Funding Application

Open Music Funding

We wish to apply to the open music funding by PRS For Music Foundation to further our journey with our Sound 'Bashment's Backbone' over the years of performing in small venues, we've accumulated quite a loyal following base and the four of us (Jax, Tempo, Mod and myself) think it's about time we toured around the UK. Our fans are often mailing and emailing us that they would love to see us perform but since so far we've only been limited to London due to not having the funds to transport all our equipment with us to the other side of the country or even to Northern Ireland. We use drum pads, looping, vocals, synths, a range of instrumentd and pre-recorded tracks in our performances, which i believe makes us unique and has allowed us to grow as big as we have. All of us know how to use the equipment but we tend to have our separate favourites which encourages to work in sync better. Jax mainly acts as the producer for the pre-recorded tracks and for the sounds we use from the production softwares. Tempo is usually on the drum pads but surprise surprise can also play the drums, hence his name Tempo. Mod is usually in charge of looping and playing melodies whether thats on guitar, piano or a synth and i'll be on vocals and have my own synth. As i mentioned earlier my aim is to tour the UK, for this we would need roadies, vans to transport the equipment in, promotion (through social media and flyers etc..) and to have venues at the ready. We have our own pages on social media so promotion via social media shouldn't be an issue, the main issue is transporting our equipment, and having the venue prepared for us. This is what the funding would go towards we have already got quotes from roadies to achieve this and spoke to many venues across the country who would be willing to cater for us. We're also thinking of adding merchandise to our personal website and putting up a stand at the venues we'll perform at.

We're hoping for a funding of £10,000 we have planned budgets for each step of the way and think this plan will succeed.