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This week we have concluded much of the faffing around signing our first sychronisation deal with Faith and Hope records, trading as "Areebo". As you can see from the screen grab below, "Areebo" is a new idea from F+H to market various artists, both signed and unsigned, to the world of film, TV, advertising and computer games and works in a similar way to a traditional publishing deal. The deal is non-exclusive and can be halted with a months notice should a record deal come along or alternative publishing deal become possible. From our point of view, its a good way to try and generate some income while we continue to market ourselves to labels and develop our sound. It has also usefully been a good tool to harvest honest opinions from people in the music industry about what we are doing.

Areebo screen

Anybody wanting to use our material for synchronisation should pay this site a visit. I find it very user friendly, although at the moment it's very "faith and hope" artist orientated (as you might expect), and be sure to search for "This Morning Call" on the toolbar, as I'm not sure how great the "genre" and "mood" options are for searching for our tracks, we don't seem to meet any of the criteria! We have about 8 or 9 tracks up there at the moment, in various styles, ranging from pop songs, through to some ambient works, a dance track and even some classical music, credited to This Morning Call. We have made instrumental versions available of all tracks via this website as well.

In other news, we have our very first Camden show booked and ready to go this Saturday (1st December). Regular Voxers will probably know about this event already as it is being organised by IB - I'll leave the announcement proper until later in the week when we have stage times sorted and I know exactly where the venue is!! But watch this space and it would be nice to see some of you at the show suppoting us, and the wider Vox community, which this gig aims to showcase. And I've bought a new suit, so check me out!

Those of you with eager eyes will also have noticed that I've posted a demo of a new track up on our MySpace page - "Tides" - I think its good, but please feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think. The track is a bit Hot Chip/A-ha/Arcade Fire-ish - and Mark gets to show off his opera voice! It will no doubt appear on this blog as a genuine Columbia/RCA submission once we've had some feedback and I've tweeked the mix.

best wishes,

Ben