What are you doing for the next 20 years? - Grant Sharkey 1/40 - THE FIRST MINUTE from Grant Sharkey on Vimeo.
...TO RELEASE AN ALBUM EVERY 6 MONTHS FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS.
On the first Monday of May and Novemeber, there will be a release - they will usually contain music, they may be a book, they can be lots of things...I just don't know yet.
THEY WON'T BE: patronising, manipulative, dishonest or SQUAZZ*.
The mission started in a traffic jam in London. Traffic jams always make me a little more philosophical than usual, I was dehydrated, I was being sold something everywhere I looked by companies that didn't give a shit about the fact I needed a drink of water, my fellow drivers could barely find the courage to look at me and recognise our reality.a
In my delirium, I ended up asking myself FOUR QUESTIONS:
1) Is the world I live in working?
I answered, NO.
2) How old will I be in the year 2033?
I answered, 55. Still viable.
3) Is life in 2033 going to be better than it is in 2013 for the regular people in the world?
I answered, No...I don't think so.
4) Would you like to be stuck in a traffic jam with a teenager in 2033?
I initially answered, NO WAY! But then I realised this was a trick question. I should be answering, YES! Because I'd like to think I'd be able to make a difference with songs and philosophy and jokes to make a better society for them to grow up in.
So, I set myself the mission. 1 man. 20 years. 40 albums.
This first one comes out on Monday May 6th 2013.
This is about all I could do that I'd be good at to help stop people being treated like shit for the sake of a profit or a click or a like or a prayer. There's a lot of white noise...I'm hoping to put a filter on it.
TOO WPRDY?
To do this I CANNOT be affiliated with any big buisness, press organisations or government bodies...so, I have to do it with what we used to call FANS.
(FANS are what the audience used to be called before they were farmed out by bands in the name of 'Likes' or votes or just people to show adverts to whilst their hard crafted music was played in the background whilst no one was watching.)
It's the FANS who will be paying (as little as I can make it) my way to the shows and back again. So, they also get a say in what happens with the music.
To be a FAN you have to be on the MAILING LIST - JOIN NOW! I plan to ditch Facebook and most social media in the next year or so so that it will be YOU, ME and EMAIL.
THE REWARD: A BIG PARTY!
Where? That's up to you. If I don't do too well, then it will be three of us in a Coffee Shop in Totton. If it's going alright, I'll throw the biggest, bestest party for the people on my Mailing List on April 30th 2033.
Too long to wait? What the hell else are you going to be doing?
*SQUAZZ - a generic term for almost anything, but mainly as a noun, it's negative.
