-Fi
Written by simonindelicate on August 17, 2010 – 5:54 pm -Right then, world, sorry not to have been in touch sooner, but we moved house, went to Germany, recorded a new album and were generally busy. Also, we’re still waiting for the god of the internet to flick a switch somewhere and let us have broadband again – so we’re posting this in Starbucks
…using their wi-fi to briefly glimpse the wired world like the satanic hordes gazing up from the fall into the rapidly retreating magnesium flare of heaven.
NEWS:
Look around! the new indelicates site is live and kicking! sexy and bloggy with the fecund promise of regular updates and CONTENT as exciteable tech-fetishists like to call it. Check back often, subscribe to the RSS and use away, multitudes.
VIDEO:
HERE, at long last is the utterly filthy Barely SFW video for Europe:
many thanks to all the unnervingly beautiful extras – tell your parents we are sorry.
KORESH:
most tracking for the third album is done – we are recording a bit more with some extraordinary musicians in Texas, mixing when we get back in October and releasing the fuck out of it soon thereafter. We love this record so much we sit in class drawing pictures of it with little hearts.
CORPORATE RECORDS:
proper update on the way when we get the internet at home, but we should take a moment to point you at the Spoiler Alert! EP which has nothing at all to do with Eddie Argos, Dyan Valdes and Keith TOTP, but which IS an awesome collection of songs about superheroes for only 2 quid:
GERMANY:
thanks to all who came to our acoustic duo shows in Germany – especially Laura in Dusseldorf who let us play in her garden and pass a hat round – lots of fun. There is video, but you will have to be patient.
SPECIAL EDITIONS:
Look out for news v. soon. We hit a bit of a financial wall but are working on a solution. keep watching us on twitter @juliaindelicate @simonindelicate @theindelicates for quickest updates.
PIERRE HOMARD:
is amazing
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Lyrics
Written by simonindelicate on July 2, 2010 – 1:53 pm -Songs For Swinging Lovers
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Holy Koresh News, Batman!
Written by simonindelicate on July 1, 2010 – 11:18 pm -So, a whole bevy of announcements included in this here press release (reproduced as a google doc here) As ever we rely on crowdsourcing for our PR efforts, so anything you can do to spread the release around to the journalist/tastemaker/fashion victim in your life will be rewarded with infinite love…
As if that wasn’t enough, here is a little tease for David Koresh Superstar – I probably shouldn’t have released it this early, but I’m quite excited by the record and want you to be too:
ALSO, look, it’s episode 3 of Being Batman, with me an Julia and Al in – if you haven’t seen Al and Stu’s amazing youtube series, skip this and watch it all from the beginning – it = awesome.
Tags: becoming batman, being batman, david koresh superstar, stuart laws, videos
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Press Release: Videos, CDs, David Koresh Superstar
Written by simonindelicate on June 30, 2010 – 3:31 pm -
A Corporate Records Press Release
concerning the latest activities of
THE INDELICATES
In April, The Indelicates released their, frankly, overdue second album Songs For Swinging Lovers to a hugely enthusiastic online response. Sold on a ‘Pay-What-You-Like‘ basis from their new online record company, Corporate Records, the album has been downloaded thousands of times and has raised thousands of pounds. It’s hard to make an accurate comparison, but they have probably made more per sale than they did when they were signed and in shops. They have definitely made more per download.
People all over the world have, unbullied, proved themselves willing to pay for music that they value. The Indelicates have proved that the Pay-What-You-Like model is not the preserve of massive bands, but that it can work for anyone with or without label support. Corporate Records is free to use, with 20% of revenue going to the company. We now feel very comfortable recommending it.
Because they are stupid, The Indelicates have not withdrawn the money, put it in a bath and lain in it going ‘yes’. Instead, they have spent almost all of it on making themselves able to announce the following:
1. We have been back into the studio and are now able to confirm that THE THIRD INDELICATES ALBUM – DAVID KORESH SUPERSTAR will, as promised, be released before the end of the year. The record – which is a concept album about the Waco siege and which features guest vocals from Carter USM’s Jim Bob, David Devant and his Spirit Wife’s Vessel, Philip Jeays, Lily Rae as well as various members of Luxembourg, the Boyfriends and Keith TOTP and his minor UK indie celebrity allstar backing band – has finished primary tracking and is currently in a rough mix state that we insanely love. We are doing some additional recording later in the year, then mixing mastering and getting it out before christmas. We are also seeking financing to turn the project into a feature length film – and are interested in hearing any ideas, proposals that will help us make this a reality. We are very excited.
