“I’m never trying to make someone *like* me”…
So, how do you get a completely independently made, released and marketed album into the Official UK Top 20? I could keep it all to myself, but that’s not very me now, is it?!
There’s a lot of lying in the music industry, so Joe Sparrow from Music Ally wanted to know if it was all too good to be true. I shared the reasons I do things my way, and the unsexy secrets behind the recent chart success of my new album “One In A Thousand” (a collaboration with Rat from Ned’s Atomic Dustbin).
Listen to my full conversation with Joe for Music:Ally here Get your copy of the album direct from http://shop.penfriend.rocks
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