Ten questions with Nemesea, a SellaBand
Jeffrey Sykes interviews Nemesea on April 14th, 2007
Dutch rockers Nemesea were the first group to make the $50,000 mark on SellaBand. Lead singer Manda is in the studio right now recording vocal tracks, but she was kind enough to forward our questions to bandmates Sonny and Martijn. Their responses are below.
Jeffrey Sykes: If a Martian dropped in on your recording session, how would you explain how you go the money to afford your studio time?
Sonny: Well if he had a Wi-Fi connection I’d tell him to look on Sellaband.com!
Seriously though. I’d take some time and explain what it is all about.
On www.sellaband.com bands can upload their profile (a bio, up to three songs in MP3 format, blog, show dates, photo’s and a video) The thing is to attract so-called believers to your page who are willing to invest in your band.
To get your studio time you have to find 5000 people who are willing to invest $10 (that’s what one part costs and there are 5000 in total) or 2500 who want to invest $20. Pretty obvious. For those 10 bucks they get a limited edition CD when you reach 50K and they share in the advertising revenue on your page.
A so-called regular version of your CD will also be made available.
The net profit of these sales will be equally divided between you and your Believers.
Martijn: That’s a lot of fun for $10! Five thousand people might sound like a lot, but think of how many people out there have broadband connections. By the way, you get as much CD’s as parts you’ve bought.
