end of Earworm

[Rob Strong]

I guess many of you will have seen this. Sad news.

Rob


hi everyone,
i guess this might act as a surprise that it follows the last mailout so
rapidly, well just that some rather important news has just come in...
after having hinted at it in recent mailouts and correspondence, the time
has come my friends to reveal that earworm grinds to a halt this summer
after nearly 6 years of hustling!

when i started earworm, and in fact, enraptured, way back in 96, it was
because of a fondness for vinyl, especially the nicely packaged 45. however,
despite a thousand other labels still thankfully churning out their wax, sad
facts are that we live in a climate where cds are where the money lies, and
that releasing a 7" single (especially by a total newcomer) is almost
frowned upon from your distributors and others, which i feel is a real pity.
it'd be the easiest thing in the world for me to just churn out cd after cd
without giving a damn about it, but that's just not what i started earworm
to do. i'm chuffed to look back and know that those debuts by electric sound
of joy and novak (to name two) were put out (back then, as a gamble almost)
on earworm, likwise that the apples in stereo and yo la tengo released their
first uk stuff through the label, yet those days seem a million years ago.
where once we had the nme, melody maker and others championing the causes of
the indie, we now have a solitary comic in it's place masquerading as the
nme! (did nick kent and (ocassionally) lester bangs REALLY write for THAT?!)
i personally felt handicapped by not being able to afford a press company to
side with, to REALLY promote each release, and build upon my humble promo
capabilities, a lack of the folding stuff really catches up with you for
sure!

anyway, it's VERY easy to get all poncey on you here, but just to say a huge
thanks for hanging on in there, there is some 'triffic stuff still to come
in the last 3 releases (details below), so be ready for those, but for now
just to say a sincere thank you to you all, here's what's to come in the
next/final coupla months....

the final singles club 45 by peter daltrey (ex kaleidoscope)

the acid mothers temple triple cd

(hopefully)the last 4 singles which i mentioned last mailout, compiled with
all a+b sides AND sleeve and label art as they would have appeared as 45s,
compiled onto cd...at an affordable price. (even as a cd, i'm as excited
about these singles as much as any in the past, all 4 are gems, at least
this way, you get to hear them!)

anyway, speak soon, there'll be a further mailout or 2 as the above stuff
sees the light of day, cheers, dom.



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