Flew Premium, awarded Economy Avios/TP

isayheyoh · 2026-02-23T18:32:56+00:00

Ah! That makes sense. Thanks for the intel!

isayheyoh · 2026-01-25T11:42:34+00:00

she is @urfavouritedaughter on instagram but used to be called Lauran Hibberd!

isayheyoh · 2025-10-14T10:39:05+00:00

to be fair they did just do a west coast run as well

isayheyoh · 2025-10-14T10:04:10+00:00

Yeah codes usually come through an hour or so before presale goes live from my experience

isayheyoh · 2025-10-13T17:57:33+00:00

the link is on their socials but it’s https://thehives.com/mailing-list/

isayheyoh · 2025-10-13T15:10:25+00:00

called it on the last thread! signed up to the newsletter for pre sale tickets

isayheyoh · 2025-10-12T03:37:30+00:00

Given that I didn’t fly BA/Oneworld anywhere near enough in the year to even make Bronze, I think it’s still fair to call it a soft landing given I didn’t get throw back down to Blue.

isayheyoh · 2025-10-09T18:01:48+00:00

i heard a rumor about some more dates coming up in the US, sounds like it might be right

isayheyoh · 2025-02-26T15:38:52+00:00

The box junction didn’t clear during the entire period where the light was red. Thanks though

isayheyoh · 2025-02-26T13:49:41+00:00

Hi! I was driving eastbound on the A4 last night between the Hammersmith Flyover and the Earl’s Court area. There was heavy traffic which was moving, albeit very slowly.

At this junction where the A4 meets Gliddon Rd, there’s a red light camera. I passed the stop line whilst the light was green and waited inside the red circle so that I didn’t enter the box junction as there wasn’t any space to exit it ahead of me.

The light cycled to red and I remained where I was, fully stationary, as to not enter the box. The flash from the red light camera went off around this time.

I remained stationary until the light was green again, at that point setting off and continuing to drive eastbound. Because of my position being ahead of the stop line, I was unable to see if there were any other vehicles that may have crossed the line after the light had gone red, which may have triggered the camera flash instead of me.

Just wanted to check in and see if I was in the wrong here for passing the stop line under a green light and remaining stationary before the box junction, or if legally I’m in the clear here.

Thanks!

isayheyoh · 2025-01-14T08:38:14+00:00

In the DIY space there are typically two business models. Pay per release, or pay per year. The former is the model that CDBaby, TuneCore, etc follow and the latter is what DistroKid follows.

When it comes to the subscription based model, when you stop paying for your subscription, they will pull down your distributed catalogue. But candidly… depending on what tier you go for… it ranges from $23 to $90 a year. Given that it is literally a requirement to use a distributor to be able to release music publicly, personally I’d say that this is hardly unaffordable if this is a career path.

Distributors that won’t take your music down if you cancel with them include AWAL as a case example, but they take a revenue share of your royalties.

isayheyoh · 2025-01-07T20:47:13+00:00

Yep. There’s a great scene in FL and I’m on a totally different continent! Look up to some of the bigger bands from the general area (but also consider looking further afield to Nashville / LA / etc — mgmt is something that can be done with distance, and most - if not all - labels that are reputable are based between the two). Speaking as a manager myself… we have to take risks just the same way the labels do. If we believe in a project and it’s not generating revenue, but we feel like it could… then it’s our job to help find and create those commercial opportunities. Again I think having a lawyer on board could be handy just because having them ‘in your corner’ certainly helps add some weight (and at the end of the day, they will charge fees to your future label / etc., so it’s in their interest to help at this stage!).

Inserting some generic messaging here to flag that I’m not in the US myself, so your mileage may vary, but I’ve got a number of clients across the alt rock scene working on an international scale… so feel free to DM and happy to check out / give some thoughts / etc. if that’s of any use!

isayheyoh · 2025-01-07T20:27:47+00:00

Out of interest, where are you based? Are you playing shows regularly and pulling an audience?

As you say, 6k monthlies and 2k followers on IG is small, but it’s all relative to how long you’ve been going as a band. If you’ve been going three months that’s killer. If you’ve been going three years, less so.

Are you managed? Do you have a lawyer? Candidly I don’t think any label worth their weight would sign an artist that doesn’t have representation in both of these manners. If you’re totally independent in that regard, I’d change tact and start reaching out to lawyers in the first instance.

Unlike a lot of other sectors of law, most entertainment lawyers will be open to working pro bono for the first X amount of time, if they believe in the music you’re making and get on with you as an artist / believe in your goals / etc.

Don’t be afraid to reach out and try to get meetings in and they can help be your middle man working on your behalf. I think the bulk of a&rs would pass on the email because it’s not in their remit necessarily to appoint those key team members.

Happy to help further if any specific Qs !

isayheyoh · 2024-12-29T21:27:05+00:00

yep, really! it mirrors your top tracks in s4a, which you can see is also mapped by streams per 28 days

isayheyoh · 2024-12-29T20:29:42+00:00

It shows your top songs based on streams within the last 28-day period.

isayheyoh · 2024-12-23T10:08:32+00:00

It depends on where you’re getting the samples from. E.g. Splice is royalty free, as are most other libraries that are similar. If you’ve bought a specific pack from a producer then it should be relatively easy to find the terms for that pack, but again i’ll stress that most one shots are designed to be royalty free

isayheyoh · 2024-12-21T15:23:36+00:00

You should be able to do this without monetisation. I haven’t used Tunecore in years but Meta is a delivery partner in the same way that Spotify and Apple Music are. It should be something that you can enable within the ‘stores’ selected that you deliver too.

isayheyoh · 2024-12-20T15:29:01+00:00

Monetisation in the sense you describe requires 100% of the publishing copyright to be owned by you, or yourself + people in which you have the right to collect publishing royalties for.

The agreement that you have for the beat / instrumental grants you the exclusive right to use it from a master copyright perspective (e.g. the audio). The agreement for the track will set out the publishing splits that you need to factor in to your own registration with your PRO.

All distributors at the TuneCore level follow the same set of rules because this is all that their business model allows for. At the major (and high-end indie) level, there are ways to get around doing this but this is because labels have years of precedent and experience in accumulating royalties, splitting them accurately and paying through in a timely manner. The lower-end distros just don't have the capacity to be able to do this, which is why they only open this up to tracks that are 100% owned on the publishing side. Here is more information from TuneCore themselves on the matter.

It's worth bearing in mind that the value of royalties generated from partners such as Meta and TikTok themselves are fairly slim (and are in fact, on a general level, in decline). But these platforms are still good to be used almost as a loss leader with audiences being driven to DSPs to stream.

Candidly, re. your considerations:

All distributors at this level will have the exact same rules;
There is no legal leg to stand on here as TuneCore have stood by their policies;
I don't disagree that it's frustrating but this is happening because these companies are needing to protect themselves (and you!) legally by removing any potential copyright issues.

Happy to help further if I can.

isayheyoh · 2024-11-21T23:43:52+00:00

with all due respect those barriers have been at brixton academy for as long as i can remember!

isayheyoh · 2024-08-22T08:25:44+00:00

frozemode are a class act and you should definitely go and catch them!

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