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  • From: "monkeyboythom AT gmail.com" <monkeyboythom AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Basement rock as the next venue?
  • Date: 8 Mar 2006 13:32:17 -0800

So will the web and bigger bandwidth save the indie band?

Pulled from the web:
Services such as The Streaming Tank (http://www.streamingtank.com/)
have grown to satisfy the need for broadcast services and the figures
are impressive. Just 74 people watched Thom's first concert on February
24th. The concert on March 2nd drew 62,138 viewers.


The article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2070179,00.html

<A snippet from longer article />
Sandi, singer in the basement, plays the world

MEET the singer who is in the middle of a "world tour" without
leaving the confines of her suburban basement.

After the runaway success of the Arctic Monkeys, who built up their
international following on the internet from their base in Sheffield,
Sandi Thom, a 24-year-old Scot, is using the web to entertain nightly
audiences put at more than 60,000.

Seating at the venue underneath her home in a Victorian terraced house
in Tooting, south London, consists of six stools bought from Ikea for
about =A33 each.

Thom uses a webcam to record a nightly performance before broadcasting
it on the net later in the evening. In the past eight days she has
entertained more than 250,000 fans worldwide. By contrast, her live
audiences usually total about 200 when she plays in clubs around
Britain.

The blossoming success of Thom's web tour illustrates how a new
generation of unknown singers and bands are connecting with fans
directly through the internet before achieving conventional chart
success.




  • Basement rock as the next venue?, monkeyboythom AT gmail.com, 03/08/2006

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