The Gold Needles – Live On Red Dog Music Leeds

Saturday Session 4! Today we are joined by Simon and Mark of The Gold Needles! You can find them on Facebook and Twitter (@thegoldneedles)!

Posted by Red Dog Music Leeds on Saturday, June 24, 2017

You’ve heard of the Who “Live In Leeds,” but they’ve got nothing on this! Watch Simon and Mark from The Gold Needles, rocking a stage this past weekend…

Verify Your Band On Spotify

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Like most earthlings these days – at least those who listen to music regularly – you are probably already using Spotify. But an article came to our attention recently highlighting why it’s important for musicians to increase their own followers on Spotify. By reaching the 250 follower mark, you are able to claim your own page as a “verified” artist, which unlocks some cool features and benefits. Some great tips for boosting your total are included in the piece as well:

Get Verified On Spotify

Plus, let’s face it, having more followers has to increase your spins and therefore ultimately lead to greater royalties. So with that in mind, I would like to encourage any random passerby to this site to click on the below links, and follow all of your favorite Exquisite Noise artists. Also, for those of you on our roster, a little cross promotion benefits everyone – if we all followed one another, that alone would increase our reach by at least, what, 30 or so, probably a lot more if every band member has his own Spotify account. And by all means, we would love for you to check out our Exquisite Noise playlist , which come to think of it might be the easiest method for clicking through and following all of our artists. But anyway, here are many of their individual pages –

Alex Fehr

Bill Kimes

Cherry Mosaic

Corners Of Sanctuary

FM Creeps

Frank Medley

Get-A-Way Band

Goofy Guys

Jeff Crew

Kevin Spain

Lions Of March

Lost Cause

Pinko

Powerless Rise

Quigley G

Star-Tripper

The Gold Needles

The Judas Cow

Ulisseus

XT Force

Zach Lunsford

Zayed Hassan

This is a good start at least. As always, and as mentioned in the article, it’s a great idea to start and circulate playlists with some of your own tracks sprinkled in the mix (don’t just play your own album over and over again – that’s a good way to get yourself booted from Spotify, as one of our artists discovered). So thanks for helping us out, and now is the time to start promoting your own band (brand) as well!

Our First Grammy Invitation

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Big news today in the Exquisite Noise camp – our award winning international artist Zayed Hassan is in the running for a Grammy nomination! As a result, we received an invite to the event. Who knows if anyone in our camp will actually attend – we could always blow this off and then claim we were “too cool” for such officially sanctioned industry events – but the truth is that this is pretty exciting. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a Zayed win!