Welcome to The Liner Notes… the revamped Lights And Lines newsletter!
It’s 2024 and time to change things up a little…
Lights And Lines has always been about community, and this year we want to focus on that more than ever before.
With social media becoming more and more of a headache to manage we’ve decided to focus more of our attention on the amazing community of music lovers who subscribe to this mailing list (that’s YOU!) and support our artists.
Welcome to the newly named Liner Notes, a rebooted version of our newsletter focused on delivering real value real fans like YOU who take the time to engage with us. It’s way more than just a bulletin.
What do you get?
You can now expect to receive in your inbox:
Exclusive new music not available anywhere else. Not on Bandcamp. Not on our website. Not on streaming. ONLY HERE. See below for details of the first giveaway!
PLUS things like demo versions of tracks, free downloads, and MORE.
Behind the scenes insights from our artists, find out what they’re up to and look out for new music, videos, and more.
More ways to get involved e.g. covers, remixes, compilations, competitions etc
First listens on collaborations from artists on the label.
Even more stuff for label subscribers (more on this to come!) because we love and appreciate you.
Invites to listening parties before we release new albums.
And LOADS MORE!
PS - All of this is FREE!
Our first big challenge
We’re going big on this. The Liner Notes currently has just under 1.4k subscribers, and we need YOUR help to get that to our first target - 2,000 music fans!
When we hit 2k subscribers we will send EVERYONE on this list a FREE compilation album, filled with never before heard tracks by some of our artists. This compilation will never appear anywhere else. You have to be here to hear it!
How can you help us reach our goal?
If everyone here got 1 friend who loves new music to sign up to our mailing list we would smash this target within a week.
Realistically we know things don’t always work like that. But we need to get the word out in any way we can.
It takes a few seconds to hit the share button and post a link to this newsletter somewhere. It takes a few more seconds (maybe a minute) to send the link to your friends who love discovering new music with a short message asking for their support. Can you help?
Updates and plans for the year
In addition to The Liner Notes launch we are of course still running a record label! The last few months of last year were difficult for a number of reasons, some personal and some out of our control such as manufacturing delays.
I’m delighted to say we’re back on top of everything and ready to go again this year. In 2024 look out for…
New releases from Gozer Goodspeed, We Walk The Earth, Beth Sarah, Awen Veleda & The Wandering Lights, Mikey J, and MORE!
New releases by some BRAND NEW ARTISTS… more info coming soon!
The return of #AlbumWritingClub… but with a few twists this time…
The long overdue GRIM17 and Mike Five CDs will FINALLY be ready to send this month after some unplanned manufacturing delays.
More limited edition merch
And to be confirmed but not 100% nailed down yet it looks like we’ll be putting on some live shows too!
Vinyl update
Unfortunately our Vinyl adventure didn’t quite work out as planned last year as the company we were planning to use were not able to proceed after all. However, we are also actively exploring ways to bring spinners to the winners who support our cause in 2024.
First freebie!
If you made this far you deserve a free album. Here are some free download codes for my debut punk album from last year, The Right To Protest. You can have this 14 track extended rant set to noisy punk for FREE because I think you’re awesome.
I’ll update the codes periodically so everyone who wants one can get a copy, please delete the code you use so I know it’s gone.
Here’s to a happy, healthy, music filled 2024. Thanks for your ongoing support.
Sorry it took a while to get the app. Looking forward to what's happening this year. Especially album writing club.