Contacting bands

Contacting possible bands

The song we used is by a band called, The Joy Formidable. We found one of their songs and emailed the bands manager requesting permission to use the song in our production, we had to make clear that the video was for educational purposes not comercial. They agreed with no problem and this is how we got the song to use. I had also dont some other research into other bands and artists that had songs we would like to use before we decided on The Joy Formidable.

This is a clip from a conversation on Windows Live Messenger with myself and the music producer MC Mozart. Click the image to enlarge it.

We got permission to use any of the songs from his album 'Musikology' but decided that the we didnt want to do a video of that genre (Hip hop)

I also contacted a band called 'Futures' which I found by surfing myspace.com and looking at the music section at the unsigned popular bands. I listened to some of the songs on the band page and then emailed the band asking if we could use one of their songs called '16' but they didnt respond so we couldnt use the song, Below is a copy of the email I sent to their myspace band page.

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One of our team members James, Discovered the band The Joy Formidable and contacted them asking for permission of use of the song, a copy of the email is below giving us the OK to go ahead.