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Is This Not Paris? CD: Part 6 – The launch

Written by John | Published on November 11, 2009
We’d played at the launch of the King Street Rock’n’Roll Walk etc Podcast at the Vanguard for the City of Sydney in late September. From that I’d managed to book the band into the venue for our own launch. It wasn’t smooth sailing though. John Cass who runs the venue must have a memory like an [...]
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Is This Not Paris? CD: Part 5 – The CD soft launch

Written by John | Published on September 22, 2009
A story in 5 or more parts. Part 5 – The Soft Launch . The King Street Podcast http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/AboutSydney/VisitorGuidesInformation/HistoricalWalkingTours.asp The same day in May that I signed the publishing deal with Fogsongs, I’d attended a meeting with the City of Sydney to discuss the launch of their King Street podcast; or “The King St and Enmore Rd Chapter of the [...]
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Is This Not Paris? CD: Part 3 -The deal

Written by John | Published on September 21, 2009
By February 2009, with the mixing done, it was time to try and find a deal. I asked a few friends for suggestions of indie labels that they could recommend and sent out about 15 unmastered copies of the album. The weeks passed. The silence was deafening. Some labels did get back to me with [...]
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Is This Not Paris? CD: Part 2 -The recording

Written by John | Published on August 22, 2009
We hit Zen Studio in St Peters early in June 2008 – only a stone’s throw away from my beloved King Street to start the new album sessions. We had the idea that the songs we’d collected and written would form a kind of a concept album containing songs that were film soundtracks, should have [...]
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Is This Not Paris? CD: Part 1 – The concept

Written by John | Published on August 21, 2009
A story in 5 or more parts. Part 1 – The Concept Like a 422 bus on King Street, Newtown, where you wait for one for an hour for a bus and then 2 come along at the same time, I figured that I should hit the fans with a new album straight after the release of [...]
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