Tag: crowdfunding

A little piano track, mastering and some gigs.

fund:it, the crowdfunding service I used to raise cash for my album recording has been going now for over 6 months, and they’ve released a video about what was achieved over their first 6 months. They asked me if I had any music that they might be able to use for the video, and as it happens I had recorded one of my piano instrumental pieces on the last day of the piano & vocal tracking in the studio recording sessions. I’d an hour or two to spare and ended up knocking out a live version of “I Wish You Were Here” as well as the piano instrumental piece.

The song has ended up on the tracklisting for the album, and the instrumental is planned as a bonus track for the digital version of the record going out to those people who funded my project. But, now you can hear an edit of that track used in the video about Fund:it’s first 6 months, which they have entered into the “Better Together” competition in the hope of winning some money towards helping to develop and improve the service they provide. Please click on the link and consider voting for their entry, which will help enable other creative projects happen through the use of crowdfunding.

Here’s the video:

I’m heading off to get the record mastered later this week, having gotten to the point where I have final mixes that I’m happy with, and a record that I’m quite proud of. The artwork is still being developed with print artist Grace Mitchell, and I’m excited to see the work she has been doing all coming together to result in the final packaging for the record. We are planning to hand print and make the packaging for a limited number of the records, and everyone who bought the cd through fund:it will be getting one of those copies. I’m looking forward to having a finished product and I really hope that people who hear the record like it as much as I do.

Later this month, I also have a little gig on the 24th at the “Song Cycle” showcase night Upstairs in Whelan’s in Dublin, and the Cork Jazz Festival on the 30th. So, if you are knocking around either city around those days, drop in and you’ll get to hear some of the songs from the record before it is out, as well as some of the material I’ve held over for the next one, and newer songs I’ve been writing more recently.

Fund:it funders – you’ve got mail.

If you were one of the wonderful people who contributed to my album recording fundraising project on fund:it, then you should have received an initial email from me this evening about your reward. If you didn’t get any email, please do check your junk mail or spam folders, as some pledgers got in touch to let me know that their email was in their spam mail, whereas others got the mail no bother.

I guess it depends on just how strict your spam filters are. But, do take a look, just in case, and let me know if you didn’t get an email at all if you should have gotten one. It’s just a quick update letting you know that I’m back in the studio, and giving you a rough idea of what needs to be done before you can get whatever reward it is you went for.

Fundit Target Reached. Aces.


This morning I woke up to see my crowdfunding campaign had hit its target, with 101 funders helping to get me to that magic number. The project deadline is later this evening, so there’s still time for more pledges to come in, so anything extra now is a much appreciated extra bonus to help finishing the record off.

All I can think of this morning as a result is this gif:

Because, really, that’s how I feel at the moment. Thank you to everyone who has pledged, shared linkes, retweeted, emailed, taken photos, made a video, donated movie tickets, or helped out in any way with this crowdfunding project. It really will make a difference and it will mean this album will get finished.

Special thank you to Mark Willis for shooting and editing the video you see on the project page, and to Yvonne Ryan for snapping the photos that day that were used for the project too. You should also check out the band she is in, btw, The Ambience Affair. They are aces. It was also Yvonne who suggested Charthouse Studios to me, which is the studio I’ve ended up using.

So, yeah, people are awesome. Thank you. I really do appreciate all the help and support with this crowdfunding campaign.

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