The Orchard Live competition:


Here are the 10 finalists.


Hundreds of people logged in to ClubSellaBand to nominate their UK-favorites for a performance slot at The Orchard Live on February 28 in London. Today we bring you the 10 finalists and from now until January 8 you can cast a daily vote for your favorite act.


And here are the nominees for a performance at The Orchard Live. In alphabetical order:

 


At noon CET on January 8, the voting stops and the winner will be announced in the Tribune later that day. Also, the other available spot -which will be chosen by jurymembers from The Orchard- will be announced in the SellaBand Tribune on January 8.

The Orchard Live: An Evening With SellaBand promises to be an exciting evening, with performances from Second Person and Francis Rodino already confirmed. The show will take place at Ginglik in London and tickets will be priced £5. How to get those tickets will also be announced on January 8.


BPM is going to blow your minds!

 

Last Friday we saw the ending of the longest countdown to 50k so far. In the early morning Gigi bought the last remaining Part, making BPM the 11th Artist to reach the $50.000 this year and the 12th in total. During their somewhat longer than normal road to 50k BPM succeeded to become the first Artist to have more than a 1.000 different Believers. The end score is 1171 Believers! Of course we've asked the guys to respond to this early Xmas gift:

 

By BPM 

Wow!  What an experience this has been.  We (everyone in the band except Marcus because he ungrateful.... just kidding) would first and foremost like to thank everyone that believed in us.  A band's success depends on how many people truly believe in them and admire their work.  It's hard to find people who will literally put their money where their mouth is in support of their beliefs.  Over the past 9 months or so, we've learned that there actually are people that believe in what we do, and that is an amazing feeling, and we'd like to thank you all for that.  Oh, and thanks to all the geniuses at Sellaband for coming up with such an amazing way to get amazing music into the hands of amazing people.


This experience has been an "interesting" one, that is for sure (or for "sho", however you like to say it).  From London Calling (thank you Brian from Vegas Dragons for pointing out our alcoholism (despite the 2-1 exchange rate and increased cost of beer we made the Irish proud haha), to our goal to have 1000+ believers before we hit our 50k and all the "fun" stuff in between.  At the end of the day, we can look back on this experience as nothing but good times and achieved goals.  We hope those experiences were just the tip of the iceberg and that we will be performing for all of you and seeing everyone shortly!

Now, time to address something that I know every believer has pondered at one point, or many points time and time again; our album with Sellaband. Six words.... PREPARE. TO. HAVE. YOUR. MINDS. BLOOOWWWWWNNNN.LOL (lol would make it 7 but whose counting) In all seriousness we do plan on delivering some music that all of you will surely enjoy.  As we have said before, our game plan is to make the best album we can, and try to step it up a level above our current release.

So here we go again, not on our own, but with the never ending support we have come to known (a little pun for all you WhiteSnake fans out there), to record a killer album for some killer fans.


BPM.