2. Songs For Swinging Lovers is NOW available on a circle of plastic that you can hold, play or present as a gift to your bemused nieces and nephews. It is available HERE in our nice new shop
3. Songs For Swinging Lovers Special Editions are still coming. They have taken longer than we hoped but hey, we already made a whole new album, played european festivals, reinvented the music industry and had very nasty colds, so fuck you… but we are in the latter stages of working out how to do it and should be able to start printing books and special things soon. If you have bought the CD, you’ll be able to deduct the amount you’ve paid from the price of the special editions – try and keep your paypal receipt email somewhere safe (though we’ll probably just believe you – we are very trusting and naive). Demanding fuckers, sometimes we need to sleep… Sorry it’s taking so long, we don’t want to rush out anything shit.
4. Look! it is the second and third videos from our ill-advisedly promised plan to release videos for every SFSL track.
We are shooting the fourth on Monday in Camden, tweet @theindelicates to find out where, why and how you can take part. (It is a bit disgusting)
5. “We may with more successful hope resolve
To by force or guile eternal War
Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe,
Who now triumphs, and in th’ excess of joy
Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav’n.”yeah?
YEAH!
The joint project of Simon and Julia Indelicate, The Indelicates formed in Brighton in 2005 – with Simon’s lead guitar and Julia’s piano backed by Ed Van Beinum’s Drums, Kate Newberry’s Bass and Al Clayton’s Rhythm Guitar. They were joined in 2009 by bassist Lawrence Owen and guitarist/backing vocalist Lily Rae and currently have a floating line-up for live shows, (with much of the new album favouring a lusher, more acoustic sound). They have played and been released all over the world, headlining the second stage at Austria’s frequency festival, supporting Art Brut in Germany, Amanda Palmer in Scotland and The Vaselines in New York; as well as touring extensively in europe and the UK. In 2009 they released a well-received poetry book and continued to give performances of Simon’s ‘Book of Job: The Musical’.
Largely so as to never have to be called a Brighton Band again, Julia and Simon moved to Lewes in 2007.
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Second and Third SFSL videos NOW ONLINE
Written by simonindelicate on June 30, 2010 – 3:02 am -Continuing our ludicrous quest to bolster our album release by ill-advisedly making videos for every track on Songs For Swinging Lovers, we are pleased to present ‘Flesh’ starring Julia as Travis, the excellently rebellious Lydia Snodin as Iris, Simon as a pimp and assorted others as lowlifes and scum (pause to consider – should the plural of lowlife be ‘lowlives’? it’s a tricky one) AND jerusalem starring Michael Daniel as Lil’ Simon and Simon’s brilliant cousin Hayley Fisher as Lil’ Julia…
enjoy!
also, honorable mention should go to Yunitsa who made this incredible unofficial Cameron/Boris/Jerusalem video and very neatly sums up what the song is actually about – give it love – and, if so inspired, do similar things with your time. Remember your Irish fopistry! The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING BETTER YOU COULD BE DOING…
Tags: flesh, jerusalem, oscar wilde, songs for swinging lovers, tories, videos
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American Demo
Written by simonindelicate on June 26, 2010 – 1:42 pm -
Released 2008, Weekender Records
Reissued 2010, Corporate Records
Tracks
1. New Art Theme
2. The Last Significant Statement To Be Made In Rock’n'Roll
3. Our Daughters Will Never Be Free
4. Better To Know
5. Sixteen
6. Julia, We Don’t Live In The ’60s
7. Stars
8. New Art For The People
9. Unity Mitford
10. …If Jeff Buckley Had Lived
11. America
12. Heroin
13. We Hate The Kids
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Songs For Swinging Lovers
Written by simonindelicate on June 26, 2010 – 1:30 pm -
Released 2010, Corporate Records
Tracks:
1. Europe
2. Your Money
3. We Love You, Tania
4. Ill
5. Flesh
6. Savages
7. Roses
8. Sympathy For The Devil
9. Be Afraid Of Your Parents
10. Jerusalem
11. Anthem For Doomed Youth
Credits
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Songs For Swinging Lovers NOW ON CD
Written by juliaindelicate on June 24, 2010 – 10:17 pm -Ladies and Gentlemen, Songs For Swinging Lovers, The Indelicates second album, can now be purchased on CD…
Go here, or look to your left for links to the shop:
http://corporaterecords.co.uk/Indelicates_Store/
For those of you who have already bought it, POSTING OUT TOMORROW!
Already looks like it’s going to be a hell of a post…
REMEMBER, you can still buy the download album direct from Corporate Records for PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE, go here:
BUY BUY BUY
Bye 
Julia Indelicate X
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