1st March – 1st show of the year!
Posted: February 15, 2013

 

Hey. So we played half way through last year and the way it’s looking we won’t play again until half way through this year so if you’re in Brisbane (where we are) you should make the effort and come see us play in a few weeks time. We’ll be playing a bunch of songs live for the first time and trying to figure out how to play The Golden Bridge live. We’re playing with Melbourne’s High Tension who are fucking great as well as friends who we’ve played along side previously (Nation Blue and Heirs to name a couple).

Details are as followed…

Friday 1st March – FRIENDS @ X&Y Bar
www.facebook.com/friendsfridays
648 Ann Street Fortitude Valley, BRISBANE
$10 at the door
Doors open 8pm

 

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…and to recover, the next day we’ll be hanging out at Tym Guitars where High Tension will do an instore. Good times!

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NO ANCHOR END OF YEAR REPORT
Posted: November 27, 2012

 

For reporting period 1 January to 31 December 2012

PRIORITY ACTION ITEM: ‘THE GOLDEN BRIDGE’ DIGITAL RELEASE

Marketing and Sales are happy to report that November’s revenues have spiked considerably, bringing on uncharted increases in sales, goodwill and ‘karmic vibes’ (see glossary). It appears – in this instance, at least – that the Research and Development unit’s mid-year memo ‘The Future of Music Sales: It’s Fucking Easy, Just Make Music & The Sell It’ has borne fruit and the Board now plan to implement the remaining recommendations immediately:

+ Digital release of ‘The Golden Bridge’ by No Anchor on a wide variety of digitised formats with a varying price point including completely free via Bandcamp. This has been actioned. Customers may now download and/or stream the album from the following outlets :

Bandcamp (recommended)
Spotify
iTunes
CDBaby
+ Digital co-release of the ‘The Golden Bridge’ by No Anchor on J Randall’s ‘Grindcore Karaoke’ recording imprint. The Board is particularly impressed with Randall’s increased standing in the industry courtesy of Forbes online and have green-lit this project. *Release Imminent*

+ Retail roll-out of ‘The Golden Bridge’ in record stores around Australia including (but not limited to) :

Tym Guitars (Bris)
Black Wire (Syd)
Polyester (Melb)
Ritual (Melb)
Jet Black Cat (Bris)

All teams are encouraged to ‘sell through’ the new album. Please consider the wider mission (‘Maximum Carnage In An Organised Fashion, since 2008’) while doing this.

EMPLOYEES OF THE YEAR AWARDS: 2012

We’d like to congratulate Alex Gillies and Donovan Miller for their continued dedication to No Anchor. Both exemplary employees. At the Christmas BBQ they will be awarded a commemorative certificate and a 15% raise in annual wages (to zero dollars, p.a.).

THE YEAR IN BUSINESS

Missing Employee

Firstly, it is with a heavy (corporate) heart that we report Ian Keith Rogers still ‘officially’ missing. He was last seen in Brisbane in July 2012 and many believe his departure may be linked to his unit’s (Yelping And Grooming) quarterly slump. Troubling as this is, recent media reports describing Rogers as ‘Noise-Rock’s John McAfee’ are slanderous and incorrect. Rogers is much, much younger than John McAfee. All staff are directed to ignore interview requests regarding Rogers and direct enquiries to Publicity.

Portable Analogue

The surprise success of our new product line (analogue cassettes) continues unabated. Direct sales from consumers to the Bandcamp web portal are strong and ongoing but are predicted to decline in 2015. Please tell your friends and family that ‘The John Dominance Tapes’ still present an idea value proposition during this coming months.

The Future of Live Performance

Unsure. Market Research are still ‘in the field’ with this. Predictions for 2013 are positive at this stage.

Collaboration & Partnership

Recent moves by ‘the creatives’ have seen them collaborate with Melbourne outfit DEAD and American imprint Amphetamine Reptile for two seperate 7″ releases. These product lines are nearing completion, with expected delivery dates set for the first half of 2013.

Existing 7” products have proven successful in 2012: theRope/Pussyfootin’ record is still in stock and tested well with suicidal late-20s office workers (a key demographic for us); the short-lived Tym Records split-release withBlack Level Embassy was deemed ‘too brutal’ and has since been deleted.

FINAL GREETING

We’d like to wish all staff, customers and stakeholders a very Merry Retail Season. We’ll see many of you at the shareholder meeting.

All employees are reminded to finalise their time-sheets by December  and to go forth and thrash.

- The Board

‘Maximum Carnage In An Organised Fashion, since 2008’

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And the Winner is…
Posted: November 23, 2012

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Cheers to Simon Graydon, the Super Deluxe Edition of the Golden Bridge is yours!

Thanks to everyone who preordered the album, we hope you enjoy it! Alex and I put the vast majority of the pre-orders in the mail today :

… these should be arriving at peoples doorsteps soon.

Monday 26th November (EST AUS) is the official launch date for the album, you’ll be able to download it for “pay-what-you-like” including free from then from http://noanchor.bandcamp.com . The album will also be available from iTunes and Spotify, etc; on or soon after this date.

Grindcore Karaoke will also be vending “The Golden Bridge” from their web label sometime in the near future.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support,
Donnie

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