Attended the Spoken Word Open Mic at Hopes & Beams last night, a nice gentle night
A charge into a day of work preparing for the release of our Fall in Green album, Letters From A Square Spoon. The admin work is huge, and frustrating in that a lot of the same data (like who performed what, when, where, and who the studio personnel were, as well as who wrote/created it all, who owns the rights from when and why etc.) has to be entered in different ways for different organisations multiple times. All of that in addition to the basics of uploading tracks for sale, and the start of any public (or press, if one is lucky) information about the actual music and how brilliant it all is.
I still have much to do, but a lot is done. I'm struck with the irony that the public and hugely complex database on Musicbrainz is far easier and faster to edit than any of the official national music registration organisations; and Musicbrainz usually stores more information (it doesn't store the performance personnel information above, though). It's a pity that none of these databases or organisations agree to simply collaborate.
Onwards we forge through the jungle of life.
