To everyone who voted for us at www.beatthemix.co.uk this week, we owe you a massive thank you and we're very grateful and surprised at the sheer volume of votes we received from everyone. We smashed our own personal votes per week record by over 100% thanks to your help, but it seems everyone really wanted this week's prize guitar and we came second! Still, it's great to know what great support we had and thank you again for your votes.
It seems word has been spreading on our successes lately following our radio, internet TV and magazine exposure, and we are genuinely building a reputation for giving good live performances around Brighton. This has led to a few messages in our e-mail inbox asking whether we can come along and play in new venues for new audiences, all of which will be a great help in spreading our name further than ever.
The first of these e-mails was from a member of the audience from our recent gig at the Pitcher & Piano, who is putting on a charity show in January and asked us to come along and take part. The night will be raising money for a charity called 'Water Aid' and we will keep you updated on times and dates when they are made available. So far on the calendar this will be our next gig in Brighton, so plenty of time to get yourselves ready if you're a Brightonian.
Also this week we played a gig at the Pav Tav, and went down very well with a great crowd mostly made of Sussex University sports people in fancy dress! Again, it must have been a good show as the next day we received a message from the promoter offering us a slot for the re-launch of his Sunday Acoustic Chill evenings, moving to the Joogleberry Playhouse from February.
To be asked to be a part of something such as this is great news for us, and we're really looking forward to promoting the evening in early February.
Beat The Mix Update – text 'mix 339' to 83070
As mentioned above this week has seen us come second in the weekly chart at www.beatthemix.co.uk despite getting more votes than ever before. The guitar prize was obviously a great incentive as the vote numbers shot up across the competition, and this week's prize is a Marshall Amplifier. Thank you very very much for all your votes last week, they were very much appreciated and overall saw us narrow the gap between us and the leaders of the overall competition.
As usual, any texts of 'Mix 339' to 83070 would be much appreciated, and we'll let you know where your votes take us next week.
This Week's Gigwatch
Our gig this week is one of the London gigs which has come as a direct result of our Beat The Mix chart success. Details on this gig are yet to be clarified, but we will let you know when we do!
In the meantime, you can still see us perform on our Beat The Mix Live programme with ITV local by going to http://www.itvlocal.com/meridian/locallife/?player=MER_LocalLife_26&void=117910 and viewing our 'Beat The Mix November' show.
Dates for the diary (e-mail us or go to www.myspace.com/lesvalentinemusic for more info on gigs)
25th November – GIG – London Venue TBC
2nd December – GIG – London Venue TBC
8th December – GIG – The Odd Fellows, Dartford – 9pm
3rd February – GIG – The Joogleberry Playhouse – Sunday acoustic chill launch
29th February – GIG – The Sanctuary Cafe, Hove - £4 entry
10th February – AUDITION – Nationwide talent competition, www.liveandunsigned.uk.com
9th April – Steve's Birthday
19th April – John's Birthday
And remember – SPREAD THE WORD!
If you like our music, tell people about it. Copy our CDs for friends who you think would be interested, bring people to gigs. The hardest part really is getting heard, so if you can help in any way, please do. As always, your support is very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Les Valentine