The Schema: Facebook Question

DIY music used to consist of a C30 cassette of tunes which you'd recorded on a 4-track in your shed. You scrawled on it with some biro, or a felt tip if you were posh, shoved it in a jiffy bag and sent it to John Peel. But now, it's different, isn't it. Yes, it is.

The Schema challenge is to record, distribute and promote a single from my bedroom in a 30-day timeframe. The resulting yacht-rock spectacular is called Those Rules You Made, and is released under the name The Schema on 20th August, via iTunes and a load of other online stores. My name is Rhodri, and this is the story...

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MySpace, despite all its grotesque, misaligned boxes, hideous background images and unintuitive user interface, is still the natural home for the DIY musician (along with people with aliases like AquaBastard who ruin your profile by posting gigantic pictures of disfigured reptiles in the comments section.) Meanwhile, Facebook – with its whiter-than-white canvas, friendly typeface and cutesy buttons – is the place that real people choose to go. Especially people like me, over the age of 30 and desperately clinging to the last remnants of their youth.

Unfortunately, you can’t really be a band on Facebook, unless your band happens to be named after a person, like Franz Ferdinand or Danny Wilson. But if I can use a Facebook application to play a game of Scrabble with someone in Cyprus, surely I can use one to just play them a tune? That can't be too difficult, can it? Of the 2700 Facebook applications, only 146 come under the banner “Music”. Two new ones in particular – MyBand and fBand – offer a MySpace-like extension to your profile. But I want to get my song onto as many Facebook profiles - and heard by as many people - as possible.

So, to bring it to the well-groomed Facebook community, I just needed to find someone to write me a Facebook application. My mate Alf came to the rescue, in return for a few pints - well, £25, mates rates. The results harness all the mighty power of Web 2.0 to, er, play a tune. Look! I formed a band! And I'm on Facebook! Astounding! Total spend: £97.11

posted by The Schema at Friday, August 10, 2007

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	DIY music used to consist of a C30 cassette of tunes which you'd recorded on a 4-track in your shed. You scrawled on it with some biro, or a felt tip if you were posh, shoved it in a jiffy bag and sent it to John Peel. But now, it's different, isn't it. Yes, it is. The Schema challenge is to record, distribute and promote a single from my bedroom in a 30-day timeframe. The resulting yacht-rock spectacular is called Those Rules You Made, and is released under the name The Schema on 20th August, via iTunes and a load of other online stores. My name is Rhodri, and this is the story...
	Buy The Single! from iTunes from us Our Links the VIDEO! rhodri.biz email MySpace Garageband PureVolume TagWorld Bebo Facebook App Assisted By drinkmilk Emu Bands likemind Lot 49 Films Marysia K HitSongScience DreamHost Mailing List Type email! Previous Posts Assessment What Do You Think? In The Shops What About The Music? Art Route MyGarageSpaceBand Domain Master Archives July 2007 August 2007	Facebook Question MySpace, despite all its grotesque, misaligned boxes, hideous background images and unintuitive user interface, is still the natural home for the DIY musician (along with people with aliases like AquaBastard who ruin your profile by posting gigantic pictures of disfigured reptiles in the comments section.) Meanwhile, Facebook – with its whiter-than-white canvas, friendly typeface and cutesy buttons – is the place that real people choose to go. Especially people like me, over the age of 30 and desperately clinging to the last remnants of their youth. Unfortunately, you can’t really be a band on Facebook, unless your band happens to be named after a person, like Franz Ferdinand or Danny Wilson. But if I can use a Facebook application to play a game of Scrabble with someone in Cyprus, surely I can use one to just play them a tune? That can't be too difficult, can it? Of the 2700 Facebook applications, only 146 come under the banner “Music”. Two new ones in particular – MyBand and fBand – offer a MySpace-like extension to your profile. But I want to get my song onto as many Facebook profiles - and heard by as many people - as possible. So, to bring it to the well-groomed Facebook community, I just needed to find someone to write me a Facebook application. My mate Alf came to the rescue, in return for a few pints - well, £25, mates rates. The results harness all the mighty power of Web 2.0 to, er, play a tune. Look! I formed a band! And I'm on Facebook! Astounding! Total spend: £97.11 posted by The Schema at Friday, August 10, 2007 +=+=+