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Well it's the last day of my holidays and I'm spending a bit of time updating onetonne to bring it into the current century. I've thrown out the old template and I have to start from scratch. Hurray for newness! (Sorry if things get broken in the process!)
Just a note to say that I'm intentionally breaking parts of the website. Well not intentionally. I thought I knew what I was doing, but hey, it was hot in my study last night! Not ideal conditions for coding.
At any rate. Normal service should resume shortly, please excuse any patchy and or dodgy things in the short term while I'm fixing it.
Good golly! Thanks to Verity who has encouraged Aubrey to get involved and she has already submitted her first piece for onetonnemusic! Aubrey's first piece brings indy New York based band The Distraction to our collective attention and it's absolutely well worth a listen. (a bit reminiscent of The Infadels if you want a quick and dirty musical parelell)
So very excited to have some extra folks onboard!
If you're interested in getting involved, read this for more info. I'd love to host anyone's writing if they are keen for some exposure and want to be involved in the site!
Just a short note to welcome Verity to Onetonnemusic! Verity is a music fan who is looking to share some of her writing experience with us and I'm really very excited about having more folks to help out! So thanks Verity, you're excellent!! You can read Verity's first post for onetonne below, which is a review of AFI's Decemberunderground.
If you're interested in getting involved, read this for more info. I'd love to host anyone's writing if they are keen for some exposure and want to be involved in the site!
(what was waiting for me once I reconnected to my email. If you have tried to get in contact recently and haven't had an return email, please resend to the usual addresses - my profound apologies.)
For the second time this year I have had an enforced purgatory from my website and my internet social life. This time it wasn't a lack of internet access, but the fairly unspectacular death of the motherboard in my computer. I'm insured for accidental - but apparently because my power company couldn't product a definitive letter stating that we actually did have a power issue (even though there was blackouts all over the state I live in).
I don't usually do this sort of thing, but I have had really good experiences with my insurer CGU in the past, however this time around I've had a shit of a muck around and it seems that they're content to annoy me into giving up. Which is effectively what I have done, which is to say, I paid for the repair of my pc even though I pay them a monthly stipend to take care of me when this kind of thing happens. Not happy janet. Consider a nasty backward link your moral come-uppance you penny pinching bastards.
For some reason after a bunch of time off, lots of people are getting in contact for graphic design work via the website. Which is absolutely lovely.
As I mentioned earlier, I have just relocated interstate and I've been working really hard to get settled in and my next big plan is to invest in a silk screening setup so that I can do my own poster printing here. If you do end up needing some quality graphic design, know that it will contribute to my dream of making my own handmade boutique gig posters.
Should you require any graphic design work, I'd love to hear from you. I do all sorts of stuff, logos, posters, cd's and I have reasonable rates and I love doing music graphic design.
So why don't I post stuff? Well there's only so much time in the day. I'm dead keen to post more, but I'm just playing catchup for the next little while.
If you have a story idea, drop me a line on info at ausmusician dot com, I'd love to get some fresh stuff happening on here.
Hello internet. I am back, and it's groovy. After 2 months of internet purgatory I have broadband internet access again. Huzzah!
(Sorry about the caps)
Just a short note to say that I am moving house (interstate) and I will be back online and at broadcast depth in a few days. I have no idea how good my net access will be so if I can't please remember to pat the intertubes and don't feed the trolls after midnight!
Yes, that's me.
Okay folks I have some things I wish to share with you. Onetonnemusic currently gets a little over 1,000 visitors per day. Which is good considering that it's really only a hobby project. This month will crack 30,000 visits without any problem at all. Problem is, it's just me sorta saying stuff out into the ether, and I would like to get more folks on-board.
I want to find anyone who is interested in having a shot at music writing. If you are into and interested in writing a post or two per week (no major commitments here folks) on the subject of:
- Unsigned Indie Bands (anywhere in the world) that you think are interesting.
- Interesting music geek gear, especially home-made and user created
- Music trivia & silly Youtube clips that are funny and relevant to people with epicurean music taste
- Tips and tricks for making your own music.
- Funny music rants and raves.
Then I want to talk to you.
It's horrendously easy to do this stuff, and if you've ever fancied having a shot at freelance writing for a crust, maybe a few articles on onetonne could be the start of your career. Or possibly you just want to blow off steam. Believe it or not - I have a bunch of professional writing experience, and I am happy to share what experience I have to help you develop as a writer.
Should you have a blog also, and you would like to boost your visitors, you could possibly consider giving me permission to syndicate your content. I repost your stuff, with full credit and you get a lot of extra exposure.
I know it's lame, but I cannot offer you any cash at this stage. (If you are in a band, a gig poster certainly wouldn't be out of the question) I run the site out of my back pocket, and it's steadily growing. If it makes money, of course I am dead keen to pay for real content from writers. I do my posters for free because I love doing them, and maybe sometime in the future I can turn that into my main line of income. I see it as a simple way for me to support indie bands and do the stuff I love. I'm hoping there's some potential writers out there who feel the same way, who would like to give it a shot.
I am intending to put together and launch onetonnefilm in the short term future which will be covering film, tv & all things celluloid experience. If writing about film and tv is more your bag, then I'd also be VERY keen to talk to you.
Please drop me an email on info at ausmusician.com and I would be absolutely stoked to receive any contributions or set you up and account so that you can become members of the onetonne family.
Thanks,
funnel
