Sam Blogs….

This week I took a small but enjoyable step to becoming famous! After me and my mate had made a song in his studio – a tongue in cheek remix of the Super Mario Bros. theme tune – we sent it to a friend who works as a DJ on Radio 1. Little did we know at the time that he would play it whilst standing in on a show the following Thursday night. The song, called Mario is Dead by the Super Dub Bros (us) was played late on in the show as you can see by the tracklist (see right down the bottom). Following him playing this the show received numerous texts saying how much they liked the tune and asking what it was. The Dj then told us to get a myspace and the song on youtube so that people could find it if they liked it. So, heeding his advice I made a myspace and uploaded the song onto youtube (see links). The DJ, Jaymo, then stood in for Annie Mac on her Mash-Up show on Friday and again played the tune and this time gave it a bit of a plug. This was on Friday night, early that day we had only had 30 odd views on youtube but following it being played the views have increased to 756. Now that excites me, over 700 views in 3 days! It just shows how important it is, if you are making music, to use social media so to give people and example of the music you make and where better to do it than on the hugely popular myspace and youtube.

So the next step for us? Well hopefully it can be played again on the radio a few times and in the mean time, I am going to try and start engaging on different forums, with different bloggers, with people interested in the music genre on twitter and try and get a buzz going about it….. Hopefully you have all checked it out, and whether you like it or not it has again raised the profile further – a key feature of PR 2.0!!