NEWS
JANUARY 2021 Another lockdown - I know this is really hard on everyone right now. So thanks for taking time to check out our first magazine of 2021. Looking back on 2020, we didn’t manage as many new music releases as we would have liked but we’re very proud of the releases we did get out there - singles from Van Houten/In The Morning Lights and Chanté Amour/Straight Girl along with two compilation albums. The first was our showcase of brilliant artists we’ve worked with ‘Come Stay With Me’ raising money for the contributing artists and the second was our collection of Bond covers ‘Not From Where I’m Standing’ from The Wedding Present & Friends raising money for suicide prevention charity CALM. We didn’t get much done on the live side for obvious reasons (apart from a cracking gig with Big Joanie for Independent Venue Week 2020) but we managed a couple of Arts Council advice panels, some activity as part of November’s Yorkshire Music Forum convention, 5 of these magazines and two LGBTQ The Music panels that included an interview with John Grant and a panel with Mykki Blanco. We have a ton of good stuff coming up in 2021 - we already had a series of panels in mid-Jan aiming to offer advice/support to Women & People of Marginalised Genders in music - and that wrapped up with a cracking online event from Sunflower Thieves & In The Morning Lights and a couple of other IVW related online events. All of the above can be found on our YouTube channel. We’ve got news of a couple of new singles in the next month or so, one being the lead from the next in our series of compilation albums ‘Side By Side’ and in all, this is shaping up to very much not be a quiet year. We know things are hard and people often ask us for advice - which we’re always happy to give. Right now the advice we keep saying, including to ourselves, is ‘be kind to yourself and everyone else right now.’ Hopefully, while you’re doing that, we can inspire you with some new music/writing to soundtrack that approach! Thanks as always everyone Tony & the CPWM Team
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