Calling all Idols hopefuls

As you know, here at Bruinou.com we have been promoting young aspiring artists through our website. We held our first concert at Tempo’s in October 2005, what now seems an eternity ago and this was followed by another one in Durban in December 2005. The reason for doing these 2 cities only is because this is the only place where we received a response from artists seeking exposure. Between the 2 concerts we appeared on East Coast Radio, Channel O and Hype magazine where we were continually trying to promote the artists from the site and their music.

Since then, there has been a flood of people from all over the country enquiring about how we could get them some exposure and we must admit that we have been focused on many other things and have not given it the required attention that it deserved. We are planning a show in Eersterust, Pretoria soon, as we have received a fairly large demand from an eager audience as well as from artists themselves and we have found a great partner there. Details on that will be coming out soon as they are in the process of being finalised.

We were supposed to make a DVD after the show at Tilt in Durban from all that footage but unfortunately we had sound problems at the venue. We had a professional film crew accompany us to Durban but sadly the sound at the club was not of decent quality, so much so that we had to cut it short. The first DVD that we plan to make needs to be of the highest quality so we have put that on hold at the moment as well so there is not sufficient material to put one out yet. We are hoping that we could rectify this after the Pretoria show and finally put it out.

We are also in the process of completing a Bruinou.com compilation audio CD. This project is going to be really revolutionary and should be completed by the end of June and ready for sale. I cannot speak too much about it but to say that there is nothing like this in the country at the moment and jaws are going to drop.

Our online shop has been pushed out many times mainly due to lack of financial resources. We have finally put this behind us and are proud to say that the online shop will be opened by the end of March. The developments are in progress and we will be pushing a lot of unsigned music through these channels. We have had a couple of responses from George, PE and Cape Town but nothing significant enough for us to warrant a show there yet. As you know, Bruinou.com is under resourced at the moment so we do not have the marketing resources to go to these places yet and are currently reactive, responding to demand only at this stage.

We are currently working closely with certain media platforms to help promote this music. Here is how you can help. If you are or if you know of any aspiring artists who have completed a demo or who are working on a demo, then please contact me via mail at lester@Bruinou.com or via sms (not please call me 🙂 ) on 082 885 5237. Together we can help to grow this brand of music and take it to the heights that it deserves. We have also partnered with a professional film crew who will be able to shoot music videos as well for those interested and we could help you to source sponsors in this regard.

Please forward this to as many people as possible. Even if they are not into music but they may know of someone who could benefit from this. Bruinou.com is planning a series of road shows across the country this year and we want to have our own media platforms like radio, TV, newspaper etc. and not have to rely on others to promote this for us. Many artists are turned down because we do not have our own media channels and the people manning these channels are not receptive to our styles and dictate how our music should be, often causing us to stray from the original style and message we intended to put across. With our own media channels we do not have to be as conforming.

Stay close to the site for more and if you are not registered, do so now at www.Bruinou.com. For those of you who do not have internet access, send a blank mail with the subject header subscribe to lester@Bruinou.com