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Post by P01NTM4N #77 on Jan 16, 2019 21:00:28 GMT
And I've got the first world problem that I have literally no device left to play a CD on! What a difference 5 years makes... 😳 ...at least you’ll have a nice collectible and the content will most likely leak on the usual sites before the CDs are in hand anyway 😑
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Post by MoG on Jan 18, 2019 14:21:39 GMT
I reckon we all have the content already...
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Post by evil:cat on Jan 19, 2019 14:09:58 GMT
or - he could incorporate "Breather" in every single track. James replaces Shadow’s beats with his own voice, doing a beatbox.
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Post by Timo Fett on May 7, 2019 15:38:53 GMT
Check your inboxes, kids...
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Post by unklefloyd on May 7, 2019 17:09:03 GMT
Check your inboxes, kids... Can we get an update on this? Or a screenshot? I was never able to pledge, so just curious to know the update on when this is coming!
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Post by Timo Fett on May 7, 2019 17:30:06 GMT
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Post by nico4 on May 7, 2019 18:19:30 GMT
Bit of a shame it wasn't developed further. The foundation is rock solid
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Post by jimmyjrg on May 7, 2019 21:02:45 GMT
Wow! I wonder what tracks it will be? Chico’s Jam? Edit: Yep
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Post by zman on May 8, 2019 6:57:27 GMT
This email hasn't come through yet...
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Post by AstroBBoy on May 8, 2019 21:51:36 GMT
Yeah, I didnt get the email either which is odd
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Post by masterblaster748 on May 11, 2019 12:00:20 GMT
HOPE KICKSTARTER is better then Pledge Music...
Statement from Birdpen (a Pledge Project): It pains us to have a write a statement like this but we feel we have to so we can let you, our fans, know what has happened regarding our latest album There’s Something Wrong With Everything.
As you all know we crowd-funded this album through you, our amazing fans, and it was to date our most successful album. The response was fantastic and the tour, which even saw us go and play two shows in China, was quite mind blowing for us!
With the money we raised through Pledge Music we were able to manufacture the album ourselves. Luckily, you the fans managed to get the album, and thanks again for anyone that did so. This obviously cost money. Almost half of the money we raised went into the physical side of the album, and the other half was used for promotion, as it’s always been our goal to try and make BirdPen bigger and to reach as many people as possible. This only happens through promotion of some sort so we partnered up with various promotion companies to try and build the band. The promotion companies did a fantastic job for us and we are very thankful for everyone’s hard work promoting the album in France, Belgium, Germany and the UK & Ireland.
So this brings us to our situation with Pledge Music. To sum it up, somehow Pledge Music have gone bust! It’s made the international news, both financial and music related, and it’s left artist’s and fans unpaid and without products they have paid for. It’s a complete disaster.
At the beginning of our Pledge campaign we managed to get some of our funds from them so you, our fans, got the physical album, and we expected to receive all the remaining money once the campaign was finished.
Pledge had promised all of the rest of the money so many times we’ve lost count, and we desperately tried and tried to get what we were owed and what you pledged towards the campaign. We’ve had the Musician’s Union and their lawyers involved trying to get us our owed money, and even they’ve been fobbed off, avoided and plain lied to along with many other artists in the same situation as us. It’s criminal what has happened and we hope somebody or somebody’s are held accountable for this disastrous neglect to what should be a safe and great way to fund good music and musical artists.
Being a self-funded band, all our expenses were paid for on our personal credit cards, expecting that the funds would soon be coming in, and with all sales shipped, we simply have no comeback. Mike and Dave now both owe money to our PR companies, we have no publishers, no label and no management so we solely carry this financial burden. This situation has left us with no money to pay the PR debts and fund our next album, which was what the remaining owed funds would have done.
Non of the funds have gone to paying ourselves anything, we don’t make much money from music in this day and age and we live hand to mouth and have the same issues with money as most of us do, mortgages, bills to pay and mouths to feed.
Pledge currently owe us over £12,500. Your money, which you paid in good faith and trust, never reached us. It truly sucks for us to be in this position but we have to carry on so we’ve decided to set up a campaign to try and get some of the funds back.
If anyone is able to support us through this crisis then please do get in touch.
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Post by Mo'Matt on May 11, 2019 12:55:05 GMT
Wow, Unkle fans got lucky! That's crazy.
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Post by jimmyjrg on Jul 3, 2019 23:17:24 GMT
Does anyone have photos of the merchandise which was sent out? I'm guessing this is the Urban Archaeology T-shirt: This was for sale on Pledge. Was anything else delivered to backers?
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Post by the fuhz on Jul 4, 2019 14:06:10 GMT
Was anything else delivered to backers? Yes. I ordered and received the deluxe screen print. It was supposed to be an edition of 300, but there were only 19 backers. Mine is numbered 12/300. However, I am 99% positive that prints were made after the campaign completed, and I seriously doubt that James and Ben hand-signed the remaining 281 copies that were unsold. I have been expecting unsigned/unnumbered copies to show up for sale, but they haven't yet. I also believe that the standard exhibition posters and the shirts you mentioned were sent out. That is it to the best of my knowledge.
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Post by joethelion on Jul 4, 2019 14:26:55 GMT
I'm almost positive that the print that was available as a £75 pledge is the same as the one as mentioned for the "Pledge £150 or more Urban Archaeology Super Bundle"
So, 19 + 85 = 104 copies of the print signed, and in circulation
Honestly - I'd imagine it's more likely that they simply didn't do the full run of prints, but kept the edition size... just in case.
but going back to jimmyjrg's question -
I got the shirt, the deluxe print, the sticker pack (which looked very cheap), the 'exclusive' mp3, and my name was listed amongst the backers at the actual museum event
...I probably did get the poster with the stickers, but I really don't remember what it looked like. Everything's in storage, but if/when I get the chance, I'll take some photos
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