Alabama 3's next album will be created and disseminated without interference from labels, shops, manufacturers or distributors - a virus transmitted directly to the people.

Fans will be directly involved in the selection of songs and the conceptual direction of the album. You, the Converted, will be our executive producers.

Members of the congregation will be invited to re-mix tracks from the album, and they Shall Be Released...

At the end of every month, up until Xmas, Alabama 3 will make available, for 12 days only, 3 demo tracks of 'work in progress' for Free Download.

The tracks will be related to a different Theme each month. January’s theme is LOVE.

You are invited to decide which of the three tracks makes the album.

You are invited to remix any of the 12 tracks chosen.

You will be invited to a mind - blowing 12 hour XMAS gig at the end of the 12th month, to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the band. You will be given a CD of the 12 tracks, a CD of the 12 chosen remixes, and previously unreleased DVD.

FOR FULL INFO CLICK HERE >

http://www.alabama3.co.uk/en/containers/ge...l/manifest_2008

LOVE
A3


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MANIFESTO

Let’s talk business. Let’s talk about the MUSIC business, and let’s talk about DEATH.

There's been a lot of talk recently about the DEATH of the CD, the DEATH of record shops, the DEATH of record companies (hurrah!), while the record companies themselves have been talking about the DEATH of MUSIC (by which they mean the DEATH of profit margins). Anybody who remembers Peter and the Test Tube Babies- you know who you are- will call to mind that mordant slogan: 'Home Taping is Killing Music'. And anybody who remembers our screamingly camp and fiercely intelligent friend Jeff, God rest his soul, will remember the patch on his leather jacket which said ' Home Fucking is Killing Prostitution'.

Digital downloads and file - sharing have made shiny pieces of plastic virtually redundant; prices for CD's have been slashed by 50% and the companies are still hemorrhaging money. Groucho Marx historically said ' he who controls the means of production controls pop music' but the technology for pressing, playing, recording and distributing music is now within reach of anyone with a PC and a broadband connection. The average asbo-dodger from Chiswick now has the technology now to record and disseminate an album with all the production values of Phil Collins' 'In the Air Tonight from his bedroom. Which begs the question 'What exactly are record companies for?’.

Previously, these loan sharks justified their racket on their purchase over the hardware of manufacture and distribution, but, like the mercurial policeman in Terminator three, the machine has gone soft, melted through their fingers, and stabbed them in the arse. Late, and unfashionable gatecrashers at the digital party, Sony et al have been desperately trying to pimp and police the shadowy domain of Cyberspace. They might as well try to set up a Neighborhood Watch scheme in Narnia.

Now we have a hoo - ha over Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Kate Nash going supernova from their bedrooms, the entire apparatus of the Industry replaced by a webcam, a Myspace page and a couple of guitars. On closer examination, however, we find that these cyber -anarchists have had considerable promotional assistance from their labels. The spectacle of democracy has once again been carefully stage - managed; The devil's best trick was convincing people he didn't exist.

What is to be Done? Is it possible to circumvent the Industry, and short-circuit the Machine? We're going to find out...