Competition Details

The Prize

The winning band will receive a recording and promotion package from Sentric Music and Creative Cultures, a recording session at Autumn Road Studio, a website/hosting package from Oraica, an animated music video from Frozen Moon Productions, a consultation session on profitability from TH Consulting and 100 t-shirts from Embroidery Direct.

Sentric Music An administration publishing deal and a global digital distribution deal. This means that any publishing royalties owed will be collected on the band's behalf and the band will be included in our pitches for synch deals on TV, films & online.
Creative Cultures A viral marketing campaign for the band upon the release of their EP by Sentric Music. This will include PR, traffic driving to the point of purchase and assistance with fan base building. We will also advise that all other bands sign up to Sentric Music in order to claim publishing royalties for live broadcast of their music e.g. gigs, radio play etc. This means that the £50 sign up fee could be earned back (plus extra in future years for every gig).
Autumn Road Studio Autumn Road Studio is a professional recording and mixing studio located in the heart of Wrexham. The winning band will be offered a day of their choice* to visit the Autumn Road Studio to record a single, which will be professionally mixed and provided on a master CD. The recording will also be forwarded to Frozen Moon Productions Ltd for use in the music video as detailed below. *Subject to availability
Frozen Moon Productions An animated cartoon style music video from the recording made by Autumn Studios. Frozen Moon will work closely with the band to design cartoon characters of each band member and create a visually stunning wide screen music video. The video will be produced onto DVD and optimised as mp4 files to use on mobile phones, PSP and iPod. Web-compatible files will also be created and the video will also be readily available for broadcasting on television platforms.
Oraica An Oraica Express website design and hosting package including a .co.uk domain name if needed. More about the package on the Oraica website
TH Consulting Group A consultation session on profitability. To provide guidance on making your band more profitable.
Embroidery Direct 100 T-shirts printed with your message in one colour front and back.

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Competition Format

The competition will be run in three stages:

Stage 1

Fifty bands will be accepted for the competition. Each band will get a listing on the Climbthetail.com website in the order the applications are received.

Nine bands will be selected to go through to stage 2.

Each of the nine bands will get a profile page on the website.

Stage 2

Six bands selected for the final.

Stage 3

The six bands selected perform at the final to be held at The William Aston Hall, Wrexham on Saturday 26 January 2008.

Competition format details and Selection Process

Publicity

In return for entering the competition, all bands will receive publicity in the lead up to the event and afterwards:

Website information. This will give them exposure both to the general public and to representatives of the music industry, who will find the site a valuable resource of information about up and coming bands. All fifty bands accepted into the competition will remain on the website.
The details will remain on the website for at least 12 months after the event so that the publicity will be ongoing. This would be true whether or not the event were to be run again the following year.
Press releases and other pre-event publicity
The opportunity to sign up to Sentric Music in order to claim publishing royalties for live broadcast of the band's music e.g. gigs, radio play etc. Please note that this is only collection of royalties.

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