PLEASE NOTE: DON'T SEND A.I. MUSIC PLEASE - NO DROIDS, BOTS OR CLONES.
I try to catch everything. i promise i will reply in detail. probably more than you want.
If I miss it, feel free to resubmit as it's not personal, just time is not on... my (or your) side.
If you have been accepted for play on The Fix on totally wired radio & mixcloud, it will get played and shared on socials before during and after (so please share!) but i have a backlog of 100 songs and one show a month (which i pay for every month btw).
If you release monthly, there's hardly any time for pick up - you only really help Daniel Ek invest in AI drone warfare - we don't support Spotify anymore for MANY reasons. ;-)
If you care to know more about us: Quickfix Recordings is an independent label based originally based in Oxford but now has a roster of global musicians. It was started with the aim of giving the flagging music industry a much - needed shot of musical excitement. 20 years down the line and too many releases to count later (including Kellindo Parker and Jennie Matthias and debuts by bands such as Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies and Smilex) Quickfix Recordings continues to push new music as an international label with a diverse roster of established and new artists and bands, host Indie/Alternative radio show The Fix on Totally Wired Radio. I also give consultations on how to get the most from your music career (having been an artist and producer over 30 years, in the industry nearly 25 & an array of study and experience).
The idea of Quickfix Recordings was conceived whilst living in Manchester in 1997 where we were inspired by the attitude of the local DIY Music scene there. Manchester had a lot going for it not only was it the home of the legendry Factory Records it was also home to InTheCity and the developing Beehive Mill and Northern Quarter scene. We soon set up a small online compilation tape subscription label called Glass Axe mail ordering music hand copied over old spoken word and nursery rhyme tapes featuring the best in up and coming unsigned bands from both Oxford and Manchester.
In 2000 we returned to Oxford, in the time we had been away the Oxford Music scene, whilst always being sophisticated and vibrant, had exploded with the coming of Radio 1 Sound City. Great bands such as the The Rock of Travolta, Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia, Winnebago Deal and more. We formed the label to be part of it.
Our debut release by Caliber 'Someday Now' a teen trio girl alt rock band and so Quickfix Recordings was born in January 2002 and had steady flow of releases by Smilex, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Verbal Kink, At Risk, Half Rabbits, Babygravy, Half Decent and even a compilation of Oxford's under 18 bands.
Quickfix Recordings soon developed from being a standard indie record label putting out CD's by local bands, progressing to artist management, recording, gig promoting and producing radio shows - for a number of years we produced the popular local music radio show 'The Fortnightly Fix' on Oxford's Passion 107.9fm and have also had shows on student radio Oxide and OX4 Radio. Lee has had an indie show ever since, enjoying promoting new music and playing lesser know music from previous decades.
Over the first decade or so, we promoted gigs at many Oxfordshire venues including The Wheatsheaf, Fat Lils, The Ex Hall, Kiss Bar, The Zodiac and The Port Mahon. Gig promotion for us started with helping book bills for the local Abingdon Skittle Alley collective back in 2002, we then helped with the One Louder nights at The Wheatsheaf when, in 2004 we took over the regular monthly slot and turned them into Quickfix Recordings nights. Over the years we have put on a whole host of bands of all styles from Oxfordshire and also further a field, including Frank Turner, Meanwhile... Back In Communist Russia, Fixers, Inkubus Sukkubus, Youthmovies, To The Bones, Nought, Sacramanga Six, Eureka Machines, Little Fish, Joanovarc, Desert Storm, The Might Saguaro, Lapsus Linguae, Elizabeth (who became Foals) and Meet Me In St Louis. We also co promoted a string of hugely successful local music nights at The Zodiac/O2 Academy with Alan Day (TCTCBN, now Kilimanjaro). We have curated & promoted all sorts of all dayers, themed nights, residencies and festivals in the decades since. We just stopped running a stage for 4 awesome years at Riverside Festival, Oxfordshire.
Over the next decade as the digital era moved in, we moved into areas of facilitation, be that radio plugging, management & technical services like producing, mixing , mastering and content creation for artists far and wide using acquired skills & contacts.
With the Pandemic of 2020 giving us time to really explore the music world via social media we realised the time had come to be an indie label and community again and started signing any awesome artists we could reach out to from all over the world.
We relaunched with releases by (Janelle Monae guitarist) Kellindo Parker and over the next year ran a singles club distributing digital downloads to a subscribers club once a month - including releases by The Subtheory w/ Sam Brox (DustJunkys), Vego Asia, Geisha Davis (Britain's Got Talent) & NZM Inc. and Critter Cabal. In the process we met many great artists and settled on a sturdy roster the next year, releasing and executing campaigns for Jennie Matthias (Bellestars), Blackout Orchestra, TVSEXDEATH, The Sexy Wild East, Daze and more while also releasing legacy material to streaming like Verbal Kink, At Risk, Smilex and more. Since then we have stopped streaming in protest to so many awful things it's not worth listing and so have an as-yet-to-be announced roster and an unmapped future despite a few exciting release plans in the pipeline.
We now have a large underground network of contacts and are starting to build a community of our own (via various platforms such as Radio shows, Festival stages and playlists) and focussing on physical release and downloads rather than streaming (because of draconian royalty rates) which exists outside the often closed door restrictions of the mainstream music scene and allows our artists to be genuinely counter culture and if they want and anti-establishment with their art, which is rare.
We're passionate about real musicians, inventive producers, individual artists, artist rights, control, integrity and their well being and are trying to establish a network and new infrastructure and help artists survive a harsh time in the modern digital industry.
I can give you feedback based on 35 years of being an artist/songwriter/producer and 25 years being a live promoter, Radio Producer, DJ and of course A&R for an Indie Label. I also have experience and qualifications in Production/Engineering, Management & PR, Sync(h) plus Mental Health in Music & Starting A Business in addition to a number of other roles, all of which which inform my response/feedback.
NOTE: I can't promise you a record contract or free services but can connect you to PR.
We accept roughly 1/4-1/3 of radio submissions based on a mix of talent, radio worthy production value ( from d.i.y to studio) and suitability for the show/audience/label vibe.
Prince
Nirvana
Tricky
Beck
Björk
PJ Harvey
Tori Amos
Outkast
