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Today is Independence Day (and not just for our ex-colonial friends).
This day we launched the crowd funding appeal for independence
Music TV (iMTV) and I hit the road for a year in support of
the idea.
We have set up a youtube channel to archive and stream some of
the adventure & invite you to be part of it. In fact you NEED to
be part of it for it to work.
Please take the time to read on, if this works this will earn us all
money, galvanises the whole scene, and leave a light of hope
on behind me, if it doesn't then I will have tried.
To that end I have today made this site a paid for access servise,
current members will have courtesy membership for 6 months.However you
are invited to also take part in the crowd funding appeal, every member
here is eligible for the gold standard iMTV membership &
half of any subscription money to bring to our TV station.
Here's how it works.
 iMTV
will be an artist share monthly subscription service for independently
minded acoustic music. It will feature live content from hot spot house
concerts/venues/festivals and the Medicine Moose Mobile as I travel. All
the money generated from the station with be shared 50/50 with all
Independent Artists, House Concert Hosts, Dee Jays, Indie Labels and
independent artists promoters across Europe who throw ?10 (or more), in the
appeal kitty.
To try achieve this I have converted my classic Hymer Mercedes Motor Home
into a mobile TV Studio (The Medicine Music Moose Mobile) and we have to raise
?25,000 by independence day 2017! So I am going home free and am heading
out in the #MooseMobile to visit every House Concert, Free Form Dee Jay and
Festival that will have us to collect content raise awareness and most
importantly raise funds for iMTV .
This is how it works!
For ?10 (or more) donation to the appeal everyone will get a year's free
subscription to iMTV + all music biz engaged folks will get their own Gold
Standard Members page on the iMTV station site and anyone who subscribes
through that page, the Gold Standard Member will receive half the monthly
subscription from his subscribers. When they subscribe 100 new members Gold
Standard Members will get additional free advertising on iMTV and we will
help them book dates and pledge to broadcast one of their European shows
live on iMTV.
 We
are pitching subscription at ?8 a month (around what Netflix and Spotify
are) so all hard pressed independent musicians and supporters who throws in
?10 could earn ?400 (or more) each month. More than enough at the end of
the year for that dream album, for the PA system or to fund any amount of
dreams. Plus everyone will have a online haven that they know they can
interact with and view all the music and musicians we love and support the
whole scene in doing it.
That's the dream! This time next year with your help we will have
enough money to buy 3 more tv studio set ups, enough to finally finish the
iMTV website and enough float to man it all and procure enough bandwidth to
entertain 24/7 a target of 60,000 subscribers by independence day the next
year 2018.
We achieve that and the independent music world is our oyster.
The website will have an off channel Home Concert tip-for-view self service
set up too, a free radio stream of the live station but viewers to the
station will have to subscribe to receive TV feeds live, from the Concerts
(before, after and during) and from the Medicine Show Moose Mobile on the
road.
So please donate ?10 ($15) or
more at https://uk.gofundme.com/imusictv now!
Or next time you are busking throw us the first tenner, next house
concert you host or play put the first ticket in the iMTV hat, if you're a
Dee Jay, ask your listeners to help and tell your favourite artists about
it.
Please share this appeal, folk will thank you, if it works we will have
made all the difference for the music we love and you might make ?400
($600) a month with free advertising to the roots music focus audience.
As a test bed and so folks can follow the #MooseMobile adventure we
have a free youtube channel, please subscribe now! Don't miss a moment with
the Moose!!
Rob Ellen
www.medicinemusic.co.uk
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