You may have read elsewhere on this site that I'm the singer/songwriter for a band called Them Creepy Crawlies. We don't take ourselves seriously - in 2021 our most popular song on Spotify had 254 streams and we had 14 followers. So what would happen if I got serious and tried to take the songs of Them Creepy Crawlies to the world?
1. IN THE BEGINNING
Early in 2021 Them Creepy Crawlies had a bunch of unrecorded tracks. Our previous visit to the studio had produced a couple of low-fi, unmastered EPs, one of which, Insecticide, became the 11th most played record in 2020 on Adelaide’s indie radio station, Three D Radio…
2. IT'S MY WIFE'S FAULT
I'd just picked up 40 CDs of our 3-track EP, Go, and played it to wife Vicky and kids Joal (21) and Eve (19) on the way home from the pub. They said they really liked it. But they’re going to like it, aren’t they, because I’m husband/dad - it’s just one of those family non-negotiables like getting deodorant on Father’s Day.
3. SPOTIFY STRESS ENGINE
Despite my wife’s non-negotiable support I really had no idea how or where to start my campaign to take the music of Them Creepy Crawlies to the world. I had a vague and naive plan to build followers on Facebook and Instagram whom I would encourage to stream my songs on Spotify.
4. AGEING, UP-CLOSE GLORY
With 60,000 daily releases I can’t rely only on Spotify to take the music of Them Creepy Crawlies to the world. I learned this early in the journey so at some stage I’m really going to have to fire up our social media channels which, frankly, I’m totally nervous about.
5. WHOSE SONG IS IT ANYWAY?
I’ve been a bit discombobulated recently. On the one hand I’ve started a fabulous new job, we’re off to Europe as a family in July and I recently learned the words for Heatwaves by Glass Animals. But on the other hand, I’ve been a bit down in the dumps musically.