Aug

24

VIP Band Manager - changes and media requests

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After much thought time I decide to slightly change the concept of VIP Band Manager as I did not think that the narrative was strong enough. After re-vamping the narrative and changing the website we re-launched. We have been working with the fantastic 10yetis PR who have instantly insured media coverage. Sam can be heard today on BBC Radio Dublin at 11.50am and there is much more lined up!

Here is the new press release to inform you of the changes:

VIPBandManager Set To Fight Simon Cowell For Xmas Number 1

Shipwrecked’s Sam Bush is driving the challenge through his music community website VIPBandmanager.com to try and defeat the high trousered X-Factor man from getting another guaranteed Xmas Number 1 this year.

Music community website VIPBandManager.com is launching a campaign to dethrone Simon Cowell from this years predicted Christmas Number One slot.

With the latest series of X-Factor seeing new levels of support thanks to the publicity stunt of firing and re-hiring Louis Walsh there is little doubt in bookies mind that Simon Cowell will once again be unleashing a commercial music beast upon the Christmas Number One market.

Sam Bush of Shipwrecked fame is heading up the quest to find people brave and bold enough to choose an unsigned UK band, take them to the Xmas Number One slot and launch them into the music stratosphere.

Members of the public and music fans alike are being encouraged to sign up, for free, to the VIPBandManager.com website and tell as many of their friends as possible. On 20th September 2007 the fun will begin as the online community goes in search of the UK’s hottest unsigned band and tries to take them to the Xmas Number 1 slot.

Sam is planning to hold a VIP Launch Party very shortly so that the community can come together and share ideas about spreading the word.

The plan is that the community will make all the decisions needed about what the band does from the song that is selected to go for the Number 1 slot right through to the producers behind it and the art work on the CD.

Speaking about his quest Sam Bush said,

“This is our chance to dethrone Simon Cowell and show TV bosses that they no longer have a stranglehold over the UK’s Christmas Number 1 slot”.

“I want everyone who cringes through the hours of X-Factor TV and winces at the cynical stunts they pull off to rise up and get behind VIPBandManager.com”.

Check it out: www.vipbandmanager.com
Check it out: www.10yetis.co.uk

Aug

24

Liverpool Culture Cafe: A passion for Liverpool. A promise for it’s future

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Things continue to get exciting at the People. Passion. Planet HQ and I can now officially reveal the launch of the people-led Capital of Culture project that I have been working on.

A group of about 12 of us have been working some time on the Liverpool Culture Cafe and it was great to wake up this morning and see the article in a Liverpool based Newspaper, The Daily Post. I will allow that article to explain all:

Liverpool Culture Cafe: The Daily Post article

Please head over to the Liverpool Culture Cafe website to register your support!

Check it out: www.liverpoolculturecafe.com

Aug

17

Tribewanted on Australia’s Getaway TV programme

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This week Tribewanted was featured on an Oz programme called Getaway. This segment is one of the best that I have seen on the project and as I watch it I am just in awe as to what has been created and developed on the beautiful island of Vorovoro. It is humbling to see this footage and to think that the whole idea simply came out of my head! Crazy!

You have to check this out:

Aug

16

Young Advisors: Inspiring a generation to turn it all around.

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Today’s generation of young people is characterised by the stereotypical ‘hoody’ image and is reinforced by the realities of gang warfare and drive-by shootings. It is a very sad reality which we cannot deny exists. Nevertheless, it is the only reflection of a younger generation which is conveyed by the media, but, can a generation turn it all around?

I have come across an incredible Charity called Young Advisors, whose aims, taken from their website state:

Young Advisors are young people aged between 15 and 21, who show community leaders and decision makers how to engage young people in community life, regeneration and renewal.

Young Advisors are trained and employed consultants who guide local authorities, housing associations and other local partners about what it is like for a young person to live, work, learn and play in their neighbourhood.

* They will help organisations ‘youth proof’ their practices, policies, strategies and commissioning.
* They will help you understand how to attract and maintain the interests of young people.
* They will speak out for young people, making sure their thoughts and feelings are considered in decisions that affect them.
* They will work both locally and nationally to share good practice and learn from others.
* They will engage directly with other young people to get them involved in neighbourhood improvements.

In all honesty, I have not seen anything like this in a long time and it gets me flippin’ excited! I can see two strong positives coming out of this charity. Firstly, giving young people a sense of purpose. This charity is empowering young people to realise that not only do they have a voice but that their voice has worth and value as the industry is paying them to listen to their voice. Secondly, it is making industry stand up and listen, this is no partonising attempt to humour young people but it is engaging young people with the real world at a young age. The voice of young people is important, it has worth, it has value and it could realistically shape the industries, organisations and practices of tommorrow.

Albert Einstien stated that, “The pioneers of peace are the young people who refuse to take up arms.” What a true statement. It is exciting that Young Advisors is pioneering a new model of giving a voice to young people and placing worth and value on that voice. Instead of seeing the media full of connotations of a ‘hoody’ generation I look forward to news stories that speak of community transformation and development through a generation who decide to speak up, inform and even inspire all spheres of modern day live from Culture, to politics, to the work place. Young Advisors is well on it’s way to seeing such transformation take place and is to be highly commended.

Check it out: www.youngadvisors.org.uk

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