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Candythief was started by Diana De Cabarrus, and the live Candythief line up at full strength consists of Jem Doulton on drums and beatific backing vocals, Jason Simpson on bass, and Jason Dickinson on fiddle.
Choose a song to the right to listen to it! These tracks are all from our latest album, Technicolour Wilderness.
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The recent proliferation of services which suggest they offer some guarantee your demos will be listened to by festival bookers/agents etc, in return for a fee, is another way of creating a financial handicap for bands-now, you have to get your stuff recorded, get some kind of video up on youtube, spend countless life hours updating your 15 different web pages and websites, for which no-one is going to pay you, and find £7-£15 for each submission. which means arts careers will increasingly become open only to those who can afford to work for free for several years. Wannabe journalists, for example, have to find the money to go to study journalism, often after a BA at university, and then secure unpaid placements at newspapers often for years before getting a paid job. THe music industry is casting around for a new business model as it becomes harder and harder to get money from selling recorded music, and this seems to translate into new mini hierarchies that discriminate against bands and artists who don't have a load of money to match their talent. If you have a small sum of money to spend on promoting your band, submitting to 20 fests at £10 each isn't likely to help-that kind of statistics based targeting only works in your favour when you can max it.
Some internet radio stations allow you to purchase a certain…