Colin would love to play live again. And as soon as there is a promoter who will pay enough to cover all the musician’s fees (including rehearsals), travel, accommodation and sundry production costs and still have enough left over to make it worth Colin’s while to take time off from writing and recording songs and having a life to leave his home and his family and travel around the planet, get jet-lagged, plane delayed, interviewed by people who have no knowledge of who Colin is or what he’s done, sit waiting endlessly in empty venues while technicians sort out the stuff they are paid to sort out, drive down endless foreign roads and eat countless re-microwaved plasticised meals – all for the sake of an hour every two days on stage – he’ll be there! If you want to know when this is likely to happen, please join our mailing list.
We hate spam. Open comments mean we get 35,000 adverts per day for body-part extensions and invitations from someone called Cindy. But…. we’re are going to have moderated comments open for each download to see how that goes – we really do like to hear from you. Obviously if someone wants to comment about how full of excrement they think the music is, it’s not likely to be published through our site (unless it is particularly funny) but if you really want to have a rant and talk to other fans about anything that suits you, there is a forum open on single black spot – enjoy.
Sorry that’s not a question, this is frequently asked QUESTIONS.
We’ll get back to you on that one.
Yes, we’re still here – we just don’t like filling your inbox with trivia. However, we have been upgrading our mailing list server because we weren’t so confident in it cleaning out old/failed addresses so if you are sure you’re not getting our precious pearls, please re-subscribe – it can’t hurt because the system will ignore duplicate addresses anyway. If you’re bored, you could subscribe a hundred times a day, or alternatively, you could take up a hobby or spend your time telling as many people as possible about Black.
We don’t know… that’s a technical question. It’s supposed to make it easier for you to keep up to date with our site. Some people like news agregators/feed readers/RSS this and Atom that. But even if you don’t know all about that stuff, you should still get an email from us when we do a mailout as long as you join the mailing list, here.
There are lots of print reviews from the distant past – but so what? We binned most of them years ago. You want us to dig out a Melody Maker rave-review from 1984? Why? What we’d like is to get Colin’s music reviewed today – and that is the hard part. In our wonderful world of ‘everyone can and so everyone does’ we are struggling hard to be heard. The truth is we have a hard time getting noticed when we send out CDs to reviewers. Out of the thousands of artists who hit reviewer’s mailboxes every day, it’s easy to be ignored in favour of the new, the news-worthy, the latest fads and already very famous. We’re not crying about it, it’s just the way it is – we try to get some attention, but it’s not easy and you can help by making more noise about Colin.
See above.
Huh? You mean the TV show that was cancelled TWO YEARS AGO?
Well, as long as it’s not ‘Noddy Pokes Fun at People You’ve Never Heard Of’, we’d be delighted to be invited to perform. So you can guess the answer to this one.
You can if you send a suitable stamped, self-addressed 10“x8” envelope to P.O. Box 109, Liverpool, L18 8WX. U.K.
Our main method of distributing news about Colin’s work is through the internet. While we try hard to get his music played on the radio and reviewed in the press, several of his recent releases have been comprehensively ignored by the mainstream media. This hurts.
Our only alternative is to build up a mailing list of people who like Colin’s music and in order to do that, we are willing to give away some recordings in exchange for an email address. We think this is a fair deal, but if you don’t, you can always unsubscribe from the mailing list by either following the relevant link on the mails you receive from us or by going here – however, if you do unsubscribe, it’s possible you may miss out on the next free download.
Our privacy policy is very simple. We will never allow access to our mailing list to anyone not directly associated with Colin and we will only use it to inform you about news, live events and releases related to Colin’s work. You are also free to unsubscribe your email address at any time (see above).
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